Hundreds rescued, almost 300 feared dead after South Korean ferry sank

TAMA LUNG

Face time: the best new foundations, concealers and highlighters

Achieving complexion perfection with improved formulas and innovative textures

16 Apr 2014 - 6:11pm

Post-divorce, Chang'an Ford has lost weight and is looking good

Just one year after its split from Mazda, Ford’s recent performance in China is starting to turn heads.

16 Apr 2014 - 4:15pm

Ian Young Comment, Blogs, News, World

Under new rules, rich Chinese should learn French if they want to move to Canada

16 Apr 2014

Residents of Vancouver would be advised to keep an eye (and ear) out for a wave of French-speaking Chinese millionaires.

4 comments

16 Apr 2014 - 12:25pm

Michael Cox Sport

Out of sight, out of mind - why don't Hong Kong's Australian jockeys get respect they deserve at home?

14 Apr 2014

Australian jockey Zac Purton has won 400 races in Hong Kong and collected Group Ones in England and Singapore. His countryman, Tye Angland, sits fourth behind three superstars on the jockeys’...

15 Apr 2014 - 10:05am

Doug Young Business, Companies

JD.com, NQ Mobile CEOs resume blogging after long pauses

14 Apr 2014

Three of China's shyest tech CEOs have made rare appearances on their microblogs over the past week, emerging from the shadows after difficult periods for at least two of their firms.

14 Apr 2014 - 3:57pm

Michael Cox Sport

What's in a name? Why it's vital for foreign trainers and jockeys to get their Chinese names just right in Hong Kong

10 Apr 2014

Here in Hong Kong, locals get all the fun when it comes to getting an “English” name, but when the poor old “gweilos” come to town we just get what we are given in Chinese characters – however...

11 Apr 2014 - 3:05pm

TAMA LUNG

Good stuff: La Biosthetique Hydro-Actif

9 Apr 2014

The hi-tech collection takes hydration to a whole new level.

12 Apr 2014 - 7:37am

Jason Y Ng Lifestyle, Travel, News, Hong Kong

Movie reviews: Captain America Winter Soldier and Grand Budapest Hotel

9 Apr 2014

Before they were brought together in the 2012 ensemble film, the Avengers had been busy with their solo acts.

9 Apr 2014 - 12:29pm

Ian Young Comment, Blogs, News, World

Here’s the real question, Vancouver: Why are non-Asians such lousy drivers?

9 Apr 2014

Are Asian drivers really so bad?

8 comments

9 Apr 2014 - 5:42pm

Doug Young Business, Companies

Weibo: JD shuffles staff, prepares VNO launch

8 Apr 2014

Rising e-commerce giant JD.com has been all over the blogosphere this past week, trumpeting some major adjustments in its core e-commerce unit as it also prepares to become one of the first...

8 Apr 2014 - 10:49am

Michael Cox Sport

Perhaps the one thing all jockeys need is a hug

7 Apr 2014

As the season drags on and the dog days of summer at Sha Tin approach, things can get a little testy between combatants out there on the track – and on Sunday the tension manifested in a touch of...

7 Apr 2014 - 10:43pm

Chris Oliver Business, Economy

The HK$470 million Hong Kong apartment that just won't sell

4 Apr 2014

It probably seemed like a good idea at the time.

4 Apr 2014 - 7:07pm

TAMA LUNG

Colour me happy: bright new make-up for spring

4 Apr 2014

The season's freshest looks are perfect for banishing the rainy-day blues.

8 Apr 2014 - 11:30am

Mischa Moselle

A few surprises for Hong Kong and Macau restaurants in latest diners' choice awards

4 Apr 2014

The latest restaurant awards may prove nothing except that it’s a funny old world and there’s no accounting for taste.

4 Apr 2014 - 12:03pm

Michael Cox Sport

Putting Purton's performance in perspective

3 Apr 2014

You have to feel for Zac Purton. He has put together stretches of form so scintillating in the past few seasons that good judges were throwing around the “best in the world” tag, but the...

3 Apr 2014 - 7:10pm

Jason Y Ng Lifestyle, Travel, News, Hong Kong

Movie reviews: Divergent and Noah

3 Apr 2014

Novelist Veronica Roth was just 22 years old when she published Divergent, the first of a sci-fi trilogy featuring a young heroine named Beatrice Prior.

4 Apr 2014 - 10:07am

Doug Young Business, Companies

New Chinese VNOs face latest hurdles in high prices

3 Apr 2014

It's probably too early to declare the death of an ambitious plan to liven up China's stodgy telecoms services sector through the injection of new private sector competition.

