Iyia Liu has made a fortune by cashing in on the latest beauty trends.

Here are five unlikely black swan events that might catch everyone unawares in the coming year.

China is launching a secret new missile plan to keep out any interference over its territorial claims to the South China Sea, according to military officials.

Diamonds, not marriage, are forever for China's millennials.

The shocking moment a three-year-old boy was hit by a truck in China has been captured on camera.

They've decided they can abide by Beijing's rules, but Chinese companies got in ahead of them.

The latest Chinese airline to fly to Auckland has landed as passenger numbers leap past 18 million a year.

If you are waiting for the next Chinese boom, you have already missed it.

The foreign driver who injured journalist Karen Rutherford and killed her daughter's horse in a crash has lost a last-minute bid to get his passport returned.

President-elect Donald Trump's tweeting could prolong one of the most serious incidents between the US and Chinese militaries in recent memory.

President-elect has waded into the China-US drone incident - but his spellcheck wasn't working.

New Kiwi software has intercepted a batch of fake infant formula with ties to a Russian counterfeiting ring.

China is to return a US Navy underwater drone after its military scooped up the submersible in the South China Sea.

Sir Philip Green is attempting to put his BHS woes behind him by launching standalone Topshop stores across China.

Funeral home workers fought over the right to cremate a patient (who was still alive) outside a hospital ER room.

Thousands squandered by 14-year-old seduced into buying gifts for girls he'd never met, but who he said felt like "real friends".

Long working hours, low pay and squalid accommodation - welcome to the real toy factory where your presents are made.

China has flown a nuclear-capable bomber over disputed islands in what some see as a message to the US after Trump's controversial phone call.

The gambling records of a casino VIP led police to find a familiar name written on a piece of paper which changed the course of the investigation.

The expansion of Chinese residential development outside China has impacts on a number of levels, from property prices through to regional diplomacy.

COMMENT: There's little chance NZ will get through the next few years without an economic shock.

Halfway through the year, millions of Chinese students sit the world's most gruelling university entrance exam. Here's a look at what it involves.

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

Trump's protocol-breaking phone call with Taiwan's leader was an intentionally provocative move, according to interviews with people involved in planning.

Chinese citizens and its government-owned media have responded to Donald Trump's left-field phone call with Taiwan.

ANALYSIS: US President-elect Donald Trump has a chat with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing Wen, breaking a long tradition.

This baby formula company was a share market darling, riding the wave of a Chinese boom in demand. But the party's over.

A New Zealand company is selling "tens of thousands" of canisters of New Zealand air to China every month.

Human rights advocates are calling for New Zealand's million dollar hair industry to be regulated in light of a Weekend Herald investigation.

They are China's missing generation. Twenty-five million girls who technically don't exist because their parents didn't want them.