New Zealand
Yep, It’s 4Real: New Zealand Couple Want to Give Son Unusual Name
A couple from New Zealand want to name their three-week-old son "4Real:" New Zealand officials say no.
Unwelcome Guests
David Fickling explains why New Zealand's ministry of agriculture is pressing ahead with a controversial insecticide spraying program.
Wanaka New Zealand for Property & Real Estate Investment
Purchasing real estate in Wanaka New Zealand for investment makes sense. New Zealand property prices are relatively cheaper than its major trading partners. The population is one of the fastest growing in NZ and prime land remains keenly sought after. Visitor nights to the Wanaka area are well in excess of the national average. The NZ government has no major barriers for overseas property investors and encourages foreign investment.
Japan Urged to Recall Whaling Fleet
New Zealand and Australia today called for a Japanese whaling fleet to return to port a day after it set off for the southern ocean whale sanctuary vowing to slaughter more than 1,000 whales, including 50 protected humpbacks, in the name of scientific research.
French Minister Blocks Return of Maori Head
A row has erupted after the French government intervened to block the return of a mummified Maori head to New Zealand.
New Zealand Fishermen Haul in Rare Colossal Squid
Enormous squid to give scientists insight into mysterious animal's life.
New Zealand Government Enters Row Between Japan and Whale Protestors
The New Zealand government intervened in the skirmishes between pro and anti-whalers in the Antarctic last night, warning that lives could be lost and the protesters' cause damaged.
Campaigners Close in on Japanese Whaling Fleet
Activists confront factory ship in Southern Ocean - New Zealand denies leaking hunters' location
Wholesale Sunglasses New Zealand- Add zing to your life
With the re-growing tourism industry a lot of new tourist destinations have started to emerge and one the most prominent of these is New Zealand.
Volvo Buses Go New Zealand
Volvo Buses has just received an order for some twenty new Volvo V7RLE city buses. The order for these twenty buses was actually straight from Auckland, New Zealand.
Spider From Alfa Romeo Arrives In New Zealand
One thing that you can notice with the Alfa Romeo Spider is that this vehicle seems to be quite attached to how the original unit looked like. Just in time for the New Zealand spring season, the newest version of the prestigious Alfa Romeo Spider model has arrived.
New Zealand Sets Day For Driving Mazda MX-5 With Top Down
The Mazda MX-5’s hard top can go up or down completely in just a mere twelve seconds. And all you need to do is press a button and the vehicle does the putting up or the keeping of the hard top. Purchasing the Mazda MX-5 would have to mean shelling out around $51,990 for that with a manual transmission while the version that has been equipped with an automatic transmission would be holding a price tag of $53,900.
Wholesale Sunglasses New Zealand
With the changing taste many new countries are popping up for tourism. And New Zealand is one of them. New Zealand has become the most poplar and famous tourist destination as it offers pleasant weather along with the soothing climate. But it is advisable to carry the sunglasses over there as they prove to be very handy and helpful at the time extreme cold.
NZ Ambassador Arrives in Gaza
New Zealand's ambassador to Turkey and Israel arrived in Gaza last night to help secure the release of the kidnapped Fox News journalists. By Jason Deans.
Chinese Flee Backlash From Pacific Cold War
Australia and New Zealand sent more troops to the troubled Solomon Islands yesterday as Chinese residents continued to flee violence sparked by claims of electoral corruption.
Diver Adrift for Three Days Survives Thirst and Hallucinations
A diver from New Zealand who disappeared at the weekend has been found alive, floating in the sea, three days after going missing.
UK Ranked Fifth Best in World Green List
· International league table headed by New Zealand · Report stirs controversy among environmentalists
Rampaging Santas Take Too Much Christmas Spirit
A gang of drunken Santas has caused mayhem in Auckland, New Zealand, throwing bottles, robbing stores and assaulting security guards in protest at the commercialisation of Christmas.
Wreckage of Tycoon's Helicopter Discovered
The wreckage of a helicopter piloted by one of New Zealand's richest men has been found at the base of a mountain, ending a huge aerial search.
Maori Could Hold Key to Cliffhanger Election
New Zealand is in political limbo after a general election finished with the ruling Labour party just one seat ahead of the opposition National party.
The Fantasy Life and Lonely Death of Woman Hailed As Heroine of July 7 Bombing
Mystery of troubled New Zealander who died after newspaper revelations.
New Zealand First to Levy Carbon Tax
New Zealanders will pay an extra NZ$2.90 (£1.11) a week for electricity, petrol and gas when the country becomes the first in the world to introduce a carbon tax to address global warming.
