https://www.scmp.com/rss/276236/feed Malala Yousafzai, born in 1997, is a Pakistani activist known for fighting for education rights for girls under the Taliban regime. She was awarded Pakistan’s National Youth Peace Prize for her cause of education. On October 9, 2012, a Taliban gunman shot Malala in her head and neck in an assassination attempt. Pakistan authorities subsequently offered an US$100,000 bounty on capture of the attacker. She remains in critical condition. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Alex Lo Alex Lo Given the long-degraded state of the Nobel Peace Prize, I say Donald Trump probably does deserve one, or three. It may also be jointly awarded to the US president’s Israeli partner-in-crime, the suspected war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu with an outstanding arrest warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity issued by the International Criminal Court. Eventually, Netanyahu will have to end his war on the Palestinian civilian population, which ought to make him a peacemaker of sorts. If... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/article/3318054/degraded-nobel-peace-prize-standards-could-mean-trump-deserves-one?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/article/3318054/degraded-nobel-peace-prize-standards-could-mean-trump-deserves-one?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:34:18 +0000 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders on Sunday not to “legitimise” the Afghan Taliban government and to “show true leadership” by opposing their curbs on women and girls’ education. “Do not legitimise them,” she said at a summit on girls’ education in Muslim nations being held in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad. “As Muslim leaders, now is the time to raise your voices, use your power. You can show true leadership. You can show true Islam,” said 27-year-old Yousafzai. The... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3294428/malala-tells-muslim-leaders-not-legitimise-taliban-show-true-leadership?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3294428/malala-tells-muslim-leaders-not-legitimise-taliban-show-true-leadership?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 12 Jan 2025 10:22:06 +0000 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai said she was “overwhelmed” to be back in her native Pakistan on Saturday, as the prime minister launched a global summit on girls’ education in the Islamic world. The summit has brought together education leaders from Muslim-majority countries, but has been snubbed by Pakistan’s neighbour Afghanistan – the only country in the world where girls’ are banned from school. “The Muslim world including Pakistan faces significant challenges in ensuring... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3294362/malala-goes-home-while-taliban-avoids-muslim-girls-education-conference?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3294362/malala-goes-home-while-taliban-avoids-muslim-girls-education-conference?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 11 Jan 2025 08:40:30 +0000 The refugee tents stretch out across a vast sandy desert – tens of thousands lined up in neat rows, some organised in the centre to spell out: “All Eyes on Rafah.” It is a viral post shared by millions of people across the globe – including Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, Bridgerton actress Nicola Coughlan, and model Bella Hadid – in response to Israel’s missile strike on Sunday that killed dozens of civilians in a camp for displaced Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip city. But... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3264779/all-eyes-rafah-viral-post-uses-ai-service-gaza-activism-it-ethical?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3264779/all-eyes-rafah-viral-post-uses-ai-service-gaza-activism-it-ethical?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 May 2024 19:42:54 +0000 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai said on Tuesday that Taliban rule in Afghanistan has made “girlhood illegal”, as she called for gender apartheid to be made a crime against humanity. In a speech marking the 10th anniversary of the death of South Africa’s Nelson Mandela, the Pakistani activist said: “The Taliban have made girlhood illegal, and it is taking a toll.” She highlighted how Afghan girls frozen out of school are “experiencing depression”, “turning to narcotics” and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3243982/taliban-rule-made-girlhood-illegal-afghanistan-malala-yousafzai-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3243982/taliban-rule-made-girlhood-illegal-afghanistan-malala-yousafzai-says?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 05 Dec 2023 17:34:20 +0000 Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday returned to her native Pakistan to meet flood victims, 10 years after a Taliban assassination attempt against her. Her visit, only the second since she was flown to Britain for life-saving treatment, comes as thousands of people protested in her hometown, where the same militant group is once again on the rise. Yousafzai was 15 when the Pakistani Taliban, an independent group that shares a common ideology with the Afghan Taliban, shot her in the... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3195598/malala-visits-pakistan-10th-anniversary-taliban-shooting?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3195598/malala-visits-pakistan-10th-anniversary-taliban-shooting?