US President Donald Trump has approved a plan to allow the US navy more freedom to carry out patrols in the South China Sea, in a move that could be seen as a challenge to China’s maritime claims in the disputed waters, a far-right US news website reported.
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Liverpool’s leading lady, Vicky Jepson, knows what it’s like to feel alone. Of the 36 coaches Vicky Jepson delivered a football coaching course to in Shenzhen last week, only one was female.
Rugby players play on rugby pitches, track athletes run on tracks, rock climbers climb rocks, mountain bikers go down mountains on bikes. So why should trail runners run on anything but trails?
Beijing has been increasingly clamping down on use of VPNs in recent weeks. This has prompted concerns among various groups that it will stifle academic research and international trade.
People in Shanghai react to the news of Canadian singer Justin Bieber’s planned concerts in China being blocked by authorities due to his “bad behaviour”.
EGS is a Hong Kong company specialising in marine surveys, since their establishment in 1974 they have witnessed the rapid development of Hong Kong and how it has changed the environment. (Photo: SCMP's Nora Tam)
Thomas Campbell, the controversial director who made radical changes to the 147-year-old New York institution, warns about the pitfalls of new museums and the risk of overreaching with digital developments.
Sources: North Central College; World War II Magazine; Dorling Kindersley; Encyclopaedia Britannica; National Geographic; World War II Database
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.
