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Māori communities have long used the stone, which is strong and durable, in tools and weapons. Given its rarity, pounamu is also worn as jewelry and gifted.

“Everything I create, it’s going to last forever,” head carver and lead artist Tamaroa Walker, of Rotorua ’s Mountain Jade, says. Pounamu specialist Moutain...

The Rotorua business awards were held last night in a glitzy ceremony at the Energy Events Centre, where Mountain Jade was crowned supreme overall winner....

A recent SAC ruling has poured cold water on the use of geographical names in Taiwanese trademarks. Future applicants may need to work much harder to prove that their marks are distinct and avoid misdescription - throwing the popular use of such trademarks into question.

When Covid-19 stopped international tourism in its tracks, Sam Hulton had to work out what to do with his business, which had its biggest shop at the airport.

GO NZ: Hokitika holiday highlights - what to see, do and where to stay 16 Feb, 2021 05:00 PM 7 minutes to read Conservative estimates have the Hokitika of the gold rush-crazy 1860s being the proud owner of no less than 100 pubs. Less conservative estimates place the number closer to 200. Either way, in what was a booming population of 25,000 transient souls looking to find fortune in those rich West Coast soils, whether your pub-to-person ratio was 1:250 or 1:125, you were unlikely to have gone...