If you’re a budding software developer planning to move to New Zealand you may want to reconsider after learning how low the salaries are. Dean Hall, “creator of DayZ a successful survival game” (in reality an Arma 2 zombie-survival mod) that has since “sold over 3 million copies” may be forced to locate his business…
Continuing in our series of Migrants’ Tales – first hand accounts of the migrant experience in New Zealand, taken from locations around the net. Today’s tale is taken from an immigration forum, written by the wife of a carpenter. The couple moved from Guernsey to Blenheim, but found work in very short supply and that…
Lincoln Tan, the immigration affairs reporter for the NZ Herald has written about the desperate financial plight of immigrants in New Zealand who have been reduced to living in vehicles. Some can’t even afford campsite fees. And it’s set to become harder with with a raise in GST to 15% (even on food) and tax…
(scroll to bottom for update) The following notification appeared in the Northern Advocate, 11 April 2010 “The Solicitor General is considering whether to appeal the 11-and-a-half year jail term handed down to a Kerikeri teenager convicted of murdering schoolgirl Liberty Templeman. Whangarei Crown prosecutor Mike Smith sent a request to Wellington asking for a possible…
Lincoln Tan of the NZ Herald today wrote about a new problem some migrants are having during the recession – not being able to work in their native countries because they’ve given up their citizenship rights to live in New Zealand: “Jobless Asians are barred from work in their native countries because of their NZ…
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