Jessica Sier

A trip to the source of Japan’s crown melons reveals the care that goes into growing the fruit – and a town relaxed about the prime minister’s gaffe.

Sydney-based Jamie Halse and Tsubasa Umezaki are making big money in the forgotten corners of the Japanese sharemarket that are sitting on piles of cash.

For years, Chinese authorities have loomed large over attempts to move money out of the country. Now Australian agencies are becoming equally aggressive.

Australia is asking tougher questions about the Chinese wealth flowing into its property market, just as Beijing intensifies its own crackdown on money moving offshore.

China’s new ambassador has arrived in Australia with a warning for Canberra as strategic tensions threaten to complicate the warning ties.

Engineers at XCMG, the Chinese state-owned machinery group, have teamed with Fortescue Metals to replace the Australian miner’s diesel-powered machinery fleet.

The Australian miner is betting hundreds of millions of dollars on electric mining machinery. We climbed aboard the giant prototypes going through their paces in China.

This week’s Pacific Islands Forum showed how China could wield influence across the region without resorting to the theatre of military power.

The country’s wildly popular microdrama industry is undergoing a dramatic upheaval thanks to artificial intelligence – with a very real human cost.