Long Reads
Christmas is a time of goodwill to all men and their often bizarre traditions, whether it’s a gift-defecating log or a festive fist-fight. We hitch a ride on the big man’s sleigh to see for ourselves.
Little was publicly known about Sun Yat-sen’s time in Penang until Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad’s 2001 visit to an exhibition dedicated to the Chinese revolutionary in George Town, where his influence can still be felt.
Two of the world’s richest men are engaged in a race to be the first to launch satellite internet, wielding their billionaire boys toys in a rivalry straight out of the sci-fi flicks that both adore.
Gabrielle Kirstein, the founder of Feeding Hong Kong, talks about how helping her father with his volunteer work in a Manchester hostel inspired her to set up the food charity
After his mother noticed his natural sense of rhythm, Wei Wei joined Shenyang Conservatory of Music, in China, before joining Hong Kong Ballet in 2003, where he met his wife and continues to dance.
Having attended Wellesley, Cambridge, Oxford and Harvard, the founder of ethical crowdfunding platform SparkRaise says, ‘I basically kept studying because I didn’t want to work’.
Michael Xufu Huang, 26, is but one of the many young collectors opening their own museums and galleries, in what seems to be a fundamental shift in China’s cultural world.
Golfrid Siregar had taken on the Chinese-funded hydroelectric power plant being built deep in the Sumatran rainforest, a project environmentalists claim threatens the survival of the unique Tapanuli orangutan.
The Hong Kong visual artist talks about having felt close to death since childhood, coming out as a creative and eschewing relationships to remain creative
Beijing’s 2018 purchase of the Royal Mint Court was welcomed, but the intervening years have seen the British view of China sour and residents and councillors have vowed to make their disapproval known.
A South China Morning Post editor gets lessons from some of Hong Kong’s top stand-ups before taking to the stage and finds that making people laugh for a living is a tough gig.
Austria-born Henry Steiner, who is known as the ‘father of Hong Kong design’, recalls the 1967 riots, bringing graphic design to the city and creating HSBC’s red-and-white hexagon.
A public dispute between a 17-year-old transgender woman and her family has shone a spotlight on the existence of ‘schools’ that exist to ‘regulate’ the behaviour of the country’s teenagers.
China is said to be the world’s worst offender when it comes to illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, a position it could not maintain without hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies handed to it by Beijing.
The Taiwanese actor and director reflects on the influence of childhood as she looks back on her 50 years in front of and behind the camera.
Robert Epstone planned for an idyllic retirement on Bali. Instead, he is working to find sustainable solutions to ending poverty on the island with his charity Yayasan Solemen Indonesia.
An extraterrestrial gold rush? As companies eye celestial riches, we could all be losers if countries fail to reach a consensus on space mining.
David Nesbitt on how his eponymous centre started the Nest chain of bakery and coffee shop social enterprises.
After a very public fallout with the NBA, it has become clear that China uses sports to send a political message, meaning the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is shaping up to be the most controversial Games in recent times.