Brett Hewlett announced at the company's annual shareholders meeting today that he will be step down in March 2016.

Deng Xiaoping's economic policies now inflate and distort asset prices around the world, including here in New Zealand.

The NZ-China free trade agreement doesn't stop new restrictions on house sales to overseas buyers, but National's subsequent deals try to, writes David Parker.

The conventional wisdom is that the recent crash in share prices will not have a big impact on China's economic growth but HSBC's co-head of Asian economic research is not so sure.

Colliers' advertising in China for Auckland apartments talks up soft rules.

A video of a couple supposedly having sex in a changing room in Beijing has caused moral outrage across the Chinese internet.

The Chinese market crash and new rules combine to make investors look further afield.

Fonterra says it is disappointed about a poor first-half result expected by its Chinese infant formula investment, Beingmate Baby & Child.

The debate about non-resident Chinese buying Auckland houses could hurt bilateral relations and Labour has already done "immeasurable" damage to the links between the two countries, says a top boss.

Labour's Mt Roskill MP Phil Goff admits some of the constituents in his ethnically diverse electorate could be put off by his party's comments on Chinese housing investors.

Juwai.com has surveyed users and found 36 per cent of people spoken to bought property in New Zealand for investment.

A slowdown in the Chinese economy isn't expected to crimp demand for education in New Zealand.

Chinese newspaper accuses Labour of racism over property market data.

Chinese people work and save hard to buy Auckland residential property, while Kiwis spend up large - that's the tenor of responses to figures released by Labour.

It's impossible to know where the rout of Chinese stocks will end but there's little doubt its effects will wash over Australia one way or another, says Christopher Niesche.

For many people, the leaked property sale figures reported in the Weekend Herald will have contained just one element of surprise.

Increased IPO activity is a clear sign of an overvalued market, writes Brian Gaynor.

The Chinese dairy firm partially owned by Fonterra has been suspended from trading amid the Chinese stock market turmoil.

The worst monthly slump in Chinese stocks in two years wiped away more than US$34 billion ($50.8 billion) in combined net worth of the richest people in June.

The reality of China's SOE privatisation is far from the potted free-market anecdote we like to tell ourselves.

Shares in Beingmate - the Chinese company which is 18.8pc owned by Fonterra - have halved in value over the past three weeks.

Jim Eagles' eyes are opened to the intricacies of trade at a livestock market in the Silk Road hub of Kashgar, China's westernmost city.

New Zealand businesses should keep their nerve as international markets are spooked by the Chinese sharemarket sell-off, the closure of Greek banks and even a signal by Puerto Rico that it cannot pay....

China Eastern Airlines has plans to build up to daily services on its Auckland-Shanghai service.

China Eastern says it'll soon start flying between Auckland and Shanghai year-round - and travellers are the winners.

One fact is often overlooked amid all the hype about business opportunities in China.

Is the great Chinese stock bubble of 2015 coming to an end?