Press Releases

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Times might be tough on the economic front but Bluff oyster lovers showed no restraint when the official season opened in New Zealand this weekend.