Saying goodbye at the airport just got a bit more interesting in New Zealand, where long hugs could land you in hot water. Dunedin Airport, located on the charming South Island, has decided that three minutes is the maximum cuddle time allowed at its drop-off zone. Yep, you read that right—a three-minute hug limit! A […]
DUBAI: Young apprentice chefs at Expo 2020 Dubai’s New Zealand Pavilion restaurant, Tiaki, say if it were not for their mothers’ secret recipes for Kiwi culinary icons, the menu might not be as popular as it is. The restaurant aims to showcase the best of New Zealand’s produce and dishes. Among the young chefs in the […]
Francis Drake set sail from England on a circumnavigation of the world on this day in 1577. Did you know that: • Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sighted the South Island of present-day New Zealand on this day in 1642• A patent for a dry dock was issued to John Adamson on this day in 1816• […]
A couple in New Zealand may have grown the world’s largest potato without even trying. Colin and Donna Craig-Brown, from Ngāhinapōuri in the country’s Waikato region, found the tuber growing in their garden when they were getting ready for the spring planting season. “It was literally one of nature’s pleasant surprises. Had no idea it […]
NEW ZEALAND: As he made history by becoming the first person to fly across New Zealand’s Cook Strait in an electric plane, Gary Freedman thought it only fitting that the first thing he saw when approaching the Wellington coastline was the rotating blade of a wind turbine producing renewable energy. Freedman’s 40-minute solo flight in […]
DUBAI: Sports fans visiting Expo 2020 Dubai had the opportunity to meet New Zealand cricket coaches Stephen Fleming and Brendon McCullum as they toured the New Zealand Pavilion before stopping off at Tiaki restaurant. Both coaches are ambassadors of QualityNZ, suppliers of Aotearoa New Zealand’s products and services to the rapidly expanding Indian and wider South Asian market. Fleming is […]
Jessica Quinn was eight years old when she was diagnosed with cancer and doctors amputated her leg to save her life. She now uses her foot as a knee to keep her prosthetic in place. At the time, medics thought it was just a regular break and treated it accordingly. But after months of struggling, […]
A traditional ‘Kapa haka’ – an age-old tradition of song, dance, and chanting – was performed by Ngāti Koraha, a UAE-based cultural group at Dubai Millennium Amphitheatre, Expo 2020 Dubai. New Zealand’s participation at Expo 2020 reflects the Māori value of kaitiakitanga, or ‘Care for People and Place’, and emphasises the deep kinship between people […]
A group of young intrepid explorers could not have realised that a seemingly normal trip at a Summer Camp in 2006 could change the lives of paleontologists around the world after 15 years! According to reports, in 2006 a group of school children on a Hamilton Junior Naturalist Club (JUNATS) fossil hunting field trip in […]
New Zealand promised its public sector would become carbon neutral by 2025 as it declared a climate emergency on Wednesday, a symbolic move that critics said needed to be backed with greater actions to reduce emissions. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the climate emergency declaration was based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s findings […]
Almost 100 pilot whales have died in a mass stranding on New Zealand’s remote Chatham Islands, conservation officials said Wednesday. Most of the marine mammals beached themselves over the weekend but rescue efforts were hampered by the area’s isolated location, about 800 kilometres (500 miles) east of the South Island, the Department of Conservation (DOC) […]
