The first three student leaders convicted over the storming of government buildings which triggered the pro-democracy Occupy protests in Hong Kong three years ago were jailed for up to eight months on Thursday, as the government won its bid for stronger punishments.
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The stark differences between youth football in Hong Kong and England were laid bare on Wednesday night as Manchester United’s Academy Under-16s outclassed a Hong Kong District All-Stars team 7-0.
Concerns have grown over a dramatic decline in Arctic sea ice in recent years under the impact of warming temperatures, with experts predicting that the impact of the melting ice will be felt across the northern hemisphere as far as Florida or France.
Legendary singer Elvis Presley passed away on 16 August, 1977, this years marks the 40th anniversary of his death. This photo gallery collects the best moments of his life also on fans remembering Elvis on this special day.
Iranian photographer Mohammad Reeza Domiri Ganji has spent years capturing gorgeous pictures of Iran, especially the architectures. His stretched panoramic photos demonstrates beauty of the symmetrical design of historical temples in Iran.
The Perseid meteor shower was due to peak on Saturday night and it is visible in different countries. However, visibility of the meteor shower might be affected by local weather.
In the past five years, an estimated 80,000 Chinese business people have left Venezuela, fleeing the political and social unrest that continues to rock the South American nation.
Authorities in Ecuador have detained the Chinese crew of a fishing boat suspected of catching endangered sharks in the Galapagos Islands.
The ship was found with 300 tonnes of fish, mostly sharks, including protected species like the hammerhead.
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Food Instagrammer Christine Wong shows us how to make a superfood smoothie bowl that entices both eyes and appetite.
US President Trump has said he is ‘very disappointed’ in China, accusing it of doing ‘nothing’ about escalating North Korea tensions. SCMP spoke with pedestrians outside the North Korean embassy in Beijing, here’s what they say about Trump.
A nine-year-old boy was left behind at a highway petrol station in southwest China's Guizhou province on Sunday afternoon.
This visualisation is of the squads announced by the Premier League up to August 10, 2017, and includes the total players announced by each club. The proportion of foreign to domestic players might alter when the Premier League clubs register their final 25-man squads on September 1, 2017.
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.
