Wellington, Oct 14 NZPA - A New Zealand clean energy company has been included on the Cleantech 100 list of companies in the sector most likely to make the most significant market impact over the next five to 10 years.

Wellington, July 8 NZPA - The MetService has given its British counterpart a run for its money, but has missed out on taking over the contract to supply the BBC with weather forecasts.

Wellington, June 1 NZPA - Headline writers around the world were able sharpen their pencils -- and gird their loins -- with the news that Prime Minister John Key has had a vasectomy.

By Maggie Tait of NZPA Wellington, March 24 NZPA - The Economist magazine has criticised the Government's decision to mine on protected land in part of an article lashing the country's green credentials.

Wellington, Jan 26 NZPA - Advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi has appointed Australian adman Dylan Harrison as its New Zealand creative director, filling the position left vacant by Mike O'Sullivan last year.

Wellington, Dec 18 NZPA - Foreign affairs advisers in Wellington today baulked at questions on New Zealand's views on the tiny Pacific Island of Nauru recognising Russian-backed breakaway states in Georgia in the wake of last year's civil war there.

Wellington, Dec 17 NZPA - New Zealand authorities are investigating local links to a weapons-laden aircraft seized in Bangkok -- apparently working for arms traffickers in East Europe.

Wellington, Nov 13 NZPA - A column in a leading British newspaper which accuses New Zealanders of unjustifiably trading off their "clean, green 100 percent pure" imagery doesn't make for nice reading, Green Party co-leader Russel Norman says.

Wellington, Sept 4 NZPA - Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark has acknowledged there is little hope for a final deal on a post-Kyoto agreement on global warming to be signed in Copenhagen in December.

Wellington, June 24 NZPA - China has begun an anti-dumping investigation into methanol imported from New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Indonesia.