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 11 Oct 2022 11:24:14 +0000 It’s not even been a full year since the chaotic US-led withdrawal from Afghanistan and already American drones are back in the war-torn country’s skies, hunting terrorists the Taliban had vowed never to allow back on Afghan soil again. Since a strike on a house in Kabul early in the morning of July 31 killed al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri, US drones have been spotted circling over Afghanistan’s eastern provinces, seeking out more militant leaders from across the jihadist spectrum. Their... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3188666/why-afghanistans-terrorism-problem-bad-china-and-pakistan-too?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3188666/why-afghanistans-terrorism-problem-bad-china-and-pakistan-too?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Aug 2022 00:30:23 +0000 The curtain came down on the most momentous day for Hong Kong in 2021 after the results of the Legislative Council election were announced on Monday (“5 takeaways (and 1 surprise) from the Hong Kong Legislative Council election 2021”, December 20). The voter turnout rate was around 30 per cent, the lowest since the handover in 1997. The atmosphere at polling stations was dull and cheerless after peak hours, in stark contrast to the crowds that swarmed shopping centres, parks, as well as... https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/3160431/why-free-travel-election-day-was-win-win-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/3160431/why-free-travel-election-day-was-win-win-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 Dec 2021 22:30:15 +0000 Congratulations are in order for Malala Yousafzai and her husband Asser Malik! On November 9, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner in history shared on social media that she tied the knot in a beautiful ceremony in Birmingham “to be partners for life”. Now 24 years old, Malala is known for being a global girls’ education advocate and an inspiration to many young women after surviving being shot by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan at age 15 in 2012. She is also the international bestselling author... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3156390/meet-malala-yousafzais-new-husband-asser-malik-nobody?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3156390/meet-malala-yousafzais-new-husband-asser-malik-nobody?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Nov 2021 22:00:16 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3155824/gender-and-climate-collide-new-beauty-billionaire-and-death-cleaning?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3155824/gender-and-climate-collide-new-beauty-billionaire-and-death-cleaning?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Nov 2021 06:35:30 +0000 After news of Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai’s marriage broke, Bangladeshi feminist writer Taslima Nasreen, who lives in India, felt shocked. Malala, 24, wed fellow Pakistani Asser Malik in her home in Birmingham on Tuesday. She moved to Britain after she was shot in the head by the Pakistani Taliban in 2012 for campaigning for girls’ education. She later recovered and graduated from Oxford University last year. Malala’s marriage announcement, accompanied by photos of her in a pink dress,... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3155808/malala-yousafzai-marries-pakistani-asser-malik-sparking-debate?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3155808/malala-yousafzai-marries-pakistani-asser-malik-sparking-debate?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Nov 2021 05:10:45 +0000 Malala Yousafzai, the campaigner for girls’ education and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who survived being shot aged 15 by a Taliban gunman in her native Pakistan in 2012, has got married, she said on social media on Tuesday. The 24-year-old, who lives in Britain, said she and her new husband, who she named only as Asser, had wed in the city of Birmingham and celebrated at home with their families. “Today marks a precious day in my life. Asser and I tied the knot to be partners for life,” she wrote... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3155478/nobel-peace-prize-winner-malala-yousafzai-gets-married-britain?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3155478/nobel-peace-prize-winner-malala-yousafzai-gets-married-britain?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 09 Nov 2021 22:52:49 +0000 Princess Beatrice is just one of Queen Elizabeth’s eight grandchildren, but she’s been making headlines more readily than many of her relations of late – and for the right reasons, too, which can’t be said for all British royals right now. There’s nothing like a new life to melt hearts and, after marrying businessman Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in 2020 last year, the princess and her beau just welcomed their first child on September 18. Here’s what else you need to know about the beloved 33-year-old... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3150739/princess-beatrices-fabulous-life-pictures-holidays-karlie?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3150739/princess-beatrices-fabulous-life-pictures-holidays-karlie?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 02 Oct 2021 22:00:23 +0000 Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai returned to Pakistan Thursday, saying tearfully that it was “a dream” to come home for the first time since she was airlifted to Britain after being shot in the head by a Taliban gunman more than five years ago. The 20-year-old was overcome with emotion as she made a televised speech from the Prime Minister’s House in Islamabad, wiping away tears as she spoke of the beauty of her native Swat valley. “Always it has been my dream that I should go to Pakistan... