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Editorial Features
KIA ORA MAGAZINE
Food & water
Centuries after spice and ceramic merchants converged on Hoi An, the Vietnamese river city still trades in the...
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Capella Hanoi
It took seven years to build and fit out the city’s most luxurious hotel, designed to celebrate the 1920s and everything opera.
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Weekend in Taupō
Take the plunge and immerse yourself in this outdoor adventures playground.
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All summer long
Dominated by its sacred maunga rising proudly at the end of one of Aotearoa’s most beautiful beaches, the Bay of Plenty’s...
KIA ORA MAGAZINE
Taste local
A Bay of Plenty festival celebrates innovative fare crafted from the best of the region.
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Gisborne gold
Nature’s best is showcased on the East Coast, a region brimming with fruits of thevine, autumn adventure trails and...
KIA ORA MAGAZINE
Blue sky city
Slow your hurry to the Rockies and check out one of the sunniest and friendliest spots in Canada.
AA DIRECTIONS
Castle queen
Forget fiction. The queen of Riverstone Castle can spin a rollicking yarn to rival any imagined tale, while showing paying...
STUFF
Raglan eats
Slices of New Zealand fruity goodness are feeding homesick Kiwis and newfound fans overseas, thanks to an innovative...
KIA ORA MAGAZINE
Cut and dried
Slices of New Zealand fruity goodness are feeding homesick Kiwis andnewfound fans overseas, thanks to an innovative Nelson company-
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Raising the bar
Business boomed for mum-and-dad chocolatiers Bennetts of Mangawhal - and nowtheir offspring are playing a big part...
AA DIRECTIONS
Rockstar moments
International rock star Ed Sheeran may know how to deliver a catchy tune but he still has a bit to learn about penguin...
KIA ORA MAGAZINE
Hungry in Hamilton
On-trend flavours, classic baked goods and a lot of other delicious things happening in the Waikato.
NZ LIFE AND LEISURE
Dairy to mussels
A Dutch-Kiwi couple go off-grid with a lodge and mussel farm in the Marlborough Sounds
FARMLANDER
Outside the herd
Canterbury-based deer milker Simon Wakefield is accustomed to disbelieving looks from strangers who ask about his job.
Books and Editing
PENGUIN PUBLISHING NZ
Project kiwi
How one man's passion for the land hatched New Zealand's first community kiwi sanctuary.
Credits:
Publication: Penguin NZ
PAUL TIDMARSH
A rocky road
As you’ll find out, I’m not normally very good at doing as I’m told but sometimes other people are right.
Credits:
Designer: Sue Pepper
Photographer: Jamie Troughton
Media liaison and publicity
NZ DOCTOR
Urge to serve
What a wonderful morning with Aotearoa’s best-selling cookbook queen, Chelsea Winter...
KIA ORA MAGAZINE
Soft sell
Born in Zambia, growing up in a small Irish town and finally settling in Tauranga Moana, Anne Tiernan’s path to writing...
Copywriting
LOVE TAUPŌ
Cuisine queen
Taupō entrepreneur Olivia Moore has a voracious appetite for culinary creativity.
In fact, the 22-year-old food photographer...
COMMUNITY SIGNS
Lake Waikareiti
Lake Waikareiti is one of the most pristine lakes in New Zealand.
Credits:
Landscape Architect: Richard Hart
Designer: Andrea Keast
COMMUNITY SIGNS
Huharua Park
Local Māori have always called this headland Huharua, courtesyof the resident Huharua pa inhabited by Pirirakau people.
Credits:
Landscape Architect: Richard Hart
Designer: Andrea Keast
COMMUNITY SIGNS
Karangahake Gorge
In 1875 Nga iwi o Hauraki were persuaded to grant the Crown mining rights over 132,175 acres of their land.
Credits:
Landscape Architect: Richard Hart
Designer: Andrea Keast
Biographies and profiles
AA DIRECTIONS
Changing a life
Three years ago, What The Food founder Jorja Tarrant was battling anxiety, depression and an anorexia eating disorder.
NZ LIFE AND LEISURE
Little blue
Tourists and trampers help a hardworking Banks Peninsula family in their four-decade struggle to rescue penguins, save the...
Interviews
TAURANGA ARTS FESTIVAL
Chelsea Winter
What a wonderful morning with Aotearoa’s best-selling cookbook queen, Chelsea Winter...
TAURANGA ARTS FESTIVAL
A foot in each place
Born in Zambia, growing up in a small Irish town and finally settling in Tauranga Moana, Anne Tiernan’s path to writing...
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