Chinese President Xi Jinping mapped out a confident vision of China’s rise as a global power by 2050, opening a twice-a-decade party gathering on Wednesday by reaffirming the Communist Party’s continued control and pledging the start of a “new era”.
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The Pakistan Star saga has taken another turn with Tony Cruz’s assistant trainer Cody Mo Wai-kit fined for wielding a “buggy” whip on the Sha Tin course proper in an effort to get the reluctant superstar to gallop.
The Communist Party’s 19th National Congress, China’s most important political event, has begun. During the congress the party’s leadership is chosen and major policy decisions are made for the next five years.
Dutch photographer Marcel Heijnen is releasing “Hong Kong Market Cats”, a book of photos capturing cats as they prowl through Hong Kong wet markets, hiding under tofu stalls, climbing onto rooftops and sleeping in paper boxes.
Jan Nemcek is a rare violin maker who builds the instruments in the old-fashioned way - by hand, rather than machines. Nemcek chops his own wood from a forest, cuts and dries the wood himself, and then slowly and patiently fashions it into the musical instrument.
“Crackland” is a notorious square in the centre of Sao Paulo, Brazil, where drugs are sold and smoked in broad daylight while police look on.
Xi Jinping delivered his report to the 19th party congress, outlining the policy direction of China in various areas.
Security is tight around Beijing for China’s 19th Communist Party congress. Subway commuters have been subjected to pat down searches by security guards and additional checkpoints have been installed around Tiananmen Square.
The final delegates to the 19th Party Congress arrived in Beijing from across China. Meanwhile, thousands of journalists also descended on the city to cover the Congress where the Communist Party will set the China's agenda for the next 5 years.
The stock exchange has not yet announced any closing ceremony for the trading hall but only said it plans to turn the hall into “a showcase to promote the city’s financial market and its history.”
Three Hong Kong women defy stereotypes and celebrate their bigger muscles. They are among a growing number of women getting into weightlifting and resistance training.
(Photo: SCMP’s Nora Tam)
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Low wages and a lack of privacy can inflict a high cost on the health and mental well-being of domestic helpers working overseas. As a workforce, helpers sometimes only have rudimentary education and lack formal skills.
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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.
