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China's property demand hides a dark reality

<i>Fran O'Sullivan</i>: Pandering to China on Key agenda

Prime Minister John Key will launch his own version of 'Panda diplomacy' in Beijing today.

Currency: Dollar boosted by stronger Aussie

Chinese troops on alert one year after violence

Teams of police patrolled streets in the western region of Xinjiang last night as stringent security was imposed for the one-year anniversary of China's worst ethnic violence in decades.

China Chinese court sentences US geologist to 8 years

An American geologist detained and tortured by China's state security agents was jailed for eight years today.

PM to seek help for ill NZer in China jail

Bus fire in central China kills 24

Chinese mostly urban by 2015

Key looks at trading kiwis for pandas

Young choristers make the music speak

Artistic director Karen Grylls should be justifiably proud of the diversity and range of music that her 46-strong choir will be singing.

Activist jailed over grave-robbing

Spies who came back from the dead

Rain looms as workers repair river breaches

<i>John Roughan:</i> Politicians, it's time to grow up

China: 16 percent rise in drug cases last year

One year since his death, fans remember Michael Jackson

Global celebrations of Jackson's brilliant but troubled life kicked off with the unveiling of a memorial in London yesterday.