Justice Minister says she has had no extradition requests from China despite reports showing up to 20 of the country's most wanted fugitives fled to New Zealand.

11,600 Filipino, US and Australian soldiers - twice as many as last year - are set to join the war games off Palawan province near contested South China Sea islands.

China's push to challenge US dominance in global trade and finance may involve gold - a lot of gold.

China's biggest bank has begun making inroads into this country's mortgage market.

Prime Minister John Key has downplayed revelations from Edward Snowden documents that New Zealand and American hackers had made a plan to spy on China.

One of the things I love most about China is that whenever you see a traffic jam there's always an old bloke on an impossibly rickety bicycle picking his way through the chaos.

New Edward Snowden documents reveal that the GCSB and NSA cooked up a plan to crack into a data link between Chinese government buildings in Auckland.

The NZ dollar remains under downward pressure as the market awaits China's first-quarter GDP report today and the next GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction.

A spectacular weekend crash involving a Lamborghini and a Ferrari has thrown a spotlight on the boy racers in the heart of China's capital.

China's worst economic slowdown in 25 years will hit Australia as iron ore prices tumble, says the World Bank.

'Young and fabulous,' it says on the teenager's T-shirt, in big gold letters. If it is meant to be ironic, it isn't.

The world-beating surge in Chinese technology stocks is making the heady days of the US dot-com bubble look tame by comparison.

Gina Rinehart has locked in supply contracts with three of the largest iron ore-consuming Asian nations outside of China.

It may be the world's tallest mountain to climb, but now China has set itself an even greater Mt Everest challenge: attempting to bore a tunnel straight through it.

For the second time in days, a particularly amorous male panda in China has smashed the record for longest mating session, zookeepers say.

Blair Haeata says his Maori heritage has helped him fit into marketing roles at a number of Chinese businesses, including his latest job at China Southern Airlines.

Finance Minister Bill English says New Zealand and Singapore have been at the forefront of negotiations with the Chinese Government over the governance of the proposed Asia Infrastructure Investment....

Business editor Liam Dann is heading to China to look at China's slowing economic growth and how it will affect NZ.

Chaos theory calls it the butterfly effect. It's the idea that a butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon could cause a tornado in Texas, Bernard Hickey writes.

The Government has yet to decide whether to join a multilateral bank to finance infrastructure in Asia, an initiative led by China but opposed by the US.

Competition for air travel between New Zealand and China is set to intensify with plans by Air China to fly daily direct flights between Auckland and Beijing this year.

China has placed on the record - ever so diplomatically - its displeasure at the latest Edward Snowden revelations, Fran O' Sullivan writes.

China Southern Airlines' growth has been spectacular since its entry into the New Zealand market in 2011, Grant Bradely writes.

As China's economy has rapidly expanded over the past couple of decades, the Asian superpower's commercial giants have spread their wings and gone out into the world.