It’s one of the biggest events on the calendar for te ao Māori and Te Matatini is back this year, bringing the best of haka ...

Tyla King has revealed how she and her Olympic gold medal winning Rugby Sevens team-mates would look enviously at the NRL All ...

Maori co-captain Kennedy Cherrington says the NRL All Stars match will allow her team to show their culture won't back down ...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- The 2025 "Happy Chinese New Year" Carnival brought cultural festivities to Grey Lynn Park in Auckland on Saturday. Organized by the China Cultural Center in ...

Festivals like the biannual Tāmaki Herenga Waka Festival in Auckland celebrate Māori culture with opportunities to sail ...

The national holiday marks the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi between Maori chiefs and colonising British forces, widely seen as the birth of modern New Zealand.

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In the packed public gallery, people welcomed the vote with a traditional waiata, a Maori song. Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, co-leader of political party Te Pati Maori (the Maori Party), said the mounta ...

The vote was greeted by a ringing waiata — a Maori song — from the public gallery, packed with dozens who had traveled to the capital, Wellington, from Taranaki. The unity provided brief ...

In a historic ruling, New Zealand has given "personhood" to Mount Taranaki, which will now be called by its Maori name, Taranaki Maunga. The mountain is considered an ancestor by the indigenous ...

Houston is heading for a new life and full-time football with FC Haka, but was shown a straight ... seven minutes after climbing off the bench in his swan song. The Bully Wee held on for a point ...