New Zealand is now ranking in 16th place on the world stage for the world's most competitive economies.

WATCH: This new Wi-Fi enabled plane should be here within a year.

Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific is poised to unveil the Airbus A350XWB - and it'll be flying here soon.

Cheap, fast and frills-free. Hong Kong's street restaurants have served well-loved favorites for decades. The city's much-loved food stalls are finding new favour, discovers Justine Gerardy

Newcomer Hong Kong Airlines has business fares out that will undercut rivals when it starts flying to NZ in November.

Hong Kong Airlines will start daily services to Auckland in November, the latest in a growing number of carriers to serve New Zealand.

Dizzyingly tall skyscrapers, countless shopping malls, congested streets: I knew Hong Kong was packed with them.

Alex Lawton thought he was just having a bit of a laugh with his mates, but instead he quickly found himself trapped in a nightmare scenario overseas.

A dispute over hand luggage belonging to the daughter of HK's chief executive sparked angry scenes at the territory's international airport yesterday.

The 'disappearing' Hong Kong publisher is in China, where he is "cooperating with the authorities with an investigation".

Sophie Barclay visits a tourist-free part of Hong Kong.

Spectacular shopping and food make Hong Kong a must-see desination, says Megan Singleton.

As she neared her final breath, people around her were contemplating ham n' cheese burgers and hotcakes.

You would have to be "unlucky or silly" to get caught with $1m in stolen cash in Hong Kong, criminologist says.

The hunt is on for $1 million after an botch-up during the unloading of 13 cash bags from a Cathay Pacific flight in Hong Kong.

House prices in Hong Kong have risen at the fastest pace of any country in the world over the 12 months to March.

It's a tough time to be an investment banker in Southeast Asia. Mergers involving Southeast Asian companies have dropped 45 per cent this year to the lowest level since 2009.

Jesse Mulligan lists his five must-try dishes in Hong Kong - with breakfast tripe for the more adventurous.

A lawyer says an Employment Court ruling allowing two Kiwi airline pilots to continue flying until the age of 65 is ground-breaking.

Two Kiwi pilots have won the right to stay in their jobs, after arguing that being forced to retire at the age of 55 was discrimination under New Zealand laws.

Jack Ma, a former English teacher who started Alibaba in his apartment in 1999, has become the richest person in Asia.

Rurik Jutting lived in a small, precise and unreal world. Each working day he would move between two skyscrapers, his home and his office, just three minutes apart by taxi.

'Please contact someone who is not an insane psychopath' read Rurik Jutting's out-of-office message just before he was charged with the murders of two women.

Pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong have clashed violently with police while reoccupying a protest camp.

Small groups of pro-democracy demonstrators remained on Hong Kong's streets after protest leaders agreed to talks with the government and students returned to school for exams.

Fresh clashes broke out in Hong Kong as riot police used batons and pepper spray on pro-democracy demonstrators after they were ordered to leave.

Pro-democracy protesters are continuing demonstrations in Hong Kong, with riot police responding with tear gas. What set it all off?

Pro-democracy protesters may have engaged in a night of battles with police, but then they cleaned up and apologised to police who pepper-sprayed them.

Hong Kong activists kicked off a long-threatened mass civil disobedience protest to challenge Beijing over restrictions on voting reforms.