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

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.

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

A Shanghai Court has upheld a ruling against Zespri's China-based subsidiary and one of its employees for smuggling, leaving the company with a $960,000 fine and the employee with a five-year jail term.

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.

Paul Rush experiences courtyard cuisine in the back streets of Beijing.

Hong Kong-based adman Keith Smith has been in and out of China for 20 years. Nobody - Chinese or Westerners - would have guessed in the mid-1990s that the consumer and advertising market would explode the way it has, Smith says.

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.