In rural Nepal, where the going rate for a healthy orphan is US$6000 ($7449), about 600 children are missing.

A Kiwi beauty who quit her job to become a model was told she was "too old" for the industry at the age of 21.

The impacts of the global financial crisis hit are ingrained in our communities.

Money isn't everything but having no money is. Ask anyone on poor street...

Michael Long is back in golf's winner's circle finishing the US$1 million ($1.23 million) China Masters with a share of first place.

An action-packed trip to Hong Kong and Vietnam offers contrasting cultural lessons for mum, dad and the kids, write Grant Bradley and Estelle Sarney.

The latest Chinese bid for the Crafar dairy farms is a key test for new rules on foreign ownership, reports Karyn Scherer

China's enormous sovereign wealth fund, the China Investment Corporation, may have set aside up to 1.5 per cent or about $6 billion of its massive foreign exchange reserves to invest in New Zealand assets.

NZ First leader Winston Peters has told a Grey Power meeting they had better start buying more clothes and blankets because they won't be able to afford the rising prices if the Chinese or the Australians move to buy the power stations

Jim Eagles gets a privileged glimpse of life in the Labrang monastery in China, where he observes monks in their unswerving devotion.