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/2139398/nobel-winner-malala-yousafzai-makes-first-trip-pakistan-2012?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/2139398/nobel-winner-malala-yousafzai-makes-first-trip-pakistan-2012?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 29 Mar 2018 03:15:04 +0000 The Norwegian Nobel committee is often criticised for putting politics and celebrity ahead of causes in its annual selection of its peace prize receipient. While there was an element of that with its choosing of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, her considerably lesser-known co-winner, Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi, makes it clear that this year at least, they have got it right. The pair are decades apart in age, yet are linked by a common concern for the education and rights of... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1615908/giving-nobel-peace-prize-malala-and-kailash-satyarthi?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1615908/giving-nobel-peace-prize-malala-and-kailash-satyarthi?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 13 Oct 2014 20:45:00 +0000 Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai and India's Kailash Satyarthi won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for risking their lives to fight for children's rights. The decision, announced in the Norwegian capital Oslo, made Malala, a 17-year-old student, the youngest-ever Nobel winner. She dedicated her prize to the "voiceless children" of the world. The news set off celebrations on the streets of Mingora, the main town in Pakistan's volatile Swat valley. At the town's Khushal public school,... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1613825/malala-pakistan-satyarthi-india-win-nobel-peace-prize?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1613825/malala-pakistan-satyarthi-india-win-nobel-peace-prize?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:30:45 +0000 Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai was handed the EU’s prestigious Sakharov human rights prize on Wednesday in recognition of her crusade for the right of all children, girls and boys, to an education. Children don’t want an iPhone, an Xbox or chocolates. They just want a book and a pen Malala Yousafzai To thunderous applause announcing the European Parliament prize, the assembly’s president Martin Schulz praised the 16-year-old activist as “a survivor, a heroine and an extraordinary young... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1361248/pakistans-malala-yousafzai-receives-eu-sakharov-rights-prize?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1361248/pakistans-malala-yousafzai-receives-eu-sakharov-rights-prize?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:18:50 +0000 Malala Yousafzai was reduced to fits of laughter on Friday by Queen Elizabeth II’s husband Prince Philip as she met the royal couple at Buckingham Palace. The 16-year-old, who was shot by the Taliban for championing girls’ rights to an education, met Queen Elizabeth at a reception for youth, education and the Commonwealth. The activist survived being shot in the head on her school bus on October 9 last year and was sent for treatment to Britain where she now lives. Malala, accompanied by her... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1334732/malala-yousafzai-all-smiles-she-meets-queen-elizabeth?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1334732/malala-yousafzai-all-smiles-she-meets-queen-elizabeth?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:04:30 +0000 Friends and supporters of Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan voiced disappointment as she missed out on the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday, but the Tailban said they were "delighted" at the news. The 16-year-old had been hotly tipped to win the Nobel after courageously fighting back from a Taliban attempt on her life to lead a high-profile international campaign for the right of all children to go to school. Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, head of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, which rules... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1329929/friends-disappointed-and-taliban-delighted-malala-did-not-win-nobel?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1329929/friends-disappointed-and-taliban-delighted-malala-did-not-win-nobel?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai, the teenage activist nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, won the EU's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize yesterday, drawing a fresh threat of murder by the Taliban. To thunderous applause announcing the European Parliament prize, the assembly's president Martin Schulz said: "Malala bravely stands for the right of all children to be granted a fair education. This right for girls is far too commonly neglected." The parliament's vote for Malala from a... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1329024/taliban-threat-after-teenage-activist-malala-yousafzai-wins-sakharov-prize?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1329024/taliban-threat-after-teenage-activist-malala-yousafzai-wins-sakharov-prize?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Malala Yousafzai, Pakistan’s teenage activist, on Thursday was awarded the European Parliament’s prestigious Sakharov human rights prize. “Today, we decided to let the world know that our hope for a better future stands in young people like Malala Yousafzai,” said the chairman of the conservative European People’s Party (EPP). Malala, the Pakistani schoolgirl campaigner who survived a Taliban murder attempt last year, has become a global icon of the struggle for girls’ education and... