New Zealand | India Today
30 April 2017
“Often overshadowed by its sophisticated neighbours, like buzzing-city Auckland, picturesque Hamilton frequently gets neglected. But this city – that has long been a centre of dairy farming, on the banks of the Waikato River…
New Zealand | Conde Nast Traveler
30 April 2017
Helena Bay Lodge in Northland, New Zealand has been cited on Condé Nast Traveler’s Best New Hotels List 2017. The magazine’s editors “vetted hundreds of recently…
Wine | Bend Bulletin (The)
29 April 2017
“If I must choose just one New Zealand winery for sauvignon blanc, I’ll pick Kim Crawford. The 2016 vintage is already available in area stores, and if anything, it’s even better than previous years,”…
Fashion | Telegraph (The)
29 April 2017
New Zealand fashion designer Karen Walker tells the Telegraph that luxury is no longer about how rare your handbag is, how big your yacht is or how hand-made your watch is.
“It’s about how special…
Theatre | Allied News
28 April 2017
Jane Doe, previously titled We Are Steubenville, is a play created, written and directed by Eleanor Bishop, a New Zealand-born director who studied fine arts at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama in…
Taste | Food & Wine
28 April 2017
“A pop-up restaurant called This is How We Fly opened for a day on April 24 in London’s Unit London Gallery in an effort to showcase Air New Zealand‘s new…
Taste | Daily Mail
27 April 2017
Military MREs – Meals Ready-to-Eat – from the US, China, Russia and France were transformed into stunning fine dining dishes in photo series From MRE To Michelin. The series “was created by food photographer…
Science/Tech | Stuff
27 April 2017
NASA is adopting a planet hunting technique created by New Zealand scientists. Called gravitational microlensing, it helped Auckland and Massey University scientists Associate Professor Ian Bond and Dr Nick Rattenbury find a new giant…
Fashion | Vogue
27 April 2017
“It would be impossible to write about my childhood without mentioning the two amazing women in my life who raised me: my mother and my grandmother,” New Zealand-born designer Emilia…
Politics and Economics | Courier.co.uk (The)
26 April 2017
New Zealand’s powerful meat promotional body Beef and Lamb New Zealand (BLNZ) has begun discussions with UK producer groups about the possibility of collaborating on post-Brexit lamb deals to third countries, Nancy Nicholson writes…
Sport | YouTube
26 April 2017
The World Masters Games are currently on in Auckland. Watch this clip to see the highlights of the opening ceremony. 28000 competitors from 100 different countries participate in the event.
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26 April 2017
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Science/Tech | New York Times (The)
26 April 2017
The LookSee Wellington program to fly in 100 tech developers for job interviews has been “besieged” with more than 48,000 entries, according to a New York…
Film & TV | Iris (The)
26 April 2017
New Zealand’s Pork Pie screened recently as part of the Gold Coast Film Festival and is reviewed by Jake Tired for Australian entertainment news site, The Iris ahead of the film’s release in Australian…
War & Peace | Courier.co.uk (The)
25 April 2017
A quiet corner of a Scottish cemetery was the sombre setting for remembering the darkest day in New Zealand’s military history. Figures from Angus and across the Commonwealth gathered at the graveside of four…
Film & TV | Vanity Fair
24 April 2017
“With a very popular trailer already out, Marvel fans probably thought they already knew everything there was to know about the cast of Thor: Ragnarok,” according to…
Sport | YouTube
24 April 2017
Watch this clip to hear more about Black Ferns Sevens strength and conditioning coach Brad Anderson’s role in the lead-up to game day.
Music | Guardian (The)
24 April 2017
“Lorde used her late-evening (Coachella) slot to showcase material from her forthcoming album, Melodrama. Starting off with a portion of her lead single, Green Light, she performed staring straight down…
Z-Files | Guardian (The)
24 April 2017
A new study explains why shoelaces keep coming undone – but it can’t explain why we’re stuck with a centuries-old fudge to fasten our trainers, according to the Guardian’s Gavin Hayes who talks to…
General | News.com.au
23 April 2017
“Like most Aussies I know, I’ve spent my life poking fun at our Kiwi cousins, mostly because of the way they say ‘fush n’ chups’,” Andrew Brown (pictured) writes for news.com.au.
