Business | New Zealand Herald (The)
30 September 2021
New Zealand’s first street sneaker specifically designed to biodegrade, the Orba Ghost, which has just been launched, is made almost entirely of natural materials, Kāpiti News reporter Rosalie Willis write. The shoe formula is…
Film & TV | New Zealand Herald (The)
17 May 2021
New Zealand-born stuntwoman Vanessa Cater has just finished putting her body on the line in Marvel’s new TV show The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. Before that, the action woman has worked in The…
General | New Zealand Herald (The)
6 August 2020
Clinical lead physiotherapist for critical care at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, New Zealander Natalie Scott, has received the Freedom of the City of London – a recognition awarded to people who have achieved success, recognition or celebrity…
Science/Tech | New Zealand Herald (The)
12 August 2019
Hadley Wickham, a statistician from Hamilton who is now based in Houston, Texas, has won the international 2019 COPSS Presidents’ Award. The prize is awarded annually to a statistician under 40 in recognition of…
Visual Arts | New Zealand Herald (The)
23 April 2019
Since attracting the Zurich-based Galerie Mark Muller 17 years ago, the Swiss have embraced New Zealand artist Judy Millar’s wildly colourful art with its untamed brushstrokes, and given the North Shore born-and-raised artist her…
Wine | New Zealand Herald (The)
4 March 2019
Waikato wine producer Invivo, which was started in 2008 by Tim Lightbourne and Rob Cameron, has teamed up with Sex in the City star Sarah Jessica Parker to develop sauvignon blanc and rosé wines.
The…
Education | New Zealand Herald (The)
14 February 2019
Sailing on the Peace Boat, an 11-floor, luxury cruise ship from Capetown to Namibia, Emily-Rose Reid is on the trip of a lifetime but not as a guest. Reid is aboard the vessel run…
Obituaries | New Zealand Herald (The) | Stuff
15 January 2019
Nelson-born athlete William “Bill” Baillie, who once held world records in the now obscure 20,000m and one-hour running events, has died in Auckland. He was 84.
At the time Baillie broke the records they had…
Education | New Zealand Herald (The)
14 January 2019
At just 12 years old Sistema Whangārei student Aurian White will be sharing the Northland city with the world.
White, a Tikipunga High School student, is one of 10 students selected from Sistema programmes around…
War & Peace | New Zealand Herald (The)
1 November 2018
New Zealand’s first permanent war memorial museum in Europe is being unveiled in the medieval fortified French town of Le Quesnoy, which was liberated by New Zealand soldiers a century ago in the final…
Science/Tech | Forbes | New Zealand Herald (The)
10 October 2018
New Plymouth-based legal tech startup Automio, which was founded by Claudia King, has made the Forbes’ list of 60 women-led tech companies, “shaking up” technology across the world.
Allyson Kapin, a contributor at Forbes, recommends: researching…
Media | New Zealand Herald (The)
2 October 2018
Rod Emmerson, who is the editorial cartoonist for The New Zealand Herald, has been recognised for his popular artwork after receiving a new award he says “beats a knighthood”.
While in California attending a conference for…
Fashion | New Zealand Herald (The)
17 September 2018
The choreography for Rihanna’s New York Fashion Week 17-minute savage beast lingerie runway show, which was live-streamed on YouTube, was orchestrated by New Zealander superstar Parris Goebel.
Rihanna unleashed the wild…
General | New Zealand Herald (The)
17 August 2018
Tri-lingual public servant, and scholarship-winning, Korean New Zealander April Hyorin Kwak, 23, is heading to the United Nations in New York, where she will intern at the Department of Safety and Security.
Kwak will be…
Dance | Billboard | New Zealand Herald (The) | Vulture
27 July 2018
New Zealand choreographer Parris Goebel and ReQuest Dance Crew have collaborated with Atlanta-bred pop star Ciara for the music video of her latest single, the “empowering anthem”, ‘Level Up’.
“The visual features the singer showing…
Media | National Geographic | New Zealand Herald (The)
19 July 2018
When the Whanganui River was given legal personhood Danish freelance photographer Mathias Svold was so intrigued by the headlines that he went to Washington DC in the United States to pitch a story for…
Film & TV | New Zealand Herald (The)
16 May 2018
Julian Dennison is living the dream. The 15-year-old actor from Lower Hutt was hand picked by Ryan Reynolds to star in Deadpool 2, which hits cinemas on 16 May.
As Reynolds told the
Fashion | New Zealand Herald (The)
1 May 2018
Makeup artist Fran Robertson, who also creates colourful costumes and dresses, has been crowned Miss Viva Las Vegas Pin-Up 2018 at the hugely popular Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend.
