Aid And Development
Tonga eruption: NZ government brings aid funding up to $3m
The government has announced a further $2 million in aid to help Tonga recover after the huge eruption nearly a week ago.
Tongans in NZ anxiously await news from home: 'It's painful, you just feel hopeless'
Tongans in New Zealand have been praying for their Pacific Island families, as they endure an agonising wait for news from relatives cut off from the world.
Watch: Defence Force preparing to head to Tonga - PM Jacinda Ardern
There are no official reports of injuries or deaths in Tonga, as the Defence Force prepares to head to the islands, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says.
Carbon-trapping oceans get some official attention
Coastal ecosystems are better than tropical rainforests when it comes to trapping carbon and at this year's big climate change conference they finally got some attention. Audio
What life is like for an RSE worker
Covid has meant huge disruption for seasonal workers, but they're back now - if they ever left. What is it like for RSE workers who leave their families so they can feed them? Audio
Qatar, Egypt agree to supply fuel and basic building materials to war-ravaged Gaza
Gaza officials estimate it will cost $685m to rebuild homes and infrastructure damaged in the May fighting between Israel and Hamas.
The Tigray conflict explained
While we've been wrapped up in our Covid worries and woes, across the world in Africa a catastrophe of immense proportions is unfolding - putting our problems into stark perspective. Audio
How philanthropy is changing
The shape of philanthropy is changing away from traditional giving, to a more strategic way of closing the massive gap between rich and poor. Audio
Restoring a link
After her first year of being in New Zealand, Somali former refugee Fatema Mohamed, now considers started a process that could help her restore a long-lost link. Produced by Kadambari Raghukumar. Audio
Covid complications confuse the media
Worrying breaches of Auckland’s Level 4 border fired up the media this week - just as the Government prepared to green-light a risky shift to Level 3 in the supercity. Meanwhile the media also… Audio
Asylum seekers may finally be resettled in Aotearoa
It's taken eight years, but Australia looks like it might finally be ready to send some of its asylum seekers to New Zealand.
Australia's Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews is working with New… Audio
Canterbury flooding: State of emergency to continue another week
A state of emergency will continue for a week in Canterbury's worst-hit flood areas.
It will remain in place in Ashburton, Selwyn and Waimakariri districts but will be lifted elsewhere across the… Audio
Top Stories for Friday 4 June 2021
New Zealanders stranded in Melbourne breath a sigh of relief with signs they'll be able to leave from next week Auckland's Jet Park Hotel managers explain the difficult process of becoming the… Audio
Ten years since start of Syrian crisis
The Syrian crisis has reached an unwelcome milestone, with 10 years having passed since peaceful protests against President Bashar Assad's government first began in March of 2011.
Those protests… Audio
Wellington Councillor to try to get loan to airport off table
Wellington City councillor Tamatha Paul will this morning try to get a council loan to Wellington airport taken off the table.
The council's long-term plan is up for discussion today and in it is a… Audio
Christchurch remembers fatal 6.3 quake, 10 years on
Thousands of people in Christchurch and around the country paused at 12.51 on Monday afternoon to mark a decade since the February 22 magnitude 6.3 earthquake which claimed 185 lives.
It was 10 years… Video, Audio
Debating without agenda on Parliament's agenda
Parliament debates all the time but until now it seldom did so just to see what it thinks. This week we hear what it thinks about Aid to the Pacific.
Christchurch earthquake anniversary: Broken buildings remain 10 years later
Cantabrians are still surrounded broken buildings and empty spaces on the 10th anniversary of the devastating 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquake.
The disaster forced 70 percent of the CBD to be… Audio
Christchurch earthquake anniversary: Government slowed down recovery from - developer
A prominent Christchurch property investor says the Government's anchor projects meant to help rebuild the city faster, has instead slowed it down.
After the 2011 earthquake, the Government launched… Audio
Myanmar coup - NZ diaspora speaks out
After nearly 50 years of military rule, the recent coup of 1 February has brought an end to Myanmar's 10 year experiment with democracy. What has the NZ diaspora been doing in response to the coup and… Audio