New Zealand

“We want to make sure young people never start smoking,” says New Zealand’s associate health minister. Across the world, there have been several efforts to pull back people from smoking, but none perhaps have been more ambitious than New Zealand’s plan to totally ban tobacco sales in the future. The proposal was revealed on Thursday by the […]

A couple from New Zealand just discovered one of “nature’s pleasant surprises.” Waipa residents Colin and Donna Craig-Brown found in their garden a large 7.9-kilogram potato, which could hold the record of “The World’s Heaviest Potato.” Although Colin and Donna have already sent their application, the record has not yet been confirmed by the Guinness […]

The national lockdown is New Zealand’s first instance in over a year. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Tuesday, August 17, a nationwide lockdown after detecting a single case of COVID-19 within its borders. Expressing her concern that it might be the contagious Delta variant, Ardern has informed citizens that the entire country will be at Alert Level 4, […]

The 29th Summer Olympics will witness history when it takes place in Tokyo next month. Kiwi weightlifter Laurel Hubbard will become the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics after her selection by New Zealand for the women’s weightlifting event at the Tokyo spectacle, Reuters reports. Following changes set forth by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) last May to the […]

New Zealand-based Filipino dairy farmer Christopher Vila was named as the “2021 Dairy Manager of the Year” by the New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards. Vila worked as a swine and poultry veterinarian in Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines before moving to New Zealand in 2008. He started his career in the dairy industry as a farm assistant, […]