EDGE #318: NZ Female Cricketers Make World’s Best List, Queen Names Catherine Healy a Dame, Peter Jackson’s Mortal Engines + Scientists Breeding Low-Emission Sheep + +

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News of Global New Zealanders From Brian Sweeney, publisher, NZEDGE.COM | 13 June 2018 | #318 | 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. Cricket | Guardian (The) 06 June 2018 NZ Female Cricketers Make World’s Best List A Guardian newspaper panel of 15 experts compiled a list of the globe’s top 20 greatest female players, which includes Dunedin-born Suzie Bates (pictured), 30, Christchurch-born Amy Satterthwaite, 31, and Sophie Devine, 28, from Wellington. “White Ferns captain extraordinaire, Bates (No 2)… Sport General | Forbes 11 June 2018 Steven Adams One of World’s Highest Paid Athletes New Zealander Steven Adams, 24, professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder in the National Basketball Association (NBA), has made the annual Forbes World’s Highest Paid Athletes list… Community/General | Washington Post 11 June 2018 The Queen Names Activist Catherine Healy a Dame Catherine Healy, 62, a founder of the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective, was instrumental in helping this country become the first to decriminalise prostitution in 2003. After 30 years of… Politics and Economics | Vancouver Sun 13 June 2018 NZ Gives BC Lesson on Proportional Representation When New Zealand pitched a switch to proportional representation in the early 1990s, it triggered a wave of conjecture and confusion similar to what British Columbia in Canada is… War & Peace | Asia Times 12 June 2018 Korean War Vet Returns to Battlefield Snapshots of the 1950s are seared into veterans’ memories: South Korea then was an economic basket case, a devastated land of burned-down villages, desperate poverty and denuded hills. Andrew Salmon from the… Community/General | Guardian (The) 07 June 2018 Will New Zealand’s Mount Taranaki ‘Living Person’ Status Bring Respect? “Recognition is something Māori communities have been campaigning for over 150 years. In 2013, they achieved a landmark ruling when the Te Urewera… Te Ao Maori | Smithsonian 08 June 2018 Early Māori Village Found in Gisborne Tells Story While much early Māori history is documented through songs and stories – from tales of Kupe, who Māori consider to be the first adventurer to navigate to New Zealand to the deep… Business | Daily Express 07 June 2018 Rock Up’s Aaran Eade’s UK Climbing Walls a Hit After growing 87 per cent year-on-year, sales of £2.5 million are expected for the British indoor climbing centre Rock Up in 2018, four years after climber, New Zealander Aaran Eade teamed up with private equity expert Heidi Duckworth to launch a… Business | Guardian (The) 11 June 2018 NZ Radio Station That Wants Listeners to Switch Off “John Watson is the first to admit that his DJ skills put people to sleep. Luckily for him, that is the point,” writes Charles Anderson in an article for The Guardian. “Instead of seeking an engaged listenership, Watson wants those who tune into his… New Zealand | Surfer 09 June 2018 Chasing Waves on a 13,000km Motorbike Trip In March, Byron Bay friends Torren Martyn and Ishka Folkwell travelled throughout New Zealand on motorbikes looking for the country’s best surf spots. Surfer magazine caught up with the pair for a synopsis of how the trip went down. “Ishka and I had… Film & TV | Hollywood Reporter 09 June 2018 London’s Calling in First Trailer for Peter Jackson’s Mortal Engines The first full trailer for Peter Jackson-produced Mortal Engines has been released, reports Abid Rahman for The Hollywood Reporter. In the trailer the city of London is “causing all sorts of global… Film & TV | Sydney Morning Herald 06 June 2018 Breaking up Is Easy for Sami and van Beek Madeleine Sami and Jackie van Beek’s film The Breaker Upperers has opened strongly in New Zealand after warm-hearted reviews at the South by Southwest festival in Texas. This week, their comedy opens the Sydney Film Festival… Film & TV | Comingsoon.net 08 June 2018 Yoson An Cast in Mulan Live-Action Movie “New Zealander Yosan An has joined Disney’s live-action movie Mulan as the main love interest Chen Hongui opposite Liu Yifei (also known as Crystal Liu) who is playing Hua Mulan,” reports Kylie Hemmert for Comingsoon… New Zealand | Lonely Planet 10 June 2018 Dramatic Ocean Views from the Olive House “If you are looking for an opulent getaway that shows off New Zealand’s epic landscapes, a former olive press building has now been converted into a luxury lodge with 360-degree views of the Kaikoura mountain range and coast,” Alex Butler writes for Lonely Planet Travel News… New Zealand | Robb Report 09 June 2018 Wanderlust-Inspiring Luxury New Zealand Hotels “With its unparalleled natural beauty, innovative culinary scene, and unique luxury accommodation, there is no mystery as to why New Zealand has become the destination of choice for some of the world’s most… New Zealand | Forbes 10 June 2018 Fiordland – “Intricate Web of Glacier-Carved Waterways” New Zealand’s Fiordland National Park has been featured in a Forbes article which highlights “some of the most popular parks in the world.” Duncan Madden reports. “Like much of its native New Zealand… Science/Tech | Radio New Zealand 12 June 2018 NZ DNA Software Helps Conviction in US Court Case New Zealand DNA testing software known as ‘STRmix’ “has helped United States prosecutors secure a murder conviction in a Brooklyn courtroom.” Radio New Zealand reports. STRmix untangles complex mixtures of DNA from minute… Agriculture | ABC News 06 June 2018 Regulator Grant Barnes Minding a Precious Resource Grant Barnes is a New Zealander who says he has a bit of mongrel in him, and says he would not hesitate in taking on any New South Wales irrigator who is found to be flouting the law, ABC News reports. It will be his job to ensure that irrigators across NSW comply… Agriculture | Daily Mail 10 June 2018 Scientists Are Breeding Low-Emission Sheep “In a bid to tackle climate change, scientists have teamed up with New Zealand farmers to try and make sheep a little less gassy,” writes Joe Pinkstone in an article for the Daily Mail. “Sheep, much like cows, produce large amounts of methane over the course of their lifetime through… Music | DIY Magazine 08 June 2018 On Stage at London’s All Points East with Lorde New Zealand super star Lorde’s recent performance at London’s inaugural All Points East festival incited “sheer pandemonium”, according to DIY magazine.“Lorde follows [Belgian group Soulwax] on the North… Music | The Irish Times 07 June 2018 UMO Frontman Ruban Nielson on Musical Eclecticism In search of a new direction after three critically acclaimed psychedelic indie rock records, 38-year-old New Zealander Ruban Nielson, frontman of Unknown Mortal Orchestra, took to the road to write… Video | Youtube 08 June 2018 Ice Climbing in New Zealand Hidden Ice is the story of Glen Aspin, Ed Harrison, Jerome Waldron and Dean Aspin, a group of climbers exploring a range in the Southern Alps in search of water ice that forms for 3-4 weeks in the coldest weeks of winter, if at all. Watch it here…