Press Releases

Four New Zealand buildings – two private homes, a golf clubhouse and a university business school - have been short listed for the World Architecture Festival Awards to be held in Spain this October.

One of New Zealand’s notable historic homesteads and most significant private art collections have come together in an art and culture mix that promises to become a prominent Auckland visitor attraction.

Two of New Zealand’s leading artists will spend six months exhibiting their work at the 2009 Venice Biennale – the world’s most significant visual arts event.

Kiwi athletes competing in India at the 2010 Commonwealth Games will take inspiration from the memory of two great mountaineering heroes – New Zealand’s Sir Edmund Hillary and his Nepalese companion Tenzing Norgay.

It’s 25 years since Kiwi inventor and marine explorer Kelly Tarlton created an underwater adventure that has become one of New Zealand’s best known tourist attractions.

New Zealand author Patricia Grace has won the 2008 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

A New Zealand bar has paid tribute to Scottish songbird Susan Boyle by creating a cocktail in honour of the ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ contestant.

Runners from 10 countries will compete this weekend (21.03.09) in a unique beach marathon on the remote sands of 90 Mile Beach in New Zealand’s Far North.

New Zealand has been given the thumbs up by British migrants as the best place in the world to live.

A New Zealand campaigner responsible for negotiating international peace deals has received a prestigious award known as the alternative Nobel Prize.