Call to Ban Tory Election Chief From New Zealand
Refugee groups have called for the Conservative party's controversial election strategist, Lynton Crosby, to be banned from New Zealand, after it was reported that the country's centre-right National party want to hire him to fight their next election.
Attack on Jewish Cemetery in Nz Linked to Passport Plot
A Jewish cemetery has been desecrated in Wellington, New Zealand's capital, in an attack linked by community leaders to the backlash from a false passport plot involving suspected Mossad agents. Fourteen graves had their headstones knocked over, while three swastikas and the words sieg...
'Mossad Spies' Jailed Over New Zealand Passport Fraud
The prime minister of New Zealand angrily denounced Israel and imposed diplomatic sanctions on it after two suspected Mossad agents were jailed for six months for trying on false grounds to obtain a New Zealand passport. The plot, which involved obtaining a passport in the name of a...
'Mossad Agents' Jailed in Fake New Zealand Passport Scandal
The prime minister of New Zealand angrily denounced Israel and imposed diplomatic sanctions on it after two suspected Mossad agents were jailed for six months for trying on false grounds to obtain a New Zealand passport. The plot, which involved obtaining a passport in the name of a...
Meteorite Gatecrashes Breakfast
A New Zealand couple had an unexpected visitor from space at the weekend when a 1.3kg (2.8lb) meteorite crashed into their living room shortly before breakfast. The meteorite came through the roof of Phil and Brenda Archer's house in the Auckland suburb of Ellerslie at 9.30am on Saturday...
How D-day Veteran Hitched a Lift With a President
Getting on the wrong bus usually spells disaster, but for one second world war veteran on Sunday it led to the ride of a lifetime. Keith Coleman, a former RAF gunner from New Zealand, had been hoping the coach he jumped on after the main international D-day ceremony in Arromanches would...
Tokelau Islanders Put Wealth Before Independence
The people of Tokelau, New Zealand's last Pacific colony, question the benefits of self-determination.
Veterans Say Call Off Anzac Day
Australia's old soldiers want the public holiday held in their honour abolished because, they say, people have too much frivolous fun which draws attention away from the seriousness of the occasion. Anzac Day on April 25 is a popular event in Australia and New Zealand, whose veterans are...
Richard Adams: New Zealand and the Race Card
New Zealand is a reminder of the damage that can be done when desperate politicians play the race card.
Flag of Inconvenience
As New Zealand considers redesigning its flag, David Fickling lays out the arguments for and against change.
Euthanasia Advocate Faces Trial
Book prompts charges of attempted murder and fuels debate in New Zealand.
Euthanasia Author Faces Trial Over Mother's Death
Book prompts charges of attempted murder and fuels debate in New Zealand.
New Zealand Writer Janet Frame Dies, 79
New Zealand's most admired writer, Janet Frame, has died of leukaemia in the South Island town of Dunedin, aged 79. Alongside the modernist short-story writer Katherine Mansfield who died in 1923, Frame was reckoned to be New Zealand's greatest author. "It's like the lights have...
Not-so-nice New Zealand
The xenophobic reaction to an Algerian asylum seeker is imperilling Kiwis' reputation for tolerance, writes David Fickling.
Triumphant Return for Movie King Jackson
Grand-scale New Zealand premiere for final Rings epic. Nearly 100,000 people turned out on the streets of New Zealand's capital, Wellington, yesterday for the premiere of Return of the King, the final instalment in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which has been credited with putting the country on the film-making map.
New Zealand to Allow Trials of Gm Crops As Two-year Ban Ends
A two-year ban on genetically modified crop trials in New Zealand was lifted last night, despite warnings that the technology posed a particular risk to the country's ecological balance. Two-thirds of residents wanted the moratorium, imposed in 2001 to allow Wellington to assess the...
Farmers Raise Stink Over New Zealand 'fart Tax'
Farmers blocked the streets of New Zealand's capital, Wellington, yesterday in protest at plans to impose the world's first "fart tax" on livestock flatulence. Nicknamed the "back-door tax", the levy is intended to fund research into reducing the 37m tonnes of methane blown off each year...
Quake Hits Lord of the Rings Land
A world heritage site used as a location for the Lord of the Rings films has been badly damaged by more than 200 landslides after a massive earthquake in southern New Zealand. The Fiordland national park was hit early last Friday by a quake as powerful as the one that hit San Francisco in...
No-go areas planned for jobless
New Zealand is planning to introduce no-go areas for the unemployed to help cut the number of benefit claimants.
New Zealand Farmers Fined for Animal Neglect
A pair of farmers in New Zealand recently were ordered to pay a fine of approximately $121,165 after pleading guilty to failing to properly care for thousands of sheep.
