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

Key prepared to head to China
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.

100% Pure 'festering sore' - China media
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.

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

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

China's plight a challenge for NZ
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

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

Death toll in China quake rises to 89
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.

Larry Williams: We need Chinese
It's been a while since I was last in Shanghai and the transformation has been stunning. The skyscrapers are taller.

Raped girl's mum says fight far from over
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.

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

Scandal forces museum full of fakes to shut down
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.

Kiwi 'treated like animal' on China trip
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.

China: A soft spot for sizzled spaniel
Derek Cheng challenges himself and sets a new personal best for culinary repugnancy.

Dita De Boni: All eyes on powder profits
What happens to NZ if China's mothers decide breast is best?

'Great leap Liu' gets life for $635m theft
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.

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

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

China: Shanghai's five shopping hotspots for men
Kris Shannon and Andrew Koubaridis get suited and booted in China.

Marshall Meyer: China needs shot of Capitalism 101
We still don't know whether the freeze-up of China's interbank market last week was a hiccup or a foreshock.

When plane food is best
A peek behind the scenes at Cathay Pacific's kitchens fascinates Shandelle Battersby.

China: Invitation from Mrs Zhang
Paul Rush experiences courtyard cuisine in the back streets of Beijing.

China's top brands taking cues from West: expert
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.

Formula for trouble
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