Airways New Zealand says air traffic volumes are up 11 per cent from this time last year.

Full-time architectural designer Alicia Lin discusses what it's like a running her photography business as a side gig.

You may have thought Auckland house prices were bad, but check out these palatial homes from around the world that fetched huge sums.

Mike Middleton hasn't touched his motorbike since February 7, 2016 - the day his son, Rhys, was killed.

A week of explosive tweets from the American President-Elect have stoked anxiety, moved markets and altered plans.

Alibaba Group Holding sued two vendors it said used the company's Taobao website to sell counterfeit Swarovski watches, just weeks

"My whole body was burning; I could feel sparks stinging my face," said Kiwi traveller at New Year's Eve fireworks display.

With global growth under pressure, the outlook for the export-dependent region is faltering.

It's not just the pagoda roof turret that gives the Annandale Distillery in Scotland an Asian feel.

An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale has struck off eastern Indonesia, the Indonesian geophysics agency says.

More young Kiwis are considering travelling to Asia for that big OE.

Thai police are investigating the bizarre death of a western man whose throat was slit and body was found tied to a concrete pole in the ocean.

Asia is top of the wish list for Kiwi travellers using Cheapflights.co.nz.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs has sent the death toll to 5,927 in five months and has said the way to stop the slaughter is to stop taking drugs.

The 23-year-old Takapuna woman who died in Indonesia is being remembered as a "vibrant, friendly, free spirit who loved life".

Some of Asia's marquee airlines that spoil passengers with free alcohol and in-flight entertainment may soon have to kick the habit.

A 23-year-old Takapuna woman has been identified as the Kiwi who died when a Contiki minivan crashed off a cliff in South Lombok.

China fell in love with the 1997 blockbuster movie about the doomed ocean liner.

With the face of Ataturk looking down on him, Michael McHugh explores the past glories of Ephesus.

They have bushy beards, a preference for loose-fitting robes, hundreds of millions of devotees - and a line of consumer products.

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.

Five World War II warships have mysteriously disappeared from their watery graves, leaving nothing behind but a boat shaped indentation on the seabed.