The foreign ministry has blamed an unspecified “individual nation” for stirring up tensions over the South China Sea dispute after an unusual war of words broke out between the Singaporean envoy and the editor-in-chief of an influential mainland tabloid newspaper.
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Eight current or former Premier League football managers were on Tuesday accused of taking kick-backs for player transfers, as part of a broader newspaper sting which led to England manager Sam Allardyce being axed.
Selected works by SCMP's veteran political cartoonist Harry Harrison from September 2016.
After revealing details of his eight-month incarceration on the mainland, Causeway Bay bookseller Lam Wing-kee was offered round-the-clock police protection in early July after he felt threatened by strangers following him.
As the first debate between two US presidential candidates was lived all over the world, American expats as well as local political followers joined the enthusiasm in the city of Beijing.
The Democratic and Republican presidential nominees skewer each other at Hofstra University in the first of three presidential debates, with heated moments raising questions about "temperament." (Photo: AFP)
The leader of Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia apologises to the victims of a 50-year war after signing a historic peace deal.
The world's largest radio telescope began operating in southwestern China Sunday, a project which Beijing says will help humanity search for alien life.
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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.
