WELLINGTON, Aug 12 — New Zealanders on Wednesday scrambled to stock up on essentials as the country's biggest city prepared to go into lockdown again, following new cases of the coronavirus that ended a 102-day record run without any new infections.

SYDNEY, July 13 — An Australian man who pleaded guilty to killing 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand's worst mass shooting in 2019 has decided to represent himself a month ahead of the sentencing hearing, the court said on Monday.

WELLINGTON, July 7 — New Zealand police and security services were warned of a threat against another mosque for the same day that a gunman killed 51 Muslim worshippers in Christchurch in 2019, an Islamic women's group told an inquiry into the shooting massacre.

WELLINGTON, July 3 — The sentencing hearing for an Australian man accused of killing 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand's worst mass shooting has been set to begin on Aug.

WELLINGTON, July 2 — New Zealand's embattled Health Minister resigned on Thursday after security slip-ups at quarantine facilities where the coronavirus was detected just days after officials declared it had been eliminated from the country.

REUTERS, June 26 — Australia and New Zealand were handed the right to host the 2023 Women's World Cup soccer tournament by a comfortable margin after a vote by the Fifa Council on Thursday.

WELLINGTON, June 14 — The Ministry of Health reported no cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand on Sunday, 23 days since the last new case was reported in the country, China’s Xinhua news agency reported.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 29 — The 2020 BWF World Junior Championships, which was initially scheduled to take place in Auckland, New Zealand in September, has been postponed to January 18 to 24, 2021.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 28 — Malaysia has successfully chaired the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) Virtual Extraordinary Senior Officials’ Meeting (Vesom) on Covid-19, in a four-hour meeting which began 7 pm Malaysian time yesterday.

WELLINGTON, March 19 — New Zealand closed its borders to all foreigners from midnight on Thursday, as it stepped up efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus in the country.