China is importing more and more of its agricultural commodities from the United States.

The virus causing a second wave of bird flu across China has mutated frequently and "should be considered as a major candidate to emerge as a pandemic strain in humans".

Fallout from this week's baby formula contamination threat weighed heavily on the New Zealand dollar yesterday, with news of curtailed orders from China driving the currency lower still.

Dairy exports may already be stuck on Chinese wharves as a result of a new import requirement that products be tested for 1080 contamination, says an industry group.

Local infant formula producers are optimistic the 1080 threat is minimal but are fearful of the reputation damage it could cause.

Pakistan has test-fired a ballistic missile able to carry a nuclear warhead to every part of India. Yesterday's test was another escalation in Islamabad's effort to keep pace with its neighbouring rival's formidable military advancements.

After everything New Zealand's infant formula industry has been through over the past few years, the last thing it needed was yesterday's news of the 1080 threat.

News of the threat to contaminate New Zealand infant formula with 1080 poison had barely registered in Chinese media last night.

The rise of the Chinese economy over the past 20 years has been transformational for New Zealand, writes Bernard Doyle.

Villagers in northern China have defended brutal dog fights to the death as entertainment.

China's Environment Minister has promised to confront an environmental challenge "unprecedented in human history" after an online film exposing his country's pollution crisis went viral with more than 100 million hits in two days.

China's central bank has cut the country's official cash rate for the second time in three months - a move which highlights concern about the economic slowdown of New Zealand's largest trading....

Forget the famed Trans-Siberian Railway - the world's longest rail journey now runs between Spain and China.

Traditional Chinese beliefs suggest the year should harbour the relatively calm and placid characteristics of the sheep along with peace and prosperity, says Liam Dann.

Fletcher Building's new $77 million hi-tech Formica Group plant in China is running at close to half-capacity, two years after it opened.

A Kiwi who's been held in China for more than three months on suspicion of drug smuggling still has no idea if his case will go to trial.

Having chugged along through the financial crisis, China's huge expansion in debt now threatens to destabilise the economy.

Economic reform in China, one of New Zealand's largest trading partners accounting for 22 per cent of exports, is a lower priority than trying to save the Communist Party, according to Wall Street....

A money transfer system that has raised fears of money-laundering overseas is being considered by Immigration New Zealand as an acceptable means for wealthy Chinese applicants to bring cash to New....

A growing portion of China's toilet waste is converted into fertiliser and biogas.

New Zealand lamb wool prices jumped to their highest level in almost four years this week.

So far, a good number of Chinese families have been less than enthusiastic about the partial relaxation of the one-child policy. Why?

A big marketing drive is on to draw more Chinese people to NZ real estate and the businesswoman behind it expects a huge upswing in investment.

To maintain overall good health, the Chinese don't usually take vitamin pills or health supplements - they drink soup.

Two fake charity "monks" and a "nun" have left New Zealand - but others from a begging syndicate are applying for visas to come to New Zealand.