Bin Bin, the boy who had his eyes gouged out in China, leaves hospital

Designs on life: Craftmanship is key this month

Which do you admire more, a beautiful natural landscape or a beautiful painting of a natural landscape? The perfection of a snowflake’s composition or the complexity of a skyscraper’s structure?...

2:14PM

Anna Healy Fenton Business, Money, Wealth

Discovery Bay teenage drinking and drug taking – communication the key

Yesterday we heard from a Discovery Bay school principal, today is the turn of DB teenagers and the NGO educational KELY Support Group.

Updated 4:56PM

Doug Young Business, Companies

E-commerce seduces Wanda, trade zone woos Walmart

12 Dec 2013

It seems appropriate that I'm writing this post on my computer while sitting in a coffee shop at a Wanda Plaza shopping center in Shanghai, since new reports say the Wanda real estate group owned...

3:39PM

Ian Young Comment, Blogs, News, World

The truth behind Vancouver’s Lamborghini-driving Chinese students

11 Dec 2013

Take one Lamborghini supercar, throw in some racial stereotypes, add a hefty scoop of envy and voila: A high-octane viral internet sensation.

3 comments

10:35AM

Chris Oliver Business, Economy

Japanese bank Nomura throws in the towel on its bearish China outlook

10 Dec 2013

Analysts writing in an equity strategy note late last week conceded that they were wrong-footed on October 24 when they advised investors to pare back holdings of China-related stocks and raise...

6:19PM

Anna Healy Fenton Business, Money, Wealth

Apology to HSBC - they did say sorry

10 Dec 2013

Last week the boss of RBS (what used to be Royal Bank of Scotland) apologised to his UK customers.

2 comments

6:17PM

Anna Healy Fenton Business, Money, Wealth

Discovery Bay teens – Discovery College principal’s view

10 Dec 2013

The recent piece on Discovery Bay teenagers and the issue of underage drinking and drug taking by kids as young as 13 prompted considerable reader reaction, for which many thanks.

2 comments

5:18PM

Michael Cox Sport

HKIR: The good, the bad and the ugly

9 Dec 2013

Follow @KemblaCoxy

3:48PM

Doug Young Business, Companies

Weibo: Tencent's Pony gets promotional, Alibaba spins Cameron

9 Dec 2013

Spin doctors from Chinese tech titans Tencent (

3:14PM

Vivienne Chow Lifestyle, Arts & Culture

Anniversary of Anita Mui Yim-fong's death will be a time for reflection

9 Dec 2013

December 30 marks the 10th anniversary of Canto-pop queen Anita Mui Yim-fong’s passing.

2 comments

12:31PM

Anna Healy Fenton Business, Money, Wealth

Michelin Guide stars mean stress for chefs – and do diners care?

6 Dec 2013

I wonder who, apart from chefs and restaurant public relations people, pays attention to the annual Michelin Guide awards for Hong Kong and Macau.

3 comments

4:37PM

Alvin Sallay Sport

Tough challenges await ‘perfect man for the job’

5 Dec 2013

Hong Kong have a new captain – and considering the man, that’s a very good thing – but they will confront the same old problems as they look forward to next year’s HSBC Asian Five Nations campaign...

11:33PM

Michael Cox Sport

Can't wait for the real fireworks on Sunday

5 Dec 2013

In the midst of the craziness it is time for reflection. It feels like half-time of international week, so let's take a peek back at International Jockeys' Championship night at the Valley, and a...

10:24AM

Anna Healy Fenton Business, Money, Wealth

Give Nigella Lawson a break

5 Dec 2013

The British public loves a good session of washing dirty linen in public, especially when the washers are rich and famous.

6:29PM

Jacqueline Tsang Lifestyle, Fashion & Watches

Why luxury is more luxurious than ever

5 Dec 2013

The luxury industry, it seems, is getting more luxurious.

9:20AM

Doug Young Business, Companies

Huawei hangs up on US networking market, for now

5 Dec 2013

Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei is not the world's most talkative man, so when he says something in a rare media interview it's worth taking notice.

3:16PM

Anna Healy Fenton Business, Money, Wealth

Shanghai schools top global education league

4 Dec 2013

Shanghai school kids head the international league table of over-achieving 15-year-olds. Meanwhile United Kingdom pupils failed to make the world’s top 20 in maths, reading and science.

2 comments

6:50PM

Our Bloggers

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 seven years ago. He is a full-time lawyer and a freelance writer who raves and rants about Hong Kong and its people. Jason's first book, HONG KONG State of Mind, was released in December 2010 to rave reviews.
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.
George Chen

Business, Banking & Finance

George Chen is currently the financial services editor at the South China Morning Post. George has covered the financial industry since 2002 for Reuters and other media outlets. Shanghai-born and Hong Kong-based George is the author of Foreign Banks in China. He muses about the interplay between the two financial centres in Mr. Shangkong columns. facebook.com/mrshangkong
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.
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..."
Mandy Ng

Mandy Ng is a Hong Kong-based veteran reporter and former television program producer. She is the winner of the 2007 Best Feature Article and the Best Labor Issue Article awarded by Independent Press Association in NYC. Mandy is currently writing a book on the retrospect of the Korean War.
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 as a fly-half, Anna enjoyed a nearly unbroken run of victories in her international career. She has three Women’s Rugby World Cup titles to her credit 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.