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From Brian
Sweeney, Producer,
www.nzedge.com
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Pictured above:
Kiri Te Kanawa, Valerie Vili, Lucy Lawless, The Black Sox, and Sam Neill
NEW
ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES
New Zealand headlines in this week's sampling of
global media appearing in The New York Times, Brisbane Times, Xinhua
News, Bust Magazine, Financial Times, San Francisco Gate, The Independent on
Sunday, ShortList, Thaindian News and Times Online ABC News, WA Today, Los
Angeles Times, Vogue Australia, Telegraph, Art & Australia, The Sydney
Morning Herald, The Korea Times and Guardian include:
Kiri
Te Kanawa,
65, to retire after Cologne Operas Der Rosenkavalier, 10 BBC
News
Valerie
Vili,
25, throws shot put 20.44m, takes gold in Berlin World Champs
Lucy
Lawless
, 41, Lucretia in Spartacus, "being naked on-screen no
fun" Los Angeles Times
Black
Sox, NZ
softball team, perform haka ahead of 160 drubbing of Denmark at World
Champs
Sam
Neill
turns down knighthood for being "just far too grand" The
Sydney Morning Herald
Sarah
Walker, BMXer, 21, wins World
Champs, Adelaide; looks to London 2012 ABC Sports
Lisa
Reihana,
artist, critiqued in Art & Australia, alternative reading of
her work put forward
Ngaire
Woods,
Oxford Professor, on recession and theory of global regulatory capture
Peter
Jackson's
District 9, "rarity" for not being an adaptation, remake
Los Angeles Times
Swheeb,
pedal-powered monorail, a direct response to future traffic
Peter
Yealands,
to wrangle miniature sheep as lawnmowers at vineyard Guardian
Ted
Jessep, All Black then Wallaby in first ever Bledisloe match in
'34 Brisbane Times
Wellington's
"glam beer hall" Mighty Mighty, "funky" BATS Theatre,
must sees Bust Magazine
David
Jeffries, recent UK ιmigrι to Auckland, misses nothing about
England Financial Times
Peter
Jackson
on Dam Busters: "bombing raid in 3D would be neat" Telegraph
New
Zealand
from a camper van opens doors to local conversation San Francisco
Gate
Rhys
Darby,
comedian, 35, stands up in London and soon at Edinburgh Festival Times
Online
Dr
Kevin Burns,
VUW, says NZ trees evolved camouflage to cope with peckish moa
Waiheke,
Martinborough, Waipara Valley tempt epicurious Australians WA Today
NZ
Fashion Week,
to showcase Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson's eco-swimwear Vogue
Jim
Eagles, NZ
Herald journo, takes to Korean karaoke in a Singing Room The
Korea Times
New
Zealand leading world in fight against overfishing Guardian
New
Zealand Syrah
and Sauvignon Blanc, best in the world at 2009 International Wine Challenge
St
Mary's Bay property,
Auckland high-end real estate for foreigners The New York Times
Kaikoura's
Dolphin Encounter, swimming with "tarts of the ocean"
The Sydney Morning Herald
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achievements and our role in the world. Home to a global
community of New Zealanders. Aotearoa whanau whanui kite ao nui
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