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A Kaiapoi based craft brewery has been placed into liquidation.

Chinchiller Brewing Limited was placed into voluntary liquidation on 19 December 2025 after shareholders resolved the company could no longer continue trading.

The brewery, which operated from Williams Street in Kaiapoi, ceased trading on the same day.

The company had been operating as a beer brewing business since it was incorporated in April 2021.

According to the liquidator’s first report, the company had been struggling with working capital for some time, with revenue steadily declining over the past year to a level that was no longer sustainable.

Directors sought professional advice before deciding to place the company into liquidation.

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill late Friday night that provides a remedy for victims of coerced debt—a kind of financial abuse where bad actors either take out lines of credit in another person’s name without them knowing or pressure someone into accruing debt.

The law, headed by Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal and Senator Cordell Cleare, is poised to help provide an avenue for survivors of intimate partner violence to leave abusive situations…

TMBThanachart Bank (ttb) has provided debt assistance totalling 40 billion baht this year through a range of financial relief measures.

According to president Thakorn Piyapan, ttb supported customers through debt assistance and restructuring under both the Bank of Thailand’s “You Fight, We Help” scheme and its own “Good Pay, Get Reward” programme since the beginning of the year.

Under these two measures, ttb extended…

Donald Trump, having promised to “NEVER LET OUR FARMERS DOWN”, appeared to come through for them this month when he unveiled a $12bn aid package. Industry leaders say thousands of farms will still go bust this year.

While the US president has vowed to increase domestic farm production, and even claimed this formed a “big part” of his plan to lower grocery prices for Americans, many US farmers are grappling with mounting financial issues – compounded by Trump’s agenda.

Grain farmers, in particular, have been hit by trade disruptions caused by tariff hikes, and $11bn of the US Department of Agriculture’s Farmer Bridge Assistance Program will go to row-crop farmers. Trump’s trade war with China has hit soya bean farmers the…

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