Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart is planning a $500m investment to supply infant formula to China.

Cross-border differences take many forms. Beyond cultural distance, there are tacit types of distance that are essential to consider when conducting business internationally.

The Waldorf Astoria sale to a Chinese buyer is likely to spark a national security review to assess potential spying risks.

Prime Minister John Key will join United States President Barack Obama at a meeting in Beijing tonight to put heat on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

In global operations, we tend to focus on the soft aspects of challenges, such as cross-cultural differences.

Yngve Slyngstad, Norwegian wealth fund's CEO, says almost all investment decisions are affected by what happens in China.

Twenty-three buildings taller than 200 metres are currently being planned or built in Melbourne, many by Asian developers.

For any New Zealand organisation conducting business offshore there are unknowns and this uncertainty can sometimes deter an organisation from attempting to internationalise.

Apple's Tim Cook and Alibaba's Jack Ma said they're open to working together to turn phones into tools for buying and selling stuff.

Two-way trade with China has doubled every five years since the early 1990s but the historic growth rates may not continue.

An economist says China's plans to ease the restrictions its citizens face when investing overseas will see more Chinese money flowing into NZ's property market.

Kiwi companies are increasingly turning to trade fairs in China as a gateway to the international and Chinese market.

Concerned about potential security risks, the US government is taking a close look at last week's sale of New York's iconic Waldorf Astoria hotel to a Chinese insurance company.

162,629 employees who had continued to draw salaries after leaving their posts have been removed from China's state payrolls.

NYC's Waldorf Astoria hotel is set to become the biggest prize yet for buyers from China who have been pouring money into US real estate.

It has been 14 years since China officially banned console video games, worrying they would dumb down the brains of Chinese youth.

Your Business editor Caitlin Sykes talks with Zheng Li of Zing Design.

The NZ dollar slumped to its lowest in more than a year after RBNZ governor Graeme Wheeler jawboned it through a key support level of 80 US cents.

New Zealand posted a narrower trade deficit in August as exports of live animals and dairy products rise and imports from major trading partners declined.

A Chinese billionaire is in advanced negotiations to fund a multimillion-dollar stem cell treatment and research centre in Queenstown.

Shares in Chinese baby-milk maker Beingmate Baby & Child have rallied sharply since Fonterra entered an alliance with the firm, which includes the Kiwi dairy giant buying a 20 per cent stake in its new partner.

A prominent Chinese property developer who allegedly paid "huge bribes" in return for cheap land has fled to NZ.

Xi Jinping's version of what the move to the free market means China-style is said to come down to the "invisible hand of the market guided by the visible hand of Government".

We read about it or see it in the news every other week. But very few of us can pronounce it, let alone put a name to it. Even fewer of us genuinely understand it.

China is now New Zealand's largest trading partner and expansion of economic links with this country will be vital to the New Zealand Government's goal.