New Zealand Fashion Week starts today at Aucklands Viaduct Events centre. This is New Zealands biggest fashion event. It attracts international designers and buyers. All New Zealands well known designers are showing their best fashion designs. The fi...
Conservation Week starts tomorrow. During that week, DOC the Department of Conservation would like New Zealanders to celebrate our special places and our native wildlife. What are our special places? Our National Parks are some of our special places....
Australia voted for a new government and new Prime Minister on Saturday. The Labor Party, led by Kevin Rudd, was defeated. The new government will be the Coalition party, a coalition of Liberal and National parties. The Coalition party is conservativ...
The new cardboard cathedral in Christchurch is now open. The builders handed the cathedral over to the Anglican church on Friday and gave the bishop a cardboard key as a symbol. The bishop blessed the church so that it is now a religious building. Vo...
The Geographic Board wants New Zealanders to choose whether to use a Maori or an English name for the North and South Islands. The Board has recommended this to the Land Information Minister, Maurice Williamson. It is now his decision. If he agrees,...
My name is Urooj. Pakistan is my home town, but currently I am living in New Zealand. Today is Eid day, Eid-ul-fitar, the feast of breaking the fast. It marks the end of Ramadan, the holy month is which Muslims have to fast from sunrise to sunset. It...
To vote in the .local body elections this year, you must enrol. If you are 18 years old or older, if you are a New Zealand citizen or a Permanent Resident, and if you have lived in New Zealand continuously for more than one year, you must enrol as a...
Do you think children should wear helmets when riding scooters? Many children these days ride scooters to school. Its quicker than walking and safer than biking because children ride their scooters on the footpath. However, there are sometimes accide...
This week, from 18th to 24th, is International Languages Week. Listen to International Languages Week 2012 to hear about this. A recent report by the Royal Society of New Zealand said that more than 160 languages are spoken in New Zealand. We have a...
Listen to August 19th 2010 to hear about more babies born in New Zealand. It is interesting that more women these days are deciding not to have children. The last census, in 2006, showed 13% of women aged between 45 and 49 were childless whereas in 1...
