WEEK 13: Saturday 27 March - Friday 2 April 2010

143 New Zealanders leave Auckland this Friday to go to Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and China to help build 162 homes in 5 days, joining 3,000 volunteers from around the world.

Key issues affecting the future of New Zealand's screen industry will be examined in the capital this week at the SPADA (Screen Production and Development Association of New Zealand) conference held in Wellington on Thursday 12 and Friday 13 November.

Economic Development Minister, Gerry Brownlee, and Trade Minister, Tim Groser, have made five appointments to the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Board.

Three are new appointees, and two are reappointments of sitting Board members.

1 October 2008 - Nominations open for businesswomen's excellence award 1 October, close 1 December

The search is on again for a New Zealand businesswoman and entrepreneur with audacity and vision, as nominations open for New Zealand's second annual Veuve Clicquot Award.