Expat chef Robert Oliver is on a mission to promote real Pacific food, writes Peter Calder.

Jacqueline Smith meets a new TV star who aims to put his own spin on the topics making headlines from a half-caste point of view.

International media are having a ball with John Key's Tuhoe "cannibalism joke" and "passive-aggressive" apology.

'Cabinet is not so different from a marae committee meeting,' Tuhoe representative Tamati Kruger says.

The decision to include caste in India's national census has triggered intense controversy about a painful, vexing subject.

The father who flew from Korea to NZ after the deaths of his wife and children, and was later found dead, was farewelled in Christchurch today.

Young Jin Baek came to NZ to arrange the funerals of his wife and daughters, but was found dead two hours before the service.

In defensive mode over National's Maori policy agenda, John Key says separatism has no place in New Zealand.

Almost all of Auckland's licensed karaoke bars breach liquor laws in their first year.

Up to 20 mummified Maori heads held in French museums could be returned to NZ after France adopted a new law.

Thousands of protesters rallied in cities across America demanding that President Obama tackle immigration reform immediately.

The burqa is getting all the attention in the debate over Muslims in France. But another controversial tradition among some immigrants is less noticed and far more widespread.