The event is said to be…
Politics and Economics | New Zealand Herald (The)
9 November 2017
Helen Clark has been appointed to the prestigious Global Commission on Drug Policy” – “one of the world’s leading think tanks on reducing drug harm on society,” reports the New…
Arts | New Zealand Herald (The)
18 May 2017
The New Zealand pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale has opened with Auckland-born artist Lisa Reihana and Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy arriving in Venice’s largest gondola to the historic naval warehouse the pavilion will…
Obituaries | New Zealand Herald (The)
11 April 2017
Sir Douglas Myers, long-time chief executive of Lion Breweries, business advocate and philanthropist has died in London aged 78.
“It would be hard to overstate the contribution made by Sir Douglas Myers to making New…
Architecture | New Zealand Herald (The)
8 July 2015
Kiwi engineers Damien Fletcher and Greg Sang are working on the construction of the Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – the world’s tallest new tower and the first kilometre-high building.
“My most noteworthy projects…
Medicine/Health | Boston Globe | New Zealand Herald (The)
10 December 2014
Originally from Hamilton, Dr Simon Talbot, 38, a reconstructive plastic surgeon specialising in hand surgery, has led a team in a ground-breaking double arm transplant on a quadruple amputee at Brigham and Women’s Hospital…
Fashion | New Zealand Herald (The)
4 November 2014
For aspiring makeup artists, New Zealand-born Amber D has the dream job. Now based in Australia, she has an extensive background in makeup artistry: with clients including Lorde, Steven Tyler and Rita Ora. She…
Fashion | Elle Magazine | New Zealand Herald (The)
24 October 2014
New Zealand fashion illustrator New York-based Natasha Wright, who has 47,000 Instagram followers a day, is working for well-known illustrator Dallas Shaw on projects such as clothing prints and promotional work for brands like…
General | New Zealand Herald (The)
17 October 2014
New Zealand has grown wealthier than any other country in the world since 2000, according to a new report released by Credit Suisse.
It ranks NZ top, just ahead of Australia, in wealth growth per…
Business | New Zealand Herald (The)
25 September 2014
Coco’s Coconut Co, a small Kiwi startup that produces a premium brand of coconut water called CoAqua, has landed a deal with French fashion brand Givenchy to be their in-store drink.
CoAqua will soon be…
Fashion | New Zealand Herald (The)
24 September 2014
New Plymouth teenager Eden Bristowe has opened Vivienne Westwood’s Red Label show at London Fashion Week wearing a “Yes” badge, in support of Scottish independence from the United Kingdom.
The 16-year-old was the first model…
Fashion | New Zealand Herald (The)
16 September 2014
Former Wellingtonian Bill Watson, international education and artistic director for Toni & Guy China, is loving life in Beijing. “It’s where things are happening,” he tells New Zealand Herald journalist Janetta Mackay.
Watson says working…
Wine | New Zealand Herald (The)
6 September 2014
Originally from the Hawke’s Bay, Bill Nancarrow, 45, has made sauvignon blanc fit for President Obama and escorted Ryan Seacrest and U2’s The Edge on private winetasting tours. The New Zealand Herald’s Leena Tailor…
Sport General | New Zealand Herald (The)
2 September 2014
Victories for double scullers Fiona Bourke and Zoe Stevenson, and single sculler Emma Twigg capped off a superb world championship regatta for New Zealand’s rowers in Amsterdam.
Those wins lifted New Zealand’s gold medal haul…
Business | New Zealand Herald (The)
19 August 2014
New Zealand coffee roasting company Allpress Espresso is expanding their international chain opening an operation in the Tokyo suburb of Kiba. Allpress has also secured 17 wholesale supply accounts in Japan.
Japan is…
General | New Zealand Herald (The)
14 August 2014
David Dawson has become the first New Zealander to swim solo the length of Loch Lomond in Scotland, the largest inland stretch of water in Great Britain.
The ex-pat did the swim as…
Design | New Zealand Herald (The)
7 August 2014
Ben Lewis, of family-owned furniture and design company Trenzseater (pictured right with father, Mark), was a finalist in the prestigious London-based Andrew Martin Interior Designer of the Year Award.
Previous winners include British…
Business | New Zealand Herald | New Zealand Herald (The)
4 August 2014
A group of aspiring technologists from the University of Auckland have taken out one of three grand prizes and won $50,000 at Microsoft’s Imagine Cup in Seattle.
Kiwi team Estimeet won the Innovation category at…
Design | New Zealand Herald (The) | Viva Magazine
3 August 2014
Formerly of Auckland, designer Virginia Star Busmann is the owner of Forestry at Home, a Netherlands-based woollen blanket producer, which sells plaid throws woven at a mill in Lithuania but made from…
Music | Billboard | New Zealand Herald | New Zealand Herald (The)
2 August 2014
Joel Kefali has directed music videos for Lorde, The Naked and Famous and David Dallas – but he’s just released his biggest one yet.
