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US Vice-President Joe Biden expressed his country's misgivings about China's air defence identification zone (ADIZ) in lengthy talks with President Xi Jinping in Beijing yesterday.
Thursday, 5 December, 2013, 4:40am 4 comments More on Air Defence Identification ZoneThe spending habits of the mainland consumer have been well dissected, as have the buying preferences of their travellers. But what about their peers who go abroad and stay there?
5 Dec 2013 - 3:56am 3 commentsA Qingdao man said his pregnant wife died after being left on her own for half an hour in a hospital corridor after the pipeline blast, adding to the disturbing details that have begun to emerge about last month’s incident in the eastern port city.
4 Dec 2013 - 2:46pm 3 commentsAn American teacher accused of sexually abusing an autistic student was believed to have fled to Hong Kong last month, US media revealed yesterday.
5 Dec 2013 - 3:55am 4 commentsAs British Prime Minister David Cameron launched a charm offensive at Shanghai Jiao Tong University yesterday, a state-owned newspaper derided the United Kingdom as merely a destination for Chinese students and tourists.
4 Dec 2013 - 12:26pm 45 commentsJoe Biden opened a two-day visit to China on Wednesday by urging young Chinese students to challenge their government, teachers and religious leaders.
5 Dec 2013 - 4:05am 5 commentsShanghai's 15-year-olds are still the best in the world at reading, maths and science, according to the latest global survey. Hong Kong's youngsters ranked second in science and reading - up from third and fourth in 2009 - and held their third place for maths.
4 Dec 2013 - 12:25pm 27 commentsThe mainland's central bank is expected to formally launch financial liberalisations in the new Shanghai free-trade zone in three months, with the hope of soon extending the reforms to other parts of the country if the trial run proves successful.
5 Dec 2013 - 3:51am 2 comments More on Shanghai Free-trade ZoneEuropean Union antitrust regulators fined six financial institutions including Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland and Citigroup a record total of €1.71 billion (HK$18 billion) for rigging financial benchmarks.
5 Dec 2013 - 3:56am More on Libor
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How many corporate jets do you think a company needs? Should a company have swanky offices in the priciest part of town? In other words, how much is enough to look after the management?
4 Dec 2013 - 6:18am 3 commentsChina's establishment of an air defence identification zone around the East China Sea makes for a serious escalation in tension with Japan. Already, there are reports that not only Japan but also the US, Taiwan and South Korea have all flown warplanes into the zone without informing China, to defy its intent. China, for its part, maintains that it has scrambled warplanes of its own to probe so-called intrusions.
5 Dec 2013 - 3:34amStorm clouds are already gathering, with pan-democrats and pro-government lawmakers split over whether the legal and constitutional principles emphasised in the administration's consultation document on electoral reform will bar dissenting voices from running for chief executive.
5 Dec 2013 - 4:45amThey are 11 ordinary people who lead extraordinary lives. People who achieve against all the odds and set an example for others.
It’s a simple contraption – an iron frame, foldout handle and four rubber wheels – but in Hong Kong the old-fashioned handcart is what keeps the city rolling.
Hong Kong has stepped up border checks on travellers as part of a contingency plan after an Indonesian domestic helper who slaughtered and cooked a chicken on a trip to Shenzhen was confirmed as the first local case of the fatal H7N9 strain of bird flu.
5 Dec 2013 - 4:10am More on H7N9 avian fluThe government sounded a positive note on the prospects of achieving consensus on universal suffrage in 2017 - but its consultation document on electoral reform effectively ruled out the pan-democrats' demand to let the public nominate candidates for chief executive.
5 Dec 2013 - 3:47am 1 comment More on Universal SuffrageUS Vice-President Joe Biden expressed his country's misgivings about China's air defence identification zone (ADIZ) in lengthy talks with President Xi Jinping in Beijing yesterday.
5 Dec 2013 - 4:40am 4 comments More on Air Defence Identification ZoneLantern, a software program funded by the US government that allows internet users to circumvent government censors, is spreading rapidly on the mainland as people seek access to websites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
5 Dec 2013 - 4:37amA special correspondent for the South China Morning Post has been led to a secret refugee camp deep in the Thai jungle, where an escapee said about 1,500 Muslim Rohingya from Myanmar are being hidden in appalling conditions.
