A group of Chinese individuals and businesses are planning on taking out a full-page advertisement in the Herald to speak out against housing claims.

Comedian weighs in on the property debate: "Being Chinese in New Zealand always puts you on the back foot."

Juwai.com has surveyed users and found 36 per cent of people spoken to bought property in New Zealand for investment.

Labour leader Andrew Little is going to have to tread on a few toes to resuscitate the wider party, writes John Armstrong.

Chinese newspaper accuses Labour of racism over property market data.

The Ku Klux Klan is flourishing and exploiting racial tension in the US, according to a behind-the-scenes documentary.

South Island's Agassiz Glacier has been "un-named" as part of a global campaign to remove the use of the name of Agassiz, a Swiss geologist who believed not all races were created equal.

US President Barack Obama has led an impassioned funeral service for a popular black minister and politician killed in a church massacre in South Carolina.

A white police officer in Texas has been suspended after video emerged of him drawing a gun at a pool party and throwing a black girl in a bikini to the ground.

It was "a moment bigger than politics", declared the Australian Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, introducing his same-sex marriage bill to the federal Parliament yesterday.

A Muslim woman has accused a US airline of discrimination after an attendent refused to give her an an unopened can of Diet Coke because it could be used "as a weapon".

The streak is as impressive as it is difficult to explain.

Italy is now the only western European country that does not recognise either same-sex marriage or civil unions.

The British university equality officer at the centre of a racism and sexism row could lose her job after she allegedly tweeted a hashtag 'kill all white men'.

Yesterday, as the Senate began public hearings into conditions in the Australian-funded detention centre, those words seemed not too far from the truth.

High-profile lawyer Mai Chen locks her car on the drive to work because of abuse stemming from racist attitudes, Act leader David Seymour says.

The macho Kiwi rugby, racing and beer mentality is keeping gay sportspeople firmly in the cupboard.

A global study found that NZ has the highest number of 22-year-old males hiding they are gay and the second-highest number of lesbians concealing their sexuality.

A few years ago, I was returning by car to Washington from Baltimore when I took a wrong turn and got lost.

I was asking an American professor a complicated question about Anzus in a university lecture theatre when he started stroking my leg, writes Catriona MacLennan.

I looked back through the archives to see whether Minister for Women, Louise Upston, had ever, in fact, said or done anything actually worthwhile for the women of NZ, writes Dita De Boni.

Even after the fires were extinguished and the chaos quieted for much of the day, this city smouldered.

When Poppy Smart was wolf-whistled at by builders on her walk to work, she at first tried to ignore it.

Former Justice Minister Judith Collins has told TVNZ bosses she wants its news bulletins to take women more seriously.

Nicole Kidman is facing questions about her commitment to women's rights, after endorsing an airline accused over the alleged mistreatment of its female staff.

Pressure is mounting for the abolition of a law allowing Queenslanders who kill homosexuals to have a murder charge reduced by arguing that their victim propositioned them.

Kylie Jenner has come under fire for pictures she has posted to her Instagram account which people are claiming show her with “blackface”.

The country's top cop says he is pleased to see Kiwis standing up against racism after members of the public helped to identify a man who verbally attacked two foreign men on a bus.

The images aim to demystify and destigmatise the female body - to make viewers "realise these are just regular, normal processes," nothing to reject or shame