The Kiwi director is the man behind Katy Perry’s latest video, This…
Business | Bloomberg | Financial | New Zealand Herald (The)
25 July 2014
Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest retailer, has announced New Zealander Greg Foran as CEO of its US business, responsible for 4,700 stores and accounting for 60 percent of the company’s total global revenue of US$476b.
Foran,…
Film & TV | New Zealand Herald (The) | ScreenCrush | USA Today
25 July 2014
Comic-Con begins in San Diego today, with the New Zealand representatives ranging from Peter Jackson and the Hobbit producers to a small movie made by an Auckland animation school.
The Hobbit will be a major…
Obituaries | Australian (The) | City Beat | Courier Mail | New Zealand Herald (The)
24 July 2014
New Zealand-born James McCullough, one of Australia’s best-known financial journalists and columnists, and a former London correspondent for the Australian, has died at 56 in Brisbane.
McCullough was the long-time writer of the influential City…
Film & TV | New Zealand Herald (The)
17 July 2014
Neil Cross, the Wellington-based English screenwriter and novelist figures among the Emmy nominations announced in the United States, up for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special for the third season of…
Taste | New Zealand Herald (The)
14 July 2014
Former Aucklander Marco Kerkmeester, owner of Sao Pãulo-based coffee chain Santo Grão, currently employs more than 200 people across seven stores, and he has grand plans for up to 40 more cafés…
Fashion | New Zealand Herald (The)
13 July 2014
Fashion designer Sean Kelly, 25, from Hawera, is the first ever New Zealander chosen to compete on hit American television show Project Runway, hosted by German supermodel Heidi Klum.
Kelly’s mother Margaret said he was…
Fashion | New Zealand Herald (The)
9 July 2014
Founders of menswear label I Love Ugly have reluctantly stepped into the spotlight as they prepare to go global.
The New Zealand entrepreneurs are about to open their first international store in LA on…
Business | New Zealand Herald (The)
16 June 2014
New Zealand company All Good Organics, which imports Fairtrade bananas and produces the Karma Cola drink, has won an international award for their ethically sourced food and beverages.
The “Fairest Fairtrader” award was presented to…
Science/Tech | Kea | New Zealand Herald (The)
8 June 2014
Four internationally successful New Zealanders – digital entrepreneur Claudia Batten (pictured), Shrek director Andrew Adamson, investor Neville Jordan, surgical robotics technologist Dr Catherine Mohr – have been celebrated for advancing our reputation on the…
Nature | New Zealand Herald (The)
4 June 2014
A German astronaut has tweeted a stunning picture of Banks Peninsula from space.
Dr Alexander Gerst, who has a Masters in Earth sciences from Victoria University, is traveling aboard the International Space Station.
“Nice…
Design | New Zealand Herald (The)
3 June 2014
New Zealand design “has a shining presence in the Parisian furniture market” with Roderick Fry’s Moaroom, a store instrumental in the successful promotion of designers such as David Trubridge.
Fry launched Moaroom in 2005 with…
Architecture | New Zealand Herald (The)
13 May 2014
A small Kiwi-designed bach has won a prestigious award at a ceremony dubbed the “Oscars of architecture” in New York.
The “sled hut”, which measures a mere 40sq m over two storeys, sits on a…
General | New Zealand Herald (The)
8 May 2014
Feminist professor Marilyn Waring, 61, has never been afraid to go her own way. She was among the few politicians included on the Weekend Herald’s much-debated Easter feature on New Zealand’s 50 coolest people – both…
Music | New Zealand Herald (The)
7 May 2014
Aucklander Ray Chan, 23, has become one of only two students in the world to be accepted into a prestigious conducting programme at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Chan beat about 30 international…
Taste | Guardian (The) | New Zealand Herald (The)
8 April 2014
Lamingtons are definitively of New Zealand origin, with an 1888 watercolour painting by New Zealand landscape artist JR Smythe showing that the coconut covered cake is not really Australian and only an imitation of…
Science/Tech | New Zealand Herald (The)
4 April 2014
Wellington-based start-up Wipster has launched its video sharing software platform globally, just over a year after being founded by New Zealand filmmaker Rollo Wenlock.
Wipster allows editors to share their…
Society | New Zealand Herald (The)
4 April 2014
A Washington-based think-tank has found that New Zealand is the most socially advanced country in the world.
US-based non-profit The Social Progress Imperative, whose advisory board is led by Harvard economist Professor Michael…
Writers | British Vogue | Cosmopolitan | Esquire | New Zealand Herald (The)
20 March 2014
Author Deborah McKinlay, formerly of Auckland, has received a seven-figure advance and a lucrative film deal for her new book, That Part Was True.
McKinlay, who had been making a living as a jobbing non-fiction…
Fashion | New Zealand Herald (The) | US Vogue
5 March 2014
New Zealand makeup artist Valery Gherman moved to New York 11 years ago and now lives in Manhattan’s famed Peter Cooper Village where he shares a two-bedroom apartment with Canadian photographer Derek…