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On the Defensive

On the Defensive

The debate continues over scrapping the Air Force. Is it an example to the world or peacenik idealism?  

Dame Kiri in Greece

Dame Kiri in Greece

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, “a woman with an exotic beauty and – beyond any doubt – an absolutely stunning voice” who “personifies the modern version of a diva most completely” talks about her roles,…

Hot Shit!

Hot Shit!

Renewable Energy Corporation, powered by New Zealander Paul Williams’ organic waste energy generation technology, signs to put power-plants next to pig farms in North Carolina. The plants will gasify pig manure and burn the gas to…

AIDS Action

AIDS Action

New Zealand’s health minister Dr Annette King calls on the world not to neglect the small island nations of the Pacific in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Carbon Up

Carbon Up

New Zealand’s carbon emissions rose 22% in the 1990’s, almost certainly putting Kyoto targets out of reach.

Survivor 3: The Holiday

Survivor 3: The Holiday

Survivor 2: The Australian Outback has tourism spin-offs for New Zealand in South Nevada.

Free Farming

Free Farming

New Zealand leads the world with a fully deregulated agricultural sector – but big players like the US still protect and subsidise farmers, talking the free-trade talk but not walking the walk.

Private Worries

Private Worries

New Zealand’s privacy laws touted as an example for Australia to follow in protecting the rights of its citizens and mesh better with EU legislation.  

Rat Attack

Rat Attack

New Zealand rat predatation expert Mike Bell called in to save the puffins of Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel.

Rollerskating Don

Rollerskating Don

Oxford’s “Rollerskating media don”, Kiwi Ngaire Woods is a classroom pioneer using team game and corporate learning strategies in her International Relations MPhil classes.

Cartoon Commies

Cartoon Commies

Cartoons from New Zealander David Low’s (“the greatest cartoonist of the twentieth century”) “Russian Sketchbook” on show alongside high-profile Russian cartoonists in the first exhibition run by Britain’s new Political Cartoon Society.

Fe-mail, He-mail

Fe-mail, He-mail

Gender can’t be hidden, even in faceless e-communication according to research by Tamar Murachver of Otago University.

Edge to Travel TV

Edge to Travel TV

US Travel Channel radically overhauls its image with “a new TV spot showing skate kids mountain-boarding down a sheep-studded slope in New Zealand”. “For the first time, the excitement and feel of a commercial really matched our…

Try whistling happy birthday

Try whistling happy birthday

Today in history: alongside the anniversary of the patenting of barbed wire and Custer’s last stand, it’s also the day Tim Finn was born in Te Awamutu.  

Kitchen Cleans Up

Kitchen Cleans Up

Kiwi Shelly Kitchen squashes the opposition, taking out the YTL Women’s Open title. The win was the second in a row for Kitchen, also the winner of the Singapore Open.  

Best Beaches

Best Beaches

New Zealand Beaches: solitude, expanse, beauty. The best. “At the back of the beach was a huge whale vertebra, bleached and scoured by the surf. I took a break on a huge log facing the sun,…

Russell cooking

Russell cooking

Russell Crowe’s Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts hots up Texas barbeque with proceeds going to the city’s Settlement Home for troubled youth. As well as being a New Zealander and an Australian, Crowe has…

World food

World food

What does an Irish pub in Miami serve to go with the Guinness? New Zealand lamb, cooked Mediterranean style!

Market in (3D) Sight

Market in (3D) Sight

Prototypes of New Zealand-based Deep Video Imaging’s revolutionary actualdepth monitors are due to be built by early next year.

Ata Rangi’s Stunning Achievement

Ata Rangi’s Stunning Achievement

The Martinborough vineyard wins the Pinot Noir international trophy for the third time with a “beautifully balanced, seductive wine.” NZEdge brings you the press release of this impressive feat.

Fractured fairytale

Fractured fairytale

“It’s not often you can say an animated feature’s rich in subtext, but much-acclaimed fractured fairytale Shrek fits the description… beneath striking visuals and a classic hero-princess-villain story arc, there’s a frothy adult undercurrent…

The green-eyed monster

The green-eyed monster

How does it feel when your pregnant girlfriend takes an acting role that breaks all the boundaries about sex on screen in serious, mainstream films? Kerry Fox’s boyfriend answers that question.

Big Dollar Boys

Big Dollar Boys

New Zealand energy family the Todds become the first New Zealanders to make the Forbes 500 list of the world’s wealthiest people, coming in at 490 with a net worth of US$1 billion.

Lucky Pig

Lucky Pig

New Zealand Kune Kune pig Grunty, former star of British programme Pig at the Ritz, currently resident at a farm in Wellington, southwest England, saved from slaughter after being declared free of foot and mouth.

Finn forum

Finn forum

Neil Finn at the Forum: “It was magic. It was intimate, it was funny. And above all, reverential”. Also, Finn in Sydney.

Nests Bearing Fruit

Nests Bearing Fruit

Over half the world’s languages are under threat. Maori initiatives such as Kohanga reo (language nests), where elders teach children whose parents don’t speak the language, are seen as a model for other struggling cultures to…

Gone Fishing

Gone Fishing

Maori fishing rights seen as inspiration for other indigenous groups negotiating for sea rights.

