A summit is being held to help New Zealand businesses better capitalise on burgeoning growth in the Chinese tourism market.

Bad debts in the Chinese banking system are ten times higher than officially admitted, Fitch Ratings has warned.

They were two powerful, ancient empires separated by more than 5,000 miles of imposing mountain ranges, barren desert and exposed steppe grasslands.

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China wants more of a share of New Zealand infrastructure.

Google Earth images reveal four mysterious new objects on a disputed South China Sea island. China wants to hide the evidence.

COMMENT: Is China about to be the epicentre of Global Financial Crisis II, the sequel?

Nida sends Grant Bradley in search of epic surf; instead he finds a tranquil haven minutes from bustling Kowloon.

Rod Pascoe flies KA694 to the capital of Hainan, an island province in southern China.

Success inside China's most-valuable public company sometimes requires a bit of cannibalisation.

A powerful typhoon has killed 15 people in China and Taiwan just days before a second storm is expected to batter the region.

Every horrific form of torture you can imagine happens inside China's prisons. The victims are completely innocent. WARNING: Disturbing.

An inflatable moon was no match for the strong winds lashing the southern China as Typhoon Meranti passes through.

It may be housed in a retired passenger jet, but China's latest fine-dining restaurant has more on the menu than the typical mile-high cuisine.

The small Chinese fishing village of Wukan has been described by locals as a "war zone" as authorities seek to suppress demonstrations against land seizures.

The world's largest mobile payment company has launched a new payment system in New Zealand.

A gay Chinese student activist is taking legal action against Ministry of Education over school textbooks describing homosexuality as a mental disorder.

Known as the Hawaii of China, Hainan is China's largest tropical island, with natural assets like sandy beaches, rainforest and hot springs.

A young man who made a giant heart from hundreds of fruits for a public love confession was left humiliated when his advances were rejected by the girl of his dreams.

COMMENT: The key ingredients for cracking the business bigtime in Asia can be found close to home.

Many New Zealand domestic industries built up in the past 50 to 100 years are in jeopardy because of inadequate trade remedies that favour importers over local producers.

Business has been so brisk at the world's most profitable toymaker that Lego last year did something unusual.

It is a relief that a G20 summit hosted by China produced nothing worse than a dispute over steps the US President would use to alight from Air Force One.

China's got the world puzzling over its oil hoard.

Contrary to public perception, few overseas-born elderly Asians own a house and many are living in poorly maintained dwellings.

Beijing says it's building a new type of strategic bomber to 'significantly increase' the nation's long-range strike capability.

Shanghai is a vibrant city - so full of people, it would be difficult to find a street in Shanghai without anybody on it.

October 11 will be the 120th anniversary of Sun Yat Sen's kidnapping in London. An article foiled the plot to kill "the Father of the Chinese Republic".

Heading into a third year of low prices, questions have to be asked whether the dairy industry is on a false path. If so, where is the path back to firm ground?

Elderly drivers of souped up scooters - based on Audi or Mini Cooper models - are causing alarm on China's roads by flouting traffic laws, including running red lights.

China's city clusters could become key economic engines -- and, maybe, a model for how cities can keep growing.