The World Economic Forum’s “Global Enabling Trade Report 2010” has New Zealand ranked as the economy with the sixth-best conditions for trade, up from eleventh in the 2009 report. 

The report, which was launched in 2008, now covers 125 economies and is intended to provide a yardstick of the extent to which economies have in place the necessary attributes for enabling trade and to show where improvements are most needed.

New Zealanders living overseas are being urged to pass on information about the best their country has to offer, with a focus on next year’s rugby world cup.

The Kiwi Expat Association (Kea) yesterday launched its “Pass It On” campaign, an initiative to turn the nearly one million New Zealanders who live overseas into a network of virtual ambassadors.

Kea has clicked onto the children’s birthday game of Chinese whispers and dragged it into the internet age.  The message is “New Zealand has plenty to brag about — Pass It On”.

On 16 February 2010 the Malaysian Business magazine published a special feature on New Zealand.

The Waitangi Day address given at Ōnuku Marae, Akaora by the Governor-General, The Honourable Sir Anand Satyanand, can be viewed on the Governor-General's website.