EDGE #339: NZ Tops Ease of Doing Business Rankings, Scrabble Champion Nigel Richards, Steve Hansen Calls for Break for Players, NZ’s First Permanent War Museum + The Guardian, National Geographic, The Drum

This newsletter contains the original hyperlinks to the source articles, some links may have now expired. Editor.

News of Global New Zealanders From Brian Sweeney, publisher, NZEDGE.COM | 07 November 2018 | #339 | New York Researched, edited and produced by Jane Nye (Berlin), Carla Hofler, Henrike Forschler (Auckland). See all stories and a 14,000 story archive of international New Zealand news 2000-2018 at NZEDGE/MEDIA. Fern symbol by www.nzflag.com founded by Lloyd Morrison. Politics and Economics | Singapore Business Review 05 November 2018 NZ Tops Ease of Doing Business Rankings New Zealand has clinched the top spot in the ease of doing business rankings by the World Bank where it scored 86.59, ahead of 190 other countries, despite not implementing any reforms in the last year. The report noted that the top three economies in the rankings, which are New Zealand, Singapore and Denmark… Politics and Economics | Bloomberg 06 November 2018 NZ Falls out of Love with 2 Per Cent Targets “Japan and Sweden and even the Fed could take a lesson from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand,” according to Daniel Moss in an opinion piece for Bloomberg. Former chair… Community/General | Daily Mail 31 October 2018 Scrabble Fanatic Wins 4th World Scrabble Championship Title Nigel Richards, from New Zealand, has won his fourth World Scrabble Championship title “with the word ‘groutier’, defined as sullen or sulky,” writes… Te Ao Maori | Guardian (The) 07 November 2018 UK High Commission in NZ to Recruit Māori Adviser & Te Reo Teacher “The British high commission in New Zealand has been given the green light to recruit its first adviser on Māori affairs, as well as a… Agriculture | Guardian (The) 07 November 2018 Avocado Farmers Fighting to Save Crops As the popularity of the avocado soars, growers in the Bay of Plenty have been forced to resort to extreme lengths to protect their crop from thieves Eleanor Ainge Roy reports for the Guardian. The global… Community/General | Business Insider Australia 04 November 2018 Café Calls Itself ‘Home Of Terrible Trip Advisor Reviews Christchurch cafe C1 Espresso “publishes its worst reviews in its menu so customers can read them at the table. The info panel of the cafe’s door… New Zealand | Vogue Australia 05 November 2018 Four NZ Resorts Make List of Best Resorts in Australia & South Pacific Four New Zealand Resorts have made Conde Nast Traveler’s list of 20 Best Resorts in Australia and South Pacific which was… War & Peace | NZHerald 01 November 2018 NZ’s First Permanent War Museum to Open in Europe New Zealand’s first permanent war memorial museum in Europe is being unveiled in the medieval fortified French town of Le Quesnoy, which was… Visual Arts | Balkan Insight 02 November 2018 Wade Goddard’s View of the Kosovo War New Zealand-born Wade Goddard’s new book, The Kosovo War captures the raw suffering of the conflict – but the veteran Balkan war photographer also tried to find courage and hope… Visual Arts | Washington Post (The) 31 October 2018 Artist Peter Waddell Paints D.C. Bird’s Eye Views “I wanted a fire,” Hastings-born artist Peter Waddell said as he and Washington Post reporter John Kelly gazed upon one of a pair of his… Film & TV | Guardian (The) 06 November 2018 Vincent Ward’s Alien 3 a Fascinating Film “For every glittering Hollywood project that hits cinemas, there’s a whole lot more that don’t make it,” the Guardian’s Tom Huddleston reports. Included in his top… Writers | Guardian (The) 06 November 2018 Poet Nina Powles Wins New UK Prize Wellington-born Nina Powles is one of the three recipients of the inaugural Women Poets’ prize, which aims to celebrate the empowerment of women and reward… Media | The Drum 03 November 2018 NZ Police Makes the Most Entertaining Recruitment Ads “New Zealand Police has launched a follow up to its popular effort to make the ‘world’s most entertaining recruitment ad’, with a… Sport General | Outside 01 November 2018 Casey Brown Rewriting the Rules of Mountain Biking New Zealand-born Casey Brown, who has lived in Canada for the past 16 years, has established herself as one of the most talented female mountain bikers in the… Rugby | Guardian (The) 02 November 2018 Steve Hansen Suggests 16-Week Off-Seasons “Steve Hansen has called for a mandatory 16-week off-season, days after an 11-month campaign was announced in England. The New Zealand head coach said England were still counting… Rugby | Guardian (The) 05 November 2018 Kieran Read Suggests Retirement Plans All Blacks captain Kieran Read, 33, has said he is likely to quit international rugby after next year’s World Cup in Japan, his third Webb Ellis campaign, and take a contract overseas… New Zealand | National Geographic 04 November 2018 An Adventurer’s Perfect Day in Queenstown Kyle Mulinder, known as Bare Kiwi, provides National Geographic readers an authentic glimpse into his and his fiancée’s adventures around New Zealand… New Zealand | Telegraph (The) 03 November 2018 On the World’s Greatest Family Road Trip “I fell in love with New Zealand watching it on the big screen. For years I held the epic scenery from The Lord of the Rings in my mind: the misty mountains, the blue rivers and the rolling… New Zealand | Sunday Times (The) 02 November 2018 Why Abel Tasman Is New Zealand’s Best Kept Secret “The Duke and Duchess of Sussex may [have visited] Abel Tasman, but that’s not the reason I find myself approaching New Zealand’s smallest national park by… Visual Arts | Daily Mail 11 November 2013 5 Years Ago – Golden St Petersburg Captured with Help from Drone Award-winning New Zealand-born photographer Amos Chapple recently sent a small drone helicopter up into the skies over an autumnal Saint Petersburg to take pictures… Politics and Economics | CNN 8 November 2008 10 Years Ago – Key In Clark Out National Party leader John Key, 47, has ousted Labour’s Helen Clark from office and a nine-year term, with a mantra of change. Prime Minister Helen Clark conceded defeat. Clark, 58, has led the… Film & TV | Empire 05 November 2003 15 Years Ago – Hard-Edged Cinema Empire magazine applauds Christine Jeff’s Sylvia the biopic of American poet Sylvia Plath starring Gwyneth Paltrow – calling it “a moving and supremely acted account of the writer’s life, her…