New Zealand Warns on 'law of the Jungle'
One of Tony Blair's closest foreign political allies has warned Britain and America that they may live to regret unleashing the "law of the jungle" in international relations when China becomes the dominant world power later this century. The Labour prime minister of New Zealand, Helen...
Unwelcome Guests
David Fickling explains why New Zealand's ministry of agriculture is pressing ahead with a controversial insecticide spraying programme.
Small Boat Armada Confronts Nuclear Ships at the End of £113m Across-the-world Saga
The French have faced peace flotillas at Mururoa against atom bomb tests, the Americans have been embarrassed by New Zealand's protests at nuclear armed ships in its waters, but never before has Britain been faced with an armada of small boats in the Irish sea objecting to its plutonium trade...
Corporate Capture
Next week's earth summit will not only fail to tackle the ecological crisis. It will make it worse. The German election could be the second this year to be won or lost on the environment. In New Zealand, the Labour party failed to win its anticipated overall majority, partly because of its determination to approve the planting of genetically modified crops.
Earth Summit Will Make Ecological Crisis Worse
Next week's earth summit will not only fail to tackle the ecological crisis. It will make it worse. The German election could be the second this year to be won or lost on the environment. In New Zealand, the Labour party failed to win its anticipated overall majority, partly because of its determination to approve the planting of genetically modified crops.
World in brief
New Zealand's Labour-led government survives poll with backing of Greens | DNA test on Pearl
Everything in proportion
New Zealand's electoral system has allowed the minority Green party to turn its opposition to GM food into an issue that could swing the upcoming national poll, writes Jonathan Watts
Labour needs to refound itself now
Mark Seddon: New Zealand has found a better route than the flagging third way.
Republican Pledge Greets Queen
Hours before the Queen's arrival in New Zealand for a golden jubilee official visit, the country's prime minister, Helen Clark, said last night that the Queen's position as head of state was absurd. Ms Clark, Labour head of the country's moderate left coalition government, predicted that...
The alternative Australian year
January From Crowded House to Russell Crowe, famous New Zealanders have long been stolen by Australia and rebranded fair dinkum Aussies. But in the biggest blow yet to New Zealand's nation pride, research revealed that their national emblem and icon, the kiwi bird,...
Elves, orcs, hobbits and Kiwis
It may be seen by some as little more than a lush green sheep paddock, but New Zealand is determined to sell itself as the Middle Earth of the southern hemisphere, home to thousands of hobbits, elves and orcs - and one dark lord. All three parts of The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson's...
Purchasing real estate in Wanaka New Zealand for investment makes sense. New Zealand property prices are relatively cheaper than its major trading partners. The population is one of the fastest growing in NZ and prime land remains keenly sought after. Visitor nights to the Wanaka area are well in excess of the national average. The NZ government has no major barriers for overseas property investors and encourages foreign investment.
Japan Urged to Recall Whaling Fleet
New Zealand and Australia today called for a Japanese whaling fleet to return to port a day after it set off for the southern ocean whale sanctuary vowing to slaughter more than 1,000 whales, including 50 protected humpbacks, in the name of scientific research.
French Minister Blocks Return of Maori Head
A row has erupted after the French government intervened to block the return of a mummified Maori head to New Zealand.
New Zealand Fishermen Haul in Rare Colossal Squid
Enormous squid to give scientists insight into mysterious animal's life.
New Zealand Government Enters Row Between Japan and Whale Protestors
The New Zealand government intervened in the skirmishes between pro and anti-whalers in the Antarctic last night, warning that lives could be lost and the protesters' cause damaged.
Campaigners Close in on Japanese Whaling Fleet
Activists confront factory ship in Southern Ocean - New Zealand denies leaking hunters' location
Wholesale Sunglasses New Zealand- Add zing to your life
With the re-growing tourism industry a lot of new tourist destinations have started to emerge and one the most prominent of these is New Zealand.
Volvo Buses Go New Zealand
Volvo Buses has just received an order for some twenty new Volvo V7RLE city buses. The order for these twenty buses was actually straight from Auckland, New Zealand.
Spider From Alfa Romeo Arrives In New Zealand
One thing that you can notice with the Alfa Romeo Spider is that this vehicle seems to be quite attached to how the original unit looked like. Just in time for the New Zealand spring season, the newest version of the prestigious Alfa Romeo Spider model has arrived.
New Zealand Sets Day For Driving Mazda MX-5 With Top Down
The Mazda MX-5’s hard top can go up or down completely in just a mere twelve seconds. And all you need to do is press a button and the vehicle does the putting up or the keeping of the hard top. Purchasing the Mazda MX-5 would have to mean shelling out around $51,990 for that with a manual transmission while the version that has been equipped with an automatic transmission would be holding a price tag of $53,900.
