Maori Television insists it is not bowing to pressure over the screening of two separate programmes about China tonight.

Top premiership soccer club to perform flippant haka before its season-opening game this week, despite legal protests that it insults Maori.

Prime Minister John Key says he had assumed access to parliamentary perks for former MP Taito Phillip Field would be nullified after his conviction.

Former MP Taito Phillip Field is still entitled to travel perks despite being convicted of bribery and corruption.