The central government will announce as early as Wednesday that all pan-democrats who failed to renew their home-return permits, including former and incumbent lawmakers, will be granted permanent permits in a conciliatory gesture to those at odds with Beijing for more than two decades.
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The Jockey Club has moved to plug its lightweight ranks with an unprecedented insertion of three lightweight jockeys into the system for the balance of December.
Nine Singaporean military vehicles were seized by Hong Kong customs on November 23rd.
The vehicles were shipped from Taiwan following the Project Starlight military exercise it held with Singapore.
Beijing has demanded Singapore abide by the One-China principle.
Financial chief John Tsang Chun-wah said he did not discuss the chief executive election with Beijing's top official in his meeting with the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office on Monday.
An aircraft with 81 people aboard, including Brazilian football team Chapecoense, crashed on its way to Medellin’s international airport, and rescuers are moving survivors from the site.
The stop-motion artist behind Wes Anderson's award-winning film shows us how he brought Fantastic Mr Fox to life.
One suspect is dead and at least nine people have been taken to the hospital after school officials reported an active shooter on campus at Ohio State University on Monday.
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May 16, 2016, marks the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
When completed, the 42km-long Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge will be one of the longest bridges above water in the world, constructed with the mission to speed up integration of cities in the Pearl River Delta. Will it be worth its staggering cost?
Sixteen years after its return to China, Macau is a city at the crossroads. In this South China Morning Post multimedia package, Raquel Carvalho delves into its chequered history, charts its meteoric rise and asks what the future holds.
China announced it would abandon the one-child policy. Reuters photographer Carlos Barria shot these intimate portraits of young Chinese people born since the start of the policy in 1979 and captured their raw thoughts on the prospect of having a sibling.
Tree maintenance has come into sharper focus recently following the government’s controversial decision to cut down four giant century-old banyans in August, and the collapse of a number of trees in recent months that have caused injuries. With experts expressing concern over the health and maintenance of trees citywide, the South China Morning Post has put together an interactive guide to the condition of more than 3,000 trees across Hong Kong, based on the latest data contained in a register originally created by the Development Bureau in 2010. Our map contains information on the health of more than 900 trees included in the register along with 2,700 others deemed "failed" or which were removed and not found on the register.
