Press Releases

New Zealand’s clean green sustainable tourism initiatives have been recognised as best in the world at the international Responsible Tourism Awards.

One of New Zealand's most significant inventors has died. Colin Murdoch can lay claim to having revolutionised medical and veterinary science.

Former US President Bill Clinton has invited a New Zealand clothing company to address Asian leaders on sustainability.

A Māori cloak of historic significance is home in Te Papa Tongarewa, the Museum of New Zealand, after living in a London closet for more than 20 years.

New Zealand takes an official step this weekend towards winter 2009 when clocks are turned back an hour as the country says goodbye to daylight saving.

New Zealand’s top tourist operators have been recognised in the country’s annual Tourism Industry Awards with a flexi travel network taking out the supreme prize for 2008.

The phrase 'shaken not stirred' will take on a whole new meaning when some of the world’s top bartenders gather in Queenstown in September for the Olympics of the cocktail world.

Te Papa’s colossal squid, caught in the Ross Sea and gifted to the museum in 2007, is scheduled for defrosting and examination on 30 April 2008.

Flight of the Conchords, the Kiwi comedy duo made world famous by their HBO television series, have thrilled their home audience by taking four major prizes at the New Zealand Music Awards.

Further success for Kiwi folk-comedy duo Flight of the Conchords - their first full length album has scored a stunning debut on the US Pop charts.