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Strengthening environmental protection should be part of government plans to overcome Greece's economic and financial crisis, says a new OECD report.

The government will spend up to $21 million to establish a network of open-access food development facilities across the country, Economic Development Minister Gerry Brownlee announced today.

The skeleton suicide petitioners say they have hit a nerve on the streets in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

The latest Crown Accounts show the Government's books are significantly improving and put more pressure on Bill English to ensure all Kiwis benefit from the recovery, Labour's Finance spokesperson David Cunliffe said.

Figures released today reveal that for the first 7 months of the financial year, the Government operating deficit before gains and losses was $883 million smaller than expected, the operating deficit was $1.4 billion smaller than forecast and gross debt was $2.9 billion lower than forecast.

Federated Farmers is welcoming today's opening of the Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre in Palmerston North.

Companies should put in place strict internal controls and establish ethics and compliance programmes as part of a strategy to combat bribery in international business deals, according to a new guidance agreed by the 38 countries that are party to the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention.

National must start listening to the growing calls for increased investment in Research and Development, Labour's Research Science and Technology spokesperson David Shearer said today.

Rather than spending more money on doctors, we first need to make better use of the ones we have, argues economist Gareth Morgan.