Karen Walker has partnered with a Kiwi company to create designer face masks.

Oscar Quine eats ekiben on a Japanese bullet train.

The parents of Moon Ji-sung have travelled the world sharing their daughter's story.

North Korea has been secretly training elite special forces to kidnap Westerners.

The crisis in SK exemplifies the problems of close ties between the state and business.

A man threatened to release a recording of his girlfriend when he learned she'd cheated.

Lucy Casley spends the night in a Deluxe cabin on a boat cruise in Vietnam's Halong Bay.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus is in New Zealand to talk business.

Top tips for start-ups looking to launch in Asia

Air New Zealand is farewelling the wide-body workhorse that opened up the Pacific Rim.

The 2017 Korean Day will be held at the North Shore Events Centre on Saturday.

NZ seems to be "beckoning China as an enemy", Australian journalist John Pilger says.

International animal protection groups are heading to Wellington Zoo to talk conservation.

Kiwi and Chinese scientists have teamed up in a new biotech venture targeting cancer.

The flight was delayed for more than 48 hours because of a mechanical fault.

A tourist who tried to disguise meth as chicken stock will spend 10 years in prison.

The Crown alleges Mikio Filitonga did not reveal he was HIV positive to his boyfriend.

Airbnb is showing China some love.

Readers share their tips and memories with Eli Orzessek.

A man has denied making up allegations his ex-boyfriend gave him HIV because he was angry about infidelity.

A man charged with knowingly infecting his partner with HIV promised he was "fine", a court has hear.

Think of Japan, and often the image that comes to mind is a futuristic one.

Milk exporter Oravida has put another $50,000 into the National Party's war chest.

Winston Aldworth flies from Auckland to Tokyo on NZ95.

Lucy Casley checks in to a Ho Chi Minh City hotel with an excellent rooftop pool and bar.

Migrants make up more than a quarter of New Zealand's population.

A deal to allow for 14 flights a week to Colombia has been signed and more agreements are in the pipeline.

The 42nd ASB Polyfest kicks off in Manukau this morning.

The amount is lower than a $US44 million valuation disclosed in September

Some measures of air safety have gone backwards, but the risk of being in a plane crash continues to fall.