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The Panama-flagged MSC Francesca is seen during seizure by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the Strait of Hormuz on April 24. Photo: West Asia News Agency via Reuters

World Opinion

Opinion | Reopen Strait of Hormuz by reframing Iran’s tolls as reconstruction

The deeper issue is whether post-war reconstruction and security in the Gulf will be handled through negotiation or recurring coercion.

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The View | Asian private wealth an emerging force in property investment

27 Apr 2026 - 4:30PMvideocam

Opinion | Hong Kong’s civil service accountability system will end buck-passing mentality

27 Apr 2026 - 9:30AMvideocam

Opinion

Editorial | Malaysia bourse pact extends Hong Kong’s outreach to Southeast Asia

As a centre for international and mainland Chinese capital, Hong Kong is well positioned to help firms across Asia attract investment.

27 Apr 2026 - 7:15AM

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) CEO Bonnie Chan Yiting (left) and Bursa Malaysia CEO Dato Fad’l Mohamed appear in a media briefing at the HKEX office in Central on April 22. Photo: Handout

World Opinion

Opinion | 122 years on, Mackinder’s ‘heartland’ remains geopolitically decisive

Conflicts in Ukraine and Iran have returned strategic focus to the idea of Eurasia as central to the global power contest, challenging the viability of the Indo-Pacific pivot.

27 Apr 2026 - 7:29AMvideocam

Opinion

My Take | Why TikTok is being deliberately ruined by its new American owners

The popular social media platform, once owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, has been turned into an AI-enabled exploitation and censorship machine.

26 Apr 2026 - 9:38PM

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World Opinion

Opinion | Middle East shipping crisis elevates China-Europe railway’s profile

Geopolitical strife has taken the China-Europe railway from an alternative to an essential part of continental connectivity.

26 Apr 2026 - 8:30PMvideocam

A China-Europe goods train departs from Tongjiang, Heilongjiang province, on December 9, 2025. Photo: Xinhua

World Opinion

Opinion | For the US dollar, a subtler shift than a ‘petroyuan’ order is underfoot

Talk of a dollar collapse or ‘petroyuan’ order arriving amid the Iran war misses the mark. The larger shift is subtler and no less consequential.

26 Apr 2026 - 4:30PMvideocam

Opinion

Opinion | Trump’s oil crisis is accelerating the end of the fossil fuel era

Ironically for president ‘drill, baby, drill’, this crisis may prove an irreversible tipping point for clean energy.

26 Apr 2026 - 3:00PM

Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | 10 ways Hong Kong schools can effectively promote mental health

Education should cultivate individuals who, even under pressure, can self-regulate and find hope without demanding perfection of themselves.

26 Apr 2026 - 9:30AMvideocam

Students of Tsung Tsin College smile on the first day of school in September 2, 2024. Photo: Elson Li

Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | To be the world No 2 financial centre, Hong Kong must be a rule maker

In a fragmenting world where the old financial order is being renegotiated, the greater prize goes to those who help set the new standards.

26 Apr 2026 - 5:30AMvideocam

Hong Kong’s Central district on February 25. Hong Kong has spent decades proving it can operate at the world’s highest standards, in financial regulation, legal infrastructure and institutional quality. Photo: Jelly Tse

Opinion

My Take | New entry system for non-EU residents is chipping away at Europe’s image

Making border control digital should be a natural step. But it has so far led to long queues, delays, confusion and chaos.

25 Apr 2026 - 11:30PM

World Opinion

Opinion | Why Spain’s ‘fruit bowl’ diplomacy with China comes up rather empty

Spain is a secondary actor within a middle-ranking bloc dealing with a major power. Diplomacy can soften but not change that asymmetry.

25 Apr 2026 - 8:30PM

World Opinion

Macroscope | The real reason stock markets are still flying high despite grave risks

For all the talk of market resilience, too much portfolio investment is chasing too few real-world investment areas.

25 Apr 2026 - 4:30PMvideocam

A trader works, as a screen broadcasts a press conference by US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell following a rate announcement, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on March 18. Photo: Reuters

Opinion

Opinion | Blinding the world with lies makes peacemaking an impossible task

From Iran to the Horn of Africa, disinformation is killing diplomacy. Mediators need facts, not state-sponsored fictions.

25 Apr 2026 - 11:00AM

A satellite image shows smoke rising from an oil refinery in Tuapse, Russia, on Monday after an overnight strike claimed by Ukraine’s military. Photo: Planet Labs PBC/Reuters

China Opinion

Opinion | Why Beijing is going all in on tokens – and what it really wants

Export of tokens not only embeds China’s energy advantage into global AI systems, it pulls the value chain deeper into the country’s interior.

25 Apr 2026 - 10:23AMvideocam

China Opinion

As I see it | Kuomintang gets the carrots, DPP the stick

Beijing and Taiwan’s opposition KMT want to foster cross-strait interdependence but DPP offers only isolation and endless confrontation.

25 Apr 2026 - 5:30AM

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Asia Opinion

The View | Others in Asia would love to have Singapore’s housing market problems

The city state’s problems pale beside those in other Asia-Pacific markets facing supply shortages that drive up prices and rents.

13 Apr 2026 - 5:16PMvideocam

People walk through a park in Singapore, with high-rise public housing in the background. Photo: Shutterstock

China Opinion

Opinion | 4 identities Hong Kong must embrace to provide global leadership

The city can be a bedrock for world commerce, finance, governance and civilisational exchange as we enter a new phase of globalisation.

14 Apr 2026 - 5:39PM

World Opinion

Opinion | You’re not asking the right question about the Iran war

The standard critique of the war does not ask who requires Iran to remain an enemy rather than a problem to be managed.

14 Apr 2026 - 9:24PMvideocam

Asia Opinion

Opinion | How Pakistan outmanoeuvred India in Iran war diplomacy with China’s help

Beijing’s indirect influence has allowed Islamabad to take advantage of New Delhi’s strategic constraints.

15 Apr 2026 - 5:30AMvideocam

Workers remove a billboard after the failed peace talks between the United States and Iran, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on April 12. Photo: EPA

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Opinion | Reopen Strait of Hormuz by reframing Iran’s tolls as reconstruction

Ram Manikkalingam

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The View | Asian private wealth an emerging force in property investment

Nicholas Spiro

27 Apr 2026 - 4:30PM

Opinion | Hong Kong’s civil service accountability system will end buck-passing mentality

Alice Wu

27 Apr 2026 - 9:30AM

Editorial | Malaysia bourse pact extends Hong Kong’s outreach to Southeast Asia

SCMP Editorial

27 Apr 2026 - 7:15AM

Opinion | 122 years on, Mackinder’s ‘heartland’ remains geopolitically decisive

Li Xing

27 Apr 2026 - 7:29AM

My Take | Why TikTok is being deliberately ruined by its new American owners

Alex Lo

26 Apr 2026 - 9:38PM

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HELP, WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE

HELP, WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE

THEY WON’T EVEN LET US MOURN IN PEACE!

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Super stupid behaviour during a super typhoon

Super stupid behaviour during a super typhoon in Hong Kong

IS THIS WORLD WAR III?

United States of Israel’s war on Iran endangers the whole world

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