Prime Minister John Key says there is only one chance to get a comprehensive Trans Pacific Partnership and it would be worth waiting a little longer to get one.

Typhoon Fitow, which is barrelling into China's east coast packing winds of more than 200km/h, has killed at least five people and impacted three million.

The secretary-general of North Korea's ski association views the sprawling alpine landscape before him with unabashed pride.

Two words go far in Japan's ski towns, finds Kieran Nash.