Why many Asian countries are being cautious on vaccines
The nations quickest to enact social distancing and contact-tracing systems have mostly kept COVID-19 in check, but their citizens now find themselves lagging in receiving vaccinations.
A 30-year-old woman was confirmed to have caught the coronavirus after coming into repeated contact with a pilot from New Zealand who had caught the virus in the U.S.
With progressive politics on march in New Zealand, Maori minister blazes new trails
Nanaia Mahuta's excitement reflects a global desire among progressives for a shift away from the chauvinist, right-wing populism that has shaped the past four years in some countries.
Diverse New Zealand Cabinet includes tattooed Maori foreign minister and gay deputy PM
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern unveiled what she called an "incredibly diverse" Cabinet Monday that includes New Zealand's first openly gay deputy prime minister and a foreign minister with a Maori facial tattoo. The center-left leader revamped her ministerial line-up in the wake of a landslide ...
Five Eyes spy alliance trains focus on China in echo of Cold War
The network, made up of the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand, is also facing renewed requests to take on additional member nations.
Jacinda Ardern landslide is a vote for COVID-19 competence
Shutting down New Zealand's economy at a time when there’d been just 102 cases was a political gamble, but one that’s paid off.
New Zealand, England and Canada were confirmed as the top three seeds for the women's 2021 Rugby World Cup after the game's governing body opted to use rankings from the start of the year with southern hemisphere teams unable to play due to COVID-19 ...
Jacinda Ardern’s stunning election victory holds lessons for U.S.
Ardern’s message of empathy and kindness contrasts starkly with the divisive politics in the U.S. as Donald Trump and Joe Biden face off.
Pandemic biggest hurdle for New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern after 'tectonic' election
Jacinda Ardern's landslide election win gives her a mandate for the transformational change she has been promising New Zealand for three years, but the COVID-19 pandemic may limit what she can actually do. The prime minister's signature achievement in all but eliminating the new coronavirus ...
New Zealand's victorious Jacinda Ardern vows to deliver reform
After facing criticism since winning office in 2017 for not delivering on key promises, Ardern said she now had a mandate for change.
New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern storms to historic election win after crushing COVID-19
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern swept to an historic election victory and said she will use her mandate to rebuild an economy battered by the coronavirus pandemic and tackle social inequality. Ardern’s Labour Party secured the first outright majority in Parliament since the introduction ...
First 'no-quarantine' flights arrive in Australia as coronavirus cases fall
Hundreds of New Zealand plane passengers started arriving in Sydney on Friday as part of a new trans-Tasman travel bubble amid a rapidly falling growth rate in cases at the epicenter of Australia's coronavirus outbreak. In a tentative re-opening to international tourism, travelers on the ...
