Vietnam
Eva Orner: asylum seekers and detention centres
Kim Hill talks to Australian film director and producer Eva Orner, whose documentary Chasing Asylum, an exposé of the detention centres established by the Australian government on Nauru and Manus… Audio
Vietnam court sentences Australian woman, 73, to death on drug charges
A court in Vietnam has sentenced a 73-year-old Vietnam-born Australian woman to death for trafficking heroin.
Nights' Overseas - Vietnam
The mass death of fish in central Vietnam has sparked rare and weekly protests against the Government's inaction on industrial water pollution. Our correspondent Lien Hoang reports in from Ho Chi Minh… Audio
Simone Douglas: photographing 'home'
Kim Hill talks to the Associate Professor of Photography at Parsons, The New School in New York about Home, the exhibition she curated for the Auckland Festival of Photography. Audio, Gallery
Entertainers become eligible for Vietnam medals
Big name Showbands including The Maori Quin Tikis, the Maori Te Kiwis, the Maori Ambassadors, the Maori HyMarques, and the Maori Travellieres all took their show on the road to Vietnam in the late… Audio
US announces complete end to arms embargo on Vietnam
President Barack Obama has used his first visit to Vietnam to end America's ban on selling weapons to its one time enemy. Audio
Immigration failed to spot 'Vietnamese refugee' was Chinese
A man who fraudulently applied for asylum by pretending to be Vietnamese has been stripped of his refugee status, but told he will remain a New Zealand citizen. Audio
My Lamb’s A-Field
In 2011 Whanganui farmers Richard and Suze Redmayne set up Coastal Spring Lamb. They, along with a group of other coastal, family based, sheep farmers produce lamb specifically for selling between… Audio
Nights' Overseas Reports - Viet Nam
Reporter for Bloomberg BNA, Lien Hoang reports from the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, pop. 90,730,000 (est. 2014)... police have been getting a lot of complaints about Bitcoin due to it's use in… Audio
"Boat People" - a Vietnamese family remembers
More than three million people were killed during the Vietnam War. The Chung family arrived in Wellington as part of the first wave of former refugees, known then as 'the boat people' from Vietnam. Audio, Gallery
The Overseas Correspondents - Vietnam
US-born journalist and correspondent for Bloomberg BNA, Lien Hoang reports from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Audio
Vietnam economic agreements bolster NZ trade prospects
The three economic agreements between the New Zealand and Vietnamese signed during the Prime MInister's short visit there over the weekend is being seen as bolstering the trade opportunities for New… Audio
NZ, Vietnamese Prime Ministers condemn Paris terror attacks
The Prime Minister John Key and his Vietnamese counterpart Nyugen Tan Dung have condemned the deadly attacks in Paris. Audio
PM heads to Vietnam to talk trade
Trade and security are top of the agenda for the Prime Minister as he heads to South East Asia. Audio
Government has no plans to repatriate remains
The Government says it has no plans to bring home the remains of soldiers who died in wars in Vietnam and Malaysia, despite renewed pressure to look again at this. Audio
Vietnam
US born journalist and correspondent for Bloomberg BNA, Lien Hoang reports from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Audio
Culture on a plate - Secret dining Vietnamese
Lynda Chanwai-Earle discovers that balance is quintessential to Vietnamese food and philosophy when she follows a Secret Dining Trail with the Wellington on a Plate Festival to learn where to find the… Audio, Gallery
Vietnam
US-born journalist and correspondent for Bloomberg BNA, Lien Hoang reports from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, pop. 90,730,000 (est. 2014)... a Chinese-language cartoon is offending Vietnamese… Audio
Australian cattle slaughtered with sledgehammers in Vietnam
The Australia government says it will not overreact to accusations cattle are being slaughtered with sledgehammers in Vietnam. Audio
Our Own Odysseys - The Reunification
n 1995, Michael Goldfinch was in Hanoi when Viet Nam celebrated the 20 year anniversary of 'The Reunification' (or as the Vietnamese say, the end of the 'American War'). Audio