Press Releases

The New Zealand Fringe Festival has capped off one of the biggest events in its 19-year history by naming comedy duo Flight of the Conchords' as inaugural members of a new hall of fame.

Akaroa, a small peninsula town on the South Island’s east coast, is doubling as paradise in a joint Kiwi-German film production.

Mini car enthusiasts are planning to celebrate the iconic model’s 50th birthday with a commemorative New Zealand road trip – from one end to the other – based on one of the country’s best known movies.

The Southern Hemisphere’s largest garden show, the 2009 Ellerslie International Flower Show, opens its gates next week (11.03.09) at a new home in the South Island city of Christchurch.

Kiwi television star Phil Keoghan - host of reality series 'The Amazing Race' - is about to embark on his most testing journey yet as he cycles from Los Angeles to New York to launch a New Zealand-developed health food bar.

Four years in the job and already the best in the world, Kiwi hotel receptionist Eve Stacey of Wellington’s Intercontinental hotel is remarkably humble.

Mat Follas, a Kiwi cook inspired by the fresh, simple approach of New Zealand chefs, has been crowned winner of MasterChef 2009 – one of Britain’s most sought after culinary titles.

Barbie has had a Kiwi makeover thanks to New Zealand’s best known fashion designer Karen Walker, who took on the job of designing a new range to celebrate the doll’s 50th birthday.

New Zealand’s iconic Milford Sound is now third in the global race to find the world’s ‘Seven Wonders of Nature’ - thanks to enthusiastic on-line voters.

Global foodies will head to New Zealand’s western fringe this weekend to sharpen their tastebuds on the culinary wild side at the legendary Hokitika Wildfoods Festival (13 – 15 March).