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.

It's been a while since I was last in Shanghai and the transformation has been stunning. The skyscrapers are taller.

A Chinese mother locked up in a labour camp for demanding justice over the rape, kidnap and prostitution of her 11-year-old daughter said this week that her battle against the authorities was far from over.

The gambling mecca of Macau now handles more wagers than all US-based commercial casinos put together.

A Chinese museum has been forced to close after claims that its 40,000-strong collection of supposedly ancient relics was almost entirely composed of fakes.

A Chinese New Zealander who entered China illegally to see his dying parents says he was chained and tortured for five days before being deported.

Derek Cheng challenges himself and sets a new personal best for culinary repugnancy.

What happens to NZ if China's mothers decide breast is best?

China's Communist party has struggled for 2.5 years to decide what to do with Liu Zhijun, the high-speed rail supremo who embezzled $635 million.

Luxury steps up to new high-tech levels at a renowned Hong Kong institution.

China is making up for lost time on the fairways with the most opulent courses you've ever seen, writes James Ihaka.

Kris Shannon and Andrew Koubaridis get suited and booted in China.

We still don't know whether the freeze-up of China's interbank market last week was a hiccup or a foreshock.

A peek behind the scenes at Cathay Pacific's kitchens fascinates Shandelle Battersby.

New Zealand companies have been accused of sending unsafe baby milk products to China - the latest in a string of recent clashes with our largest trading partner. Christopher Adams investigates what has gone wrong

Infant formula sold by New Zealand supermarket chains to Hong Kong is being smuggled into China as part of a black-market trade in imported milk powder.

Widespread fears of a flood of Asian investment and a Chinese farm-buying spree are misplaced - Australia is the largest overseas investor in New Zealand.

I've learned over my 30-plus years of driving to be very careful about the blind spot behind my right shoulder because the mirrors I usually rely on don't show me everything, says Bernard Hickey.

Emerging markets like India and China are becoming just as frustrated with international corporate tax rules as developed economies, says a KPMG partner.

It remains an area crying out for regulatory oversight in case missteps by smaller players screw the market for our champions, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

As Fonterra China Farms general manager Nicola Morris sums up, it is about taking the best of Kiwi ingenuity and farming systems.

Since John Key's celebratory mission there in April, there has been a series of difficult and costly issues dogging New Zealand trade with China, writes Liam Dann.