https://www.scmp.com/rss/266577/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Led from his cell in Chippewa County Jail, on the remote peninsula that divides Lake Superior from Lake Huron, the United States from Canada, Justin Cheong is ordered to sit by a prison guard. Compliant but not cowed, the Macau-born civil-rights activist smiles wanly and places his palm in greeting on the reinforced glass that separates us. It is the act of a man clinging to social convention, seeking any meaningful human connection. “There’s so much anti-Chinese rhetoric,” notes the University... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2042680/if-trump-cant-spark-asian-american-political?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2042680/if-trump-cant-spark-asian-american-political?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 03 Nov 2016 20:00:30 +0000 In their modest home in the Indian hill station of Dharamsala, Lhamo Kyi prepares her bag for soccer camp while her mother makes tea. Clutching a photo of her brother, activist and author Lingtsa Tseten Dorje, the 18-year-old midfielder says, "My mother and I marched to the Nepal-Tibet border with him [in 2012], to raise awareness of Tibetan rights. "Since [2008], Tibetans are not welcome in Nepal. The Nepalese army put a gun to his head. He told the soldiers they could kill him, so long as they... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1830560/tibetan-womens-soccer-team-seek-level-playing-field?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1830560/tibetan-womens-soccer-team-seek-level-playing-field?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 Jul 2015 08:15:00 +0000 Chinese investment in Somalia is impossible to quantify due to the lack of Somali government records. However, a trawl through the WikiLeaks US State Department files reveals two reports that expose American concern about Sino-Somali economic ties and record the nature of China's Somalia-related expenditure. These include buying oil rights in Puntland and suspected, albeit oblique, support for the creation of a breakaway state in Jubaland, to act as a buffer between Kenya and regions held by... https://www.scmp.com/article/974285/chinese-whispers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/974285/chinese-whispers?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:00:00 +0000 The sun rises over the Horn of Africa, further baking the parched land. The sound of battle a few kilometres away blends with the subdued chatter of more than 3,000 Somalis gathered at a series of bomb-proof concrete blocks that protects the entrance to the African Union (AU) field hospital in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. Here, the young and the old, the sick and the malnourished congregate in the dust and relentless heat. No more than 400 of the thousands queuing will receive treatment... https://www.scmp.com/article/974286/sos-somalia?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/974286/sos-somalia?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:00:00 +0000