Times Past

Times Past

It was fourteen years ago today that Captain Kirk got the boys to play, winning the inaugural Rugby World Cup at Eden Park.

Milking Size

Milking Size

Global Dairy Co. New Zealand’s newly-formed giant dairy company looks to the Australian industry for further expansion. Also, we want to be fifth in the world, size-wise, says Global Dairy Company chairman John Roadley.  

Scholar honoured

Scholar honoured

New Zealand novelist, poet, critic and scholar Professor Karl Stead awarded an honorary doctorate  by Bristol University.

Big Cheese (and Milk)

Big Cheese (and Milk)

Taking on the world’s food ingredients multinationals, New Zealand farmers vote to merge NZ dairy Group and Kiwi Cooperative Dairies to form Global Dairy Co., a company that will be the ninth largest dairy company in…

Tri-series Netted

Tri-series Netted

New Zealand wins over it’s down under rivals to win tri-nations series.  

Difficulty in the holy land

Difficulty in the holy land

Dame Kiri in Israel “to do music”. “I love things that are difficult. I love looking for new arias and presenting them to the public,” said edge voice Dame Kiri.

Ancient forest

Ancient forest

Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lost World filmed in New Zealand “where there are still forests that resemble those of the Cretaceous Period when the great dinosaurs walked the land”.

Improv queen

Improv queen

Miss Wonder drags herself out to promote New Zealand comedy group the Improv Bandits at the Montreal Fringe Festival.

Milford Enchants

Milford Enchants

Beautiful scenery and dare-devil flying over “a serene sea-loch towered over by glossy, beech-clad pyramidal peaks”.

Seeds of Learning

Seeds of Learning

New Zealand plant expert Doctor Warwick Harris lectures in Seattle on the Christchurch Botanical gardens.

Camera Obscura

Camera Obscura

When is a pin-hole camera a pen-hole camera? When the person issuing the instructs has a strong New Zealand accent…

Top Travel…

Top Travel…

New Zealand scores as Guardian readers’ favorite long-haul travel destination.

Sister Joyce

Sister Joyce

James Joyce was the pre-eminent modernist prose stylist; his sister was a devout Catholic nun who spent her life praying for his soul and “witnessing at the ends of the earth” – New Zealand.

Compensation Won

Compensation Won

International interest raised by Waitangi Tribunal ruling on compensation for Moriori descendents of survivors of the 1835 Chathams massacre.  

He Makes Me Lie Down in Green Pastures

He Makes Me Lie Down in Green Pastures

“This New Zealand guy who came into my shop gave me the seeds. He was like the Jesus Christ of cannabis: long-haired, blue-eyed, a big healer. Fortunately, he told me the potential of the seeds. They…

And Why…

And Why…

“There was a moment halfway up the Coromandel Peninsula, only a couple of hours out of Auckland, when I felt that this was as good as it gets. But there was plenty of competition for that…

Nipple Insulation

Nipple Insulation

Cold nipples – slip on some possum skin nipple warmers to ensure you don’t stand out from the crowd.  

Donuts to the World

Donuts to the World

Krispy Kreme donut king, Kiwi Don Henshall talks cautious expansion for the American icon.

Old Bones

Old Bones

Cache of moa bones and other fossils found under Canterbury vineyard.

Talking Turkey

Talking Turkey

New Zealand farmer’s groups are a model of co-operation in preparing for the ups and downs of the agricultural sector.

Mussels and joints

Mussels and joints

Sore joints? Eat New Zealand green-lipped mussels, or take a pre-processed extract.

Rock art

Rock art

New Zealander Chris Grosz designed tour posters for promoters Michael Coppel and Zev Isaac, producing pop art-influenced images. “I wanted the posters to stand up and be proud – bright and strong, in full…

V. Good

V. Good

New Zealand energy drink V rates well for taste and kick.

Cutting Edge Commercials

Cutting Edge Commercials

Saatchi & Saatchi’s “Bugger” ad shows the creativity that will save TV advertising says Jim Aitchinson’s Cutting Edge Commercials.

Blast from the Past

Blast from the Past

Edge inventor Paul Williams’ gasification technology leads the way in turning waste into energy.

Docu Prize

Docu Prize

New Zealand co-production Wild Asia: Creatures of the Thaw wins Canada’s Banff Television Festival President’s Prize, worth C$25 000 .

Golden Shooter’s Last Shot

Golden Shooter’s Last Shot

Malcolm Cooper started his small-bore rifle career in New Zealander and went on to shoot double Olympic gold for Britain, but lost the battle with cancer. Malcolm Cooper: 20 December 1947 – 9 June 2001

Hairy Summer

Hairy Summer

On the track of the elusive ape-drape, found among “isolated sporting tribes such as New Zealand rugby league players, Czech speedway riders and the pantomime grizzlies of the Worldwide Wrestling Foundation”.

Riding High

Riding High

New Zealand riders let their legs do the talking for the Pittsburgh Cycling Club.