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The Government has emphasised the significant risk of COVID-19 spreading at funerals and tangihanga and the extra personal responsibility required to limit the spread, as it expands the number of…
Essential workers who take leave from work to comply with public health guidance are being supported with a leave scheme to ensure they will continue to receive income, say the…
That’s why Cabinet met today and agreed that, effective immediately, we will move to Alert Level 3 nationwide. After 48 hours, the time required to ensure essential services are in…
At a time when insensitive, divisive comments were being made by some people with vested interests and defamatory comments being made on whole communities within New Zealand, Auckland witnessed a…
March 8th, 2020 was marked worldwide as another historic day. Women have celebrated since the beginning of this movement 170 years ago.
Christchurch’s annual Indian Holi Festival of Colours brightened up Hagley Park for the seventh time last weekend and brought almost 12,000 people together.
A trial deployment of the Police Eagle helicopter in Christchurch will test whether the aircraft would make a significant difference to crime prevention and community safety.
Following the announcement that more than 340 schools will be funded to run events promoting vocational education, the Government has announced it will fund a further 257 events to be…
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Budget 2020 will be delivered on Thursday 14 May, Finance Minister Grant Robertson announced on Wednesday. “This year’s Budget will continue the Coalition Government’s focus on tackling the long-term challenges…
The Canterbury Indian Tamil Association (CITA), which aims to help and support the Tamil community in the Canterbury region and also promote and bring awareness of the Tamil language and…
It was a bumper weekend at the Hare Krishna Auckland (ISKCON) premises in Kumeu, with the Hare Krishna Annual Food Festival on January 25, and the annual Krishna Holi the…
Namaste, Salaam, Satsriakal and warm greetings to everyone. New Zealand Police would like to share crime prevention tips with you so that we can have safer communities together in 2020
Auckland-based Maa Shakti Charitable Trust organised a lohri mela on January 11, which included cultural performances, Bollywood songs, bhangra, martial arts performances, live DJ and bonfire. There were food stalls,…
The Canterbury Tamil Society (CTS) which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, celebrated the Thai Pongal festival last weekend.
Affiliated to the Arya Samaj Pratinidhi Sabha New Zealand Incorporated, Arya Samaj Christchurch (ASC) organised its Annual Gayatri Maha-Yaj last weekend. Formed in 2006, the organisation is known for its…
Bhartiya Samaj Charitable Trust, which has been organising an annual youth summer camp for the last 18 years, had this year’s event between January 13 to 17, for 105 children…
The two social organizations, which promote and celebrate Malayali culture in the Garden City - Kerala Cultural Forum (KCF) and Christchurch Kerala Association (CKA) organised their Christmas celebrations in December.
The harvest festival, known by several different names across India - lohri, makar sankranti, pongal, bhogali bihu, uttarayan and poush – was celebrated by various Indian community organisations across New…
Undoubtedly, the event that shook New Zealand the most this year, was the Christchurch mosque shootings that took place in two mosques in Christchurch during the Friday prayers on March…
British Actor and Presenter Kiran Rai, who grew up in Nottingham in the UK, but has strong family connections in New Zealand and Australia, has landed a role in the…
The Wellington Indian Association (WIA) raised over two thousand dollars at their recent Christmas party for the charity Marry Potter Hospice, which in a Facebook post noted, “We'd like to…
Ola, one of the world’s largest rideshare platforms, is set to launch in 11 new locations across the country this month.
Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Iain Lees-Galloway on Wednesday announced, “The Government is making sure we share the prosperity of our strong economy fairly with those on the minimum wage…
In a major hint on how various visas will be processed in future, Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway, on Tuesday said this in Christchurch, “We are looking at ways to make…
