New Zealand manufacturers are increasingly moving offshore to stay afloat, but there are other options, says Steve Nicholson

Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce has had talks with internet giant Alibaba in China about setting up a New Zealand-based section of the site.

This is Part 1 of a series of four articles on the role of business and how it may be changing as companies consider social and environmental concerns in the post-global financial crisis world.

We are constantly assured that the great advantages of extending free trade.

New Zealand and Australian employees of infant formula manufacturer Nutricia could be the latest victims of Fonterra's botulism botch-up.

Meat and green-lipped mussels had PM John Key back in more comfortable territory on a trade trip in Bangkok, after days of scrutiny of his reaction to Sri Lanka's human rights.

Now that economic reform has slowed, joining TPP could spur the next round of reforms, writes Fran O'Sullivan.