Leadership Network members discuss learning an Asian language
Despite growing awareness of the importance of learning a second language, over the past ten years New Zealand has seen a 29 percent drop in secondary school students learning an Asian language.
Media/News
Reporter Carmen Parahi discovers cultural connections in Japan
Reporter Carmen Parahi and cameraman Phillip Davis travelled to Japan to cover stories for TV One's Marae programme. Parahi describes the trip and the stories they covered.
Business/News
Beijing stint helps intern embrace her heritage
Lennie Law says she spent a large chunk of her life undervaluing her Chinese heritage, but a three-month stint interning in Beijing gave her a new perspective and a new direction in life.
Arts/News
Curators tour: Art connections to help
build understanding of Asia
Three curators are on a tour in China and South Korea where they will gain new perspectives on the contemporary arts scenes and explore ways to strengthen New Zealand’s art links to Asia.
Education/News
Teachers cook up a storm at Experience Asia Evening
Woks were sizzling at Wellington High School last week as teachers and principals from around the region cooked Asian cuisine as part of the Foundation's first Experience Asia Evening.
Research/News
Reports: 40 years of ASEAN
The Asia New Zealand Foundation has published two new reports as part of a suite of papers commissioned by the Foundation in 2015 to mark 40 years of diplomatic relations with ASEAN.
News/News
Appeal for return of missing polar bear lantern
The Asia New Zealand Foundation is appealing for the safe return of a baby polar bear lantern that disappeared at the end of the Auckland Lantern Festival.
Education/News
Shanghai trip to inspire New Zealand teachers
A group of teachers hailing from Invercargill to Whangarei will swap their classrooms for the skyscrapers, bustling streets and traditional alleyways of Shanghai on a Foundation study tour.
Media/News
Philippines: Small communities still reeling from Typhoon Yolanda
Fairfax journalist Jonathan Carson and photographer Alden Williams travelled to the Philippines in November, 2015, on a travel grant, where they covered the recovery following Typhoon Yolanda.
Entrepreneurship/News
Entrepreneurs to gain tasty business knowledge in Indonesia
New Zealand food innovators will gain valuable insights into Indonesia’s food and beverage sector on an Asia New Zealand Foundation tour this month.
Arts/News
Artist finds Seoul in the cracks of the city
Auckland artist and Foundation Leadership Network member Xin Cheng was artist in residence at Sema Nanji artist residency in Seoul, South Korea, from September to November last year. In Seoul she deve
Research/News
Foundation board trustees
comment on the survey findings
Read comments and reactions from the Asia New Zealand Foundation's Board of Trustees about the Perceptions of Asia and Asian peoples research report.