4 Apr 2014 - 5:34pm

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Unus Alladin

Sport

Unus Alladin is a veteran Hong Kong sports journalist, who has covered an array of major international sporting events, ranging from Formula One to the Olympic Games.
Anna Healy Fenton

Business, Money, Wealth

Anna is a business writer and editor of the SCMP’s Money Magazine. During her 20-year Hong Kong career, she’s written everything from stock market reports and luxury goods sector analysis to speeches for the HKSAR Chief Executive and served as president of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club for two years.
Chris Oliver

Business, Economy

Chris Oliver is a financial journalist based in Hong Kong.
Vivienne Chow

Lifestyle, Arts & Culture

Vivienne has been a cultural journalist and critic for over a decade and was named one of the world’s best young journalists and critics while representing Hong Kong at the 2004 inaugural Berlinale Talent Press at the Berlin International Film Festival. She has written extensively on culture and entertainment for publications locally and abroad and has covered major international events from film festivals to art fairs. Vivienne also covers Hong Kong and global cultural policy development and publishes a blog, Culture Shock, at www.viviennechow.com. She is the culture beat senior reporter at the South China Morning Post and can be followed on Twitter @VivienneChow.
Jason Y Ng

Lifestyle, Travel, News, Hong Kong

Born in Hong Kong, Jason is a globe-trotter who spent his entire adult life in Europe, the United States and Canada before settling back in his birthplace to rediscover his roots. He is a full-time lawyer and a freelance writer who raves and rants about Hong Kong and its people. Jason is the bestselling author of HONG KONG State of Mind and No City for Slow Men. Follow him on Twitter @jasonyng.
Ivan Zhai

Comment

Ivan Zhai is the Social Media Editor at the South China Morning Post. Prior to his current position, Ivan spent 10 years working for the Guangzhou-based 21st Century World Herald and in the Post's Guangzhou bureau, covering Chinese politics, macroeconomics and online communities. In 2008, Ivan won an Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship. He shares his findings and thoughts on digital media, cognitive neuroscience and China on Twitter and Chinese microblogs as @ivanzhai.
Robby Nimmo

Sport, Comment, Magazines, Lifestyle

Robby Nimmo, an award-winning advertising copywriter, has been writing for the South China Morning Post for 10 years. She writes the left-field rather than the on-field, social commentary rather than sporting commentary. She is also a regular contributor to the Rant column in the Sunday Post Magazine.
Jacqueline Tsang

Lifestyle, Fashion & Watches

Jacqueline Tsang is editor of SCMP's Style Magazine.
Jing Zhang

Lifestyle, Fashion & Watches

Fashion Editor Jing Zhang gives you the inside scoop on style trends, Fashion Weeks, industry news and events in Hong Kong, Asia and internationally. There will be live updates from biggest fashion shows and often daily uploads of the best collections and collaborations. Read for the latest insights on top designers, eccentric local labels, plus what is trending in global and Greater China fashion. Jing was born in Guizhou, China and grew up in Hong Kong and England. Follow her on Twitter @jingerzhanger
Mischa Moselle

After two decades of noshing in Hong Kong, Mischa Moselle likes to think he knows his way around a plate and a bottle. As his tailor knows, he’ll eat and drink anything but particular favourites are gutsy French and Thai food and well-made wine from anywhere.
Amy Wu

Lifestyle, Health

Amy is a Chinese American journalist - a native New Yorker- and journalism educator currently living in Hong Kong. She was recently diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 37, and hopes to share her experiences and adventures with other women and increase awareness.
Christy Choi

Lifestyle, Technology

Christy Choi is a news reporter for the South China Morning Post covering science and technology. Before the SCMP, she worked for the Phnom Penh Post and Time, writing about sharks helping tame lionfish invasions, mealybug infestations, human trafficking and the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, among others. As a former contemporary arts curator, she has a soft spot for the arts, and while science is her beat at the Post, she won’t say no to a good yarn about pretty much anything under the sun. Reach her on Twitter @jchristychoi
Michael Cox

Sport

Since joining the SCMP in 2011, Michael has proven himself as a news-breaking journalist and a talented tipster with a keen eye for spotting new talent at the trials. He has earned the respect of trainers, jockeys and officials – and when something happens, we expect him to be one of the first to know about it. Michael’s insightful, irreverent racing blog “Happy Lucky Dragon Win” appears each Monday and Thursday on our website.
TAMA LUNG

The Beauty Blog offers an inside look at Hong Kong’s beauty scene, from the latest trends and must-have products to expert advice and treatment reviews. Author Tama Lung has been covering beauty and lifestyle topics for the SCMP’s Specialist Publications group since June 2011. Follow her on Instagram (http://instagram.com/tamalung) for more beauty buzz.
Doug Young

Business, Companies

Doug Young has lived and worked in China for 15 years, much of that as a journalist for Reuters writing about Chinese companies. He currently lives in Shanghai where he teaches financial journalism at Fudan University. He writes daily on his blog, Young’s China Business Blog (www.youngchinabiz.com), commenting on the latest developments at Chinese companies listed in the US, China and Hong Kong. He is also author of a new book about the media in China, “The Party Line: How the Media Dictates Public Opinion in Modern China.”
Ian Young

