Attacks on tourists continue in New Zealand with the savage beating of three french tourists in Mangamuka, Northland (for updates also read “Tourist beaters up un-Maori” and “French Tourists Back in Northland To Help Catch Attackers” ). The men were later named as Antonin Schopfer, 27, Guillaume Rey, 26, and Sebastien Vautier, 29 (click here…
For an update to this story please see ‘Hoon car’ driver was only 17” Many of our regular readers already know that New Zealand has world’s second highest road death and injury rates, twice that of countries like the UK. Much of the tragic loss of life and injuries can be attributed to two major…
Another example of cultural insensitivities adding to the distress of immigrants was revealed today in the Star Canterbury with the following report: “A Korean man found dead on the morning of his wife and two daughters’ funeral was distraught over his photo appearing in a Christchurch daily newspaper along with details about the incident. Young…
The Trademe board was buzzing in the early hours of this morning with posters scared stiff about a prolonged swarm of shallow earthquakes that were hitting Whakatane and the Bay of Plenty overnight, it shows how frightening and disruptive shallow quakes can be for people living near to the epicentre: “Massive quakes hit bay of…
It’s shocking that a pregnant woman was threatened with a knife during another armed robbery in New Plymouth yesterday, one of many to have hit the town over the years. The attack was also one of the hundreds of armed robberies in New Zealand that we’ve been keeping an eye on over the last year…
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