The Asia New Zealand Foundation’s mission is to build and sustain New Zealanders’ knowledge and understanding of the countries, people, cultures and languages of Asia, so they can develop more extensi
Media/News
Journalists caught up
in Nepal earthquake
Fairfax journalists Mike Scott and Matt Rilkoff had spent nearly three weeks in Nepal on a Foundation media travel grant before the April 25 earthquake struck.
Resources/Report
Asian Investment in New Zealand
Research commissioned by the Asia New Zealand Foundation has found that investment from Asia accounts for a relatively small share of all foreign investment in New Zealand.
Supported by an Asia New Zealand Foundation media travel grant, Newstalk ZB journalist Tyler Adams travelled to Japan to compare its earthquake and tsunami reconstruction methods to Christchurch’s.
Education/News
Teachers make Indonesian connections
Wellington teacher Mike Kingston was among a group of NZ teachers who participated in our Indonesia Cultural Connections programme in April 2015
Arts/News
Collaboration between New Zealand
and Vietnamese artists
An exhibition by artist Mat Logan and two Vietnamese artists he met while on a Foundation residency in Vietnam is opening at Wellington's Toi Pōneke Gallery.
Resources/Report
Asian Auckland: The multiple meanings of diversity
This report considers Auckland’s increasingly diverse and rapidly growing Asian population. In detailing the history and trends of Asian migration to the city and the ethnicities, locations and demogr
New Zealand trade strategy and evolving
Asian-Pacific regional economic architecture.
This research project set out to answer three questions with regard to the evolution of New Zealand’s preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) in the Asia Pacific.
New Zealanders' Perceptions of Asia and Asian peoples - 2014 Annual Survey
The Foundation's Perceptions of Asia and Asian Peoples report is an annual survey that looks at how New Zealanders perceive Asia and Asian peoples and how much they know about the region.
Opinion piece by Dr George Wieland, Director of the Intercultural Practice programme, Carey Baptist College, Auckland.
Resources/Report
Mind the Gap: New Zealand and Regional Institutions in Southeast Asia
This report by Dr David Capie looks at New Zealand's engagement with Southeast Asia regional institutions and how these relationships have developed over recent years.