Newcomer Hong Kong Airlines has business fares out that will undercut rivals when it starts flying to NZ in November.

Ann An moved to New Zealand as a child with her parents from China - and still wakes up in the morning asking "who am I?"

No bananas! I couldn't believe there had been no bananas in our entire village and in the middle of a sweat-drenched 10km jungle trek, I was starting to cramp up.

Dizzyingly tall skyscrapers, countless shopping malls, congested streets: I knew Hong Kong was packed with them.

More than 10 years after the Boxing Day tsunami, the tiny village of Mirissa, on the south coast of Sri Lanka, is still doing it tough.

The Craft Beer Lounge claims to have the largest selection of the delicious brown stuff in Phuket and often features live entertainment, while you can kick back and enjoy chilled house music at Bounce Pool Bar.

With its old mustard coloured buildings, multitudes of lanterns, bicycles and happy looking dogs, Hoi An is definitely our cutest stop yet.

Eli Orzessek reports from Contiki's Vietnam Highlights tour.

One of the largest islands in the Gulf of Thailand, Ko Samui is known for palm-fringed sandy beaches, coral reefs and coconut trees.

It took some time to adjust to the gloom after the bright sunshine outside.

Hawker centres abound but the Maxwell Centre, one of the biggest, is a good place to start your cheap-eats journey.

The market is one of many scattered across South Korea's capital - a city humming with activity and life - and a drawcard for locals and tourists.

It was a time for firsts: my first five-star executive suite, my first massage, my first Michelin dining experience, and my first visit to a casino.

It wasn't what I'd imagined a tsunami shelter would look like.

Perched high up in Singapore's vertigo-inducing Supertrees, I'm struck by the scale of the island's ambitions.

New Zealand could become a major exporter of gas to Asia, Energy and Resources minister Simon Bridges says.

A growing number of influential people in South Korea are getting behind the idea of having nukes. The target? China.

Once known as the 'Pearl of Asia', Phnom Penh is filled with French colonial buildings and has a picturesque riverside promenade.

A steep rise in China's reported imports from Hong Kong has raised concerns that trade invoices are being manipulated to get capital.

The thing about Burma's Myeik Archipelago is there are no tourists.

Hanoi's old quarter is brimming with life. A steady stream of motorcycles whizz by as we weave through the dense crowd of shoppers along Hang Dao.

A small village in the northern Philippines has been overwhelmed by the increase of tourists in recent years.

The prime minister wooed investors at a glitzy event, but executives said more reforms are needed.

Ladies market is an oldie but a goody at Mong Kok, Kowloon.

US has opened the door to parking a ballistic missile defence system on North Korea's doorstep, a move could reshape North Asia's security landscape.

As we pass from Sheep to Monkey, Curtis Chin and Jose B. Collazo look at top stories of past 12 months.

The Chinese Communist Party has explained Xi's "Four Comprehensives" in a mystifying and rather cute pop video.

China is adding debt at a pretty fast pace even though it's already done too much of that the last seven years.

Markets started the week gripped by a fresh bout of risk aversion, as Asian stocks slipped with energy-linked currencies.