A white supremacist Christchurch group is planning to distribute anti-Chinese flyers around Auckland, a city council ethnic panel member says.

Kim Dotcom's company Mega is warily eyeing proposed legislation that may oblige it to open its systems to surveillance by spy agencies the GCSB and SIS.

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is trying to drag one of the country's most senior police officers into court.

Kiwis on their OE are likelier to be young professionals than backpackers dossing down in a bedsit. London correspondent Jared Savage visits an area of south London that has become the new Kiwi capital.

Critics of the hard line the Government has adopted towards "boat people" must have been dismayed when an overcrowded fishing boat was brought ashore north of Perth this week, its 66 passengers displaying a sign that read, "We want to go to New Zealand".

A long-term overstayer believes he has found a way to stop Immigration New Zealand from deporting him - by renouncing his citizenship.

A fast-track visa deal struck with a Chinese airline for frequent flyers could be exploited by sex traffickers and people smugglers, according to a risk report.

Migrant prostitutes here are not victims of people trafficking and many are in the sex trade for the money, research on migrant sex workers in New Zealand has found.

A ramshackle fishing boat carrying 66 suspected asylum seekers from Sri Lanka has arrived in Australia displaying a sign saying "We want to go to New Zealand".

Immigration New Zealand is advertising for staff to work at its Mumbai branch office - for a little more than $500 a month.

Two men accused of using fake passports and other documents are facing several forgery and deception charges.

Kiwis have missed weddings, funerals and nearly lost their jobs or been deported due to a backlog of visa cases in Britain.

Burmese form the largest group of people who were granted residence through the refugee quota programme.

More than 40,000 migrants who have been granted permanent residence are absent from New Zealand.

Asians are dominating in visitor and international student numbers and in most family-migration categories to New Zealand.

The deaths of two more asylum seekers off Australia's Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island has again focused attention on the complexity of the dangerous crossing.

A New Zealand-born man jailed in Queensland for attacks on taxi drivers and a pizza deliverer is being deported to this country - despite having lived half his life in Australia.

The Security Intelligence Service blocked Kim Dotcom's application for residency after learning of the FBI investigation into internet piracy then lifted it at the last minute.

International students are being warned against working as prostitutes in a new Immigration New Zealand employment advice website.

Former Australian prime minister John Howard has defended a policy that many Kiwis living across the Tasman say reduces them to second-class citizens.

The number of New Zealanders moving to Australia is the lowest in two years, according to new migration data.

The number of kiwis who crossed the ditch last month was its lowest in two years, according to figures out today.

The hunt is on for more than 40 Tongan criminals who obtained "clean records" from their homeland authorities to get New Zealand visas.

The Kiwi love affair with Asia may be waning with fewer now thinking Asia is important to New Zealand's future or viewing Asian immigration as positive.