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Slight Change

Slight Change

New Zealand superbike champ Aaron Slight picks up two extra wheels driving for Peugeot in the British Touring Car Championships.

Kiwi Brave

Kiwi Brave

“The sight of New Zealand’s Travis Wilson in an Atlanta Braves uniform seems as bizarre as anything you might see in Disney World. Especially when you consider that until four years ago Wilson had never played…

Masterful pianist

Masterful pianist

Henry Wong-Doe demonstrates his “stylistic flexibility” at the 10th Arthur Rubenstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv. Search and pay to view

Zed in Oz

Zed in Oz

Kiwi boys Zed gig with Bon Jovi in Melbourne.  

Plenty to Go Around

Plenty to Go Around

New Zealand’s trade surplus widens on the back of a 2.2% rise in the value of New Zealand exports.

Russell: Our Man

Russell: Our Man

Winning the world from the edge, Russell Crowe walks away with Hollywood’s biggest award. It was the day the boy from the west Auckland suburbs achieved the dream that once seemed “kind of ludicrous…

Real Safe

Real Safe

Auckland-based Designer Technology’s Mail Marshal is the Pentagon’s security system of choice.

Relations Open

Relations Open

New Zealand to open diplomatic relations with North Korea.  

World Desire

World Desire

Melbourne’s RMIT Gallery hosts Desire, a show on fashion as art, featuring “a beautiful dress by World New Zealand, constructed from a continuous zip that spills out onto the floor”.  

Spray Away

Spray Away

New Zealand – SkunkShot, created by Victoria University scientists, hits the  garden with eau de skunk; unwelcome cats and dogs keep their distance.  

Tua Again

Tua Again

“A crunching left hook has put Tua back in the heavyweight championship picture.”  

Pinetree Growl

Pinetree Growl

“Colin Meads, the grim, great New Zealand lock, was once asked why British and Irish forwards were inferior to those produced by the southern hemisphere – especially the forbidding, beetle-browed men produced by New Zealand. “Too many…

Kiwi Fruits

Kiwi Fruits

“New Zealand wine makers are on the verge of world dominance, but some things are still beyond their control.”  

More Finn Enough

More Finn Enough

“Life without a band suits Neil Finn – his second solo album is phenomenal”  

Novel tourism

Novel tourism

Ngaio Marsh is among the few mystery writers whose houses merit preservation as “literary shrines”.

Fresh milk

Fresh milk

“The gorgeous landscapes of New Zealand provide the backdrop for this peculiarity, which is like nothing else that’s played in months”

Economic Outlook

Economic Outlook

New Zealand’s economy continues on the up; will the edge buck the downward trend of trading partners and major players?

On the Defensive

On the Defensive

International interest in the Clark government’s announcement on defence plans to 2010 .

Milk free

Milk free

The Price of Milk is nothing at promotional showings of the New Zealand movie with a “cult-like” following.

Tu Tangata

Tu Tangata

Tu Tangata showcases master weaver Eronora Puketapu-Hetet in Washington.

Hat Trick

Hat Trick

“I think it has become so normal in New Zealand that there are women in senior positions, that I was taken aback by this attention,” says Dame Silvia Cartwright. The new Gov-Gen completes the female trinity…

Marvellous Merlot

Marvellous Merlot

“From the legendary wines of Pomerol, the tradition of Italian Merlots and the “new classic” wine regions of California, Oregon and Washington, to the great vineyards of South America, Australia, New Zealand and beyond, Merlot has proved…

Savage thoughts

Savage thoughts

King Kapisi spins the crowd: “Taking the crowd through a full turntable tutorial, including “the crab” and other techniques, Kapisi has them in the palm of his hand”.

Kiwi on Top

Kiwi on Top

Apparel gives German tennis player edge by-proxy. Nicolas Kiefer walked into the interview room Wednesday wearing a blue floppy hat with the word KIWI embroidered across the top. Kiefer, 23, is German. “It’s my own…

Musical score

Musical score

“Pragmatic and visionary” New Zealander Grant Cooper scores a sugar plumb of a job, conducting New York’s Syracuse Symphony Orchestra.

Innovation I2B

Innovation I2B

Carter Holt Harvey enters the technology services market with software designed to breed innovation in large corporations.

Crowe 007

Crowe 007

Will it be “Crowe, Russell Crowe” next time 007 hits the big screen? “To play Bond, you need a man who has great screen presence and is believable in the part. Looking at him,…

Return to the scene

Return to the scene

Despite facing the sixth anniversary of the day Neil Finn saved his life by pulling him from a Piha rip, Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder is preparing to return to New Zealand for the…

World’s Greatest Sports Brand?

World’s Greatest Sports Brand?

