Counting is under way in Papua New Guinea’s sprawling elections, officials said Thursday, but voting has been marred by claims of rigging, electoral roll flaws and ballot paper shortages. The last polling stations are due to close Saturday after two weeks of voting for the 111-seat parliament across the vast and remote country where previous … Read more
Seventeen prisoners have been shot dead after a mass breakout at a jail in Papua New Guinea, reports said on Monday, with 57 still on the run. Inmates from the Buimo jail in the Pacific nation’s second largest city Lae made a dash for freedom after breaking out of their compound on Friday, with prison … Read more
KFC is rolling out a home delivery service in New Zealand in a trial with NZ post that could prove a recipe for success. NZ Post couriers will get behind the wheel to deliver the chicken chain in a bid to counter the dwindling revenue of the letter business. Under the pilot scheme launched this week … Read more
New Zealand Post has announced its couriers will home-deliver KFC fast food, in a trial that could provide a recipe for success as letter volumes continue to dwindle. Under a pilot scheme that started this week in the North Island town of Tauranga, KFC customers can order online and have their food delivered by NZ … Read more
From making illegal cross-border deliveries to China in a minivan to buying a fleet of Boeing aircraft, the boss of SF Express has ridden a wave of online shopping to become one of the country’s richest men. Though secretive and media-shy, founder Wang Wei has found himself thrust into the spotlight after the listing of … Read more
West Blue Consulting, a world class business and IT-consulting and technology firm has provided a single platform to boost the operation of Courier Services in the country. The platform which forms part of the Pre-Arrival and Assessment Report System (PAARS) of the National Single Window has placed the country’s courier services on International stage and … Read more
A bicycle courier has won an employment rights case in a ruling which could have implications for the “gig economy”. A tribunal found that Maggie Dewhurst, a courier with logistics firm City Sprint, should be classed as a worker rather than self-employed. As a worker, she would be entitled to basic rights including holiday and … Read more
A courier carries packages at a sorting facility of STO Express Ltd in Fuyang, Anhui province, during the Nov 11 shopping festival last year. [Photo/China Daily] Singles’ Day sales are set to get crazier this year, with transactions and deliveries expected to break records amid public concerns about quality. E-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding, which … Read more