Rain helps early foreign presenter's China journey

More than a decade as a news anchor for the international channel of the State-owned China Central Television has made Edwin Maher's face and voice familiar to many Chinese viewers.

Although he retired earlier this year, Maher says in future he would want to make the most of his China experience of 14 years.

The 76-year-old media veteran from New Zealand began his career as a weather forecaster for Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Melbourne in 1965, and worked there for more than 20 years.