Kia ora speaker themselves. New Zealand's national airline, Air New Zealand, uses "Kia Ora" as the name for its inflight magazine. Water Safety New Zealand, a water safety advocacy organisation, has a specific Māori water safety programme, "Kia Maanu Kia Ora", which makes use of the literal meaning of kia ora, as their message translates as "stay afloat; stay alive". In 1984, at a time when the use of Māori phrases was uncommon in New Zealand, an Auckland telephone operator, Naida Glavish, was instructed to stop using "kia ora" when greeting callers after the post office had received a complaint. She refused
Kia Shine upcoming Mixtape "2000 Shine" via DatPiff. The single features Maino & Young Dro and samples part of Jay-Z's verse from "Swagga Like Us". The music video was directed by Kurt Williams and was the "New Joint of the Day" on 106 & Park July 3. Kia Shine released the first of his Alarm Clock Theory mixtape series which was made popular by his phrase "Everybody sleeping on me will wake up working for me". This project was very well received and received over 100,000 downloads. In September 2010 Kia Shine won another BMI award for his contribution to the lyrics