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s the greatest potential," Berzins said.

WELLINGTON Los Angeles Chargers Hoodie , Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- The drive to build badly-needed homes has helped drive up the number of businesses in New Zealand past the half million mark for the first time, the government statistics agency said on Thursday.

New Zealand had 502,000 businesses as of February 2015, up almost 2 percent year on year and up 14 percent from 2005, according to Statistics New Zealand.

The number of paid employees passed 2 million, up 2.3 percent year on year.

The construction industry continued to lead the increase, with 3.7 percent more businesses and 6.4 percent more employees in 2015 than in the previous year.

"The increase in the construction industry was mainly due to residential building," business register manager Stuart Pitts said in a statement.

"There were 22,000 employees working in the residential building industry in February 2015, an increase of 11 percent and in line with continued GDP (gross domestic product) growth in this sector since 2013."

The largest increase was in Auckland - home to a third of New Zealand's population - where soaring house prices have been described as a risk to financial stability by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.

The earthquake-battered Canterbury region came second.

For the fourth year in a row, the number of new businesses was greater than the number that closed.

"Of all the businesses that started up in 2005, 27 percent were still operating in 2015," Pitts said.

"This 10-year survival rate varied across industries, with 36 percent of financial and insurance services businesses carrying on into their 10th year, compared with only 18 percent of information media and telecommunications businesses."

The figures were released the same day as a report ranking New Zealand second - after Singapore - in the best places in the world to do business.

The World Bank's Doing Business report is an annual study measuring government regulations and their effect on business across 189 economies.

"New Zealand has been ranked second for ease of doing business for the second year in a row," Regulatory Reform Minister Steven Joyce said in a statement welcoming the report.

New Zealand ranked first in four of the 10 categories measured, including starting a business, registering property, getting credit and protecting minority investors.

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NANNING, China, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- U.S. star gymnast Simone Biles took two more golds on women's balance beam and floor exercise while China won a silver on balance beam during the world gymnastics championships on Sunday.

On the women's balance beam, Biles topped the table at 15.100 despite several wavers with China's 16-year-old Bai Yawen placed the second at 15.033.

Biles, the 2013 balance beam bronze medalist, claimed the gold after three gymnasts fell from the beam, including Romania's Larisa Andreea Iordache, Canada's Black Elsabeth and China's Yao Jinnan.

The American also retained women' floor exercise gold at 15.333.

With her high-energy routine and complex acrobatics, Biles defeated 2013 bronze medalist Larisa Andreea Iordache from Romania by a massive margin of 0.533.

""It feels just amazing, and it is honor to get here representing the United States,"" said Biles. ""I will go to the next year's worlds and 2016 Olympics.""

With a medal tally of four golds and one silver, Biles became the most decorated gymnast of the 45th championships.

She successfully defended her 2013 all-around and floor exercise titles, and earned half the U.S. team's 10 medals that made them the dominant national federation of the championships.

Ri Se Gwang from DPR Korea won his first world championships title on the men's vault. Ukraine's Oleg Verniaiev counted on the highest execution mark to take men's parallel bars champion. Epke Zonderland from the Netherlands retained his gold medal on men's horizontal bar with a thrilling score of 16.225.

""My own routine was so flawless that I don't know if it could have been any better at this stage,"" said Zonderland excitedly.

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RIGA, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Liepaja has big growth potential, Latvian President Andris Berzins said as he opened an international business forum in this port city in south-western Latvia on Thursday, Baltic News Service reported.

"The potential is huge," the president said, noting that Liepaja has well-developed infrastructure, including an educational, cultural, sports and transport system.

The Latvian president believes though that the port of Liepaja has the biggest potential. "There are no doubts that transit business will be developed and investments will be made in railway and the port, which actually has the greatest potential," Berzins said.

The president indicated that the new Latvian government had successfully started work on the 2015 budget, as well as expressed confidence that Latvia would never again allow anything that would have a clearly negative impact on its national interests.

"Continuity and experience give us grounds to hope that the highly complicated budget issue will be successfully dealt with and that the other issues of importance to Latvia will also be solved sensibly and successfully... I am also sure that the approach and attitude to everything that is going on in the European Union (EU) will radically change and Latvia will not allow anything that might have a clearly negative effect on its national interests. That time is over," President Berzins said.

Liepaja Mayor Uldis Sesks said at the business forum that the port city wants to develop and that it has such possibilities. "Liepaja wants to develop. Liepaja wants to grow. We have such possibilities and business in Liepaja succeeds," said Sesks.

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