A landslide in southwest China has left scores of people missing after heavy rain triggered a landslide struck a mountain village early today.
Authorities in Sichuan province, where the disaster occurred, said at midday that 46 houses were buried and 141 people were missing.
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Tiffany Chan Tsz-ching’s solid start to life as a professional golfer in the US continued with an opening round of two under par at the Symetra Tour’s Island Resort Championship in
At Ikari Area in Kwun Tong, participants are invited to don orange jumpsuits and gas masks, arm themselves with metal pipes, and let out their rage on the nearest household appliance.
SCMP reporters Alkira Reinfrank and Bernice Chan show three of their favourite ways to eat xiaolongbao, also known as soup dumplings.
Veteran broadcaster “Uncle Ray” Cordeiro recalled the sadness he felt on the eve of the city’s return to Chinese sovereignty.
Norwegian-born Cecilie Gamst Berg has worked as a Cantonese teacher in Hong Kong for over two decades, but fears the future of Hong Kong’s Cantonese heritage is under threat.
Tim I. Gurung served in Hong Kong’s Gurkha regiment, a specialist unit entrusted with border patrol and defence of the city during the colonial-era. He spoke to SCMP at the old training barracks for the Gurkhas, which are now taken over by the PLA.
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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.
