Photographs from high above North Korea show what observers say are concerning developments in the regime's arsenal of repression.

About half a dozen online retailers are selling "pure, hand-bottled, pollution-free, oxygen-rich air from New Zealand" to people in China's smoggy northern cities.

The interrogation room had a map of the world, one which did not include NZ, meaning intrepid Kiwi traveller couldn't point out where she was from.

New Zealand students are performing below the international average when it comes to maths, a new study shows.

Tourists have been forced to busk and beg for money on the streets of India after 'demonetisation' of high-value currency left them 'virtually penniless'.

Fonterra is developing a new range of products to appeal to Asian markets including candy cheese, low salt cheese, and medicinal lactose.

A Chinese developer is building a $100 billion city in the sea, the scale of which is dizzying.

Just over two weeks into its biggest fight against tax evasion, India's regulatory flip-flops are confusing citizens.

A giant Emirates A380 aircraft was filmed approaching the runway sideways at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam.

Eli Orzessek makes a pilgrimage to the Batu Caves and then retreats to the sanctity of the mall.

A simple domestic decision on whether or not to open a cupboard has driven the internet into a frenzy.

Two leaders of a violent street gang were contracted to murder a debt collector, a murder trial has heard.

Jump aboard a Vespa to see the 'real' Cambodia, writes Max Wooldridge.

Motivated by a weakening yuan, surging domestic housing costs and the desire to secure offshore footholds, Chinese citizens are snapping up overseas homes at an accelerating pace.

A short four-hour flight from Kolkata, India and I'm in Hong Kong.

US Secretary of State John Kerry says a failure of trade benefits to flow further is a failure of social policy, not of trade policy.

Indian ATMs ran low on cash and tempers flared amid ripples from "black money" clampdown.

COMMENT: New Zealand's perceived geographic insulation from external dangers is now redundant.

The horrific dismembering was allegedly the result of a 14-year-old girl, who lived in the same Indian village, losing her mobile phone.

The 'ruck, rock and rumble' mantra has certainly worked well in Singapore, writes Andrew Alderson.

Humour, happiness and harmony lie at the heart of this Himalayan kingdom, writes Sarah Marshall.

Keeley Bolger finds relaxation is the order of the day in the Indian state becoming known for luxury beach accommodation.

Merkins Bah Agu's downfall was a retired American couple caught smuggling 7kg of meth in the linings of their suitcases, a court has

Source: goa.park.hyatt.com An aerial tour of India's Park Hyatt Goa hotel.

Gardens are thin on the ground but that is no obstacle to Korean innovation.

Trying to learn the Russian alphabet during long days in a train compartment was unfortunately no help when advice was ignored, writes Natasha Harris.

Passengers from a China Southern Airlines flight that made an emergency landing at Auckland International Airport this morning, are

In January China's coolest city hits minus 15C but they still swim, writes Paul Purcell.

The shrines of Tokyo work wonders for the Warriors and Leicester, but not the locals, writes Dean Parker.

The death of Thailand's monarch has caused a dip in avocado exports, but Korea is picking up the slack.