Sofitel Queenstown Hotel & Spa took out the award for New Zealand's best hotel at the prestigious HM Awards for Hotel and Accommodation Excellence in Sydney last week.

Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Inpex Holdings Inc. , Japan's largest oil explorer, picked Darwin in northern Australia as the site of a proposed $20 billion liquefied natural gas plant that would be the biggest single private investment in the country.

The quintuple whammy of a stuttering economy, soaring energy costs, stringent security, eviscerated flight schedules and weak dollars has Americans reconsidering taking vacations abroad. ...

THE all-important inflation figures to be released today are expected to be a whopper, although economists believe it won't result in another interest rate rise next month.

Village Roadshow has announced proposals to develop a theme park called African Safari World, south west of Melbourne, Australia.