Drowning is a big problem around the world and is the second most common cause of accidental death. New Zealand also has a very high rate of drowning with only road accidents and falls causing more deaths by accident. From 2003-2007 an average of 114

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

The hunt for the murder suspect, Nai Yin Xue, has come to an end when he was found in a small town in Georgia in the south of the United States. Two New Zealand police officers will probably bring him back to this country to stand trial for the murde

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

A new kind of entertainment was making its debut high in the French Alps Monday that left some of its participants out in the cold. Sheepshearing competitions are typically found in Australia and New Zealand, but farmers in the alpine region adopted

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 万花筒2010年

By Barry Unger Washington, DC 23 March 2006 warch Brown Kiwi report A very rare event happened at the National Zoo in Washington, DC. For the first time in 30 years a North Island Brown Kiwi has hatch

发表于:2019-01-09 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(三月)

New Zealand's second-biggest city, Christchurch, is facing an enormous clean-up after being struck by the country's worst earthquake in 80 years. The magnitude 7 quake devastated parts of Christchurch early Saturday. Christchurch awoke Sunday to anot

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(九)月

DAVID GREENE, HOST: This is kind of sad. Did you know that nearly half of the world's 6,000 or so spoken languages are endangered? That's according to the United Nations. Well, in New Zealand, a group of teens is trying to save their endangered tongu

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

On Wednesday this week, the Prime Minister, Helen Clark, apologised to soldiers who served in the Vietnam War between 1964 and 1972. She apologised for the way they were treated when they returned from the war and for the pain and suffering they expe

发表于:2019-01-21 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Today is Waitangi Day, a day when we remember the Treaty that was signed on Feb 6th 1840, between the Queen of England and the Maori chiefs of New Zealand. In the Treaty, Queen Victoria agreed to protect the Maori and give them the same rights as Bri

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

A student bond is an agreement to work in New Zealand after graduation in return for money from the government. The government today announced this plan for new doctors, vets, nurses, midwives and teachers. If they work in rural areas or small towns

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

On Wednesday, 3 protesters entered the Waihopai spy base and caused damage to a large globe covering a satellite dish. The director says that the damage could be as much as $1 million. Waihopai is near Blenheim in the north of the South Island. It ha

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

This week the National Party made another statement about what they plan to do if they win the elections. They said they will keep TVNZ as public TV, but will get rid of the Charter because it is not working. The Charter was brought in by the Labour

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Air NZ and Virgin Blue airlines may become partners to fly across the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand. First, however, the Transport Ministers in both countries have to agree. In 2002, Air NZ and Qantas had talks about becoming partners.

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Listen to Nov 13th 2010 to hear about Pansy Wong resigning as Cabinet Minister. Pansy Wong has resigned from Parliament. She will not return in the new year. She has been an MP since 1996 when she became the first Asian MP in New Zealand. At that tim

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Yesterday, some parts of New Zealand east coast had very hot temperatures. This was caused by cyclone Yasi which hit Queensland a few days earlier. It brought very hot weather for the east coast in New Zealand. The east coast of the North and South I

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Workers did not have a holiday for Waitangi Day this year because February 6th was a Sunday. However, some foreign embassies in Wellington the Australian, British and Canadian embassies were closed on Monday. In some countries, if a public holiday is

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Both Chinese and Korean people are celebrating the Lunar New Year. This is a three day festival for Koreans called Seollal. The Chinese New Year is the start of the Spring Festival. It finishes with the Lantern Festival 15 days later. For Chinese and

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

When you arrive in New Zealand, people from Biosecurity check that do not bring any food with you. Because we are an island country, we try to keep out pests from other countries. We are not always successful though. Listen to September 25th 2008 for

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(114) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Today, Western Samoa changed from driving on the right hand side of the road to the left hand side, just like New Zealand. American Samoa will continue to drive on the right hand side just like the USA. However, all the other Pacific Islands drive on

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Last week, four New Zealanders won awards for this year. Each of them volunteered their time and skills to help others. It is hard to say only one thing about each of these people because they have all done so much. Sam Tutu Chapman won the Local Her

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

While this website is concerned about New Zealand news, we are very close to Australia in distance, in economic matters and in culture. The population of New Zealand is just over 4 million but another 500,000 New Zealanders live in Australia. Many of

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语