COMMENT: The key ingredients for cracking the business bigtime in Asia can be found close to home.

Many New Zealand domestic industries built up in the past 50 to 100 years are in jeopardy because of inadequate trade remedies that favour importers over local producers.

China's got the world puzzling over its oil hoard.

China's city clusters could become key economic engines -- and, maybe, a model for how cities can keep growing.

Weet-Bix, manuka honey and a brand of cod liver oil are among some of the most popular products being snapped up by a new kind of shoppers known as daigou.

China's imports of dairy products jumped 26 percent in the 12 months ended June 30.

Chinese regulations that caused upheaval in New Zealand's infant formula industry two years ago are set to be extended to honey and wine exporters.

COMMENT: The Turnbull Government's decision to block two Chinese companies buying electricity lines firm Ausgrid will play well with many voters.

Behind the scenes, these are the people who bridge China and the United States.

COMMENT: Shanghai Pengxin chairman Jiang Zhaobai likens the Overseas Investment Office (OIO) to a "black box".

Zespri won't be exporting to its biggest market by volume until new checking protocols are in place.

WeChat is making its mark in New Zealand with more than 400,000 tourists using the technology to make payments.

Hong Kong-based exchange Bitfinex halted trading, withdrawals and deposits after discovering a security breach.

COMMENT: The broader downstream benefits to New Zealand exporters from increased investment in trade routes and infrastructure are self-evident.

Zespri and the Government are batting away suggestions that politics has played any role in increased scrutiny of New Zealand kiwifruit entering China.

Fonterra's infant formula sales in China are running ahead of its expectations, chairman John Wilson says.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has floated a proposal for a free trade zone to be created in Auckland near to the airport.

After 30 years in publishing, Wendy Pye still approaches business with the eagerness of a child learning to read.

A new dairy factory, with 100 new jobs is set to open near Gore this October.

Ray White New Zealand says a new move into China isn't designed to flog our homes to foreigners.

One of the region's biggest real estate firms is expanding its reach to get to more Chinese buyers.

China Construction Bank New Zealand has received a $140 million capital injection from its Beijing-based parent.

Silver Fern Farms has got Grant Samuel to back its proposal to sell half its meat processing assets.

WATCH: Billionaire Jack Ma dominates the Chinese e-commerce world - it made him China's richest man.

Behind the Great Firewall, Chinese apps have been flourishing.

Emotional and ideological contagion is becoming a more important source of systemic risk.

Wal-Mart hasn't met the target its manufacturing move had hoped for.

COMMENT: Trade disputes are difficult but the allegation of steel dumping by China is playing out more messily than most.

The Government has refused to confirm whether NZ Steel has lodged complaints that China is 'dumping' low cost steel in the NZ market

Chinese travellers born in the 1990s are heading out of the country and are spending up large.