Zuru Toys is out to become an innovative billion-dollar company. Alexander Speirs meets the successful Mowbray family.

The Huawei Spark innovation partnership bears 700MHz fruit writes Bill Bennett.

China's latest buzzword is a business strategy that appears all-encompassing, as Xiaoying Fu found on a recent visit.

China is on the verge of an outward tourism boom as middle-class incomes surge.

New Zealand is the second-cheapest country in the world for Chinese property shoppers but also one of the most popular, according to a Chinese real estate site.

Michael Pettis must be the world's coolest economist, Liam Dann writes.

Be kind. Try to live a virtuous life. Then, when the time comes, crowds may come to your funeral. In rural China, apparently, it also helps to attract mourners if you hire strippers.

What would happen if Chinese retail investors got a sudden taste for New Zealand stocks? Until recently that question might have seemed a little preposterous.

11,600 Filipino, US and Australian soldiers - twice as many as last year - are set to join the war games off Palawan province near contested South China Sea islands.

China's push to challenge US dominance in global trade and finance may involve gold - a lot of gold.

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.

China's worst economic slowdown in 25 years will hit Australia as iron ore prices tumble, says the World Bank.

'Young and fabulous,' it says on the teenager's T-shirt, in big gold letters. If it is meant to be ironic, it isn't.

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....