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When you’re an immigrant, that first Christmas hits you hard. The rest of the year, you’re distracted by work and house hunting and getting on with life. Then Christmas arrives and everything stops. You realise what’s missing: family. My first...

    The upcoming New Zealand visit of Bangladesh cricket team entails three one day international matches, three T20 matches and 2 test matches. Bangladesh shall play their ODI series from December 26, 2016 to Dec 31, 2016. The T20 series w...

A study by Emily Warren-Smith, who graduates this week with a PhD in Geophysics, has added more evidence to this theory. Her results show that the fault flattens to become horizontal a few kilometres underground and underlies a wide region of the cen...

A ferry operator with a sense of humour, a tiny community library, and a view to renew the soul… Last weekend, Tim and I embarked upon a road trip familiar to many Kiwis. Countless tourists – New Zealanders and foreign holidaymakers alike – hav...

New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister Bill English speaks to the media during a press conference in Wellington, December 5, 2016. (Photo by AFP)New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister Bill English looks almost certain to become the country’s new prim...

Can you believe cat cafes have only been a thing in New Zealand since last year? Rather predictably, they’ve become really popular, popping up in more and more places. Not Hamilton, unfortunately, which is why I, self-confessed crazy cat lady, only...

In this handout photo, New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key is seen announcing his resignation in Wellington, December 5, 2016. (Photo by AFP)New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key says he is resigning after some eight years in office, taking the...

  Pakistan announced the 16 man squad for upcoming Test series against Australia. According to reports the pakistan national selection committee and Chief Selector Inzamam-ul Haq have taken decision after consultations with team head Coach Micke...

New Zealand’s Minister of Trade Todd McClay will arrive in Tehran on Friday heading a high-ranking delegation for talks to revive trade between the two countries after 12 years.New Zealand says it is sending its Minister of Trade Todd McClay to Teh...

Above: The Holden Commodore SS-V, facing its last year of manufacture. The current wisdom appears to be that when the Holden Commodore VF leaves production in 2017, it’ll be replaced by the liftback version of the Opel Insignia B. After all, the on...

The only alpine parrot in the world, who lives in New Zealand, is in danger of extinction.The Kea  is a large species of parrot of the family Strigopidae found in forested and alpine regions of the South Island of New Zealand. About 48 cm (...

Rotting corpse of a "sea monster" mysteriously found on a beach in New Zealand.A video clip shows conducted by Elizabeth Ann creature skull half buried by sand on the beach Pukehina. Apparently the creature's bones over 9 meters long reached shore af...

The Finance Minister says a property transfer tax for foreign buyers won’t have a long-term impact on house prices.

Another political party has called for a tourist tax to help fund conservation. United Future want a $25 fee placed on tourist visas with all revenue going towards maintaining and upgrading the conservation estate.

I had one of those “only Māori in the room” moments yesterday. I have a lot of those. These moments don’t offend me. I work in mainstream tertiary education, I’m Māori and I profess to know something about things Māori. I&#...

Kamu suka menikmati ketenangan wisata alam tapi bosan pergi ke pantai atau gunung terus menerus? Bila iya, kamu bisa mencoba pergi berwisata ke danau alami. Seperti halnya pantai dan gunung, dengan berkunjung ke danau alami, kamu bisa menikmati peman...

One thing you always used to hear about New Zealand was how backward it was. Behind the times. “It’s like how England was in the 1970s,” people would say. This, apparently, was a good thing. New Zealand was a country living in the past, when li...

Labour has confirmed it will introduce a policy to remove tax breaks on investment properties but aims to target speculators rather than small-time landlords.

New Zealand has little to fear from a European investigation into the Panama papers, according to tax experts and the government.

Tara Brown. Photo / SuppliedThe man charged with murdering Kiwi mum Tara Brown on the Gold Coast last year is facing fresh accusations of pouring boiling water over a convicted paedophile in prison.Lionel Patea, 24, has been charged with causing grie...

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