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In Japan, population down, toilet paper up

Why are toilet paper sales soaring in Japan despite a falling population?

Auckland: Fewer houses being built

Auckland could take another 86,400 dwellings in the next eight years without any risk of over-building.

Immigration decline may stunt Australia

International travel figures released support suspicion that the economy's potential growth has been cut by slower population growth.

Migration rises to a new record

Migrant arrivals climbed 15 percent to 115,700 in the year, while departures fell 8.1 percent to 57,400.

We live in a sick world

Kiwis lose touch with their neighbours

New research has found that only four per cent of New Zealanders agreed they felt close to people in their local area.

Cartoon: Regional centres dying

McCully leads Cooks visit

Foreign Minister Murray McCully has taken Shane Jones, David Shearer and Winston Peters with him for his trip to the Cook Islands, where he is holding talks.

Cartoon: Auckland banquet

Peter Calder: Space crisis looming in a place of peace

'Time to get a weedeater through here, I reckon," I said to Roscoe Webb, as I gazed across the expanse of waist-high weeds threatening to choke the old headstones at Waikumete Cemetery.

China's pollution crisis

China's Environment Minister has promised to confront an environmental challenge "unprecedented in human history" after an online film exposing his country's pollution crisis went viral with more than 100 million hits in two days.

Brain gain continues: Kiwis stay in NZ

The allure of the lucky country is fading, as fewer Kiwis leave for Australia and more return - a brain gain forecast to continue this year.

Wheeler criticises Auckland 'nimbys'

Building height restrictions and NIMBY attitudes in inner Auckland are standing in the way of an response to Auckland's housing shortage, the Reserve Bank governor says.

Population growing in all NZ regions

All regions of New Zealand are expected to see an increase in population over the next 13 years, Statistics New Zealand says.

Money in the bank, fewer buns in oven

Babies are going out of fashion again as Kiwi women increasingly put work and study ahead of childbearing.

NZ growth outstrips Australia

New Zealand, with a population increase of 500,000 in the past decade, is growing faster than Australia and China a new "snapshot" into Kiwi life shows.