Alibaba Group Holding sued two vendors it said used the company's Taobao website to sell counterfeit Swarovski watches, just weeks

"My whole body was burning; I could feel sparks stinging my face," said Kiwi traveller at New Year's Eve fireworks display.

With global growth under pressure, the outlook for the export-dependent region is faltering.

It's not just the pagoda roof turret that gives the Annandale Distillery in Scotland an Asian feel.

Shocking video emerges showing a 'drunk' Indonesian pilot stumbling through security before making incoherent cockpit announcement.

A shopkeeper faces charges after a New Zealand teenager said she was sexually assaulted on an educational tour of India.

An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale has struck off eastern Indonesia, the Indonesian geophysics agency says.

More young Kiwis are considering travelling to Asia for that big OE.

Thai police are investigating the bizarre death of a western man whose throat was slit and body was found tied to a concrete pole in the ocean.

The 23-year-old Takapuna woman who died in Indonesia is being remembered as a "vibrant, friendly, free spirit who loved life".

Some of Asia's marquee airlines that spoil passengers with free alcohol and in-flight entertainment may soon have to kick the habit.

A 23-year-old Takapuna woman has been identified as the Kiwi who died when a Contiki minivan crashed off a cliff in South Lombok.

China fell in love with the 1997 blockbuster movie about the doomed ocean liner.

Eli Orzessek suggests caution around the border from Myanmar into Thailand.

Competition in Japan's online shopping market is intensifying.

With the face of Ataturk looking down on him, Michael McHugh explores the past glories of Ephesus.

They have bushy beards, a preference for loose-fitting robes, hundreds of millions of devotees - and a line of consumer products.

Photographs from high above North Korea show what observers say are concerning developments in the regime's arsenal of repression.

New Zealand students are performing below the international average when it comes to maths, a new study shows.

Tourists have been forced to busk and beg for money on the streets of India after 'demonetisation' of high-value currency left them 'virtually penniless'.

Fonterra is developing a new range of products to appeal to Asian markets including candy cheese, low salt cheese, and medicinal lactose.

A Chinese developer is building a $100 billion city in the sea, the scale of which is dizzying.

Just over two weeks into its biggest fight against tax evasion, India's regulatory flip-flops are confusing citizens.

A giant Emirates A380 aircraft was filmed approaching the runway sideways at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam.

Five World War II warships have mysteriously disappeared from their watery graves, leaving nothing behind but a boat shaped indentation on the seabed.

Unaccounted money makes up nearly a quarter of India's economy, but new measures have seen drastic consequences.

Eli Orzessek makes a pilgrimage to the Batu Caves and then retreats to the sanctity of the mall.

A simple domestic decision on whether or not to open a cupboard has driven the internet into a frenzy.

Two leaders of a violent street gang were contracted to murder a debt collector, a murder trial has heard.

Jump aboard a Vespa to see the 'real' Cambodia, writes Max Wooldridge.