A road trip is completed, and another one is underway. Besides the matter of the Trumpest in the Washington Teapot, the overriding majority of questions we encountered had to do with interest rates.
Category: Auckland, New Zealand
New Zealand judge upholds Kim Dotcom extradition ruling
In this Nov. 27, 2014, file photo, Kim Dotcom arrives at Auckland District Court in Auckland, New Zealand. A New Zealand judge on Monday, Feb. 20, 2017, upheld an earlier court ruling that flamboyant internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom and three of his colleagues can be extradited to the U.S. to face criminal charges.
Qatar Airways launches longest flight with 16-hour New Zeland route
Qatar Airways has launched the world’s longest scheduled commercial airline route with the arrival of its flight from Doha to Auckland, New Zealand. The Gulf carrier said flight QR920 touched down in Auckland early on Monday after covering a distance of 14,535 kilometers, or 9,032 miles.
World’s Longest Flight Touches Down in New Zealand
A Qatar Airways jet touched down in Auckland, New Zealand Monday, shattering the record for the world’s longest flight by distance. The Boeing 777 took off from Doha, Qatar and was in the sky for 14,535 km before landing in New Zealand.
Banned NZ book scores ‘perfect 10’ in US
A raunchy novel for teenagers that was banned in New Zealand has won a rare “perfect 10” rating from an American young adult fiction website. The novel, Into the River by Aucklander Ted Dawe, has been rated 10 out of 10 in an annual list published by VOYA , which calls itself “the leading library journal dedicated to the needs of young adult librarians”.
Spies prise open their secret vaults to reveal foreign intelligence threats
Abdulmalik Altamimi bursts with pride as he poses with a certificate of English studies earned from the Waikato Institute of Education. Abdulmalik Altamimi poses with an English certificate earned from studying at the Waikato Institute of Education in 2012.
Tale of two cities: Tauranga overtakes Dunedin to become country’s fifth biggest city
Population estimates by Statistics New Zealand reveal Tauranga has overtaken Dunedin’s population of 127,000, clocking in at 128,200 people in 2016. The southern city’s population increased an estimated 6200 between 1996 and 2016, while booming Tauranga’s population grew by 48,400 over the same period.
Editorial: What slogan for a city you cannot afford?
Taranaki, for example, is ‘like no other’, Whanganui is ‘all you need – and then some’, and Bulls is, as you would expect, ‘unforgettabull’. But Auckland, the ‘City of Sails’, ‘the place desired by many’, is probably in need of a complete branding rethink as we wind our way into 2017.
LDS missionary dies in South Africa
A full-time missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from New Zealand, serving in the South Africa Johannesburg Mission, died on Dec. 23. Elder Nofo-I-Lelenga Latu, 19, from the Auckland New Zealand Tamaki Stake, Clover Park Ward, died of injuries sustained in a car accident. He was traveling with three other missionaries, who are being treated for minor injuries.