Wellington, Sept 30 NZPA - Social Development and Employment Minister Paula Bennett promoted New Zealand's response to the recession in her speech to the OECD Labour and Employment Ministerial meeting in Paris overnight.

Wellington, Sept 17 NZPA - New Zealand will push at climate change meetings in New York for greater investment in technology to reduce agriculture emissions. Associate Minister for Climate Change Issues Tim Groser leaves today for New York.

Wellington, Sept 9 NZPA - New Zealand continues to rank second to Singapore as the easiest country in which to do business, according to a World Bank report.

Wellington, Sept 4 NZPA - An OECD report on the wellbeing of children is a warning to the Government that it must not cut spending other political parties said today.

By Ian Llewellyn of NZPA Wellington, Sept 3 NZPA - A study indicates 70 percent of parents who abuse their children were abused themselves, Social Development Minister Paula Bennett said today.

Wellington, Aug 19 NZPA - New Zealand children were injured too often, with the cost of caring for a baby with a head injury for the rest of its life at about $20 million, ACC chief executive Jan White told MPs today.

Wellington, Aug 13 NZPA - South Canterbury Finance has had its credit rating cut to a non-investment, or junk, grade by Standard & Poor's.

Wellington, Aug 11 NZPA - An aggressive marketing campaign to get the Government to stop Telecom and Vodafone "ripping off" mobile phone users was launched in Wellington today.

Wellington, Aug 6 NZPA - Unemployment is going to get worse before it gets better, Finance Minister Bill English said today after latest statistics showed it had risen to 6 percent. The Household Labour Force Survey put the number of unemployed at a 10-year high of 138,000.

Wellington, Aug 6 NZPA - Unemployment is going to get worse before it gets better, Finance Minister Bill English said today after latest statistics showed it had risen to 6 percent. The Household Labour Force Survey put the number of unemployed at a 10-year high of 138,000.