QIC Ltd. and Sunsuper Superannuation Fund, both Australian pension funds, have agreed to buy Evolution Healthcare, New Zealand's second-largest hospital operator. According to a source familiar with the matter, the two would pay over A$700 million ($500 million) for the business, which already had 300 surgeons perform
More than a decade after the explosion that trapped and killed 29 men, human remains have been recovered at the site of one of New Zealand's worst mining catastrophes. After specialized cameras were fed into the Pike River coal mine through boreholes, the remains of two
Ethereum is undergoing significant transformations. The removal of "miners," who track and validate transactions on the world's most widely used blockchain network, is perhaps the most significant. Miners are at the heart of the proof-of-work system, which was pioneered by Bitcoin and adopted by Ethereum,
After 2008, New Zealand intends to raise the legal smoking age by one year every year, thereby prohibiting the sale of tobacco to anybody born after that year. Associate Health Minister Ayesha Verrall said in Wellington that the government will present new legislation next year that will
