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Liam Dann: Fresh Chinese rate cut highlights slowdown risk

China's central bank has cut the country's official cash rate for the second time in three months - a move which highlights concern about the economic slowdown of New Zealand's largest trading....

Train's 26,000km round trip

Forget the famed Trans-Siberian Railway - the world's longest rail journey now runs between Spain and China.

Liam Dann: Year of the Sheep needs wise shepherds

Traditional Chinese beliefs suggest the year should harbour the relatively calm and placid characteristics of the sheep along with peace and prosperity, says Liam Dann.

Production up in Fletcher's China plant

Fletcher Building's new $77 million hi-tech Formica Group plant in China is running at close to half-capacity, two years after it opened.

Shanghai Pengxin wants to lift NZ farm assets to $1b in five years

Paul Glass: Global hopes firmly tied to US economy

People who try to predict the short-term direction of financial markets are usually wrong, writes Paul Glass.

Kiwi waits in jail for word on drugs trial

A Kiwi who's been held in China for more than three months on suspicion of drug smuggling still has no idea if his case will go to trial.

China's massive and unsustainable debt increase

Having chugged along through the financial crisis, China's huge expansion in debt now threatens to destabilise the economy.

China's rulers in survival mode

Economic reform in China, one of New Zealand's largest trading partners accounting for 22 per cent of exports, is a lower priority than trying to save the Communist Party, according to Wall Street....

Fake monks on the run to Australia

Two fake charity "monks" and a "nun" have left New Zealand - but others from a begging syndicate are applying for visas to come to New Zealand.

Chinese equities plunge

Chinese equities plunged the most in five years, led by brokerages, after regulatory efforts to rein in record margin lending sparked concern.

Inside the fake-monk scam

Fake charity "monks" who target pedestrians on New Zealand's busiest streets are recruited in China and sent here with the promise of making big money.

Kiwi scientist wins prestigious award

China has presented its highest award for foreign researchers to a renowned Kiwi scientist who helped change the face of the country's farming systems.

Chinese education for TV experiment

A group of British teenagers will be taught by Chinese teachers in a unique experiment for a BBC documentary.

Global markets feeling oil slump

Exceptionally low oil prices have thrown world financial markets a curve ball by driving bond yields sharply lower and undermining share prices.

Liam Dann: Telltale topics on economic barometer

In dramatic terms 2014 ended with several big business and economic stories on cliff- hangers.

Surgeons sacked over selfies

A team of Chinese doctors and nurses has been sacked for posting 'selfies' from a seven-hour operation online.

China said to lift ban on GM corn

China's government is said to be lifting a ban on imports of a genetically-modified corn variety that's commonly grown in the US.