Member states of the World Health Organization voted overwhelmingly to adopt the first ever pandemic agreement, a treaty aimed at preventing, preparing for and responding to any future pandemic.

It has courted huge controversy in Te Ao Maori. Now, the Bill, is being introduced to Parliament even though the Waitangi Tribunal recommended halting it. The Tribunal intervened with an urgent ...

Eleven name changes to mountains, a lake, scenic reserves and other places have been made following the Treaty settlement of iwi collective Te Korowai o Wainuiārua. The changes, gazetted by Ngā ...

over breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi. The Geographic Board gazetted the changes last week. In December last year, Land Information Minister Chris Penk approved changing the name of National Park ...

The decades-old Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), once hailed as a model of water diplomacy between rivals, now sits in a state of deliberate abeyance, tangled in legal ambiguities, shifting geopolitical ...

Apart from the Courtyard by Marriott hotel, Pittsburg will also see another Hilton hotel on Loveridge Road. The 115-room Home2Suites will sit on a 2-acre site and is across from Motel 6 ...

In recent decades, the Waitangi Tribunal and Treaty settlements have helped to uncover and acknowledge the injustices that took place on this land. Yet the land Parliament stands on today remains ...

The suspension of the Indus Water Treaty – originally signed in September 1960 – was considered a strong enough response against a country that India has consistently accused of aiding and abetting ...

The body found itself in a race against time, for fear of losing its ability to consider the claim that the bill breached the Treaty of Waitangi. Cabinet is due to consider the law on Monday, before ...

Māori rights group Toitū te Tiriti have warned the introduction of the bill into law would diminish the Crown's obligations to the Treaty of Waitangi. Around 18,000 people signed their online petition ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.