Hong Kong

District council elections in Hong Kong over the weekend show a massive swing in support for pro-democracy campaigners. Audio

Antony Dapiran is a Hong Kong-based writer and lawyer and the author of City of Protest: A Recent History of Dissent in Hong Kong. He joins the show with all the latest from the protests that have now… Audio

A stand-off is continuing between police and students at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Police have surrounded the campus in central Kowloon, and all roads in and out are blocked. Some students… Audio

New Zealander Graham Barkus has lived in Hong Kong for 30 years and is a member of the Hong Kong Forward Alliance. He joins the show to give an insight into the mood on the ground there as protests… Audio

New Zealand's rapid transition to a multicultural society is causing problems for our judicial and legal systems, according to a new report chaired by the prominent public lawyer Mai Chen. 

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The situation in Hong Kong continues to deteriorate. The now months-long protest movement has seen its first death, with live ammunition shot by police and more signs that a tougher Chinese response… Audio

Tse Chi Lop is suspected of leading a vast multinational drug trafficking syndicate through the Asia-Pacific region that is raking in up to $17 billion a year. Journalist Tom Allard has been on the… Audio

Surveillance technology expert Ray Walsh of Proprivacy.com says the use of video recorded by protesters in Hong Kong could end up coming back to bite them. The city has experienced 18 weeks of… Audio

Covering Climate Now saw all of New Zealand's major media companies upping their environmental coverage but it was still eclipsed by the rugby World Cup and New Zealand Herald journalist Keith Ng on… Audio

What will it take to quell unrest in the former British colony? This past week saw what was perhaps inevitable, the shooting of a teenage student by police. The street violence in the days since has… Audio

Mike Insley began learning Mandarin when he and his wife moved to China to work in a winery in the remote region of Ningxia in 2015. He's brushing up on his Mandarin skills as part of the NZ Chinese… Audio

China has raised the ire of countries throughout the world for building an all-seeing surveillance state, but some nations are now looking to follow in its footsteps by using the same technology. Dr… Audio

Two years on from the atrocities in Myanmar's western Rakhine state the outlook remains grim for the more than one million people who fled Myanmar and are now refugees in Bangladesh.  Ed White is a… Audio