An epic story of love,
laughter, and loss -
Ka Shue (Letters Home), is
coming to Hamilton’s Meteor Theatre.
A play spanning
one hundred years between China and New Zealand through the
eyes of a Chinese family struggling to resettle in Aotearoa.
Ka Shue (Letters Home) follows three generations of
the Leung family as they are swept across continents and
time: The Second World War, the Tiananmen Square massacre of
1989, and the infamous buried history of the Poll Tax in New
Zealand, £100 levied against Chinese migrants only (1883 to
1944).
Ka Shue encompasses a broad sweep of the
political events between the two countries as a backdrop for
Tuesday, 3 August 2021, 4:34 pm
A report into gender diversity within the property sector
has found the number of women working in property decreases
as they move up the leadership hierarchy, highlighting a
power gap between the females and males, says Property
Council New Zealand chief executive Leonie Freeman.
On
average across the surveyed property sector, workplaces are
41% female; this is good – a gender balance requires
minimum 40% both male and female. However, this number is
skewed by the larger proportion of women in non-management
roles in these workplaces. When looking at Senior Management
and Board level, representation of women is less than
Tuesday, 3 August 2021, 4:10 pm
Today’s announcement of $30 million New
Zealand Government funding for a major expansion –
including two new sound stages – at Auckland Council-owned
Auckland Film Studios (AFS) will deliver crucial extra
capacity for the region’s booming screen
industry.
As its part of the agreement, Council has
committed $5 million co-funding for the expansion of the
studios in Henderson which are managed on behalf of Council
by Eke Panuku Development Auckland, and operated by Auckland
Unlimited.
The Government’s commitment followed a
successful application for COVID-19 infrastructure funding
last year by Auckland Unlimited, the regional economic
development and cultural agency.
Geneva – The deteriorating crises in Lebanon and the government's inability to handle them have led the country to an abyss with poverty rates exceeding 55% and over 50% of migrant workers unemployed, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said .
Using land alone to remove the world’s carbon emissions to achieve ‘net zero’ by 2050 would require at least 1.6 billion hectares of new forests, equivalent to 60 times the size of New Zealand or more than all the farmland on the planet, reveals .