Wholesale Sunglasses New Zealand
With the changing taste many new countries are popping up for tourism. And New Zealand is one of them. New Zealand has become the most poplar and famous tourist destination as it offers pleasant weather along with the soothing climate. But it is advisable to carry the sunglasses over there as they prove to be very handy and helpful at the time extreme cold.
NZ Ambassador Arrives in Gaza
New Zealand's ambassador to Turkey and Israel arrived in Gaza last night to help secure the release of the kidnapped Fox News journalists. By Jason Deans.
Chinese Flee Backlash From Pacific Cold War
Australia and New Zealand sent more troops to the troubled Solomon Islands yesterday as Chinese residents continued to flee violence sparked by claims of electoral corruption.
Diver Adrift for Three Days Survives Thirst and Hallucinations
A diver from New Zealand who disappeared at the weekend has been found alive, floating in the sea, three days after going missing.
UK Ranked Fifth Best in World Green List
· International league table headed by New Zealand · Report stirs controversy among environmentalists
Rampaging Santas Take Too Much Christmas Spirit
A gang of drunken Santas has caused mayhem in Auckland, New Zealand, throwing bottles, robbing stores and assaulting security guards in protest at the commercialisation of Christmas.
Wreckage of Tycoon's Helicopter Discovered
The wreckage of a helicopter piloted by one of New Zealand's richest men has been found at the base of a mountain, ending a huge aerial search.
Maori Could Hold Key to Cliffhanger Election
New Zealand is in political limbo after a general election finished with the ruling Labour party just one seat ahead of the opposition National party.
The Fantasy Life and Lonely Death of Woman Hailed As Heroine of July 7 Bombing
Mystery of troubled New Zealander who died after newspaper revelations.
New Zealand First to Levy Carbon Tax
New Zealanders will pay an extra NZ$2.90 (£1.11) a week for electricity, petrol and gas when the country becomes the first in the world to introduce a carbon tax to address global warming.
Call to Ban Tory Election Chief From New Zealand
Refugee groups have called for the Conservative party's controversial election strategist, Lynton Crosby, to be banned from New Zealand, after it was reported that the country's centre-right National party want to hire him to fight their next election.
Attack on Jewish Cemetery in Nz Linked to Passport Plot
A Jewish cemetery has been desecrated in Wellington, New Zealand's capital, in an attack linked by community leaders to the backlash from a false passport plot involving suspected Mossad agents. Fourteen graves had their headstones knocked over, while three swastikas and the words sieg...
'Mossad Spies' Jailed Over New Zealand Passport Fraud
The prime minister of New Zealand angrily denounced Israel and imposed diplomatic sanctions on it after two suspected Mossad agents were jailed for six months for trying on false grounds to obtain a New Zealand passport. The plot, which involved obtaining a passport in the name of a...
'Mossad Agents' Jailed in Fake New Zealand Passport Scandal
The prime minister of New Zealand angrily denounced Israel and imposed diplomatic sanctions on it after two suspected Mossad agents were jailed for six months for trying on false grounds to obtain a New Zealand passport. The plot, which involved obtaining a passport in the name of a...
Meteorite Gatecrashes Breakfast
A New Zealand couple had an unexpected visitor from space at the weekend when a 1.3kg (2.8lb) meteorite crashed into their living room shortly before breakfast. The meteorite came through the roof of Phil and Brenda Archer's house in the Auckland suburb of Ellerslie at 9.30am on Saturday...
How D-day Veteran Hitched a Lift With a President
Getting on the wrong bus usually spells disaster, but for one second world war veteran on Sunday it led to the ride of a lifetime. Keith Coleman, a former RAF gunner from New Zealand, had been hoping the coach he jumped on after the main international D-day ceremony in Arromanches would...
Tokelau Islanders Put Wealth Before Independence
The people of Tokelau, New Zealand's last Pacific colony, question the benefits of self-determination.
Veterans Say Call Off Anzac Day
Australia's old soldiers want the public holiday held in their honour abolished because, they say, people have too much frivolous fun which draws attention away from the seriousness of the occasion. Anzac Day on April 25 is a popular event in Australia and New Zealand, whose veterans are...
Richard Adams: New Zealand and the Race Card
New Zealand is a reminder of the damage that can be done when desperate politicians play the race card.
Flag of Inconvenience
As New Zealand considers redesigning its flag, David Fickling lays out the arguments for and against change.
Euthanasia Advocate Faces Trial
Book prompts charges of attempted murder and fuels debate in New Zealand.
