Back on point: Queenstown acupuncturist Daisuke Hiratsuka and new hire Jingying ‘Jazmin’ Woo. PICTURE: AYAKA MORITAQueenstown acupuncturist Jingying Woo has been thrown a lifeline by a fellow practitioner of the traditional Chinese therapy. Woo’s future in the resort was placed in jeopardy in November after her employer, Queenstown Health, was suddenly closed and put in liquidation. She told Mountain Scene last month she’d been ‘‘thrown in a hole’’ by the clinic’s collapse, as she’d been on a sponsored five-year visa. However, when he later heard she hadn’t had any luck securing a new job, he began thinking about sponsoring her himself.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 31, 2026 15:03 UTC