5 Dec 2013 - 4:50am More on Muslim RohingyaThailand’s anti-government protesters and security forces on Wednesday observed a temporary truce as the nation prepared to mark the birthday of the revered king, after police stepped back in a dramatic move to calm violent clashes.
4 Dec 2013 - 9:02pmA commander for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was gunned down on Wednesday outside his home in southern Beirut, security officials said. Hezbollah blamed Israel for the killing, something an official there quickly denied.
4 Dec 2013 - 10:22pmUrbane liberals are joining black-booted skinheads to protest on the streets of Kiev, but if the orange revolution of nine years ago is to be repeated, they need a leader to unite them.
5 Dec 2013 - 4:48amThe Hong Kong and Singapore bourses, rivals for decades, have agreed to co-operate on yuan business.
The partnership, coming after many years of fierce competition for new listings and products, surprised market observers.
5 Dec 2013 - 3:51am 1 commentEuropean Union antitrust regulators fined six financial institutions including Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland and Citigroup a record total of €1.71 billion (HK$18 billion) for rigging financial benchmarks.
5 Dec 2013 - 3:56am More on LiborBuoyed by the positive sentiment triggered by the price discounts, 527 new homes were sold over the weekend of November 30 and December 1 - up twelvefold from the 41 sold the previous weekend and the most sold in a single weekend since October 2010.
4 Dec 2013 - 5:33amFor Hong Kong developers seeking to speed up their forays into the mainland market, Wharf offers a good case study in its equity tie-up with Greentown China, industry analysts say.
4 Dec 2013 - 5:33amWith the ongoing fracas over TV licensing - and poorly produced local terrestrial television programmes - some have started searching for fresh content from overseas entertainment providers.
2 Dec 2013 - 9:16pm More on LIFEAlthough Benjamin Ford has travelled extensively, the California-based chef and restaurateur, and son of Hollywood actor Harrison Ford, has never seen a city like Hong Kong. "It's overwhelming," he says. "I have to re-evaluate what I think of as a city. Here it's very vertical.
29 Nov 2013 - 8:58am More on LIFEIt probably won’t come to a store near you just yet, but Microsoft researchers are exploring a novel way of helping emotional eaters by creating a "smart bra" - or rather, a device that detects stress from inside a woman’s bra.
4 Dec 2013 - 6:38pm 1 comment More on The Daily MatterOil rich yet mired in poverty, East Timor is embracing development
Say hello to the Clockenflap headliners . . . and don’t miss our essential guide to the festival
Mainland cartoonists spread their message to the masses online
As the South China Morning Post turns 110, we look at the very first issue.
Kerrin McEvoy stunned fans at Happy Valley on Wednesday night to lead all the way in the Longines International Jockeys' Championship as a despised outsider at his first appearance in the event.
5 Dec 2013 - 12:30amAs an amateur, Jason Hak Shun-yat appeared three times at the Hong Kong Open and made the cut every time.
4 Dec 2013 - 9:01pmPresident Taur Matan Ruak believes the way to kickstart Asia’s newest country is by empowering its people, writes Mary O’Shea. Pictures by Cedric Arnold.
27 Nov 2013 - 6:04pmStaging Hong Kong's biggest annual music and arts festival is no walk in the park. Jo Baker meets a team of dedicated, determined and quite possibly exhausted organisers ahead of this year's event.
4 Dec 2013 - 5:39pm33-year-old Zhang started nine years ago to make a living by making dough modellings, a skill he learned from a travelling craftsman, after he got laid-off from his post at a grain depot.
Nga Tsin Wai village, also known as Hing Yau Yu, is the only walled village left in urban Hong Kong with a history of about 400 years.
A nine-metre snow dragon yesterday in Jilin city, Jilin province, Afghan schoolchildren take lessons in an open-air classroom at a refugee camp, a museum patron takes in an exhibition of “3-D” pain
The world’s longest cake, pollution levels in Shanghai soared, fans pay their respects to Paul Walker, and see more around the world ...
Anti-government protesters hurled stones and petrol bombs in demonstrations that paralysed parts of Bangkok as riot police throw tear gas and water canons.
33-year-old Zhang started nine years ago to make a living by making dough modellin
Nga Tsin Wai village, also known as Hing Yau Yu, is the only walled village left i
A nine-metre snow dragon yesterday in Jilin city, Jilin province, Afghan schoolchi
The world’s longest cake, pollution levels in Shanghai soared, fans pay their resp
Anti-government protesters hurled stones and petrol bombs in demonstrations that p