“Despite this, in December…
Taste | DNAinfo
23 April 2017
New Zealand coffee chain Mojo is opening its first shop in the United States in Chicago near the city’s iconic Willis Tower in May. Mojo’s first store opened in 2003…
New Zealand | Conde Nast Traveler
23 April 2017
PurePods are four free-standing glass houses set in open clearing on private farm land in the South Island. There’s no carpet, curtains, or traditional ceiling (it’s made of glass), and…
Music | New York Times (The)
22 April 2017
Lorde owns a house in Auckland, where she grew up, but for the better part of the last year she has been living at different hotels around New York, trying…
Taste | Australian Financial Review | Good Food
22 April 2017
New Zealand-born chef Guy Stanaway is executive chef at new upmarket Melbourne restaurant Doot Doot Doot, where he will serve degustation menus showcasing contemporary Australian produce.
Doot Doot Doot is part…
Agriculture | Guardian (The)
22 April 2017
The New Zealand Government has tested 800 samples of honey from around the world to establish a scientific definition of genuine manuka honey and crackdown on alleged fakes, Eleanor Ainge…
Film & TV | Hollywood Reporter
21 April 2017
Critics loved Top of the Lake, New Zealander Jane Campion’s dark crime drama, starring Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss as Robin Griffin, the police detective tasked with finding out why a…
X Files | YouTube
21 April 2017
Oregon State University researchers were able to capture how blue whales feed in a rare clip filmed with a drone. The footage was taken in the Southern Ocean off…
Business | iapp The Privacy Advisor
21 April 2017
Brendon Lynch, Chief Privacy Officer of Microsoft in Redmond, Seattle, has been named 2017 winner of the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ (iapp) Vanguard Award, writes Courtney Gabrielson on iapp’s…
Education | Age (The) | Australian Financial Review
21 April 2017
New Zealand-born Jamie Beaton dreamt big when he finished high school. He applied for 25 international universities and received an offer from all of them, Henrietta Cook writes for the Age in a feature…
Media | Bandwagon
20 April 2017
From being BBC Radio 1’s “tastemaker-in-charge” for fresh, cutting-edge music to helming Apple’s fresh, cutting-edge new radio station, New Zealander Zane Lowe has found himself at the forefront of music media development, time and…
War & Peace | Guardian (The)
20 April 2017
A controversy that has spanned more than seven decades over whether Auckland-born Paddy Costello, a Cambridge-educated diplomat and academic, was a top Soviet spy has been fuelled by the release of his MI5 file.
Desmond…
Education | Stuff
20 April 2017
Palmerston North-based medical student Josh Smith is heading to American Ivy League institution Yale University to learn a technique that could shape the future of healthcare.
Smith is in the final year of his medical…
Opera | San Francisco Classical Voice
19 April 2017
Auckland soprano Isabella Moore’s recent performance in Puccini’s Suor Angelica at Conservatory Concert Hall in San Francisco is highly praised in online music site, San Francisco Classical Voice.
“Moore was the spine-chilling Angelica, her voice…
Sport | YouTube
19 April 2017
Watch this 6-minute clip to see adrenaline couple Barry Nobles’ and Caroline Buchanan’s biking and adrenaline adventures in New Zealand.
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19 April 2017
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Wine | Bloomberg
19 April 2017
Americans are falling in love with pricey New Zealand wines at the expense of cheaper vino from Australia and Argentina, according to a Bloomberg report.
