South China Morning Post’s 10 most read stories of 2019
- An eventful year saw reports on the Hong Kong anti-government protests feature heavily in our most popular articles
2019 was an eventful year, with the Hong Kong protests and trade war between the United States and China dominating the headlines.
The unrest was the biggest news event of the year in the city the South China Morning Post covers in depth, so it was no surprise that stories about the anti-government protests made up eight of our top 10 most-read stories of 2019. Here is the full list.
10. Why are young people in Hong Kong so angry?
As residential property prices continue to rise in what is already one of the most expensive cities in the world, Hong Kong’s youth find themselves priced out of ever owning their own homes and raging against more than the proposed extradition bill.
9. Hard work got me into Stanford, says student in US$6.5 million scandal
A video shot in 2017 of Zhao Yusi, the Chinese student whose family paid US$6.5 million for her fraudulent admission to Stanford University, went viral on social media. In it, she claims she was accepted because of her “hard work”.