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Haier Group Corp., a leading Chinese appliance manufacturer, has expressed an interest in acquiring Fisher & Paykel Appliances, a smaller New Zealand-based appliance maker. Haier already owns a 20% shareholding of the New Zealand company and has exclusive rights to sell its product range in China. F&P also sells Haier's products in the Australia, New Zealand and more recently in the Irish markets.

Still, the top 10, which is ranked according to Google's search volume index, offers a glimpse of relative interest in the technology. The numbers represent the likelihood of users in each country searching for "hybrid car," on a scale of 0-100. Google divides the total number of searches for each country by the number of searches for this particular term, and then normalizes the data based on the country's traffic volume. 1. United States: 100 2. Malaysia: 66 3. Canada: 60 4. Singapore: 56 5. Australia: 45 6. New Zealand: 42 7. South Korea: 35 8. India: 30 9. Hong Kong: 23 10. United Kingdom: 22

"New Zealand's recent decision to oppose another deep sea mining venture off its coasts has poured cold water on advocates of searching for and digging up valuable minerals including copper, gold and manganese from the ocean floor."

New Zealand-based outdoor clothing and equipment retailer Kathmandu Holdings has opened an investigation into a data breach with its online trading websites

Copper miner Tamaya Resources has suspended trading of its shares on the Australian stock exchange and begun discussions with creditors, a month after delivering a A$141.2 million ($168.4 million) half-year loss.

Leader Universal Holdings Bhd expects its wire and cable business to benefit from increased demand as a result of stronger activity in the domestic and overseas infrastructure industry. Demand is expected to stem mainly from Asia and Australia, and also from reconstruction projects in New Zealand and Japan. Currently, orders amount to RM800M, with one-third coming from overseas markets. The company also realised strong demand from the Middle East. In the financial year ended 31st December 2010, the company recorded a turnover of RM2.49B, an increase of 27.6% compared to RM1.95B in 2009.

""The planning of the cable laying began back in 2000 after a severe hurricane hit Denmark at the end of December 1999. Today, we've completed the cable laying, and I'm pleased that the consumers in our grid area no longer have to fear major power cuts when Mother Nature takes its toll causing trees to fall down on overhead line poles and power lines. Now that the power cables are buried in the ground, we can avoid this.""