Film & TV | Los Angeles Times
9 December 2017
The team behind Top of the Lake: China Girl plunges into prostitution, illegal surrogacy, motherhood – and humour. New Zealander Jane Campion and Australian collaborators co-creator Gerard Lee and co-director Ariel Kleiman discuss the show in…
New Zealand | Vacation & Travel
9 December 2017
“New Zealand is home to incredible activities worthy of a place on anyone’s bucket list”. Vacations & Travel Magazine round up the ultimate New Zealand experiences.
Hobbiton
Visit Hobbiton just…
Music | YouTube
8 December 2017
Watch Mitch James’ music video and listen to ‘All The Ways To Say Goodbye’ here. Before signing with Sony Music Worldwide the singer/songwriter from Auckland busked and played shows for…
General | BBC
8 December 2017
Former MP Maurice Williamson’s rising popularity as a gay icon among many Japanese people is thanks to a video of a speech he made during the third reading and vote on the Marriage Equality…
Taste | Irish Times (The)
8 December 2017
As part of Food Month at The Irish Times, Irish chefs working abroad tell us about their jobs. Francis Nolan, from Baltinglass, County Wicklow, is head chef at Vines Village Café in Blenheim, Marlborough.
Dublin-trained…
Theatre | Blouin Artinfo
7 December 2017
America’s Got Talent sensation Tape Face will be performing at the Attucks Theatre in Norfolk, UK on 20 February 2018. Sam Wills is a 39-year-old New Zealander who lives in Lincolnshire but as his…
Agriculture | Deccan Chronicle
7 December 2017
Educator and writer Graeme Sait’s mission in life is creating a new agricultural paradigm for the world to improve human health. Soil health and nutrition farming is what the New Zealander imparts and India,…
Watersports | Australian (The)
7 December 2017
New Zealand-born businessman and sailor Neville Crichton, 72, will skipper this year’s Sydney to Hobart yacht race in perennial favourite and nine-time winner Wild Oats XI, the 2015 winner Comanche. Crichton, the founder of…
Business | The Lingerie Journal
6 December 2017
“For the 25 million Americans who experience bladder control issues, few underwear products have combined comfort, fashion and performance – until now,” writes Manoela Marandino in an article for The…
Magazine
6 December 2017
News of Global New…
Sport | YouTube
6 December 2017
Emirates Team New Zealand, the winners of the 2017 America’s Cup, have unveiled their ground-breaking new America’s Cup class race boat concept. Watch the video to find out more.
Motorsports | South China Morning Post
6 December 2017
Sitting in a business suite at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Hong Kong, 23-year-old Formula E driver, New Zealander Mitch Evans is soft-spoken and unassuming.
But you need only ask Evans’ Panasonic Jaguar Racing team…
Politics and Economics | Financial Times
6 December 2017
New Zealand, famous for the mountains that formed the dramatic backdrop to the film The Lord of the Rings, is now known for something else among the super rich: as a possible safe haven…
Visual Arts | British Journal of Photography | Guardian (The)
5 December 2017
New Zealander Luke Willis Thompson, 29, is one of four to make the shortlist for the prestigious 2018 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.
It’s the 21st year of the prize, and this year the shortlisted…
War & Peace | Stuff
5 December 2017
Lieutenant Colonel Melanie Childs, who took charge of soldiers and police to lead refugees to safety through a battle zone in South Sudan, has been named the New Zealand Defence Force Person of the…
Writers | Guardian (The)
5 December 2017
Photographing birds and tinkering with words were two of the late John Clarke’s favourite pastimes. In a Guardian article, they come together in excerpts from a new book showcasing the New Zealander’s body of…
New Zealand | Telegraph (The)
4 December 2017
“The greatest country on Earth? According to the 87,220 readers who voted in this year’s Telegraph Travel Awards, it’s a reassuringly familiar place where sheep graze on rolling green hills, there are cricket pitches…
Arts | YouTube
4 December 2017
Watch this clip to hear contemporary New Zealand artist Simon Denny talk about his work over the last five years as well as his views on technology. Denny is…
New Zealand | Vacations & Travel
4 December 2017
The Rees Hotel in Queenstown “has been crowned Best New Zealand Ski Hotel 2017 at this year’s World Ski Awards” for the second year in a row, writes Josipa Kosanovic…
Agriculture | Forbes
4 December 2017
New Zealand AgTech startup Engender Technologies “has created a new microfluidic and photonic technology to sort livestock sperm by sex to enrich X chromosome-bearing bull sperm cells,” writes Jennifer Kite-Powell…
Music | Michigan Daily (The)
3 December 2017
New Zealand singer Kimbra’s lastest single Top of the World, which will be included on her upcoming album Primal Heart, is reviewed in The Michigan Daily.
“Kimbra is growing with her music, and the music…
Taste | Telegraph (The)
3 December 2017
Chantelle Nicholson, the New Zealand-born former lawyer-turned-chef at Marcus Wareing’s London restaurant Tredwells, may be an omnivore but she’s passionate about plant-based food.
The numbers of full-time vegans increased four-fold in the last ten years…
Z-Files | Oxford Mail
2 December 2017
After thousands of air miles, reams of paper and a lifetime of stories, Oxfordshire woman Barbara Finch is marking seven decades of writing to her pen pal Elizabeth Martin, 84, (pictured) on the other…
New Zealand | Australian (The)
2 December 2017
“A romantic New Zealand retreat for two that feels every inch the private island without leaving dry land, The Glasshouse affords stunning coastal views from a little peninsula jutting into…
Rugby | YouTube
1 December 2017
Watch this clip to see the highlights of the All Blacks vs. Wales game in which the New Zealand team won 33-18. It was the last game of the Northern…
New Zealand | Sunshine Coast Daily
1 December 2017
“Nowhere does scenery better than New Zealand and it doesn’t get more dramatic than the South Island’s ruggedly beautiful Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park, where I’ve stumbled on a postcard perspective of the country’s highest…
Rugby | ESPN
1 December 2017
There were moments early on in Wayne Pivac’s time at the Scarlets when he wondered if he had made the right choice in leaving behind his Auckland world to head to west Wales. “There…