New Zealand-Asia Relations
Asia, particularly East Asia, has recently become one of New Zealand's most important focuses of trade and diplomatic relationships. This international tie is bound t...
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New Zealand
CAPITAL: Wellington
FLAG: The flag has two main features: the red, white, and blue Union Jack in the upper left quarter and the four-star Southern Cross in the right half. On the blue stat...
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New Zealand - Helen Elizabeth Clark
Helen Elizabeth ClarkPrime Minister
(pronounced "HEH-len ee-LIZ-ah-beth CLARK")
"My hopes for the future are simply expressed: a world whe...
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New Zealand
New Zealand is a South Pacific island nation, located some 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles) to the southeast of Australia. The country consists of two main inhabited islands (the North and S...
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New Zealand
POPULATION 3,908,037ANGLICAN 17 percentPROTESTANT 21 percentROMAN CATHOLIC 15 percentMAORI CHRISTIAN (RATANA AND RINGATU) 1.5 percentOTHER CHRISTIAN 5 percentBUDDHIST 1 percentHINDU 1 perc...
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New Zealand is a fascinating place. It is filled with mysteries that are just waiting to be revealed. New Zealand being a small island in the middle of the pacific ocean makes the thought of this far ...
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Each resource provides an engaging study of the country, climate, landscapes, language, cultures and traditions of its people. Plus a resource and skills list and student tracking sheet. 50+ acti...
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Area: 270,692 sq km (104,515 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 4,141,000Capital:
Wellington
Chief of state: Queen Elizabeth II
, represented by
Governors-General
Dame Silvia
Cartwright
and, from Au...
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Wellington (dpa) - Another New Zealand finance company collapsed
on Thursday - the fifth in two weeks - owing 16 million New Zealand
dollars (just more than 11 million US do...
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Fiji's military ruler said Thursday he was expelling New Zealand's top diplomat, sending already strained relations between the South Pacific nation and one of its biggest neighbors spiraling even ...
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Hone Tuwhare, the first Maori poet to be published in English and one of New Zealand's most celebrated verse writers, has died. He was 86.Tuwhare died Wednesday in a home for the elderly in the sou...
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Wellington (dpa) - Nearly 35 years after the last New Zealand
troops were withdrawn from the Vietnam War, the government announced
Tuesday that it would honour the country's...
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Marta scored two goals in the second half to lead Brazil to a 5-0 win past a gritty New Zealand squad Wednesday in the opening match of Group D.The game between group favorites Brazil and overwhelm...
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