The parents of a New Zealand woman who died in mysterious circumstances while on holiday in Thailand are setting up a website to make others aware of the "very real dangers" in the Southeast Asian nation.

No roads, no phones, no power. But that doesn't get in the way of two Auckland ad men who are bringing schools to Southeast Asia's poorest kids - by motorbike. Kirsten Warner meets them.

The World Health Organisation is still stumped over the cause of the string of "puzzling" deaths in Chiang Mai.

Since his eldest child died while backpacking in Thailand, Richard Carter does not welcome idle time.

Kate Roff submerges off the coast of Thailand to meet a local celebrity.

NZ's Foreign Affairs Minister is expecting to receive more information today about the death in Thailand of Sarah Carter.

A young New Zealander who died in Thailand last month had a highly infectious virus which can spark the heart condition which killed her, tests show.

Police today released the names of six more people who died in Christchurch's February 22, magnitude 6.3 earthquake, while Education Minister Anne Tolley has announced 110 schools in the region will have reopened by next week.

Sometimes it's refreshing to be left to your own devices - but not necessarily when you're sitting on an elephant, writes Christine Cornege.

A fifth tourist has died in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in circumstances eerily similar to New Zealander Sarah Carter's mysterious death - which health officials initially blamed on food poisoning.

The father of New Zealand tourist Sarah Carter wants the Thai hotel she stayed in closed and a more thorough investigation carried out into her death.

Four people have died in mysterious circumstances at the Thai hotel where a New Zealand woman fell fatally ill last month.

Hundreds have gathered at a church in east Auckland today to farewell Sarah Carter, who died of food poisoning in Thailand on Waitangi Day.

Friends have spoken of their grief after the death of Sarah Carter, the 23-year-old new Zealander who died from food poisoning in Thailand at the weekend, on a Facebook tribute page.

A dream OE has turned to tragedy for three young NZ women after food poisoning killed one and left the other two in hospital.

This work of speculative fiction arrives on New Zealand shelves with the degree of hype usually reserved for angst-ridden teen vamps or boy wizards.

American sci-fi author Paolo Bacigalupi tells Stephen Jewell how his ruthless corporations’ environmental impact could be mirrored in real life.

Technical advances help windsurfing company chase overseas sales.

New Zealand have withdrawn from the Asia/Oceania Group I Fed Cup event in Thailand next month.

A tired Rebecca Barry gets taken for a ride in Bangkok.