Danielle Wright looks at what's to love about this year's Lantern Festival.

Festivities kicked off at SkyCity in Auckland this weekend to celebrate the beginning of the Chinese New Year.

Auckland's fine weekend weather brought record crowds to the city's lantern festivals, organisers say.

Dead jellyfish are not welcome on the beaches of New Zealand, but they do find their way to the dinner table of many Chinese and other Asians.

A NZ business school is to include sex education in its curriculum because managers say many students from Asia are 'sexually ignorant'.

The company at the centre of a large scale bid to buy 16 NZ dairy farms has commissioned a survey on Kiwi attitudes towards foreign investment.

Asian couples are travelling thousands of kilometres in their quest for a perfect "10.10.10" wedding in New Zealand.

The number of overseas visitors coming to this country hit a record for the month of August.

A Chinese bid to buy 20 NZ farms will be rejected or severely restricted after an Overseas Investment Office review, the Herald understands.

Inexperience hasn't stopped Alison Wong from winning literary gold, writes Nicky Pellegrino.

The proposal to immediately block the sale of Crafar Farms to foreign interests and urgently review the Overseas Investment Act is myopic and xenophobic.

The National Party has received $200,000 from a wealthy Chinese NZ couple linked to the Crafar farms bid.

Chinese firms are eyeing local roading contracts, but some builders are voicing concern, report Anne Gibson and Fran O'Sullivan.

Chinese dairy investors may be media shy, but they have been lobbying politicians and other key players at the highest levels.