Water

5 Oct 2012

Lizard Island Resort on the Great Barrier Reef offers holistic escape among nature’s wonders. Michael Sweet finds creatures and comforts to his liking.

Water wars pit thirsty Dakotas against barges for Missouri flow

5 Dec 2012

The Missouri River has blessed and cursed Kevin Schmidt, alternately nourishing or overrunning his farmland. This year its water saved his cows, and it may do so again next year if a lack of rain...

City scope: here be Hong Kong dragons

26 Aug 2012

With the thundering of drums, the muscular sportsmen and women, the nods to Chinese culture and the team camaraderie, it's hard not to get swept away by the spectacle that is dragon boat racing....

Letters to the Editor, South China Morning Post, August 18, 2012

18 Aug 2012

Non-urgent cases can be deterred

In recent years many Hong Kong residents have misused the Hospital Authority's accident and emergency wards by seeking treatment for conditions which are...

Weak market conditions lead to US$196m net loss

13 Aug 2012

Dry bulk, towage and ferry company Pacific Basin acknowledged it suffered an unaudited net loss of US$196 million in the first half of the year compared with a net profit of US$3 million in the...

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

United we stand

When was the last time you tried something new?' Robert Sheriff asks as he effortlessly balances a long board on his head that dwarfs his almost 1.8-metre frame.

Pool showers drain on resources

Some public swimming pools are operating inefficient showers that spray out as much as 14 litres of water per minute, an inspection by the South China Morning Post has found.

Making waves

As leisure activities go, owning a luxury yacht doesn't have the greenest of reputations.

Beauty on the inside

A sumptuous interior outdoes the need for speed among China's current wave of boat and yacht buyers, writes Richard Lord.

Pacific Basin hurt by falling charter rates

Pacific Basin Shipping is facing a harsh year at its core dry-cargo division, with average charter rates lower this year than last as a glut of new tonnage outpaces growth in cargo demand.

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Getting on board with a different style of living

News that the two of us were moving onto a boat elicited a range of responses: 'Won't you get seasick?' 'Why would you want to?' 'Where will you put all your stuff?' 'I'm so jealous!'