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.

Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully was briefed on the need to seize Kim Dotcom's assets at the time his officials were worried rejecting requests might upset the US.

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

An analyst of the political conflicts which beset modern Myanmar says Suu Kyi faces plenty of obstacles ahead.

A former Burmese political prisoner says Aung San Suu Kyi is 'the hope of the nation'.