Comment, Blogs, News, World

Ian Young is the SCMP's former International Editor. A journalist for more than 20 years, he worked for Australian newspapers and the London Evening Standard before arriving in Hong Kong in 1997. There he won or shared awards for excellence in investigative reporting and human rights reporting, and the HK News Awards Scoop of the Year. He moved to Canada with his wife in 2010 and is now the SCMP's Vancouver correspondent.
Patrick Boehler

News, China, Comment

Patrick Boehler has written for Foreign Policy, Time, Bloomberg, Le Monde Diplomatique and the Chinese weekly Shidai Zhoubao. He has covered Southeast Asia for the Austrian daily Wiener Zeitung and China's relations with Myanmar for the Myanmese magazine The Irrawaddy, reporting from the trenches of the Kachin civil war and Yangon's tea houses. He began his reporting career in Kuala Lumpur with the Malaysian online news portal Malaysiakini. Before moving to Hong Kong, he worked for Austria's ministries of defence and foreign affairs in Beijing. He studied in Milan, Vienna, Beijing and Hong Kong.
Ernest Kao

Comment, News

Ernest is a City desk news reporter at the South China Morning Post. Follow him on Twitter @ernestkao
Amy Li

News, China

Amy Li began her journalism career as a crime news reporter in Queens, New York, in 2004. She joined Reuters in Beijing in 2008 as a multimedia editor. Amy taught journalism at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu before joining SCMP in Hong Kong in 2012. She is now an online news editor for SCMP.com. Amy can be reached at chunxiao.li@scmp.com, or follow her on Twitter @AmyLiSCMP
Nailene Chou Wiest

Comment, Blogs

Nailene Chou Wiest (Zhou Nai-ling) is a journalist and writer. For much of her career, she plied the trade of financial journalism. In recent years, she combines teaching journalism and writing on business, news media, and international affairs issues.
Chris Luo

News, China

Chris Luo is a Beijing native. He lived in Indiana, U.S. for four years before moving to Hong Kong to study journalism at Hong Kong Baptist University. He joined SCMP in 2012 as a website producer.
Corruption Watch

News, China

Since the Communist Party's new leader Xi Jinping announced a crackdown on corruption amongst officials in November 2012, a raft of suspected offenders have been sacked or suspended for alleged wrongdoing. Here, SCMP.com brings you a comprehensive guide to the latest officials under investigation.
Hong Kong Around the World

Comment, Blogs, News, Hong Kong

HKEye is a compendium of worldwide coverage about our home city, Hong Kong, by the staff of SCMP.com. Contact us on Twitter @SCMP_News or via e-mail, onlinenews@scmp.com.
Jed Thian

Sport, Comment

New Zealand broadcaster Jed Thian is recognised as the founder of alternative sports commentary worldwide through his online creation, the Alternative Rugby Commentary. Performing live around the world as well as regular appearances on the BBC, RTE in Ireland and Television New Zealand, demand for his unique take on rugby and world have grown massively since trading the radio for the internet.
Jeanette Wang

Lifestyle, Health

SCMP health editor Jeanette Wang discovered the joy of trail running in 2011, when she moved from ultra-urbanised Singapore to the country park haven of Hong Kong. She's since neglected road running and triathlons in favour of the trails, and participates regularly in local races. Why? Because, as, John Muir said: “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity..."
P. Ramakrishnan

Lifestyle, Fashion & Watches

P.Ramakrishnan has been a journalist and editor in Hong Kong for the past decade. He jump-started his career writing the Society column for South China Morning Post and went on to write about lifestyle, luxury and endless spools on the juggernaut that is Bollywood. Mostly he spends time worrying about the emergence of gout; "With rich, fatty foods and calorific canapes served on seemingly endless silver trays, I think it should be a primary concern for all those who circumnavigate champagne soirees in the 852." There is the gym and a sensible diet regiment... but then he looks at counsel like that with the disdain one reserves for those wearing a brown belt with black shoes.
Vicky Feng

Comment, Blogs, News, China

Born and raised in Shanghai, Vicky Feng is a journalist and writer living in Hong Kong. She studied journalism at Baptist University and Chinese language and literature in Shanghai. A book lover, Vicky likes to find and write about all kinds of stories. Reach her on Twitter and Weibo @Vicky_Feng _
Jeremy Blum

News, China, Lifestyle, Arts & Culture

Born in the United States but now living in Hong Kong, Jeremy Blum is a half-American, half-Taiwanese writer. Prior to joining SCMP, he studied journalism at the University of Hong Kong and lived in Taiwan for two years. He has previously written on a wide variety of topics, including communist video games, Asian American start-ups and the history of dumpling restaurants in Taiwan. You can follow him on Twitter @blummer102
Dai Rees