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1328686/pakistans-malala-yousafzai-wins-eus-sakharov-rights-prize?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1328686/pakistans-malala-yousafzai-wins-eus-sakharov-rights-prize?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:51:53 +0000 One year after a Taliban bullet tried to silence Malala Yousafzai’s demand for girls’ education, she has published a book and is a contender for the Nobel Peace Prize. But the militants threaten to kill her should she dare return home to Pakistan, and the principal at her old school says that as Malala’s fame has grown, so has fear in her classrooms. Although Malala remains in Britain and her assailant is still at large, police say the case is closed. And many Pakistanis publicly wonder whether... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1328038/world-cheers-malala-yousafzai-pakistanis-ambivalent?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1328038/world-cheers-malala-yousafzai-pakistanis-ambivalent?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Oct 2013 12:28:40 +0000 In Malala Yousafzai's home town in Pakistan, school friends hope to see her win the Nobel Peace Prize this Friday - but they dream in secret, under pressure from a society deeply ambivalent about the teenage activist. Malala, who survived being shot by the Taliban on October 9 last year, has become a global ambassador for education, feted by celebrities and politicians around the Western world. But in northwest Pakistan's Swat valley, a deeply conservative area fearful of foreign influence... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1326669/prayers-secret-malalas-nobel-prize?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1326669/prayers-secret-malalas-nobel-prize?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 07 Oct 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban last year for campaigning for girls’ education, said on Monday she hoped to become a politician to “change the future of my country”. The 16-year-old, whose continued fight for all children to go to school has made her a favourite for the Nobel Peace Prize this week, also backed dialogue with the Taliban, although she said this was an issue for the government. I will be a politician in my future. I want to change the future of my... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1326452/malala-yousafzai-eyes-politics-change-future-pakistan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1326452/malala-yousafzai-eyes-politics-change-future-pakistan?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 07 Oct 2013 09:12:53 +0000 With this year's Nobel prize season opening next week, there is strong speculation the peace prize could go to Pakistani girls' education campaigner Malala Yousafzai, Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege or rights activists from Russia or Belarus. The first prize to be announced by the Nobel jury in Stockholm will be for medicine on Monday. But, as is the case every year, most of the speculation is on who will take home the prestigious peace and literature prizes. A record 259 nominations have been... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1324568/congo-doctor-malala-tipped-peace-prize?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1324568/congo-doctor-malala-tipped-peace-prize?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 04 Oct 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Good news is hard to come by, and when an extraordinary feel-good story comes our way, it inspires us to be better individuals and jolts society to see opportunities for change. In the span of one week, we had two remarkable and empowering stories. And we have two young women to thank. Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist who fought for education rights for girls, for which she was shot by a Taliban gunman last October, gave a "sweet sixteen" speech at the UN a little over a week ago, and gave... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1287754/no-challenge-too-daunting-two-young-women-miles-apart?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1287754/no-challenge-too-daunting-two-young-women-miles-apart?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 A prominent Pakistani Taliban commander has written a letter to a teenage girl shot in the head by the group, expressing regrets that he didn’t warn her before the assassination attempt that propelled her activism to the international stage. The letter from Adnan Rasheed, however, didn’t apologise for the October attack that left Malala Yousafzai gravely wounded. Rasheed, who has close relations with Taliban leaders, only said that he found the shooting “shocking” and wished it hadn’t... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1285018/senior-pakistani-taliban-leader-shocked-malala-attack?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1285018/senior-pakistani-taliban-leader-shocked-malala-attack?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:12:50 +0000 Pakistan teenager Malala Yousafzai told the United Nations yesterday that she would not be silenced by terrorists, in her first public speech since being shot by the Taliban. "They thought that the bullet would silence us, but they failed," Malala said on her 16th birthday in a presentation that was quickly hailed for its power. "The terrorists thought that they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life, except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died.... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1281291/malala-yousafzai-takes-campaign-girls-right-education-un?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1281291/malala-yousafzai-takes-campaign-girls-right-education-un?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Malala Yousafzai will address the United Nations on Friday, nine months after a Taliban gunman put a bullet in her head believing he was ending the Pakistani teenager’s campaign for girls’ education. The young woman will mark her 16th birthday with her first public speech since making a near miraculous recovery from the attack on a school bus near her home in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. Doctors had to place a titanium plate over the hole in her skull and her hearing has been badly affected. But... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1281032/malala-yousafzai-defies-taliban-take-world-stage?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1281032/malala-yousafzai-defies-taliban-take-world-stage?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Jul 2013 06:44:01 +0000 A fund set up by Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education, is to send 40 girls to school in her home region with the support of US actress Angelina Jolie. Malala, 15, announced the fund’s first project in a video message late on Thursday to the Women in the World Conference in New York from Britain, where she was sent for surgery after the attack on her school bus last October. She said the US$45,000 grant, raised with the help of... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1207818/malala-fund-pakistan-school-project-angelina-jolie?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1207818/malala-fund-pakistan-school-project-angelina-jolie?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:21:10 +0000 A political solution is the only way out President Xi Jinping on the crisis in Syria   It's a five-second moment of reflection before we move on to the rest of the season Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade on the team's first defeat in 27 games   I want to tell my story, but it will also be the story of 61 million children who can't get education Malala Yousafzai, 15, shot by the Taliban for going to school https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1202145/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1202145/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Malala Yousafzai, the teenage girl shot by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education, is to tell her life story in a book due out later this year, the publishers said on Thursday, in a deal reportedly worth around three million dollars. The book will be entitled I Am Malala. “I hope the book will reach people around the world, so they realise how difficult it is for some children to get access to education,” the 15-year-old Pakistani said in a statement. I hope the book will reach people... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1202113/shot-pakistani-schoolgirl-malala-pen-life-story?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1202113/shot-pakistani-schoolgirl-malala-pen-life-story?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:37:35 +0000 Malala Yousafzai The brave young schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban in Pakistan apparently for defying a ban on girls' education has made a good recovery and returned to school on Tuesday - this time in the safer environment of a girls' school in Birmingham, England. Malala said she was excited to have her dream of going back to school come true and wanted the same for all girls in the world.   Peng Liyuan The new first lady of China won praise from mainland internet users and... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1198269/good-week-march-24-2013?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1198269/good-week-march-24-2013?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:00:00 +0000 New arrivals on the strength of one-way permits are among the important sources of population growth in Hong Kong Acting Secretary for Security John Lee Ka-chiu on the scheme that allows mainlanders to reunite with their families   I am excited that today I have achieved my dream of going back to school Malala Yousafzai who was shot in the head for defying a ban on girls' education five months ago   This is not a good result - neither for Cyprus, nor for the euro zone Luxembourg Finance Minister... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1195687/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1195687/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, has been discharged from hospital in Britain after successful surgery, her doctors said yesterday. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the central English city of Birmingham said the 15 year old has been making "a good recovery" following surgery last weekend to fix a titanium plate to cover a missing piece of her skull. "Her medical team decided she was well enough to be discharged as an inpatient,"... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1146442/malala-yousafzai-leaves-hospital-after-successful-surgery?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1146442/malala-yousafzai-leaves-hospital-after-successful-surgery?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:00:00 +0000 The father of the Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, shot for campaigning for girls' education, said yesterday that the Taliban were fighting a lost cause and must accept peace talks. Ziauddin Yousafzai, accepting the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women's Freedom on behalf of his 15-year-old daughter, said in an impassioned speech that Malala was protected by the world and by God. "She fell but Pakistan stood up. And the whole world, north, south, east and west, supported her," he said. "God... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1124268/father-shot-malala-says-taliban-must-accept-peace-talks?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1124268/father-shot-malala-says-taliban-must-accept-peace-talks?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:00:00 +0000 The Taliban must accept peace talks as their mission has failed, the father of Malala Yousafzai said on Wednesday, accepting a key French award for the Pakistani schoolgirl shot for campaigning for girls’ education. In an impassioned speech after accepting the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Womens’ Freedom on behalf of the 15-year-old, Ziauddin Yousafzai said his daughter was supported by the world and by God. “She fell but Pakistan stood up. And the whole world – north, south, east and west –... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1124077/french-honour-malala-father-says-taliban-have-lost-fight?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1124077/french-honour-malala-father-says-taliban-have-lost-fight?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:52:12 +0000 The Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban as punishment for campaigning for girls’ education has been discharged from the British hospital treating her, but will return soon for more surgery, the hospital said on Friday. Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, central England, said 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai would continue her rehabilitation at her family’s temporary English home before undergoing major reconstructive surgery in a few weeks. “Malala Yousufzai was discharged from... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1119921/pakistani-girl-malala-discharged-british-hospital?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1119921/pakistani-girl-malala-discharged-british-hospital?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:01:21 +0000 Deal signed to curb trade in rhino horn HANOI - Vietnam and South Africa signed a deal Monday to tackle rhino poaching and the lucrative illicit trade in the creature's horns for use in traditional medicine. Minister of Agriculture Cao Duc Phat vowed to seek a total ban on the import of all rhino products, according to a statement. AFP   Aid chief expelled for criticising Laos HANOI - Laos has expelled the outspoken head of a major Swiss charity for criticising the government. Anne-Sophie... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1102468/briefs-december-11-2012?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1102468/briefs-december-11-2012?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:00:00 +0000 The father of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education, has been named a UN special advisor on global education, UN envoy Gordon Brown said on Monday. Brown added that the 15-year-old schoolgirl, who is recovering in a British hospital after being brutally attacked on her school bus on October 9, will herself join the campaign when she is better. Ziauddin Yousafzai, Malala’s father, is a former teacher and headmaster and has been appointed to... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1102216/malalas-father-named-un-advisor-education?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1102216/malalas-father-named-un-advisor-education?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:20:21 +0000 Japan's ties with US, China vex Dalai Lama TOKYO - The Dalai Lama lamented the US military presence in Japan during a press conference in Okinawa, where anti-American feeling has flared after alleged crimes by servicemen. "It is not right to have foreign military bases, but such situations unfortunately exist all around the world," the Tibetan spiritual leader said, according to a Jiji Press report. The Dalai Lama also called on Tokyo and Beijing to ease rising diplomatic tensions, saying "China... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1081072/briefs-november-13-2012?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1081072/briefs-november-13-2012?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 As Pakistan marked "Malala Day" yesterday on a global day of support for the teenager shot by the Taliban for promoting girls' education, security fears in her home town meant her schoolmates could not honour her in public. Taliban hitmen shot Malala Yousafzai on her school bus a month ago in Mingora in northwestern Pakistan's Swat Valley in a cold-blooded murder attempt for the "crime" of campaigning for girls' rights to go to school. However, the 15-year-old survived, and her courage has won... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1079544/malalas-school-swat-still-fearful?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1079544/malalas-school-swat-still-fearful?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 As the world prepared to mark “Malala Day” on Saturday to support the Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education, security fears in her hometown meant her schoolmates could not honour her in public. Taliban hitmen shot Malala Yousafzai on her school bus a month ago in Mingora in Pakistan’s northwestern Swat Valley in a cold-blooded murder attempt for the “crime” of campaigning for girls’ right to go to school. Miraculously the 15-year-old survived and her courage has... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1079423/fears-blight-malala-day-schoolgirls-hometown?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1079423/fears-blight-malala-day-schoolgirls-hometown?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:16:36 +0000 Remembrance Sunday A commemoration ceremony takes place at the Cenotaph in Central at 11am tomorrow, which is Remembrance Sunday, when tribute is paid to those in the armed forces who died in the line of duty. Two minutes' silence will be observed and wreaths laid. Poppies are available from the Royal British Legion's Central depot in Prince's Building, 15/F, Room 1528, as well as from a booth in Pacific Place (by the bridge to Queensway). Volunteers will also be selling them on the streets of... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1078928/talking-points?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1078928/talking-points?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 More than 87,000 people have signed a global petition calling for Pakistani schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, campaigners said on Friday. The 15-year-old is recovering in hospital in Britain after Taliban gunmen in her native northwest Pakistan shot her on her school bus last month for daring to campaign for the right of girls to go to school. “A Nobel Peace Prize for Malala will send a clear message that the world is watching and will support those who... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1078877/thousands-sign-nobel-petition-pakistans-malala?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1078877/thousands-sign-nobel-petition-pakistans-malala?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:32:58 +0000 Aim to answer 999 calls in nine seconds I refer to G. Marques' letter ("Delays on 999 call line were unacceptable", October 30), expressing concern about the delays in handling 999 emergency calls. The Hong Kong police undertake to provide a timely and efficient service for 999 callers 24 hours round the clock. The performance pledge of police answering all 999 calls is nine seconds. However, there may be rare occasions - for example, a major disaster - when, despite best efforts, 999 callers... https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/1075739/letters-editor-november-6-2012?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/1075739/letters-editor-november-6-2012?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 The men who attempted to kill 14-year-old activist Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan this month knew what she represented. Her active involvement since the age of 11 in campaigning for the rights of girls in her region to be educated was well known. Malala's efforts, while applauded by the West and some segments of Pakistani society, were deeply resented by the obscurantist forces that go by the name of the Taliban. Their choice of name is ironic, for Taliban means those seeking to be educated,... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1072535/terrorism-wont-stop-education-pakistani-girls?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1072535/terrorism-wont-stop-education-pakistani-girls?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000 The father of a Pakistani teen activist who was wounded by a Taliban gunman vowed the girl would return home after her medical treatment abroad, despite new threats against her. Since being shot on October 9 in northwest Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai, 15, has become an international heroine, although her work of speaking out against the Taliban and promoting girls' education has long been known beyond her native Swat Valley. Malala's father Ziauddin Yousafzai's comments were recorded by Pakistani... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1070707/shot-teen-activist-malala-yousafzais-family-vow-remain-pakistan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1070707/shot-teen-activist-malala-yousafzais-family-vow-remain-pakistan?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000 The courage of schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai has renewed Pakistani students’ determination to learn despite the poor state of the country’s education system, undermined by poverty and under attack from Islamist militants. The 15-year-old is recovering in a British hospital after the Pakistani Taliban shot her in the head in a cold-blooded murder attempt for daring to promote the right of girls to go to school. The October 9 attack came in Malala’s hometown Mingora in Swat, part of Pakistan’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1070341/shot-schoolgirl-malala-inspires-pakistani-students?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1070341/shot-schoolgirl-malala-inspires-pakistani-students?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:20:43 +0000 A young activist from the same area of Pakistan as Malala Yousafzai, the girl shot in the head by a Taliban gunman this month, has been warned in a threatening phone call that she will be next. Hinna Khan, a 17-year-old from Swat, was named during a call made to her mother's mobile phone two days after Malala, who spoke out against the Taliban, was attacked as she sat in a van with her classmates in Mingora. Hinna's father, Reyatullah Khan, said: "The Taliban have kidnapped me and tortured me in... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1069847/young-activist-receives-death-threat-after-malala-yousafzais-attack?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1069847/young-activist-receives-death-threat-after-malala-yousafzais-attack?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000