The real question is not why Canada has sold its gold; it's why other countries remain so wedded to maintaining - even accumulating -- stocks of it.

NZ entrepreneurs are some of the key players behind a culinary incubator in Beijing that allows would-be restauranteurs to test dining concepts.

A steep rise in China's reported imports from Hong Kong has raised concerns that trade invoices are being manipulated to get capital.

The bridge between Macau and Hong Kong is slated for completion in 2017.

John Key is tipping that China will inevitably be forced to devalue its currency in a move that will increase its competitive tensions with the US.

DJI's newest drone is commercializing technology that only recently was being tested in university labs.

A trillion dollar cross-border e-commerce market is pushing Chinese banks into New Zealand, where they are looking to take business from established banking players.

Western writers tend to subscribe -- explicitly or implicitly -- to one of two folk theories of China. Both have serious deficiencies.

Kang is one of 900,000 investors caught up in what's being billed as China's largest-ever online scam, a scandal that has robbed them of US$7.6 billion.

There are good reasons to think that the Chinese government still has the capability to control the country's capital account, writes Nick Dravitzki.

Asia's biggest economy looks to limit manufacturers to three labels and impose stricter safety procedures.

As China steps up efforts to maintain order in a slowing economic environment we may see more dramatic moves shaking things up in our part of the world.

Casino operator SkyCity Entertainment is keeping a close watch on China's capital control crackdown.

But China's firms can't buy their way to success.

New Zealand's tourism industry doesn't expect China's economic woes to put the brakes on fast-growing visitor arrivals from that country.

A Chinese crackdown on capital flight has the potential to bring the Auckland housing market's bull run to a grinding halt, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

Eyes will be on China today as the world's 2nd biggest economy releases economic data that could calm or cause more jitters in volatile world markets.

Next week's World Economic Forum meeting in Davos will provide key insights into the major risks this year.

China's GDP announcement will come next week, amid scepticism about how well the economic report informs the financial world.

Slowly but surely, a four-lane highway is beginning to take shape on the sparsely populated Central Asian steppe.

Even with fuel at its cheapest price in almost a decade, the ships that carry goods around the world have been cutting speed.

Failed Crafar Farms bidder and fraud case defendant May Wang was back in the High Court at Auckland today.

China's turning to an old formula to challenge the world in higher value-added manufacturing, posing an increasing threat to developed nations.

China's first indigenously designed passenger jet, the 90-seat ARJ21, will be delivered to state- owned Chengdu Airlines by year's end.

Fonterra boss Theo Spierings wasn't mincing his words this week when asked about rival Synlait Milk's moves to sell cut-price infant formula in China.

Top economist says "racist attitudes" towards Chinese immigration and investment could damage a relationship with China that promises to deliver "big waves".

Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings says losing Chinese market share to European dairy competitors is a concern for New Zealand.