A cruise is a gentle way to discover the bustle of China, writes Pamela Wade.

The official media guide for the Asian Games provides some interesting, yet wrong, explanations for events.

Rescuers are racing to reach 28 men trapped in a coal mine in southern China.

The Yemen beach volleyball team have blamed a loss at the Asian Games on bikini-clad Chinese cheerleaders.

New Zealand golfer Mark Brown is quietly confident of upsetting his more fancied rivals and capturing the Hong Kong Open.

A competitor in the golf event at the Asian Games had a first round to forget shooting a whopping 58 shots over par.

Five months after Irish No 8 Jamie Heaslip brazenly kneed the All Blacks captain in the back, McCaw barely recalls the incident ahead of presumably their next encounter

Forget Paul Henry’s narrow vision of a New Zealander. People from nearly every country in the world have made Aotearoa their home. Five new New Zealanders tell Shelley Bridgeman how they came here and why they became Kiwis.

A report has exposed conditions at sweatshops in China where Disney toys are produced for Western consumers.

The economic recession and increasing awareness about environmental and ethical concerns have spurred many in the fashion industry to look more closely at its image.

A Sufi shrine is also the resting place of a famous concubine, writes Jim Eagles.

UK's Prime Minister David Cameron is trying to drum up some business for Britain in China.

The world could run out of affordable chocolate within 20 years as farmers in West Africa abandon their crops, industry experts claim.