New Zealand's military presence in Bamiyan will remain at current levels for at least a year.

Chicken satay is probably the Malaysian food we know best. One of Auckland's best Malaysian chefs shares his recipe.

A Bali restaurant run by a Kiwi is drawing global attention. By Kerri Jackson.

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

Workers at the damaged nuclear plant in Japan are doing whatever is necessary to save the greater population.

Japan's magnitude-9 quake and tsunami damaged about 1500 roads, 48 bridges and 15 railways.

Workers at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said they were "resigned to death" when the 9-magnitude quake struck on March 11.

My anti-nuclear friends are having a field day debunking my myopic view that a modest nuclear power plant would sensibly take care of New Zealand's energy needs for the next 100 years.

An 80-year-old woman and a 16-year-old boy have been rescued from a badly damaged house in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, nine days after the magnitude 9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami ravaged the area, the Japan Times reports.

New Zealand's Urban Search and Rescue team is returning from earthquake and tsunami ravaged Japan tomorrow. Teams from several other countries, have also completed their rescue missions.

Images from the Holi Festival of colour, during which Hindu devotees light bonfires, dance, and throw coloured powder and water at each other.

Weekend Herald reporter Michael Dickison grew up in Japan and speaks the language fluently. After last week's earthquake he returned and filed this account of his odyssey through the ravaged countryside of his other homeland...

The family of a Kiwi believed to be staying at an evacuation centre in Japan are still desperately waiting for details.

MFAT has upgraded its advice to New Zealand citizens in quake-devastated Japan, warning Kiwis to leave Tokyo and northern Honshu.

Police have tonight released the names of three women and a man, four more victims of last month's deadly Christchurch earthquake.

If the Black Caps can set up a solid game plan against Muttiah Muralitharan tonight then they'll go a long way to beating Sri Lanka.

The father of the last New Zealander who was missing in Japan until yesterday thought the chances of son Peter Setter being alive were "tipping in the wrong direction", until the wonderful news of his survival, in one of Japan's worst hit