Vietnam
Nights' Overseas - Vietnam
Lien Hoang reports from the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, pop. 90,730,000 (est. 2014)... Lien chats about one of the Vietnamese suspects in the King Jong. Also about how Saigon has talked for years… Audio
Motorbike Book Club
A mobile literacy project run by two sisters, is delivering books via motorbike to children living in some of Vietnam's poorest rural villages. Audio, Gallery
Sinking illegal 'blue boats' not enough of a deterrent - advisor
Blowing up, burning and sinking Vietnamese "blue boats" for illegally fishing in Pacific countries and Indonesia has not stopped them coming, a fisheries adviser says.
New Caledonia aims to deter poachers
French forces have released four Vietnamese fishing vessels after seizing a record seven tons of beche de mer caught illegally.
Nights' Overseas - Viet Nam
Reporter for Bloomberg BNA, Lien Hoang reports from the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, pop. 90,730,000 (est. 2014)... Audio
Govt will look into repatriating bodies
The government is considering bringing home the bodies of soldiers killed in Malaysia and Vietnam, despite a longstanding policy not to repatriate all bodies of military personnel. Audio
Nights' Overseas - Vietnam
Bloomberg BNA reporter Lien Hoang on high profile visitors to Vietnam, a rare act of gun violence, bribery, and a spat with Korea over a film. Audio
Anger over Vietnam's cancellation of war commemoration service
Today is the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan, and Vietnam has abruptly banned the commemoration service. Audio
Last-ditch compensation claim for asbestos death
The family of a war veteran is making a last ditch effort for compensation from the defence force for the asbestos related cancer it says Phillip Taylor-Meihana contracted in Vietnam. Audio
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
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…
AudioNights' 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
