International leaders are failing in their fight against global warming, one of the United Nations' top climate officials has said.

A restaurant that prides itself on organic freshness allows Shandelle Battersby to go to the source of her dinner.

Julian Hanton relives his top five highlights making Travel Channel New Zealand's brand new series, Asian Times.

A global survey has found Chinese tourists are more likely to seek luxury for their holidays.

Shandelle Battersby gets a taste of Chinese medicine - with inconclusive results.

A young woman is stopped from falling from her apartment in China.

New Zealand's 100 per cent Pure image is suddenly being questioned by its loyal Chinese customers, writes Hua Dong.

An error with carton labels which stopped meat getting into China has led to about 240 workers being temporarily out of their jobs at a South Island freezing works.

Questions remain over the status of potentially contaminated Karicare infant formula sold through unofficial channels in China, despite Fonterra's assertions that all products affected by its botulism scare have been contained.

Chinese consumers haven't been mincing their words over the Fonterra botulism debacle this week.

Daily newspapers in China have held nothing back in dealing to New Zealand over Fonterra's tainted milk powder crisis.

Sri Lanka is the latest country to order an immediate suspension of New Zealand milk powder imports over botulism fears from contaminated Fonterra products.

Prime Minister John Key says he is prepared to fly to China if he needs to in the wake of the Fonterra whey contamination scandal.

Leaky homes, free market devotion and a 'festering sore' of a tourism campaign - New Zealand is coming under fire in the state-sanctioned Chinese media.

Potentially dangerous Karicare infant formula remained on sale in China's massive online "grey market" last night.

Nobody can accuse the People's Bank of China, China's central bank, of being gun-shy.

The challenge for New Zealand will be how to manage while the economies of its two biggest trading partners are slowing during continued strength in the Kiwi dollar

An Auckland couple are fighting to bring their sick baby home after she was born three months early on a stopover in China.

Rescuers with shovels and sniffer dogs combed through collapsed hillsides as the death toll rose to 89 from a strong earthquake in a farming region of northwest China.