Ratites

Heat and humidity take toll on young Kiwi sensation

2 Jul 2012

James McDonald cut short a difficult introduction to summer conditions, with the heat and humidity forcing the young rider to stand down from the last three of his seven scheduled mounts.

7:04PM

Ahoy, me Hearties! Pirates of Palmerston on South Stand raid

27 Mar 2011

People come to the Sevens on planes, and usually via Cathay Pacific, but in the South Stand, in costume and 'in character', you can say whatever you please. Case in point: 'The Pirates of...

3:57PM

Kiwi pair win HK Classic first time out

30 Nov 2009

5:18PM

Ostrich

24 Apr 2009

Head in the sand

Ostriches are known as the birds who bury their heads in the sand. This is a myth. It's not true. But there are lots of other interesting things about ostriches....

5:17AM

HK's Antipodean communities go head-to-head

30 Oct 2008

The battle lines are drawn and the Aussie-Kiwi emnity is out in the open - on and off the pitch. There is nothing like a good old Bledisloe Cup stoush to get the barbs flying.

4:21AM

Naturalist launches mission to prove moas are not dead as a dodo

14 Jan 2008

It is thought to have been extinct for at least 500 years, but that has not stopped an amateur naturalist preparing to venture deep into the forests of New Zealand in search of the moa, a giant...

4:26PM

Opinion

Alex Lo

Chen Guangcheng misled by his new right-wing 'friends'

1:26AM

Tom Holland

The yuan hasn't overtaken the HK$ quite yet, Mr Chan

4:40AM

A friendly but unfair cook-off

It seemed an unfair duel from the start. A cook-off between an award-winning New Zealand food writer and chef versus an actress who won a cheesy TV cooking show where her opponents squirmed when...

10:42PM

StanChart's mortgage scheme picks up pace

ONE OF Standard Chartered Bank's training schemes was designed to deepen the penetration rate of its innovative Mortgage One Account (MOA).

9:03AM

Yiu's smart Kiwi shows lots of Dash

Ricky Yiu Poon-fie has had a relatively quiet season by his past standards but looking at the nice effort from Kiwi Dash in the second of two dirt trials held at Sha Tin on Friday, things will be...

6:52AM

Ask Mr Brain . . . all will be explained

Which are the most popular books of all time?

11:08PM

Moa

Moa - Universal (Tommy Boy) Moa is Icelandic, packages herself as a cool chanteuse and wants to be known only by her first name. None of which suggests much originality, prompting obvious...

3:12AM

Kiwi's decline to help deficit

The New Zealand dollar's decline should shrink the current account deficit gradually. The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research said that any improvement would take time so there was little...

11:45AM