For security reasons, President Xi Jinping and his wife could break with the tradition of leaders staying in a top hotel and opt for the Renaissance Hong Kong Harbour View Hotel in Wan Chai during their three-day visit to the city, the Post has learnt.
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Sixes 2.0 is how Cricket Hong Kong is rebranding the popular tournament, which finally returns to the calendar after five years and whose reincarnation will reflect the new digital and social media universe into which it is being reborn.
Hong Kong’s men and women enjoy the longest life expectancy in the world, but 93-year-old Sum Shuet feels longevity is a curse.
Ninety-three-year-old Cheung Suet-ling won a gold medal for Hong Kong in a running competition in South Korea in March 2017.
Educator Noel Ho, who joined the education industry in 1994, has witnessed a surge in Hong Kong students opting to study abroad since the handover. She wants the city to restore harmony after years of social tension.
Helen Tam Yuk-ying had been a child show host for over 30 years, several generations of Hongkongers grew up watching her show. In an interview with SCMP, Tam talked about the changes she witnessed in the last 20 years - in our society and in our youngsters.
Fitness coach Andrew Power demonstrates four exercises for a simple morning routine. This workout is designed to boost your metabolism in just three minutes every morning.
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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.