Brandchannel reviews “one of the most distinctive international brands in the history of sport.” “The All Blacks are a team not a brand” insist the NZRFU. “The team’s values are absolutely about winning, whereas the brand’s values…

Green Edge

Green Edge

The Greens are a presence in parliaments around the world – the revolution started in Wellington.  

Milk in Hawaii

Milk in Hawaii

Price of Milk plays at the Hawaii International Film Festival.

Fairy tale ending

Fairy tale ending

Xena meets her doom in the finale of the wrapped series that turned Lucy Lawless stellar.

Canuck Farming Luck

Canuck Farming Luck

“In 1985, New Zealand stopped bailing out farmers. Today, its rural areas are thriving. It’s a ‘brutal process,’ experts say, but it would work in Canada.”  

August Florist

August Florist

A flowering of beauty takes place under the hands of top international florist, New Zealander Maurice August.

Dubai Catwalk

Dubai Catwalk

New Zealand Wearable Arts headline Dubai Fashion Week.

Cross-course Appeal

Cross-course Appeal

“Sunline, a huge bay five-year-old, is one of those rare beasts to have jumped the fence between her sport and the wider public. She has her own website, an official fan-club and a range of merchandise.”…

Buzz of It’s Own

Buzz of It’s Own

And, “Auckland has a buzz of its own, with enviable dance music, fashion and restaurant scenes and the largest Polynesian and Maori populations in the South Pacific.”

Hot Lodge!

Hot Lodge!

Old-world charm is losing out to “far-flung destinations favoured by the elite such as game lodges in South Africa, Caribbean idylls, palatial hotels in India and New Zealand lodges.

Cisco of the South

Cisco of the South

Funky Wellington’s natural glories make the city “a superior urban roost with a view, a mini-San Francisco”.

Best Oscar Hunter

Best Oscar Hunter

The greatest winners of all time. For best actress: Vivien Leigh, Joan Crawford, Audrey Hepburn, Simone Signoret and Holly Hunter in The Piano.

The Legend of Steve Williams

The Legend of Steve Williams

Tiger’s clubs net the “amiable Kiwi” over $1 million – making Williams an international top-dollar caddy. Also, will Williams bring Tiger down under?  

Dolly, the Next Generation

Dolly, the Next Generation

PPL Therapeutic, the company behind Dolly and the cloned piglets, seeks backing to buy a farm in New Zealand. If all goes to plan, Dolly#2 will be a good kiwi girl.

Cup Buzz

Cup Buzz

The City of Sails is still high on the America’s Cup – and not showing any signs of slowing down before the next one.

Spotte-y Research

Spotte-y Research

Prolific writer Stephen Spotte’s latest collection ranges from “academia to the Maori cannibals of New Zealand and everywhere in between”.

Edge Vista

Edge Vista

Search engine Alta Vista opens an Edge-portal devoted to New Zealand content on the web.

Bye-bye Brierley

Bye-bye Brierley

New Zealand business legend Sir Ron Brierley steps down as director of the eponymous Brierley Investments.

Musical extravaganza

Musical extravaganza

“The concept for these shows is to invite friends whose music I admire to collaborate with me in presenting a week-long musical extravaganza which I optimistically expect to be a blast.”  

Directory of Excellence

Directory of Excellence

Every entry in a New Zealand winery guide has one thing in common: “passion for excellence in their field”.

Breaking in Privacy?

Breaking in Privacy?

Will new anti-hacking laws breach the bill of rights? Parliament tries to walk the tightrope between security and invasion.

Fashioning the Seams

Fashioning the Seams

“My work always tends to be about throwing extremes together,” says edge-designer Karen Walker. “I always find that the most exciting thing is when you take a $5 T-shirt and elevate it into something…

Kidnappers couldn’t take me

Kidnappers couldn’t take me

Russell Crowe laughs off kidnap threat: “Quite frankly, if they had to spend that much time in a small room with me… one of them might end up saying, ‘Look, pass the hat around,…

Dishy

Dishy

Sam Neill transmits tension in The Dish, the story of how Neill Armstrong came to be broadcast from a giant dish in the middle of the Australian desert.

ATC in Manila

ATC in Manila

German-based lolli-pop group ATC, including Kiwi member Joe, hit Manila with their Europop/R&B blend.

Everywhere you go…

Everywhere you go…

Neil Finn, international star and “nice guy” of New Zealand pop, has invited a few friends to perform his “unmistakable” sound in Auckland.

Clean Fingers

Clean Fingers

European consumers can’t wait to get their hands on sustainably fished New Zealand hoki fish-fingers, but some groups strongly dispute the fishery’s right to the “sustainable” label.

Mega-Catch

Mega-Catch

New Zealand Envirosafe Technologies’ mega-catch mosquito trap looks like a “harmless, black plastic birdcage”, but, to a mosquito, it looks and smells exactly like a juicy human target.