COMMENT: Jack Ma of Alibaba has offered to help small businesses in NZ to access his e-commerce site, writes Barry Soper. He'll even train them how to sell their product which he's effusive about.

COMMENT: Recent estimates show that most members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership will make substantial gains, unlike those who opt not to participate.

New Zealand trade officials have signed a deal with the world's largest online marketplace, China's Alibaba Group.

John Key meet with Jack Ma, the founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba who is worth US$23 billion according to Forbes magazine.

Prime Minister John Key is downplaying warnings in Chinese state-run media not to raise the South China Seas if he wants progress on trade.

COMMENT: On one hand our two governments are building a free trade zone to continually deepen our cooperation on trade and investment. On the other, we are creating a new history of exchanges on culture and language, writes Wang Lutong.

COMMENT: The Prime Minister's mission is to try and squeeze a few concessions out of the Chinese this week - easier said than done of course, writes Barry Soper.

Prime Minister John Key and Foreign Minister Murray McCully will start campaigning in force for former rival Helen Clark this week.

COMMENT: Lessons from the Panama Papers.

News of Chinese regulatory changes has given local investors jitters and hit Australasian infant formula and health supplement stocks.

Infant formula and health supplement firms are taking a sharemarket pounding today.

Prime Minister John Key will visit China this month to discuss the free trade agreement between the two countries.

A heartbreaking Chinese beauty ad aims to empower young unmarried women who are branded as "sheng nu", or "leftover women."

Internet memes can start anywhere and spread everywhere: That's exactly what makes them so wonderful.

The range of New Zealand skincare products will be distributed by China's largest traditional medicine company.

WATCH: Moment a dazed and dusty boy is rescued from terror in deep well.

Passengers boarding a domestic flight in a Chinese airport had to be evacuated from a flight after one eagle-eyed traveller noticed that the aeroplane had a flat tyre.

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.

WARNING: Disturbing images - CCTV footage has emerged showing the moment a young Chinese boy jumps up and runs away after being run over by a van.

COMMENT: The man who is taking charge of everything, President Xi Jinping, is now turning into the first one-man regime since Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s.

Nixon and Kissinger's diplomacy would now be seen as capitulation, writes Vincent Matthews.

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.

A terrifying video has emerged from China of the moment a young child fell out of the boot of a moving vehicle onto the road.

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

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

For decades North Korea has built networks of front companies and foreign intermediaries to channel currency in and out.