Science/Tech | New Zealand Herald (The)
4 April 2014
Wellington-based start-up Wipster has launched its video sharing software platform globally, just over a year after being founded by New Zealand filmmaker Rollo Wenlock.
Wipster allows editors to share their…
Society | Harvard | New Zealand Herald (The)
4 April 2014
A Washington-based think-tank has found that New Zealand is the most socially advanced country in the world.
US-based non-profit The Social Progress Imperative, whose advisory board is led by Harvard economist Professor Michael…
Writers | British Vogue | Cosmopolitan | Esquire | New Zealand Herald (The)
20 March 2014
Author Deborah McKinlay, formerly of Auckland, has received a seven-figure advance and a lucrative film deal for her new book, That Part Was True.
McKinlay, who had been making a living as a jobbing non-fiction…
Fashion | New Zealand Herald (The) | US Vogue
5 March 2014
New Zealand makeup artist Valery Gherman moved to New York 11 years ago and now lives in Manhattan’s famed Peter Cooper Village where he shares a two-bedroom apartment with Canadian photographer Derek…
General | New Zealand Herald | New Zealand Herald (The)
28 February 2014
A top-shelf tipple from the planet’s southern-most country has been named as one of the world’s best by a global whisky expert, Jim Murray. The flagship 21-year-old South Island Single Malt has been adjudged…
Science/Tech | New Zealand Herald (The)
16 February 2014
National Poisons Centre toxicologist Dr Leo Schep may have unravelled the mystery surrounding the death of Greek king Alexander the Great, who died at 32 in 323BC.
Schep thinks the culprit could be poisonous wine…
Fashion | New Zealand Herald | New Zealand Herald (The)
14 February 2014
After leaving New Zealand 23 years ago for the lights of London, can-do eccentric artist Lyall Hakaraia is back this month for Auckland’s Pride festival. The nightclub owner, event director, fashion designer, DJ and…
Science/Tech | New Zealand Herald | New Zealand Herald (The)
22 January 2014
Hamilton man Boris Pfahringer has secured an internship with Google and will spend 14 weeks at the search giant’s New York office in Manhattan.
Pfahringer – who has just graduated with a bachelor of computing…
Science/Tech | New Zealand Herald | New Zealand Herald (The) | NZHerald
4 January 2014
New Zealand video game makers have been lauded in major international “Best of 2013” lists, with West Auckland-based Grinding Gear Games’ Path of Exile winning GameSpot’s PC Game of the Year Award and…
Dance | New Zealand Herald (The) | New Zealander of the Year
16 December 2013
16 December 2013 – Twenty-year-old Auckland dancer Hannah O’Neill, who has a lifetime contract with the world’s pre-eminent academy, the Ballet de l’Opéra National de Paris, told the New Zealand Herald recently that…
Business | New Zealand Herald | New Zealand Herald (The)
9 December 2013
New Zealand’s reputation for world-leading innovation has been significantly burnished in the latest Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific Index, which ranks the top 500 tech companies across the region based on triennial revenue…
Film & TV | New Zealand Herald | New Zealand Herald (The)
23 November 2013
New Zealand-raised Anjhe Mules is the designer responsible for the sportswear worn in the new film from the critically acclaimed Hunger Games trilogy.
Mules’ London-based clothing line, Lucas Hugh, was discovered by the film franchise’s…
Visual Arts | Boston Globe | Daily Mail | Guardian | New Zealand Herald (The) | Stern | Wall Street Journal
11 November 2013
11 November 2013 – Award-winning New Zealand-born photographer Amos Chapple recently sent a small drone helicopter up into the skies over an autumnal Saint Petersburg to take pictures and the Daily Mail has published…
Business | New Zealand Herald (The) | USA Today
18 June 2013
Air New Zealand has unveiled a new livery for its aircraft, which will feature an iconic silver fern, to adorn its entire fleet by the end of 2014. The new look will phase out…
General | New Zealand Herald (The) | Smithsonian Magazine
5 June 2013
For the past five months a magnitude 7 earthquake, centred near Wellington, has been slowly rocking the country. It’s the strongest earthquake to hit the region in 150 years says The New Zealand Herald,…