Burma's capital Naypyidaw turned on an extraordinary welcome for Prime Minister John Key's visit - the first by a New Zealand leader.

The Government plans to step up development assistance to Burma by creating a $6 million model dairy farm over five years.

John Key began the first visit of a New Zealand Prime Minister to Burma literally walking in Barack Obama's footsteps.

As retirement jobs go, Dame Silvia Cartwright has one of the toughest imaginable: She listens to horrific stories in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Phnom Penh.

Editorial: Burma's Government continues to hold hundreds of political prisoners. It also struggles to contain ethnic violence.

Prime Minister John Key had an informal discussion with US President Barack Obama in Phnom Penh this morning and the issue of Kim Dotcom appears to have been discussed.

John Key last night had a meeting with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, a drink with Australian PM Julia Gillard and dinner with Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong.

United States President Barack Obama will open Trans-Pacific Partnership talks in Cambodia while new negotiations offer up India, Japan and South Korea.

It's not hard to see why Rudyard Kipling felt moved to employ a little license in his famous poem, writes Rosemary Cooper.

A three-day trip to Myanmar by Foreign Minister Murray McCully is to cost taxpayers $26,000...

Myanmar's big city evokes New York and Manchester, finds Brett Atkinson.

The party of Myanmar's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has decided to contest upcoming by-elections.

Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi talks to the Herald about the future of Burma, her family and why Kiwis can make a difference