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.

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.

The United States has been warned of a potentially "devastating confrontation" over the South China Sea.

The fate of a Chinese boy who was born with a rare facial defect has caught the attention of millions.

You may have thought Auckland house prices were bad, but check out these palatial homes from around the world that fetched huge sums.

The latest sign of heightened tensions between Beijing and the self-ruled Taiwan.

The chief executive of troubled baby formula maker Bellamy's is stepping down in the wake of its share price plunge.

Bellamy's Australia shares took a nose dive after it cut its profit forecast for a second time, announced chief executive Laura McBain is leaving the company, and tweaked the terms of its supply contract with Fonterra.

He's raised eyebrows in China with comments on trade, Taiwan and North Korea. But Donald Trump will have much bigger issues than Beijing.

The Trump-Ma meeting comes amid tensions between Alibaba'shome country and the incoming US administration.

Mike Middleton hasn't touched his motorbike since February 7, 2016 - the day his son, Rhys, was killed.

While Japan has a long history in rugby, the sport has had little place in the Chinese consciousness.