Image: GoFundMe@/VictoriaBesancon A New Zealand woman held at a US immigration center with her six-year-old son after being detained while crossing the Canada-US border is being “treated like a criminal,” said her friend and advocate, reported the Guardian.Sarah Shaw, 33, a New Zealander who has lived in Washington state for just over three years, dropped […]
A woman in New Zealand has been charged with “ill-treatment/neglect” after police say a 2-year-old girl was found inside a suitcase in the luggage compartment of a bus on Sunday.The discovery was made by the bus driver during a routine stop in the town of Kaiwaka in the Northland Region, according to a statement from […]
After Indian-origin Nikhil Ravishankar was appointed as the new chief executive of Air New Zealand, the country’s media said they had to disable comments on social media as there was a barrage of racist remarks targeting Ravishankar’s ethnicity. Ravishankar was the chief digital officer of Air New Zealand before getting the major promotion which is […]
Kash Patel has triggered diplomatic discomfort after inaugurating the first FBI office in New Zealand. FBI director Kash Patel inaugurated FBI’s first standalone office in New Zealand and suggested that this would counter China’s influence. But the comment led to diplomatic discomfort as New Zealand too distanced itself from what Patel said. New Zealand trade […]
Indian-origin Ramandeep Singh was murdered in New Zealand in 2023. The murderer has been given life sentence. Lorenzo Tangira, a New Zealand man, has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 13 years and nine months for beating an Indian-origin security guard to death in 2023. Ramandeep Singh, the 25-year-old Indian […]
Indian-origin engineer Shyamal Shah jailed for $1 million fraud in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo: NZ Herald) An Indian-origin engineer, Shyamal Sushil Shah, a former Auckland Council employee, has been sentenced to two years and two months in prison for over $1 million fraud from the public sector, New Zealand Herald reported. Shah pleaded guilty at […]
Representative image (AI) New Zealand’s prime minister floated new privacy laws on Thursday after his own press secretary was allegedly caught taping sex workers without consent.Senior aide Michael Forbes resigned after a local news outlet alleged he covertly recorded audio of sessions with sex workers and secretly photographed women at the gym.Prime Minister Christopher Luxon […]
New Zealand minister Erica Stanford said in parliament Indians spam her email asking for immigration advice. New Zealand’s immigration minister Erica Stanford came under fire after she said in parliament that Indians spam her inbox with emails asking for immigration advice. Indian-origin Labour MP Priyanca Radhakrishnan took offence over the remarks and said it is […]
Neha Sharma, Amandeep Sharma convicted of fraud in New Zealand. (Photo: Social media) Neha Sharma and her husband Amandeep Sharma have pleaded guilty to multiple fraud charges in New Zealand after they conned a New Zealand government agency out of more than $2 million.When their secret arrangement came in the public, they booked one-way tickets […]
