US President Donald Trump will visit China between November 8 and 10 as part of his Asia tour, the White House announced on Tuesday.
The trips to China and Japan will be the longest legs of the tour, which will take in five Asian nations in total.
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“Oh, east is east and west is west, and never the twain shall meet; till earth and sky stand presently at God’s great judgment seat.”
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.
South Africa has the largest population of rhinos in the world. However over the past nine years a staggering 6,115 rhinos have been killed by poachers seeking to sell their horns to the lucrative traditional medicine business in Asian countries.
The World Solar Challenge, an epic 3,000-kilometre solar car race across outback Australia, has become one of the world’s foremost innovation challenges with teams looking to demonstrate designs that could one day lead to solar-powered cars for consumers that can carry passengers.
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)
Dickie Lee has strung racquets for top tennis players at 23 Grand Slam tournaments.
China says it has banned imports of North Korean seafood to comply with U.N sanctions.
But North Korean products are still making their way into China.
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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.
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.
