[ad_1] Former All Blacks wing Nehe Milner-Skudder has been linked to an immediate return to Super Rugby. The 29-year-old World Cup winner signed a lucrative three-year contract with Toulon in late 2018, but has not yet played a match for the French club due to a shoulder injury. With the …
Read More »Former All Black Nehe Milner-Skudder will reportedly play for Highlanders, Brodie Retallick rejects Chiefs’ approach
[ad_1] Former All Black Nehe Milner-Skudder will reportedly make a dramatic return to the field of play in the Super Rugby Aotearoa competition. But it will not be with his old side the hurricanes. Instead, the 13 All Black winger or fullback test will play for the Highlanders, according to …
Read More »Coronavirus: Jacinda Ardern wary of outbreaks as country moves to ease Covid-19 restrictions
[ad_1] As New Zealand prepares to significantly ease coronavirus restrictions, some countries that have already at least partially released their societies are facing outbreaks in new Covid-19 cases. In a briefing on Tuesday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern acknowledged that she was concerned about the possibility that cases in New Zealand …
Read More »Coronavirus: White House Covid-19 trouble is microcosm of what America faces
[ad_1] The White House is increasingly looking like an imperfect microcosm of the challenges that all Americans face in keeping the coronavirus at bay as huge swaths of the nation move to reopen. Two aides who work in the White House complex are known to have tested positive in the …
Read More »New Zealand backs Taiwan joining the WHO despite China rebuke | World news
[ad_1] New Zealand’s foreign minister has said the country has to stand up for itself after China warned its call for Taiwan’s participation in the World Health Organization (WHO) could damage bilateral ties. Taiwan, with the strong support of the United States, has stepped up its lobbying to be allowed …
Read More »Winston Peters Announces $ 72.5 Million Emergency Package As The Scope Of The Racing Financial Crisis Emerges
[ad_1] Winston Peters has borrowed a catchphrase from Donald Trump to inspire the racing industry in trouble as he declared, “We are going to make racing great again.” The Racing Minister has urged the industry to stop fighting and working together as he promised a much-needed $ 72.5 million emergency …
Read More »All Stuff options still on the table after NZME’s curious gambit
[ad_1] ANALYSIS: Experts have been speculating wildly about Stuff’s future in the wake of the NZME stock exchange announcement that it had called for a change of law allowing it to buy Stuff for a dollar. But all we really know for sure is that Australian Stuff owner Nine would …
Read More »China Bans Australian Meat Imports As Covid-19 Tensions Rise
[ad_1] China has reportedly suspended meat imports from four Australian slaughterhouses as simmering tensions over the source of the increased Covid-19 outbreak between countries. The Asian giant, which is New Zealand’s top meat export destination, suspended imports from four Australian slaughterhouses overnight, but did not officially remove them from the …
Read More »Coronavirus: New Zealand deserves Covid-19 level 2, with all its confusing rarity
[ad_1] Monique Ford / Things Covid-19 graffiti in Wellington. OPINION: At 11:59 pm Wednesday, our long national nightmare comes to an end. Something like. After 49 days in some kind of blockage, things will suddenly become much more normal. You can go shopping, go to the movies, go out to …
Read More »Coronavirus: No new cases of Covid-19 as NZ prepares for level two
[ad_1] While New Zealand is on the cusp of the Alert Level Three transition, Director General of Health Dr. Ashley Bloomfield has announced another day without a new case of Covid-19. Only two people remained in the hospital, at Auckland’s Middlemore and North Shore Hospitals on Tuesday, but none were …
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