The value of New Zealand wine shipped to the United…
Film & TV | MediaVillage
18 April 2017
For the past two seasons of The CW series iZombie, star Rose McIver has managed to enjoy relative anonymity when the cameras stopped rolling. Thanks to the deathly pale zombie complexion and platinum wig…
Sport General | Daily Mail
18 April 2017
New Zealand’s sprint trio team Ethan Mitchell, 26, Sam Webster, 25, and Eddie Dawkins, 27, made it two world titles in a row and three in four years with a flawless performance at the…
General | Guardian (The)
18 April 2017
“The New Zealand postal service has begun delivering Kentucky Fried Chicken in a bid to stem major revenue losses as the number of people using the postal service continue to plummet,” writes Eleanor Ainge…
New Zealand | Travelers Today | Wanderlust
17 April 2017
Wanderlust in Raglan has been cited in a Travelers Today article listing the world’s best surfing and yoga destinations.
“If you want some girl time with your friends and families, visit the all-female surf and…
Film & TV | Guardian (The)
17 April 2017
The first trailer for Thor: Ragnarok, which was directed by Taika Waititi, has been released, as reported in an article in The Guardian.
“Following on from the events of Avengers: Age…
New Zealand | Condé Nast Traveller
16 April 2017
Mahana in Nelson – “a modern mansion on a working winery with delicious food and a compelling private art collection”, has been featured in Condé Nast Traveller’s weekly series of…
Fashion | Women's Wear Daily
16 April 2017
New Zealand fashion designer Karen Walker is using eyewear to bring her version of “eye shadow” to market through her new collection of sunglasses, Women’s Wear Daily reports.
“We wanted to play with the idea…
Writers | Toronto Star
15 April 2017
“In earlier Ben Sanders books, Marshall Grade worked undercover for the NYPD. When he made serious enemies in the criminal subculture, the federal cops hid him far away in the witness protection programme,” Toronto…
Taste | Broadsheet
15 April 2017
Etta in Melbourne’s Brunswick East has just opened. The 80-seat bistro’s kitchen is overseen by New Zealand-born chef Hayden McMillan, formerly of The Roving Marrow, and along with Hannah Green (pictured right), he runs…
Business | MarketWatch
14 April 2017
“While by most metrics she’s now a success, Sarah Robb O’Hagan, who has held top jobs at Nike, Gatorade, and Equinox Fitness Clubs, doesn’t shy away from talking about her failures,” writes Jacob Passy…
Business | Los Angeles Times
14 April 2017
When New Zealander Peter Beck arrived in Silicon Valley in 2013, he gave himself three weeks to secure funding for his small-satellite launch vehicle start-up, Rocket Lab, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Instead of blanketing…
Sport General | National Student (The)
14 April 2017
“Given that his chosen profession provides ample thrills, as well as the very real possibility of serious injury, one would be forgiven for thinking that Olympic skier Jossi Wells, 26, is content…
Taste | Good Food
13 April 2017
New Zealand chef Ben Shewry’s Melbourne restaurant Attica has once again made the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list, coming in at No 32, up one from last year.
Attica also received the Best Restaurant in…
X Files | YouTube
13 April 2017
Watch this 25 minute-long documentary with Bryan Maltais about New Zealand nature and find out more about NZ’s wild West Coast and more.
Politics and Economics | LSE podcast
13 April 2017
Last year was not a great one for mainstream politics, according to Chris Gilson, Managing Editor of the London School of Economics’ daily blog on US politics and policy. In a recent…
Visual Arts | E-Flux
13 April 2017
Taking Shenzhen’s accelerated production model as its point of departure, New Zealand artist Simon Denny’s exhibition Real Mass Entrepreneurship looks at the myth of the small technology hardware business owner as global hero.
The exhibition…
Sport General | Athletics Weekly
12 April 2017
The International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) has announced its new independent Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), with the former director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), New Zealand-born David Howman, appointed as chairperson.
The…
Film | YouTube
12 April 2017
Watch the first trailer for Thor: Ragnarok, which was directed by New Zealander Taika Waititi. The film is scheduled to be released on 26th October 2017 in New Zealand.
General | NZEDGE.com
12 April 2017
(SPONSORED CONTENT) – Iconic New Zealand chocolatier, Whittaker’s, is again partnering with Kiwis for kiwi to raise funds for the Operation Nest Egg initiative, which aims to help reverse the decline in kiwi populations.
Operation…
Magazine
12 April 2017
News of Global New…