Perlina Lau

The rioting in Honiara has left more than 50 businesses torched and looted, and more than 1,000 workers jobless.

The clean up is continuing with people cleaning up the streets and removing burnt… Audio

In exciting entertainment news, a New Zealand TV series set eight years after an unexplained virus has wiped out the world's men and boys, has been picked up in the US and will stream exclusively on… Audio

To the US, where three white men have been found guilty of murdering black man Ahmaud Arbery while he was jogging last year.

The men claimed they acted in self-defence during a citizen's arrest - but… Audio

There's plenty of good TV on the streamers this month, says RNZ's Perlina Lau, who gives her take on five of the best to check out in November. Video

The International Transport Workers Federation is calling on Fiji and the Philippines to uphold and protect the rights of seafarers.

The move comes as a group of Filipino sailors stranded in Fiji -… Audio

It's emerged the man accused of abducting four year old Cleo Smith in Western Australia, had a room full of dolls in his house.

Terence Darrell Kelly has appeared in court charged with forcibly… Audio

An astonishing outcome - the four-year-old girl who disappeared almost three weeks ago from a remote Australian campsite has been found alive.

Police broke into a locked house in the early hours of… Audio

There have been emotional reunions at Sydney Airport with people able to travel home quarantine free for the first time in 20 months.

Hotel quarantine and the cap on arrivals have been scrapped for… Audio

Australia is throwing open its doors to international travel with flights resuming in as soon as 10 days.

It comes as Victoria and New South Wales hit 70 and 80 percent double dose levels, ease… Audio

TV and film creatives Roseanne Liang and Perlina Lau join James to chat about parental validation, professional validation and personal validation Produced by Charlie Bleakley.  Video, Audio

Christmas is back on in Queensland with the Premier announcing once the state reaches 80 percent double vaccinated, the border will reopen to fully-vaccinated arrivals, who will be able to do home… Audio

New South Wales' new Premier says the state will soon do away with hotel quarantine.

From the November 1, fully vaccinated travellers will be allowed in without having to isolate in a hotel or at… Audio

Fiji's international border will re-open to its travel partner countries from November 11. Audio

After nearly two years of closed borders, Fiji will be opening its doors to international travellers from the 11th of November.

A list of countries will be on the "green list" and includes, New… Audio

For Aucklanders in the midst of about 50 days in lockdown and 44 new Covid-19 infections today, spare a thought for the state of Victoria which is in the thick of a serious outbreak, breaking its own… Audio

It's the UN's International Day of Older Persons and it turns out New Zealand tops the list when it comes to the highest number of senior hosts on Airbnb.

More than 27 percent of hosts in the country… Audio

At least 31,000 people waited in the MIQ lottery line yesterday but missed out for possibly a second time.

Barry Smart is one of the lucky ones who nabbed a spot in MIQ yesterday. He travelled to… Audio

Mental health podcast Eating Fried Chicken in the Shower returns soon! Video, Audio

Victoria has been struck by a magnitude 5.8 earthquake with tremors being felt across the state, in New South Wales and even as far as Adeleide. Worldwatch's Perlina Lau reports. Audio