Vancouver British Columbia and Auckland have tied for 4th place and Wellington scored 12th just after Sydney and Copenhagen in the 2009 Mercer World Quality of Life index.

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Kiwi company Weta Workshop, the multiple Academy Award-winning leader in motion capture, special makeup, creature and visual effects (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, King Kong and Chronicles of Narina etc), will design and provide the practical alien creature effects for the movie Skyrunners on Disney’s XD channel.

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Wellington New Zealand [photostream] has been voted by residents as having the highest quality of life of all major metropolitan areas in New Zealand. 94.9% of the residents ranked their quality of life as good or extremely good.

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Much to Mel’s disappointment, Bret Mackenzie married his longtime partner Hannah Clarke in a Wellington registry office on Thursday according to Stuff NZ:
McKenzie’s wedding on Wednesday follows that of his fellow Conchord, Jemaine Clement, to Wellington actress and theatre director Miranda Manasiadis in a Los Angeles registry office last August. The couple have a son [...]

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At Wellington’s Great India Restaurant today, 14 Piranhas died when the aquarium sprung a leak and dumped 1000 litres of water onto the restaurant floor.
Restaurateur Champaklal Tailor arrived to open up the restaurant yesterday to find it flooded and just one fish still clinging to life amid a heap of its [...]

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