The government has approved a negotiating mandate for the Trans-Pacific Partnership 11.

"Whether you like him or not, he's a man of his word," says new US Ambassador Scott Brown.

MP Todd Barclay has only kept his job to maintain National's majority, Labour says.

New Zealand seeks greater status with important Latin and South American bloc

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the US wants to retain influence in Asia-Pacific.

COMMENT: Prime Minister Bill English avoided hard questions and awkward handshakes.

Prime Minister Bill English says his Japan trip is a priority.

COMMENT: New trade agreements should not be modelled on the TPP, writes Bill Rosenberg.

Nick Leggett says he has decided against running for Parliament in Mana.

English's efforts to keep the TPP in play will be centre-stage when meets Malcolm Turnbull in Queenstown tomorrow.

With the Trans-Pacific Partnership on ice, Trade Minister Todd McClay has been travelling the globe ahead of a meeting in Chile next month.

Immigration and the economy among topics English and Trump discuss in brief telephone call.

Trade Minister Todd McClay will request that talks on a Mexican free trade deal be placed on the agenda when he meets his counterpart in Mexico.

America's withdrawal from the TPP has come as a huge blow to many countries, but now China may be able to use it to its own advantage.

Trump hysteria has become a parody in which the screamiest and stupidest attacks become headlines.

President Trump handed China its clearest opening yet to tilt the geopolitical balance in Asia in its favour.

New Zealand will join Japan, Australia and Singapore in exploring the survival of the TPP without the United States.

The trade deal has been scrapped by President Donald Trump.

Prime Minister Bill English will not rule out trading away the Foreign Affairs portfolio in post-election coalition talks.

The New Zealand PM said overall relations with the US were very positive.

John Key won't leave much of a political legacy but to voters that doesn't matter, says political editor Audrey Young.

China may take the place of the US in an Asia-Pacific free trade agreement following the US withdrawal from TPP.

The Government may be disappointed by Donald Trump's TPP policy but it is pushing NZ interests in other markets, including Iran.

Donald Trump's axing of the TPP is unsurprising but still a huge disappointment say two business leaders.

US President-elect Donald Trump has released a video saying he will withdraw the US from the TPP trade deal on his first day in office.

Claire Trevett plots the topsy-turvy week of Prime Minister John Key - in which a quake sets the scene.

Whanganui MP Chester Borrows has failed in his application to have a charge against him dismissed.

Prime Minister John Key is hoping to speak to Russia's President Vladimir Putin at the Apec summit in Lima today

COMMENT: It is dubbed the "family photo" and the Apec family certainly comes with more than its fair share of dysfunctionality.