Euthanasia Author Faces Trial Over Mother's Death
Book prompts charges of attempted murder and fuels debate in New Zealand.
New Zealand Writer Janet Frame Dies, 79
New Zealand's most admired writer, Janet Frame, has died of leukaemia in the South Island town of Dunedin, aged 79. Alongside the modernist short-story writer Katherine Mansfield who died in 1923, Frame was reckoned to be New Zealand's greatest author. "It's like the lights have...
Not-so-nice New Zealand
The xenophobic reaction to an Algerian asylum seeker is imperilling Kiwis' reputation for tolerance, writes David Fickling.
Triumphant Return for Movie King Jackson
Grand-scale New Zealand premiere for final Rings epic. Nearly 100,000 people turned out on the streets of New Zealand's capital, Wellington, yesterday for the premiere of Return of the King, the final instalment in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which has been credited with putting the country on the film-making map.
New Zealand to Allow Trials of Gm Crops As Two-year Ban Ends
A two-year ban on genetically modified crop trials in New Zealand was lifted last night, despite warnings that the technology posed a particular risk to the country's ecological balance. Two-thirds of residents wanted the moratorium, imposed in 2001 to allow Wellington to assess the...
Farmers Raise Stink Over New Zealand 'fart Tax'
Farmers blocked the streets of New Zealand's capital, Wellington, yesterday in protest at plans to impose the world's first "fart tax" on livestock flatulence. Nicknamed the "back-door tax", the levy is intended to fund research into reducing the 37m tonnes of methane blown off each year...
Quake Hits Lord of the Rings Land
A world heritage site used as a location for the Lord of the Rings films has been badly damaged by more than 200 landslides after a massive earthquake in southern New Zealand. The Fiordland national park was hit early last Friday by a quake as powerful as the one that hit San Francisco in...
No-go areas planned for jobless
New Zealand is planning to introduce no-go areas for the unemployed to help cut the number of benefit claimants.
New Zealand Farmers Fined for Animal Neglect
A pair of farmers in New Zealand recently were ordered to pay a fine of approximately $121,165 after pleading guilty to failing to properly care for thousands of sheep.
New Zealand Warns on 'law of the Jungle'
One of Tony Blair's closest foreign political allies has warned Britain and America that they may live to regret unleashing the "law of the jungle" in international relations when China becomes the dominant world power later this century. The Labour prime minister of New Zealand, Helen...
Unwelcome Guests
David Fickling explains why New Zealand's ministry of agriculture is pressing ahead with a controversial insecticide spraying programme.
Small Boat Armada Confronts Nuclear Ships at the End of £113m Across-the-world Saga
The French have faced peace flotillas at Mururoa against atom bomb tests, the Americans have been embarrassed by New Zealand's protests at nuclear armed ships in its waters, but never before has Britain been faced with an armada of small boats in the Irish sea objecting to its plutonium trade...
Corporate Capture
Next week's earth summit will not only fail to tackle the ecological crisis. It will make it worse. The German election could be the second this year to be won or lost on the environment. In New Zealand, the Labour party failed to win its anticipated overall majority, partly because of its determination to approve the planting of genetically modified crops.
Earth Summit Will Make Ecological Crisis Worse
Next week's earth summit will not only fail to tackle the ecological crisis. It will make it worse. The German election could be the second this year to be won or lost on the environment. In New Zealand, the Labour party failed to win its anticipated overall majority, partly because of its determination to approve the planting of genetically modified crops.
World in brief
New Zealand's Labour-led government survives poll with backing of Greens | DNA test on Pearl
Everything in proportion
New Zealand's electoral system has allowed the minority Green party to turn its opposition to GM food into an issue that could swing the upcoming national poll, writes Jonathan Watts
Labour needs to refound itself now
Mark Seddon: New Zealand has found a better route than the flagging third way.
Republican Pledge Greets Queen
Hours before the Queen's arrival in New Zealand for a golden jubilee official visit, the country's prime minister, Helen Clark, said last night that the Queen's position as head of state was absurd. Ms Clark, Labour head of the country's moderate left coalition government, predicted that...
The alternative Australian year
January From Crowded House to Russell Crowe, famous New Zealanders have long been stolen by Australia and rebranded fair dinkum Aussies. But in the biggest blow yet to New Zealand's nation pride, research revealed that their national emblem and icon, the kiwi bird,...
Elves, orcs, hobbits and Kiwis
It may be seen by some as little more than a lush green sheep paddock, but New Zealand is determined to sell itself as the Middle Earth of the southern hemisphere, home to thousands of hobbits, elves and orcs - and one dark lord. All three parts of The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson's...