Press Releases

Life revolves around the sea in Kaikoura on the east coast of New Zealand’s South Island, and once a year the rich harvest of local seafood becomes central to a now internationally renowned festival.

Gourmet seafood pies, mussels, paua, salmon, prawns, whitebait, oysters, scallop kebabs and crayfish will once again tantalise tastebuds at the annual Kaikoura Seafest on New Zealand’s rugged southern coast next month.

New Zealand’s native parrot the kakariki and syrah wine may, on the face of it, have little in common but a mutually beneficial arrangement is about to make the release of one help fund the release of the other.

Canadian teen pop superstar Justin Bieber has named New Zealand as one of the places where he had a pivotal life moment in his new biography, 'First Step 2 Forever'.

New Zealand movie-goers flocking to see the recently released 'Julie and Julia', based on the life of Julia Child, have discovered that the US celebrity chef’s former personal assistant is now living on their doorstep.

An adventurous Kiwi airline pilot is about to embark on the ride of a lifetime – from London to Auckland on a jetski.

Flight of the Conchords fans mourning the end of the Grammy Award-winning TV series will have something to celebrate on 26 August – when Predicament, starring one-half of Conchords duo Jemaine Clement, is released into New Zealand cinemas.

Japanese tourists, who joined locals in a fun run through a remote New Zealand kauri forest, were helping to celebrate a burgeoning friendship between two different cultures.

As international support rolled into New Zealand in the wake of the 22 February Christchurch earthquake, the heart-warming gesture of a group of Japanese tourists has struck a special chord.

A traditional Japanese tea house and garden, designed and constructed in Japan, and then rebuilt in New Plymouth, New Zealand, is to become a major feature of the 2009 Taranaki Rhododendron & Garden Festival.