Wellington, Oct 2 NZPA - The air force was tonight preparing to fly injured New Zealanders home from Samoa as the death toll mounted in Pacific islands devastated by Wednesday's tsunami.

Wellington, Sept 23 NZPA - Air New Zealand defended its executive pay rates today at an annual meeting at which it received bouquets as well as brick bats from shareholders.

Wellington, Sept 4 NZPA - A special ceremony in Paris today marked the war-time alliance between France and New Zealand.

By Peter Wilson of NZPA Wellington, Dec 2 NZPA - The Government will decide within 48 hours whether it needs to send a military transport aircraft to Thailand to rescue up to 300 stranded New Zealanders, Prime Minister John Key said today.

Wellington, Nov 28 NZPA - Concerns are held for two New Zealanders who remain holed up in the Oberoi Hotel in besieged Mumbai , Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully says.

1. Public Health and Illness Prevention Programmes aimed at health promotion and preventing illness and injury are an investment in the future health of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Their success will have a major bearing on the level of treatment services that are needed in later years.

By Simon Louisson of NZPA Wellington, July 10 NZPA - A book on pioneer New Zealand-China trader Victor Percival reveals former prime minister Walter Nash in the 1950s attempted to break ranks with ally, the United States, to establish diplomatic relations with then isolated China.

Wellington, June 17 NZPA - Despite publicity about the sharemarket falling over 21 percent since October, around 39 percent of people are participating in workplace pension schems, a survey showed today.

Wellington, June 6 NZPA - The spy scandal that engulf ed senior civil servant Bill Sutch had its final chapter today with the release of his Security Intelligence Service (SIS) file which vindicates him and provides relief for his family.

Wellington, May 16 NZPA - National says the Government's shared equity housing scheme has been announced several times before, while ACT has dismissed it as an election-year bribe.