The Chinese bid for the Crafar dairy farms has everything but transparency, finds Karyn Scherer.

A Customs broker has been charged with helping smuggle drugs worth up to $17 million.

A Chinese businessman alleged to be behind ambitious plans to invest up to $1.5 billion in NZ's dairy industry has only recently severed his business links with Jenny Shipley.

Local software company Pingar has begun an ambitious push into the Chinese language computer search engine business.

Three-quarters of China's provinces have been hit by floods and more than 1000 people have died or been lost in the severe flooding so far this year.

Wealthy Chinese investors say strict fund transfer policies are preventing them from becoming investor migrants in New Zealand.

NZ is one of the best places to shuffle off the mortal coil, according to a new index.

It takes more than a T-shirt to appreciate this ancient wonder, writes Jim Eagles.