http://www.mail.com/locations/2064-zealand.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/locations/2064-zealand.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2089416-zealands-top-court-takes-kim-dotcom-appeal.html WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand's highest court ruled Thursday that it will hear an appeal by Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and three colleagues as they seek to avoid extradition to the United States. The appeal to the New Zealand Supreme Court involves a ruling on evidence and represents one strand of the complex legal case against executives ... Thu, 16 May 2013 06:46:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2089416-zealands-top-court-takes-kim-dotcom-appeal.html 2013-05-16T06:46:37Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2089204-zealand-to-sell-stake-2nd-power-company.html WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand will sell a minority stake in a second power company this year as part of a plan to balance its books. The government on Thursday announced it plans to list state-owned Meridian Energy on the stock market by the end of the year. Last week, the government raised 1.7 billion New Zealand dollars ($1.4 billion) by se... Thu, 16 May 2013 03:57:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2089204-zealand-to-sell-stake-2nd-power-company.html 2013-05-16T03:57:58Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2081068-hk-transgender-woman-wins-legal-battle-to-marry.html HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong's top court granted a transgender woman the right to marry her boyfriend Monday in a watershed ruling that falls short of allowing same-sex marriage. The surprise decision only covers the right of a transgender person who was born male to marry a man, and for one who was born female to marry a woman. The ruling by the Court of F... Mon, 13 May 2013 08:31:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2081068-hk-transgender-woman-wins-legal-battle-to-marry.html 2013-05-13T08:31:38Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2073320-huawei-founder-media-interview.html WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — During 26 years at the helm of Chinese tech giant Huawei, founder Ren Zhengfei has never once agreed to be interviewed by a journalist. Until Thursday. During a visit to the company's New Zealand operations, Ren sat down with four local journalists at a Wellington hotel. The rules were strict: no international media, no phot... Thu, 09 May 2013 07:23:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2073320-huawei-founder-media-interview.html 2013-05-09T07:23:04Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2070854-zealand-raises-14b-power-company-sale.html WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand's government says it has raised more than a billion dollars from the contentious sale of a 49 percent stake in a state-owned power company. But the government says it could have raised more were it not for interference from opposition political parties who oppose the sale. Those parties liken the offer to selling... Wed, 08 May 2013 09:39:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2070854-zealand-raises-14b-power-company-sale.html 2013-05-08T09:39:32Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2070418-womens-shelter-boss-mayor-vouch-mike-tyson.html WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Who can Mike Tyson turn to for a character reference? The mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, for one, and the leader of Nevada's largest shelter for battered women, for another. Their letters of support were among those sent last year to New Zealand immigration authorities considering the visa application he made to travel ... Wed, 08 May 2013 05:47:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2070418-womens-shelter-boss-mayor-vouch-mike-tyson.html 2013-05-08T05:47:55Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2060326-giant-rubber-duck-splash-hong-kong-harbor.html HONG KONG (AP) — A six-story-high rubber duck is making a big splash in Hong Kong. Crowds watched the inflatable duck being pulled by tugboat across Victoria Harbor in front of Hong Kong's signature skyscraper skyline. Tourist Zhang Wenjin from Shanghai says it's a big surprise. "This is huge. My daughter liked it when she saw it just now. Because kids li... Fri, 03 May 2013 12:07:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2060326-giant-rubber-duck-splash-hong-kong-harbor.html 2013-05-03T12:07:17Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2047022-baby-food-shortage-europe-to-china-demand.html BERLIN (AP) — Yong-Hee Kim still can't believe that in a prosperous country like Germany, powdered baby formula would ever be rationed and that she would have to scour shops in the German capital to find the right brand for her 13-month-old son. But that's what has happened since major retailers in Germany this year began limiting sales of leading brands ... Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:16:14 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2047022-baby-food-shortage-europe-to-china-demand.html 2013-04-26T16:16:14Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2046084-china-zealands-top-export-market.html WELLNGTON, New Zealand (AP) — China's thirst for quality milk has seen it become New Zealand's top export market for the first time. Neighboring Australia had long been New Zealand's biggest market. But figures released Friday by Statistics New Zealand show that in the first quarter of 2013, exports to China were up 32 percent from a year earlier to 2.3 b... Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:43:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2046084-china-zealands-top-export-market.html 2013-04-26T06:43:22Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2043476-china-15-asian-nations-to-start-trade-talks.html BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei (AP) — China and 15 other Asia-Pacific nations will kick off the first round of free trade talks next month to create one of the world's largest trading blocs, officials said Thursday. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is a rival pact to the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free trade initiative involving a d... Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:56:27 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2043476-china-15-asian-nations-to-start-trade-talks.html 2013-04-25T07:56:27Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2027390-cheers-maori-song-nzealand-oks-gay-marriage.html WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The halls of Parliament echoed with a traditional Maori love song after lawmakers made New Zealand the 13th country in the world and the first in the Asia-Pacific region to legalize same-sex marriage. Supporters of the bill, including hundreds of gay-rights advocates, stood and cheered after the 77-44 vote was announced late... Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:46:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2027390-cheers-maori-song-nzealand-oks-gay-marriage.html 2013-04-18T10:46:53Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2025180-nzealand-13th-country-to-legalize-gay-marriage.html WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Hundreds of jubilant gay-rights advocates celebrated at New Zealand's Parliament as the country became the 13th in the world and the first in the Asia-Pacific region to legalize same-sex marriage. Lawmakers voted 77 to 44 in favor of the gay-marriage bill on its third and final reading Wednesday night. People watching from t... Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:16:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2025180-nzealand-13th-country-to-legalize-gay-marriage.html 2013-04-18T01:16:11Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2002390-antarctic-team-digs-deep-to-predict-climate-future.html WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Nancy Bertler and her team took a freezer to the coldest place on Earth, endured weeks of primitive living and risked spending the winter in Antarctic darkness, to go get ice — ice that records our climate's past and could point to its future. They drilled out hundreds of ice cores, each slightly longer and wider than a base... Sat, 06 Apr 2013 12:20:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2002390-antarctic-team-digs-deep-to-predict-climate-future.html 2013-04-06T12:20:10Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1970546-everest-mountaineer-george-lowe-dies-89.html LONDON (AP) — George Lowe, the last surviving climber from the team that made the first successful ascent of Mount Everest, has died at age 89. Mary Lowe said Thursday her husband died a day earlier at a nursing home in Ripley, central England, after an illness. Lowe and his friend Edmund Hillary were the only New Zealanders on the 1953 British-led attemp... Fri, 22 Mar 2013 04:45:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1970546-everest-mountaineer-george-lowe-dies-89.html 2013-03-22T04:45:28Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1969266-passing-reference-argo-rankles-zealand.html WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Thirteen minutes into the Oscar-winning movie "Argo," CIA agent Tony Mendez asks supervisor Jack O'Donnell what happened to a group of Americans when the U.S. Embassy was stormed in Tehran. "The six of them went out a back exit," O'Donnell tells Mendez, played by Ben Affleck. "Brits turned them away. Kiwis turned them away. ... Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:14:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1969266-passing-reference-argo-rankles-zealand.html 2013-03-22T01:14:29Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1958988-antarctica-concerns-grow-tourism-numbers-rise.html ROSS ISLAND, Antarctica (AP) — Across most of Earth, a tourist attraction that sees 35,000 visitors a year can safely be labeled sleepy. But when it's Antarctica, every footstep matters. Tourism is rebounding here five years after the financial crisis stifled what had been a burgeoning industry. And it's not just retirees watching penguins from the deck o... Sat, 16 Mar 2013 05:38:23 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1958988-antarctica-concerns-grow-tourism-numbers-rise.html 2013-03-16T05:38:23Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1954082-zealand-suffering-biggest-drought-30-years.html CARTERTON, New Zealand (AP) — Dairy farmer John Rose has sent more than 100 of his cows to the slaughterhouse over recent weeks as a severe drought browned pastures in New Zealand's normally verdant North Island. He had to thin his herd so the remaining 550 cows have enough to eat, and he's supplementing their diet with ground palm kernel as the grass in ... Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:58:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1954082-zealand-suffering-biggest-drought-30-years.html 2013-03-15T00:58:28Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1950928-zealand-gay-marriage-bill-passes-critical-test.html WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill allowing same-sex marriage Wednesday, all but assuring that it will soon become law. Lawmakers supported the bill 77 to 44 in the second of three votes needed for a bill to be approved. The second vote is typically the most crucial one. The third and final vote is... Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:55:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1950928-zealand-gay-marriage-bill-passes-critical-test.html 2013-03-13T10:55:22Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1929216-zealand-to-sell-stake-power-company.html WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand announced Monday it will sell 49 percent of a state-owned energy company and list the shares on the country's stock exchange in about mid-May. Mighty River Power is the first of three power companies the government plans to sell minority stakes in. It hopes to raise billions of dollars and return the country's bo... Mon, 04 Mar 2013 03:58:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1929216-zealand-to-sell-stake-power-company.html 2013-03-04T03:58:42Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1920384-loved-salute-zealand-dad-killed-shark.html WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — About 150 friends and family of a man killed in a shark attack wrote messages to him in the sand Thursday and stepped into the water at a New Zealand beach to say goodbye. Adam Strange, 46, was an award-winning television and short film director and the father of a 2-year-old girl. He was training for an endurance swim near ... Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:19:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1920384-loved-salute-zealand-dad-killed-shark.html 2013-02-28T07:19:09Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1917928-large-shark-kills-man-zealand-beach-closed.html AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — A shark possibly 14 feet (4 meters) long killed a swimmer near a popular New Zealand beach on Wednesday, then disappeared after police attempting to save the man fired gunshots at the enormous predator. Muriwai Beach near Auckland was closed after the fatal attack, one of only about a dozen in New Zealand in the past 180 years... Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:29:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1917928-large-shark-kills-man-zealand-beach-closed.html 2013-02-27T17:29:31Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1915628-worlds-postal-services-struggle-with-lower-demand.html OTAKI, New Zealand (AP) — Sandra Vidulich is so excited about the leather boots she ordered through Amazon that she rips open the box in front of the postman and tries them on. "I looove them," she declares, as the driveway at her tree-lined home in rural New Zealand briefly becomes a catwalk. "They're cool." For now, a boom in Internet shopping is helpin... Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:37:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1915628-worlds-postal-services-struggle-with-lower-demand.html 2013-02-27T15:37:47Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1905038-royal-penguin-stranded-zealand-beach-dies.html WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A royal penguin that became stranded on a beach more than 1,000 miles from its sub-Antarctic home has died at a New Zealand zoo. The penguin was emaciated and suffering kidney failure when it arrived at the Wellington Zoo after being found Sunday by hikers. The zoo did the best it could, Lisa Argilla, the facility's veterina... Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:57:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1905038-royal-penguin-stranded-zealand-beach-dies.html 2013-02-22T00:57:58Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1907236-christchurch-marks-2nd-anniversary-deadly-quake.html CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — The New Zealand city of Christchurch is commemorating the second anniversary of an earthquake that destroyed thousands of homes and killed 185 people. Several hundred people gathered for a memorial service in Latimer Square, near where 115 died when a six-story office building collapsed during the magnitude-6.1 quake. Othe... Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:12:49 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1907236-christchurch-marks-2nd-anniversary-deadly-quake.html 2013-02-22T00:12:49Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1900024-zealand-plans-logo-free-cigarette-packs.html WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Strict against smoking already, New Zealand plans to make tobacco companies remove their logos from cigarette packs but will wait until a challenge to a similar Australian law is resolved. The packaging law "will remove the last remaining vestige of glamor from these deadly products," Associate Minister of Health Tariana Tur... Tue, 19 Feb 2013 04:06:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1900024-zealand-plans-logo-free-cigarette-packs.html 2013-02-19T04:06:35Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1888300-coroner-soft-drinks-health-warnings.html WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A New Zealand food industry association on Wednesday rejected a coroner's call to add health warnings to soft-drink labels following the 2010 death of a woman who drank about 2 gallons of Coca-Cola a day. Coroner David Crerar issued a final report Tuesday into the death of 31-year-old Natasha Harris, concluding that the moth... Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:46:39 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1888300-coroner-soft-drinks-health-warnings.html 2013-02-13T08:46:39Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1887874-police-confirm-nzealand-girl-madeleine-mccann.html WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — DNA tests have confirmed a New Zealand girl is not missing British youngster Madeleine McCann, police said Wednesday. Members of the public have twice mistakenly identified the New Zealand girl as Madeleine. The first sighting was last March and the second on New Year's Eve. Madeleine was 3 years old when she vanished nearly... Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:23:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1887874-police-confirm-nzealand-girl-madeleine-mccann.html 2013-02-13T01:23:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1884726-tyson-hopes-to-indy-personality.html INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Mike Tyson the entertainer is coming back to the city that put him in prison. The boxer once dubbed as the "Baddest Man on the Planet" is settling into his new role as the star of a one-man, 36-city road show called "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth." Now 46, Tyson hopes to show city residents Wednesday night he's a very different person t... Tue, 12 Feb 2013 03:22:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1884726-tyson-hopes-to-indy-personality.html 2013-02-12T03:22:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1882634-team-braves-wet-cold-retracing-shackletons-steps.html WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — It's been lauded as one of the greatest survival stories of all-time. Nearly 100 years later, a group of British and Australian adventurers have discovered why. They re-enacted Ernest Shackleton's journey to save his crew when their ship got stuck and sank in Antarctica's icy waters. Tim Jarvis and Barry ... Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:12:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1882634-team-braves-wet-cold-retracing-shackletons-steps.html 2013-02-12T02:12:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1871328-aftershocks-hamper-relief-tsunami-hit-solomons.html SYDNEY (AP) — Strong aftershocks rattled the Solomon Islands on Friday, hampering relief efforts to tsunami-ravaged villages and forcing the South Pacific nation's prime minister to forgo a visit to the stricken area, where nine deaths have been confirmed. Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo was on a plane to Santa Cruz Island in the eastern Solomons to asse... Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1871328-aftershocks-hamper-relief-tsunami-hit-solomons.html 2013-02-08T11:17:00Z