Emotional and ideological contagion is becoming a more important source of systemic risk.

Can Chinese companies continue to get away with counterfeiting of car designs?

The Martin Jetpack's potential to become an airborne golf cart is helping keep founder Glenn Martin's dreams for flying machine alive

Wal-Mart hasn't met the target its manufacturing move had hoped for.

Trade Minister says he was told Zespri was warned about trade implications if New Zealand pursued complaint over 'dumping' of Chinese steel in NZ market.

The Government has refused to confirm whether NZ Steel has lodged complaints that China is 'dumping' low cost steel in the NZ market

Chinese travellers born in the 1990s are heading out of the country and are spending up large.

John Key says China has given no sign that it has concerns with New Zealand, let alone threatened to retaliate against Kiwi exporters.

Prime Minister John Key has arrived in Indonesia at a time of heightened tensions over the neighbouring South China Sea.

COMMENT: Running the eight-page China Watch PR/propaganda sheet (take your pick) seems self-destructive for this respected media brand.

The Philippines has urged Beijing to respect an international tribunal's ruling that rejected Chinese claims to most of the South China Sea.

China refused to participate in the Sea Law case and does not recognise it as a legitimate exercise under international law.

The golden statue at Hainan Island, China, was built to represent peace and wisdom, but the selfie-takers showed the opposite.

The chance of Barack Obama visiting New Zealand during his presidency appears to have faded.

Ongoing escalations in the South and East China Seas have some analysts daring to wonder who would win a war.

A UN-backed international tribunal has ruled that China has no "historic title" over waters or resources in the South China Sea.

The reset button is being pressed on global culture. And it's China's turn to play.

A polar bear on display in a glass enclosure in a Chinese shopping centre for shoppers' entertainment has been dubbed the "world's saddest".

Chinese regulators have announced they will vet all social media information before being published by media agencies to stop the spreading of "false reports" and "rumours"

Milk processing firm Miraka is tripling production to meet a growing thirst for its UHT products in China.

A man has been filmed after reportedly climbing out of his lover's apartment window to hide from her husband.

It's home to 20 million people but this major city is in growing danger of being swallowed up by the earth, scientists say.

Thousands of innocent people are being executed in secret so their body parts can be harvested, a disturbing report has claimed.

COMMENT: If I wanted to check Facebook or Twitter, or read something on a Western news site, I was completely out of luck.

It's a scary, but potentially real threat facing the world by 2030. But one expert warns China's cyber war capabilities will be more dangerous than anything else happening today.

Tourists in Beijing will no longer be able to indulge their adventurous palate and sample scorpions, centipedes or other insect delicacies

Shocking footage has emerged of a boss in China smacking his employees in front of the whole company for not working hard enough.

COMMENT: It is comforting to hear that China respects and adheres to international law and seeks only peace.

WATCH: Passengers savagely assaulted each other on board a plane in China before being led shame-faced off the aircraft by police.