For Comvita, an unofficial "grey" channel into China has played a big part in its success, but a change in the rules has hit sales.

COMMENT: As if driving on the wrong side of the road isn't confusing enough, what's really confusing is sitting in the wrong side of the car, writes Raybon Kan.

The older brother of Kim Jong-un has been assassinated at an airport. This is why the North Korean dictator might have wanted him dead.

In a plot fit for a spy novel, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un's half-brother has been killed in Malaysia.

Nowhere are China's rusted-out industries worse than in Liaoning, a province that's slumped into outright recession.

COMMENT: Auckland needs to work harder and closer to build a two-way, long-term New Zealand-China relationship.

Some return flights to Europe have fallen below $1000 and on sale to London for an "unheard" of $1099.

President Donald Trump's official counsellor, Kellyanne Conway has told TV audiences to "go buy Ivanka's stuff".

A new report claims China has been practicing preemptive missile strikes against US bases.

Online images showed local officials holding a lavish banquet of meat of endangered pangolin, the most trafficked animal on earth.

200,000 are expected at biggest cultural festival in the country.

Immigration and the economy among topics English and Trump discuss in brief telephone call.

Scores of Chinese billionaires, millionaires and CEOs have disappeared in "state-sanctioned abductions" only to reappear days or weeks later.

Jack Ma's Chinese E-commerce giant, Alibaba, has its eyes firmly set on the Australian and New Zealand market.

China registered a record 6.15 million overseas trips during the Lunar New Year holiday.

In at least some of these calls, according to some accounts, the American leader lived up to his reputation for straight-talking and bombastic rhetoric.

Whatever you do with your friends, it's probably more sensible than this.

Every breath you take reminds you you're in Beijing, writes Jacqueline Smith.

A young man has been killed by a tiger in front of his horrified wife and child after entering the big cats' zoo enclosure.

The perception that migrants take jobs from Kiwis and push up house prices are widespread, but the fear is overblown, a new report has found.

America's withdrawal from the TPP has come as a huge blow to many countries, but now China may be able to use it to its own advantage.

Gold volumes increased from major suppliers in Switzerland and Hong Kong, in the run-up to the Lunar New Year.

China remains tight-lipped on whether it wants to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.

China's biggest e-commerce company increased its projection for fiscal 2017 revenue growth to 53 per cent.

President Trump handed China its clearest opening yet to tilt the geopolitical balance in Asia in its favour.

Trump's trade hawks risk collateral damage for the global economy if they're serious about a conflict with China.

From his perch in the Pearl River Delta in southern China, Yin Hao tries to make sense of America. Lately, that's been tough.

Fed up with severe smog, Chinese tourists are swarming abroad to countries with "clean air" on their latest travel trend: "lung cleansing" tours.

Chinese President Xi Jinping cautioned against protectionism as he pushed back against Donald Trump and other Western populists.

EXCLUSIVE: One of China's most wanted fugitives William Yan, also known as Bill Liu, Yang Liu and Yong Ming Yan, is back in New Zealand.