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Lifeline for the babies no one wants
It is a bustling city of seven million people, many drawn from China's rural hinterland to work in its factories, shops, karaoke parlours and restaurants.
Macau: Culture behind casino mecca
There's much more to do in Macau than gamble, writes Brendan Manning.
Stores ban Angora over viral video of live rabbits being plucked
Online retailer ASOS has joined a host of upmarket shops in banning angora products over a viral video exposing the cruelty that rabbits suffer.
Severed hand grafted to man's ankle to keep it alive
A man whose right hand was severed in an industrial accident had it sewn to his ankle for a month while he waited to undergo reattachment surgery in China.
Gentle giants of Chengdu
Pandas and a soaring Buddha statue greet Harriet O'Brien on a visit to this Sichuan city.
China's space program
China successfully carried out the world's first soft landing of a space probe on the moon in nearly four decades, state media said, the next stage in an ambitious space program that aims to eventually put a Chinese astronaut on the moon. Check out the photos of their space program.
Apple work conditions improving
A labour group monitoring three Chinese factories that make iPhones and other Apple products says once-oppressive working conditions have steadily improved in the last 18 months.
Propaganda Poster Art Centre, Shanghai
Some of the more than 6000 propaganda posters printed between 1940 and 1990, which are on display at this private museum.
Shanghai: Poster poise of old China
High-rise future looks forward, but Communist-era posters tells a fascinating tale, writes Duncan Gillies.
Wang Lutong: NZ welcome partner in China's march to prosperity
It's a critical time to boost the relationship between NZ and China, writes Ambassador Wang Lutong.
Philip Young: Choose construction sites with care
May 12, 2013, marked the fifth anniversary of the Wenchuan earthquake in the Sichuan Province of China.
NZ lies low amid China dispute
New Zealand is lying relatively low amid increased tensions in the East China Sea dispute between China, and the United States and its allies, and seems determined not to criticise anyone.
South Korea, Japan defy Chinese air defence zone
South Korean and Japanese flights through China's new maritime air defence zone added to the international defiance of rules Beijing says it has imposed in East China Sea but that neighbours and the US have vowed to ignore.
Chinese air defence zone invalid, says Japan
China's new maritime air defence zone is unenforceable, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said yesterday.
China's no-fly zone raises alarm
China and Japan appeared to be a step closer to a military confrontation that could drag in the United States.
China: Shanghai temptations
Art Deco delights, juicy dumplings and split bottom pants ... despite the smog there is still plenty to see in Shanghai discovers Kirsty Wynn.
Easing of China policy may not result in baby boom
Don't expect a new Chinese baby boom, experts say, despite the first easing of the country's controversial one-child policy in three decades.
China easing rule on one child
One of the totemic policies of China's Communist Party - the ban on families having more than a single child - has been relaxed in a historic shift by Beijing's new ruling regime.
China to loosen one-child policy
China's leaders have announced the first significant easing of the country's one-child policy in nearly 30 years and moved to abolish an often-abused labour camp system.
Fran O'Sullivan: Big Two part of Key plans for next year
The PM is factoring in the possibility of a visit by Barack Obama to NZ as one of the wild cards he has to consider in setting the date for next year's election.