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Keen to impress on Valentine's Day? Knock your beloved's socks off with a classic Gallic dish.

The Chinese company that sparked a fierce national debate last year about foreign investment in farming is ploughing ahead with plans to export millions of cartons of UHT milk from New Zealand to China.

It's that time of year again when we're compelled to buy a sentimental card for our loved ones and go out for a set-menu meal - or wallow in our singledom.

Cellphone entrepreneur tries again, with venture targeting emerging markets.

United States news organisation CNN International has released its top 10 places to propose to a loved one on Valentine's Day.

The Thai hotel manager who tried to help three young NZ women with food poisoning has described how the trio were bedridden and vomiting.

The father of a woman who died of poisoning in Thailand has described his last words to her.

It's getting easier for darker skinned women to find makeup that suits, but equal choice is still a work in progress.

Senior Australian MPs from opposite sides of politics have defended Opposition Leader Tony Abbott following edited television footage of him apparently describing the death of an Australian soldier as "shit happens".

The couple have called time on their relationship for a second time, 15 months after they reunited, the 38-year-old actor's representative has confirmed.

Food is an integral and symbolic part of Chinese New Year celebrations.

The New Zealand pinot noir movement is gathering pace and the great and good of the wine world jetted in from Singapore, Stockholm and San Francisco last week to experience Central Otago's take on the grape.

This work of speculative fiction arrives on New Zealand shelves with the degree of hype usually reserved for angst-ridden teen vamps or boy wizards.

NZ's forest ecosystems are the second most threatened in the world and house only 5 per cent of their original habitat, according to an international report.

There are thought to be only about 11,000 black-necked cranes in the world.

Japanese ceramics artist Asumi Mizuo has found a unique way to create beauty out of imperfection.

More than 1200 over-50s retiring Chinese, have relocated here in the past year.

A visit to an ancestral temple at a famous Chinese beauty spot earned Jim Eagles a blessing from an ancient goddess.