Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva called on the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to ensure that the displaced overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in New Zealand will get their back pay and benefits on time. This, after some 700 workers were involved...
New Zealand showed off its maritime capacity to the Philippines through the recent port visit of its ship, HMNZS Aotearoa. Aotearoa had docked for three days in Manila on October 30 as part of New Zealand's Defence Force (NZDF)'s largest naval deployment to the Indo-Pacific, which its...
  WELLINGTON -- New Zealand's Southern Lakes Sanctuary is calling for the inclusion of feral cats in the government's Predator Free 2050 strategy as the number has soared.    More than 2.5 million feral cats now reside in New Zealand and this number continues to rise every week, the...
It was indeed a good football game between the Philippines and New Zealand. New Zealand Ambassador to the Philippines Peter Kell congratulated Team Filipinas for its historic win at the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 as the embassy partnered with the Philippine Football Federation in hosting a live...
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has congratulated the Philippine women’s national football team after they secured their first-ever victory in the FIFA Women’s World Cup on Tuesday, July 25. Philippines' forward Sarina Bolden (left) celebrates scoring her team's first goal during...
New Zealand will partner with the Philippines on improving Greenhouse Gas (GHG) inventories and measurement capabilities. The New Zealand Embassy in Manila on Monday announced that its foreign affairs and primary industries ministries selected the Philippines as one of the six countries it would...
*AT THE CENTRAL CYCLE* Trail store in the historic district of Clyde, Central Otago, New Zealand: Bikes, trails, and Christine White. “Biking is ‘huge’ in New Zealand,” so says Christine White, general manager of Central Cycle Trails in Clyde, one afternoon weeks ago as we talked while the...
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) SYDNEY, Australia -- New Zealand honoured former prime minister Jacinda Ardern with the title of dame on Monday, citing her leadership after the 2019 Christchurch mosque massacre and during the Covid-19 pandemic. Ardern, 42,...
Canada and New Zealand have both expressed their "grave concern" over the killing of yet another Filipino journalist. Their embassies on Wednesday issued a joint statement, where they called for the immediate investigation into the killing of radio broadcaster Cresenciano Bunduquin. Bunduquin was...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- New Zealand's sheep outnumber people by fewer than five to one, official figures showed Monday, clipping their lead over humans to the lowest level since the 1850s. New Zealanders have far fewer of the woolly grazers than their Australian rivals, said the government body...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- New Zealand police said on Wednesday they had recovered the body of a teen killed during a "tragic" school caving trip that is now the subject of a comprehensive investigation. The teen was visiting the popular Abbey Caves complex north of Auckland on Tuesday when his...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- New Zealand's treasured kiwi birds are shuffling around Wellington's verdant hills for the first time in a century, after a drive to eliminate invasive predators from the capital's surrounds. Visitors to New Zealand a millennium ago would have encountered a bona fide...
