The two-day Taniwha Dragon Economic Summit was hailed a success before lunch yesterday, Mondayachieving half its goal of $100 million

Pressure is mounting for the Government to reconsider the plea for lifelong visitor visas from Chinese parents who lost their only child in the Christchurch quake.

A group who lost their only children in the Christchurch quake feel failed by two Govts.

1. You can see it from space Robert Ripley's tag-line - "Believe It or Not!" - was a great way of trundling out alluring half-truths

Ancient water town conjures up a dreamlike vision of purity and simplicity, says Paul Rush.

For Comvita, an unofficial "grey" channel into China has played a big part in its success, but a change in the rules has hit sales.

COMMENT: As if driving on the wrong side of the road isn't confusing enough, what's really confusing is sitting in the wrong side of the car, writes Raybon Kan.

The older brother of Kim Jong-un has been assassinated at an airport. This is why the North Korean dictator might have wanted him dead.

In a plot fit for a spy novel, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un's half-brother has been killed in Malaysia.

Some return flights to Europe have fallen below $1000 and on sale to London for an "unheard" of $1099.

President Donald Trump's official counsellor, Kellyanne Conway has told TV audiences to "go buy Ivanka's stuff".

A new report claims China has been practicing preemptive missile strikes against US bases.

Rod Pascoe stays at the Park Hyatt on Hainan Island, China.

It appears that the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 fiasco is not over yet. A "minor fire" broke out at the factory that manufactures the malicious

Online images showed local officials holding a lavish banquet of meat of endangered pangolin, the most trafficked animal on earth.

200,000 are expected at biggest cultural festival in the country.

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

Scores of Chinese billionaires, millionaires and CEOs have disappeared in "state-sanctioned abductions" only to reappear days or weeks later.

In at least some of these calls, according to some accounts, the American leader lived up to his reputation for straight-talking and bombastic rhetoric.

Whatever you do with your friends, it's probably more sensible than this.

Every breath you take reminds you you're in Beijing, writes Jacqueline Smith.

COMMENT: Prospect of tit-for-tat trade or currency wars a grave threat to all countries, writes David Wang.

A Chinese billionaire, said to be protected by eight bodyguards, has vanished in Hong Kong.

A young man has been killed by a tiger in front of his horrified wife and child after entering the big cats' zoo enclosure.

The perception that migrants take jobs from Kiwis and push up house prices are widespread, but the fear is overblown, a new report has found.

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.

Gold volumes increased from major suppliers in Switzerland and Hong Kong, in the run-up to the Lunar New Year.

China remains tight-lipped on whether it wants to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.

China's biggest e-commerce company increased its projection for fiscal 2017 revenue growth to 53 per cent.

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