The local share market has taken a back seat to Wall Street's record gains.

A Michelin-star meal gives Helen van Berkel respite from the buzz of the city.

As Tim Warrington finds, not all travellers treat their destinations with respect.

Bill would require listing at least 10 languages as "national priority languages".

Diverse population spurs students to learn other nations' languages.

The woman is believed to have separated from her tour group.

Ten years after his death, Ed Hillary's legacy lives on strongly

Cleaners at three hotels have been caught on film.

China's leadership has made preventing financial risk a priority for the next three years

Japan credits Helen Clark for making NZ "one of the best friends Japan could wish for".

NZ Golf Open tournament director Michael Glading was 16 floors up when the shaking began.

Poisoned syringes and dead dogs found after Chinese police raid gang workshop.

The AA says clamping while someone is in the car "smacks of revenue raising".

"They yanked off her jewellery, tore off her clothes and threw her to the floor."

Laura Harding discovers that the scented haven of Kerala is unlike any other.

Justine Tyerman encounters good humour and some odd food items on a road trip in Laos.

To tour the Golden Triangle is to observe the core of the country's multifaceted history.

Arlene Padawag-Cosme suffered a brain aneurysm four days after her baby girl was born

Rescuers who first helped shot North Korean defector say his survival is miraculous.

Helen Van Berkel visits the shrine of late King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

This is first abdication of a Japanese monarch in about two centuries.

Alleged burglar charged with 21 offences.

Helen van Berkel checks into the Crest Resort and Pool Villas in Phuket, Thailand

Justine Tyerman puts forward her own theory about the enigmatic Plain of Jars.

Hundreds of US veterans are dying from slow killing parasite ingested in Vietnam

Sacha Baron Cohen has offered to cover fines of six men arrested for dressing as Borat.

A Japanese mother has admitted to drowning four of her newborn children in concrete.

The pace of digital change in Asia is faster than elsewhere in the world, HSBC says.

Sir John Kirwan travelled to Nepal to trace the footsteps of a high-achieving relative.

Our new PM is comfortable in her own skin, she's grounded and she knows what she wants.