The Chinese government is pushing domestic banks to remove high-end servers made by IBM in an escalation of the dispute with the US over spying claims.

Fonterra has set an opening milk price of $7.00 per kg of milksolids for the 2014/15 season and revised down its forecast for the current season.

China is now New Zealand's largest trading partner and expansion of economic links with this country will be vital to the New Zealand Government's goal.

Exports exceeded imports by $534 million last month, pushing the annual trade surplus to $1.2 billion, its largest since July 2011.

The problem for Tim Groser is that any deal is likely to fall far below his "gold standard" for Japan and the US to totally remove all tariffs, writes Jane Kelsey.

Trade Negotiations Minister Tim Groser is warning that Japan could be “left behind” if it doesn’t sign up to a high quality Trans Pacific Partnership deal.

Swiss voters have overwhelmingly rejected a proposal that would have introduced the world's highest minimum wage, early results from a referendum indicate.

New Zealand's wine and dairy producers will be forced to export their products without branding in retaliation for Government's introduction of plain packaging of cigarettes.

Clothing retailer Just Jeans has voluntarily recalled four children's garments containing potentially cancer-causing dyes.