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Rich Listers fight claim, why Gisborne broadband is cheaper and faster, RMA issues

A look at what's in NBR Print today.

Fri, 30 Jan 2015

In NBR Print today : In the latest instalment in a protracted battle liquidators have commenced another court action against the Pandey family. The High Court claim is being defended by the hoteliers – who were valued at $220 million in the NBR Rich List last year and are New Zealand’s largest private hotel owners. Victoria Young reports.

Technology editor Chris Keall reveals a provincial ISP has provided broadband to the East Coast faster and cheaper than in many city areas. Now Gisborne.net says it deserves a show at the $100 million extra the government is putting up to expand rural broadband – and one lobby group says it could do a better job than Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI) incumbents Chorus [NZX:CNU] and Vodafone.

None of the Government’s support parties have been briefed on its plans for the Resource Management Act but all three have issues with what Nick Smith outlined last week, reports Nick Grant.

Meanwhile, regardless of fixes to the RMA, councils will find a way around them and restart the micromanagement that pushes costs up, New Zealand Initiative research head Eric Crampton tells property reporter Sally Lindsay.

Job market figures out next week are the first in a run of factors which will determine whether the Reserve Bank raises or cuts interest rates. Rob Hosking reports.

Kiwibank is playing down a trademark dispute it has with Westpac [NZX:WBC] over the Aussie-owned bank's HomeSaver package, reports Victoria Young.

Bullish global merger and acquisition activity provide a good opportunity for New Zealand companies to sell or buy up overseas but as Calida Smylie reports, overpricing local assets should be kept in check.

Better late than never, Shoeshine says of the Financial Markets Authority and NZX [NZX:NZX] this week signing a memorandum of understanding setting out how they can work more efficiently together.

Increasingly dry conditions across many parts of the country is putting the issue of farm assistance back in the spotlight. But as Jamie Ball reveals, even if drought is formerly declared, history shows that few farmers end up qualifying for financial assistance.

Lessons learned from Zespri’s recent brush with China’s anti-corruption campaign should be heeded by all New Zealand exporters, experts tell Nathan Smith.

Chris Hutching finds a Christchurch entrepreneur promising to cut through the “greenwash”.

In Property, close to 40 apartments have been sold off the plans one week after the launch of Victoria Residences in central Auckland.

Is the John Key government embarked on a culture war? It is starting to look that way, writes Rob Hosking in Order Paper.

A credit rating should be like Caesar’s wife – above suspicion ­– but as Michael Coote writes, a conflict of interest lies at the heart of the credit rating industry.

Nevil Gibson looks over the US earnings reports out this week as Wall Street shivers.

The biggest loser in Greece’s snap election was not even on the ballot paper. It was German Chancellor Angela Merkel whose austerity policies in the euro crisis were rejected by Greece’s swing to the radical left, writes Oliver Hartwich.

All this and more in today’s National Business Review. Out now.

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