by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 27, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
The package of measures would have seen bans on selling tobacco to anyone born after Jan. 1, 2009, reduced the amount of nicotine allowed in smoked tobacco products and cut the number of retailers able to sell tobacco by over 90%. They marked some of the toughest...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 1, 2023 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Together with local councils, the government will offer to buy as many as 700 residential properties across the North Island that were damaged by Cyclone Gabrielle and heavy flooding earlier this year, Finance Minister Grant Robertson said Thursday in Wellington. It...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 24, 2023 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said there had been a nine-fold increase in government spending in the 2021-22 fiscal year on helping farmers cope with floods, storms and drought. The number of weather events that require emergency road work more than doubled from an...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 14, 2023 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
While New Zealand was now through the worst of the storm, more rain and high winds were expected. The country was suffering from extensive flooding, landslides and damage to roads and infrastructure, Kieran McAnulty, minister of emergency management said New Zealand...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 30, 2023 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Citi in a research note observed that IAG’s exposure to the floods in Auckland, which could be potentially as much as A$236 million, is “much greater” than Suncorp’s NZ$50 million cap Major insurers operating in New Zealand including Insurance Australia Group and...
