Perlina Lau

Harrowing testimony is being delivered at the Abuse in Care inquiry about what happened to children at the Lake Alice Child and Adolescent Unit. RNZ reporter Andrew McRae is covering the hearing in… Audio

Europe's biggest airlines have been lobbying against measures to tighten carbon emmissions after taking Covid-19 bailouts - that's according to a climate watchdog. Influence Map says the sector is… Audio

Amnesty International is accusing Chinese authorities of creating a "dystopian hellscape" - over the repression of Uyghur Muslims in north-western province of Xinjiang. The group says it amounts to… Audio

One of the issues up for consideration at the G7 meeting is cybersecurity. Royal Military College of Canada professor Christian Leuprecht specialises in national security and defence. He speaks to Max… Audio

The G7 - the Group of Seven - is an organisation made up of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the United States - the world's most advance economies. Every year the leaders meet to… Audio

Today marks the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing. On June the 4th in 1989, the People's Liberation Army opened fire on unarmed student protesters. It was the most… Audio

Victoria has now recorded 11 new infections in the last day.

A Covid-19 cluster in a Melbourne aged-care home has grown to three cases after a second staff member has tested positive for Covid-19.

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Cash, holidays, full university scholarships - those are just some of the things being dangled in front of Americans to encourage them to get vaccinated.

Worldwatch's Perlina Lau has the details. Audio

From Friday, Victoria will be heading into a seven-day lockdown in attempts to curb a growing Covid-19 outbreak.

The state recorded another 11 cases overnight taking the total of the cluster to 26.

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There's been global condemnation after a fake bomb threat was used to force a commercial flight to divert to Belarus where a journalist on board was arrested.

Worldwatch's Perlina Lau reports.

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In a world first - a team of Queensland researchers and US scientists have developed a Covid-19 anti-viral therapy that has killed off the viral load, in infected mice, by 99.9 percent. It's been… Audio

Australia's government says it will suspend all flights from India to Australia until the May 15.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison made the announcement as India continues to deal with a record-breaking… Audio

RNZ'er Perlina Lau began her on-screen career with the web series Flat3 in 2013. Since then, she's gone on to co-star in follow-up Friday Night Bites, which was nominated for two New Zealand… Video, Audio

UK politicians have slammed New Zealand's response to China's policies and alleged human rights abuses against the Uighur minority.

It comes as the UK declares it genocide and crimes against… Audio

The US, South Africa and the European Union have pressed paused on the rollout of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine after reports of rare blood clotting.

Worldwatch's Perlina Lau has more. Audio

Before COVID hit and Worldwatch's Perlina Lau came to work at RNZ, she was making a tv show series based on a future after a pandemic had hit the world! She talks to Jesse about the series. Audio

The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, was the senior most officer in New Zealand's Navy, Army and Air Force, and an Additional Member of the Order of New Zealand - his links to this country span… Audio