WELLINGTON, July 18 — New Zealand has expressed interest in increasing imports of Malaysian pineapples, driven by strong demand for the tropical fruit, said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

WELLINGTON, July 16 — After more than seven decades without review, the Aboriginal Peoples Act 1954 (Act 134) is now being amended, drawing inspiration from the empowerment model of the Māori community in New Zealand, said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

WELLINGTON, June 6 — New Zealand’s Parliament agreed on historically lengthy suspensions for three Indigenous lawmakers who last year performed a haka, a traditional Maori dance, disrupting the reading of a controversial bill.

SYDNEY, Nov 14 — New Zealand’s Parliament was briefly suspended today after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a contentious bill that would reinterpret a 184-year-old treaty between the British and Indigenous Maori.

WELLINGTON, Nov 11 — Hundreds of people today set out on a nine-day march to New Zealand’s capital of Wellington in protest over legislation that would reinterpret a treaty at the heart of race relations in the Pacific country.

WELLINGTON, Aug 30 — New Zealand's Māori King Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII died peacefully today morning aged 69, according to a statement released by his representatives.

WELLINGTON, Feb 28 — New Zealand will repeal on February 27 a world-first law banning tobacco sales for future generations, the government said, even while researchers and campaigners warned of the risk that people could die as a result.