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[ad_1] Benn Bathgate / Stuff More than three years after its original installation date, Hemo’s throat sculpture, Te Ahi Tupau, is finally in place. Rotorua’s Hemo Gorge sculpture, the largest 3D printed sculpture in the world, has finally been placed by helicopter more than three years after its original installation …

[ad_1] Thousands of asylum seekers have spent a fourth night sleeping outdoors on the Greek island of Lesbos, after successive fires destroyed a notoriously overcrowded refugee and migrant camp during a coronavirus lockdown. Authorities have said the fires on Tuesday and Wednesday night (local time) were deliberately set by some …

[ad_1] OPINION: The blame game is in full swing as the government and New Zealand Rugby point the finger at each other for failing to win the Rugby Championship. Both parties will relax in the coming days as they realize the futility of that exercise, and the more NZ Rugby …

[ad_1] Co-leader James Shaw announced the party’s “Grow for the Future” plan. “The reality is that the way we farm today is accelerating climate change,” he said. The Greens say that agriculture is responsible for about half of all greenhouse gas emissions. The proposed $ 297 million dedicated farm fund …

[ad_1] On the rugby field of his youth, former All Black Dan Carter claimed another victory, this time with his local rural Canterbury club, Southbridge. In his third game for the club this season, great rugby helped the team win the final of the Ellesmere Canterbury senior competition and take …

[ad_1] Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern also went to China last year and raised “the question of [human rights] directly “with President Xi Jinping. New Zealand has recently been a signatory to several joint statements calling on China for its practices and the Prime Minister highlighted Aotearoa’s stance on the issue …

[ad_1] Friday’s announcement that the Rugby Championship will be played in Australia this year could mean that several All Blacks decide not to go for family reasons. The All Blacks will be faced with the same dilemma that the Warriors and Wellington Phoenix faced, having to be away from their …

[ad_1] A Chinese physicist claimed to have built a quantum computer that would leave Western competitors in the dust, but he and his team said they needed to “further verify” the claim. Pan Jianwei, a physicist at the China University of Science and Technology, announced at a conference at Westlake …

[ad_1] After days of controversy, Walt Disney Co. Mulan is getting a mixed reception on its debut Friday in China, a crucial market for the $ 200 million live-action remake based on a Chinese folk song. Local reviews criticizing the way the film depicts Chinese culture, particularly the composition of …

[ad_1] The Green Party wants farmers to ditch harmful fertilizers, improve water quality and become adequately sustainable, and it would like the government’s own farms to lead the way. The party is also interested in strengthening animal welfare rules, including a ban on the export of livestock and improving sustainability …