Sport, Rugby

A former Wales international and coach of the Welsh sevens side, as well as coach of the Hong Kong sevens and 15s sides, Dai has recently taken up an overarching position covering all things performance related in Hong Kong rugby. As the HKRFU’s new head of technical development and performance, Dai offers readers insight into the national team set up, while his international experience will see him address the state of the game at home and abroad.
Lindsay Varty

Sport, Rugby

Scion of one of Hong Kong’s premier rugby families, Lindsay and her brother Rowan are both Hong Kong national team members. One of the new full-time athletes at the Hong Kong Sports Institute’s rugby sevens programme, Lindsay brings a unique perspective on life as a premier rugby athlete and is an expert on the women’s game. A top-class player, Lindsay offers a new and interesting vantage point for followers of the local rugby scene.
Patrick Donovan

Sport, Rugby

A stalwart of the Hong Kong club rugby scene and the new director of clubs at the HKRFU, Patrick promises to drop the curtain on life at the coalface of club rugby in Hong Kong. His years of propping up the front row for Hong Kong Cricket Club, coupled with his New Zealand upbringing, gives Patrick a unique insight on the development of the game from a club and community perspective.
Leigh Jones

Sport, Rugby

Having arrived in Hong Kong from Wales in 2010, Leigh is currently the HKRFU's national coach development manager and head coach of the Hong Kong Men’s XV. His breadth of experience gained from a lifetime of elite rugby coaching – including stints with Ebbw Vale, Newport, Dragons, Wales ‘A’ and Wales – enables Leigh to offer insight into the latest developments in coaching at the international level and discuss Hong Kong’s national team with authority.
Robbie McRobbie

Sport, Rugby

Robbie joined the HKRFU in 2003 after 11 years with the Hong Kong Police Force and is currently the head of rugby operations. A driving force behind the game in Hong Kong, Robbie’s experience touches on nearly every aspect of local rugby from the senior and tertiary game, touch rugby, facilities and IT, to tournament operations and support services. As such, there isn’t much around the local scene in which Robbie hasn’t been involved, making him a real authority on the game in Hong Kong.
Nick Hewson

Sport, Rugby

A rangy forward who represents Hong Kong at both 15s and sevens, Nick is originally from New Zealand. He has been playing competitively in Hong Kong since 2005 and has recently become one of Hong Kong’s full-time rugby athletes in the Hong Kong Sports Institute’s sevens programme.
Anna Richards

Sport, Rugby

Likely the most accomplished women’s player in the history of the game, New Zealander Anna is the new coach of the women’s sevens programme at the Hong Kong Sports Institute. After making her New Zealand Black Ferns debut in 1990, the fly-half enjoyed an almost unbroken run of international victories. She has played in four Women’s Rugby World Cup-winning sides and was never defeated in the New Zealand National Provincial Competition. She also played representative tennis and netball prior to taking up rugby – and has a law degree and a BA to boot.
Gareth Baber

Sport, Rugby

Gareth is a former Newport Gwent Dragons scrum-half whose job prior to assuming the head coach's role for the Hong Kong Sports Institute’s rugby sevens programme was as attacks/backs coach for Cardiff Blues RFC in Wales. He retired as a player in 2007, but not before earning a Blue for Oxford University’s rugby team and playing for Cardiff, Llanelli, Aberavon, Bristol and Pontypridd. Gareth has also worked as assistant coach with Wales Under-20s and as coach for the Wales sevens side.
Jamie Hood

Sport, Rugby

Jamie is captain of the Hong Kong men’s sevens squad and a full-time athlete in the Hong Kong Sports Institute’s Elite Rugby Sevens programme. He is also a member of Hong Kong's 15s set-up and plays at scrum-half for Newedge Club in the Paul Y Premiership.
Tobi Lothian

Sport, Rugby

Tobi has been a referee for more than 10 years and has officiated at tournaments in Hong Kong and overseas, including the Hong Kong Sevens, Asian Five Nations, Asian Sevens Series and Asian Games. He has been on the ARFU A Panel referees list since 2008. When not blowing his whistle, Tobi works as a police officer, training probationary inspectors at the Hong Kong Police College.
Jonathan Woetzel and Jeffrey Towson

Business, China Business

Jeffrey Towson is Managing Partner of Towson Capital, advisory private equity firm. Jonathan Woetzel is a Director in McKinsey & Company’s Shanghai office, and the Director of the McKinsey Global Institute in Asia. They are Professors at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management, and are the authors of The One Hour China Book, now available on amazon.com.
Jeffrey Towson

Business, China Business

Jeffrey Towson is Managing Partner of Towson Capital, advisory private equity firm.