Overseas Investment Office

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Name: Overseas Investment Office
First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

OIO's massive miss, challenging Auckland and a Japanese bond tsunami

What the Overseas Investment Office missed in its review of a Chinese company's application.The error in Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group's application spotted by the National Business Review and revealed in today's print edition amounts to about ... [Published National Business Review - 12 hours ago]
First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Federated Farmers calls for foreign land register

Federated Farmers has asked the Government to set up a foreign land register to provide more information about farmland and agricultural businesses in overseas hands.National president Bruce Wills told the Primary Industry Forum his organisation supports ... [Published Radio New Zealand - May 14 2013]
First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

A Chinese appetite to invest

Spurred by tourism and the Crafar sale, Chinese investors are eyeing NZ assets Chinese appetite for investing in New Zealand assets is stepping up according to leading Auckland lawyers Martin Thomson and Terence Ng.The pair - both lawyers at DLA Phillips ... [Published New Zealand Herald - May 07 2013]
First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Crafar bidders face High Court action

The Crown is seeking millions of dollars worth of real estate owned by the pair behind the failed Crafar Farms bid.May Wang and Jack Chen, who is also known as Chen Keen, are facing new legal action in the High Court at Auckland.The Police Commissioner ... [Published Rotorua Daily Post - May 07 2013]
First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 2 reports

Joyce defends foreign investment in NZ

Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce says foreign investors like the managers of the endowment fund of Harvard University are creating jobs in New Zealand.His comment came after New Zealand First leader Winston Peters on Friday attacked the latest ... [Published Yahoo!Xtra - May 04 2013]
First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 3 reports

Ivy League college to buy Otago farm

Harvard University has been given permission to buy a 1300 hectare farm in Otago.The dairy farm is in the Maniototo district and near two others it already owns.New Zealand First leader Winston Peters is criticising the decision of the Overseas Investment ... [Published Newstalk ZB - May 03 2013]
First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Sale violates our trust

The sale by the New Zealand Superannuation Fund of the bulk of its 11 forestry blocks in the North Island to China National Forest Products Trading Corp (for an undisclosed sum) is shocking and violates the trust that New Zealanders have in our Gover ... [Published Gisborne Herald - May 02 2013]
First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Harvard: Making Milk & Profits in NZ Dairylands

Harvard University’s endowment has expanded its holdings of a New Zealand dairy farm on the back of strong returns. (May 1, 2013) – Harvard is building out one asset from its portfolio that-unlike the endowment as whole-performed well in the last fiscal ... [Published AiCIO - May 01 2013]
First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

China forestry purchase wrong - NZ First

New Zealand First says the Overseas Investment Office (OIO) approval of the sale of the New Zealand Super Fund's forestry assets to the Chinese Government is an appalling example of everything that is wrong with National's approach to growing the eco ... [Published Voxy.co.nz - May 01 2013]
First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Greens slam 'economic stupidity' of forestry sale

The Green Party is criticising the latest sale of land to foreign investors, calling it "economic stupidity".Yesterday the Overseas Investment Office approved the sale of more than 14,000 hectares of prime forestry land, previously owned by the New Zealand ... [Published 3 News - Apr 30 2013]
First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Oceana quarterly profit down 70%

Oceana Gold has booked a $US7.1 million ($NZ8.3 million) after-tax profit for the quarter to March, but that was down 70% on the previous quarter's profit.Second-quarter production is throwing up challenges for East Otago-based Oceana, with full-year ... [Published Otago Daily Times - Apr 30 2013]
First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Forestry blocks sold to Chinese govt

The Overseas Investment Office has just approved the sale of 14,000 hectares of prime forestry land to the Chinese government.Read the full story » ... [Published 3 News - Apr 30 2013]

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"While the Overseas Investment Office statistics has since 2002 measured the flows of investment, there is no information available on how much land is currently owned by foreigners."
"To say 'only New Zealand buyers' - because overseas buyers can't get over the threshold is hugely damaging to value."
"Which planet are you on Winston if you are interested in jobs in this country" Mr Joyce said
The share of FDI stock owned by Japan is ASEAN countries Association of Southeast Asian Nations was 3.1% in 2012, compared to 1.9% in 2001. "One could hardly describe the latter as a takeover bid for New Zealand" the report says...

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OIO's massive miss, challenging Auckland and a ... [Published National Business Review - 12 hours ago]
Coronado Acquires Opunake Hydro [Published Individual.com - May 17 2013]
Federated Farmers calls for foreign land register [Published Radio New Zealand - May 14 2013]
Coronado Announces Acquisition of Opunake Hydro... [Published Individual.com - May 14 2013]
Coronado Announces Acquisition of Opunake Hydro... [Published Yahoo! Finance - May 14 2013]
Coronado Announces Acquisition of Opunake Hydro... [Published ADVFN UK - May 14 2013]
Coronado Announces Acquisition of Opunake Hydro... [Published Sys-Con Belgium - May 14 2013]
Construction starts on Yili plant [Published FWplus - May 10 2013]
A Chinese appetite to invest [Published New Zealand Herald - May 07 2013]
Crafar bidders face High Court action [Published Rotorua Daily Post - May 07 2013]
Joyce defends foreign investment in NZ [Published Yahoo!Xtra - May 04 2013]
Joyce defends foreign investment in NZ [Published MSN New Zealand - May 04 2013]
Don't fear Asia – it's Aussies who are taking o... [Published National Business Review - May 03 2013]
Elite US university draws Peters' wrath [Published New Zealand Herald - May 03 2013]
Ivy League college to buy Otago farm [Published Newstalk ZB - May 03 2013]
Harvard buys Otago farm [Published Timaru Herald - May 02 2013]
Go buy American farms Harvard - NZ First [Published Voxy.co.nz - May 02 2013]
Sale violates our trust [Published Gisborne Herald - May 02 2013]
Crafar owner searching for new deals [Published New Zealand Herald - May 01 2013]
Harvard: Making Milk & Profits in NZ Dairylands [Published AiCIO - May 01 2013]
China forestry purchase wrong - NZ First [Published Voxy.co.nz - May 01 2013]
Greens slam 'economic stupidity' of forestry sale [Published 3 News - Apr 30 2013]
Harvard University expands Otago dairy holdings [Published Otago Daily Times - Apr 30 2013]
Oceana quarterly profit down 70% [Published Otago Daily Times - Apr 30 2013]
China to stem agriculture trade deficit with Ne... [Published People.com.cn - Apr 30 2013]
Forestry blocks sold to Chinese govt [Published 3 News - Apr 30 2013]
Interview: China's farming heritage, innovation... [Published Individual.com - Apr 30 2013]
Dairy industry booms [Published New Zealand Herald - Apr 28 2013]
Buyer of Crafar farms has poor start [Published Timaru Herald - Apr 27 2013]
Perpetual Trust sale to Barnes almost completes... [Published BD Central - Apr 25 2013]
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