Ed White is a correspondent with the Financial Times based in Shanghai

It's been a phenomenal year for the New Zealand Youth Choir.

The minister in charge of the online casino bill is looking again at the new legislation after huge opposition driven by a possible loss of community funding.

Banking innovators say consumers will be the winners after a government decision that banks may not charge for access to customer data.

Film and TV reviewer James Croot looks at The Woman in Cabin 10 (Netflix), starring Keira Knightley as a Guardian journalist who believes a murder's been committed on a billionaire's yacht. A House of Dynamite (cinemas, Netflix), is an apocalyptic thriller that follows the minutes' build-up to a nuclear strike through the eyes of different players. And Eleanor the Great is an American drama directed by Scarlett Johansson and starring 95-year-old June Squibb. James Croot is film and television reviewer for Stuff

Speech and Language Therapist Christian Wright talks to Kathryn about what typical language development in pre-schoolers looks like.

Tech commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to discuss how the South Korean government learned the hard way why back-ups to digital data are a good idea.

Richard Griffin was Jim Bolger's press secretary and describes Jim Bolger as a great friend.

Around the motu : Peter de Graaf in Northland

Louise Ward of Wardini Books reviews The Last Living Cannibal by Airana Ngarewa, published by Moa Press.