A fight for democracy, misbehaving Chinese tourists and a grisly find in a banker's apartment... These were among the most read stories on SCMP.com in 2014 as we saw record-breaking traffic to the website.
Readers from around the world flocked to SCMP.com to read our up-to-the-minute coverage of the Occupy Central protests as they unfolded over 16 gripping days. Reporters at several protest sites made sure we were the only website in the world with 24-hour rolling updates on the pro-democracy demonstrations going on around the city. The coverage brought the site record-breaking traffic, putting us streets ahead of the competition.
Here, we look at the top 10 news most read stories of 2014.
1) Occupy Central Live blog
It was all hands to the deck as Occupy Central leader Benny Lai announced in the early hours of September 28 that his pro-democracy protests would begin, seeing thousands of people take to the streets, blocking roads and paralysing the city's financial district, to demonstrate for the right to vote for the next Chief Executive of Hong Kong. After police fired tear gas at protesters, the eyes of the world turned to Hong Kong, putting the protests on the front pages of newspapers around the globe. And SCMP was there to cover every minute of it, bringing readers the most comprehensive and timely reports on what was happening on the ground.