Tag: New Zealand

U.S. President Joe Biden, Russia's Vladimir Putin, China's Xi Jinping and other world leaders meet virtually on Friday for the Asia-Pacific trade group APEC, seeking collective actions to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impacts.

Public feel 'betrayed' by her inclusion in women’s Olympic weightlifting team

New Zealand sits atop the cricketing world, sweeping aside India in the World Test Championship final in a monumental result after some recent big match nightmares.

The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) on Monday has confirmed that weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has been selected to contest the women’s +87kg category. Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard will become the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics.

Kanishkaa Balachandran talks to independent cricket journalist Sharda Ugra.

New Zealand Muslims objected on Friday to a plan for a film about the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings in which a gunman killed 51 people, saying the attack was still too raw for grieving families and their community.

Sydney, April 19 (AFP, Reuters) - Emotions ran high Monday (April 19) as excited passengers set off on the first flights to take advantage of a quarantine-free travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand, allowing families split by the pandemic to finally reunite.   "(I’ll) yell, scream cry, hug, kiss, (feel) happy – all of these emotions at once," Ms Denise O’Donoghue, 63, ...

A severe 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the east of New Zealands North Island on Friday, prompting a tsunami warning, and authorities advised people in coastal areas to move immediately to high ground.

A New Zealand Maori leader who was ejected from parliament this week for refusing to wear a necktie in the chamber said forcing him to a Western dress code was a breach of his rights and an attempt to suppress indigenous culture.

New Zealand is suspending all high-level contact with Myanmar and imposing a travel ban on its military leaders following last week's coup, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Tuesday.