China's biggest bank has begun making inroads into this country's mortgage market.

Prime Minister John Key has downplayed revelations from Edward Snowden documents that New Zealand and American hackers had made a plan to spy on China.

One of the things I love most about China is that whenever you see a traffic jam there's always an old bloke on an impossibly rickety bicycle picking his way through the chaos.

New Edward Snowden documents reveal that the GCSB and NSA cooked up a plan to crack into a data link between Chinese government buildings in Auckland.

Five Eyes allies identified a diplomatic data link between Chinese offices as a target for hacking. Nicky Hager and Ryan Gallagher dissect the plan.

A Canterbury postgraduate student is cycling through Australia, Asia and Europe on his way to a UN climate congress.

The NZ dollar remains under downward pressure as the market awaits China's first-quarter GDP report today and the next GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction.

A spectacular weekend crash involving a Lamborghini and a Ferrari has thrown a spotlight on the boy racers in the heart of China's capital.

The world-beating surge in Chinese technology stocks is making the heady days of the US dot-com bubble look tame by comparison.

Gina Rinehart has locked in supply contracts with three of the largest iron ore-consuming Asian nations outside of China.

It may be the world's tallest mountain to climb, but now China has set itself an even greater Mt Everest challenge: attempting to bore a tunnel straight through it.

Fran O'Sullivan on governor Lu Hao - widely tipped to be a major player in Beijing's "next generation" leadership - who was in NZ yesterday.

For the second time in days, a particularly amorous male panda in China has smashed the record for longest mating session, zookeepers say.

Blair Haeata says his Maori heritage has helped him fit into marketing roles at a number of Chinese businesses, including his latest job at China Southern Airlines.

Finance Minister Bill English says New Zealand and Singapore have been at the forefront of negotiations with the Chinese Government over the governance of the proposed Asia Infrastructure Investment....

The Government has yet to decide whether to join a multilateral bank to finance infrastructure in Asia, an initiative led by China but opposed by the US.

Competition for air travel between New Zealand and China is set to intensify with plans by Air China to fly daily direct flights between Auckland and Beijing this year.

China has placed on the record - ever so diplomatically - its displeasure at the latest Edward Snowden revelations, Fran O' Sullivan writes.

China Southern Airlines' growth has been spectacular since its entry into the New Zealand market in 2011, Grant Bradely writes.

As China's economy has rapidly expanded over the past couple of decades, the Asian superpower's commercial giants have spread their wings and gone out into the world.

China is importing more and more of its agricultural commodities from the United States.

The virus causing a second wave of bird flu across China has mutated frequently and "should be considered as a major candidate to emerge as a pandemic strain in humans".

Fallout from this week's baby formula contamination threat weighed heavily on the New Zealand dollar yesterday, with news of curtailed orders from China driving the currency lower still.

Dairy exports may already be stuck on Chinese wharves as a result of a new import requirement that products be tested for 1080 contamination, says an industry group.

Local infant formula producers are optimistic the 1080 threat is minimal but are fearful of the reputation damage it could cause.