‘News’ Archives
New IRS form to affect US NRIs
Indians living in the US, like other foreigners, will be monitored even more closely for their overseas assets, with the new provisions being introduced by the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The IRS has introduced an additional form – Form 8938 – which is a [Read More]
OPINION: New Zealand needs more immigrants
The country’s birth rate has reduced, death rate has increased, and it has recorded one of the lowest rates of population increase overall. It is time for New Zealand to open doors for migrants. Of course, the country can debate on what colour the new residents should [Read More]
Facebook helps new migrant settle in
A new migrant to New Zealand found Facebook very useful in the process of settling in a new country. Iris Pabayo, who recently migrated to New Zealand from Philippines, found contacts through Facebook. “The highlight of our settlement journey to New Zealand is [Read More]
UK pays $3.2m to wrongfully held refugees
In what could be the largest immigration detention payout, the British government has paid a million pounds in compensation, and another million pounds in cash (a total of $3.2million), to teenage refugees it had wrongfully detained before 2005, the Guardian reported. The [Read More]
Forum to discuss human rights of Indian migrants
New Delhi is hosting an international conference on human rights concerns of Indian Diaspora on 24 and 25 February. Hosted by Human Rights Defence India (HRDI), a New Delhi-based organisation, the conference on ‘Human Rights Concerns of Indian Diaspora’, will be [Read More]
NZ women link looks with success
Actress and environmentalist Robyn Malcolm has stripped for a nude photoshoot as part of the Next magazine’s celebration of the Kiwi female form. In a special feature for the March issue, she is also joined by actress Amanda Billing, and television presenter Sonia Gray [Read More]
Indian exporters visit New Zealand
Leading exporters of cashews, plastic and chemicals are visiting New Zealand to meet with buyers and importers to explore trade arrangements. The Cashew Export Promotion Council of India (CEPC) is sending a 10-member delegation to Auckland for business meetings with local [Read More]
Review of funding policies to assist communities
New Zealand’s largest council is preparing to review more than 400 of 1200 leases in council-owned land and buildings so as to streamline rental charges across the region and make it easier for community groups to budget for the rents of these venues. Auckland [Read More]
Meet the youngest person to get pacemaker
Fifteen minutes – that’s how old Jaya was when surgeons sliced open her chest to put pacemaker on her walnut-sized heart. A team of 20 medical staff attended to the 3-pound infant, soon after she was born with a heart beat of 45; a healthy new-born has a heart [Read More]
Rising food prices force children to starve – study
Nearly a third of parents in the five countries where half of the world’s malnourished children live, including India, say their children complained they didn’t have enough to eat. One in six parents ask their children to skip school to work to help pay for the [Read More]
