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Since the 1880s hard-working Chinese have been at the heart of the fruit and vege business in New Zealand. That history has been captured in a new book, including the story of 80-year-old Nancy Young… Read more Audio, Gallery

New Zealand's first steelband festival is the backdrop for the rich cultural and spiritual links between Māori and Caribbean Islanders, they're celebrating their ties through their protest music… Read more Audio, Gallery

Following #MeToo and #TimesUp, the NZ film industry is feeling the impact of change and now twenty global female directors have been selected for the Alice Initiative for prestigious studio directing… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

Indian families are marrying their drug-addicted sons to young women and then paying for the women's study in New Zealand as a pathway to residency for their sons. Fearing for her life, one woman… Read more Audio

A Life Like This: Critically acclaimed, Cambodian Filmmaker Isiah Tour's animation about his father surviving the Khmer Rouge, extraordinarily, will go back to Cambodia. Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

Why do we need a second language in our lives? New Zealand is still lagging behind on the international stage, as far as second language learning in school goes. That could be about to change. Read more Audio, Gallery

Award winning Indian-Samoan artist Tiffany Singh installs two massive and ground-breaking art works for the launch of Te Papa's new Toi Art Gallery. She uses the arts as a vehicle for health and… Read more Audio, Gallery

Lynda Chanwai-Earle is in the back seat to learn how the Open Road Driver training programme for people from former refugee backgrounds is transforming lives. Read more Audio, Gallery

Seasonal workers from Vanuatu are the grunt force of New Zealand's growing wine industry, but questions linger over the treatment of workers. Johnny Blades went to Blenheim to learn more. Read more Audio

For the first time we hear from women working under the RSE scheme supporting their families back home in the Solomon Islands. Read more Audio, Gallery

A New Zealand company recruiting seasonal workers from the Solomon Islands has faced threats and extortion while there. What impact could this have on New Zealand businesses and the migrant workers… Read more Audio, Gallery

It's been called ecology of dignity: poor organic farmers in the Philippines in partnership with New Zealand businesses. In the first Voices for this year Lynda Chanwai-Earle meets the woman making it… Read more Audio, Gallery