https://www.scmp.com/rss/277181/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Attempting to tease information out of Carrie Fisher about the new Star Wars film was always going to be tough. But during a visit to Hong Kong to raise funds for local children’s charity The Hub, Fisher did let one thing slip – she is playing a “legacy character” in the film due for release in December next year. “I’m in it. So are the other people,” she said on Friday, when asked what she can reveal about The Force Awakens, her first appearance as Princess Leia since Return of the Jedi in... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1646812/carrie-fisher-hong-kong-charity-ball-revels-star-wars-legacy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1646812/carrie-fisher-hong-kong-charity-ball-revels-star-wars-legacy?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 23 Nov 2014 00:30:45 +0000 She will soon return to cinemas to use the force to battle the dark side - but Hollywood superstar Carrie Fisher took time out to visit Hong Kong and use her star power to bring some light to the lives of Asia's poorest children. The actress, best known as Princess Leia in the Star Wars films, was guest of honour at last night's The Hub charity ball, raising money for children across Asia. Beneficiaries included The Hub Hong Kong, which supports education in Sham Shui Po, one of the city's... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1645706/star-wars-princess-beacon-needy-kids-carrie-fisher-visits-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1645706/star-wars-princess-beacon-needy-kids-carrie-fisher-visits-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 21 Nov 2014 20:30:00 +0000 Lam Ka-wai The Kitchee star put the debate about the shoddy Hong Kong Stadium pitch to one side with a 25-metre strike that will live long in the memory against Manchester United. Teammate Alex Alkande also scored a high-quality goal as the former Hong Kong champions put up a good show against some of the more famous players in world soccer, losing 5-2 in front of 40,000 fans. Otto Cheng Ping-lun The city's architects are always looking for new business abroad but Cheng went a stage further... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1294177/good-week-august-4-2013?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1294177/good-week-august-4-2013?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 03 Aug 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Tai holds forum on Occupy Central plan University of Hong Kong law professor Benny Tai Yiu-ting will attend a forum today on his Occupy Central plan at Heep Yunn School in Ma Tau Wai. Anti-universal-suffrage group Voice of Loving Hong Kong has vowed to interrupt the event to protest against Tai spreading his message about the civil-disobedience movement to secondary school pupils.   Talks open on US-EU free-trade zone Ambitious talks to create the world's largest free-trade zone between the US... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1277529/talking-points?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1277529/talking-points?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 07 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Justin Rose The English golfer had an extra special Father's Day, winning the US Open for the first time and paying tribute to his dad Ken, who introduced him to the game and who died of leukaemia in 2002. Rose pipped Phil Mickelson for the title at Merion, near Philadelphia, becoming the first English winner of a major since Nick Faldo.   Fang Xinghai The man leading Shanghai's ambitious plans to become the world's leading financial centre by 2020 has been promoted to an elite economic team at... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1266837/good-week-june-23-2013?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1266837/good-week-june-23-2013?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 22 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Jose Antonio Camacho China's national soccer coach was lambasted after his side lost 5-1 at home to Thailand, a result that has led to new questions about the state of the sport. The defeat, against a second-string Thai side, was all the more embarrassing as it fell on the 60th birthday of President Xi Jinping , the nation's most high-profile soccer fan.   Leonard Cheng Kwok-hon The new president of Lingnan University immediately stepped into not one, but two rows. Firstly, students criticised... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1266833/bad-week-june-23-2013?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1266833/bad-week-june-23-2013?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 22 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000 By the time we obtain Hongkongers' endorsement of a political reform proposal, the nuclear weapon is assembled Dr Benny Tai Yiu-ting on plans for his Occupy Central campaign   We're not machines, we're humans Former world No 1 Rory McIlroy on golfers' fluctuating form   He didn't want the glitzy image … he was really a pure artist and wanted privacy Alan Chan Yau-kin on his friend, the late singer Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1201321/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1201321/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:00:00 +0000 San Lorenzo The Argentinian soccer club is suddenly in the limelight thanks to its most famous fan … Pope Francis. The club's stars might be hoping they have God on their side as they aim for their first Argentinian title since 2007. Appropriately enough, the club was founded by a priest and named after St Lawrence of Rome.   Bernard Hopkins The veteran brawler shows age is no barrier to world title glory. Some 25 years after his first professional fight, Hopkins became the oldest world champion... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1192541/good-week-march-17-2013?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1192541/good-week-march-17-2013?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai The Hong Kong delegate to the National People's Congress drew a relatively modest vote as she was re-elected to the NPC Standing Committee. She saw the number of votes against her re-election increase almost threefold to 124, from 42 in 2008. Still, she was never in any danger of defeat - 95 per cent of delegates did support her.   Chris Huhne The former British cabinet minister learned the true meaning of the phrase "a woman scorned" as he went from Parliament to prison... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1192543/bad-week-march-17-2013?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1192543/bad-week-march-17-2013?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Taimoor Khan The 21-year-old Pakistani became the first non-Chinese person to join Baptist University's Chinese medicine course. He'll spend five years getting to grips with the ancient practice after beating fierce competition for a place. Khan, who has lived in Hong Kong since the age of three, has long wanted to be a doctor, but developed an interest in Chinese medicine after his mother was struck with severe allergic rhinitis seven years ago.   General Ma Xiaotian The former pilot is to head... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1071440/good-week-october-28-2012?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1071440/good-week-october-28-2012?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Premier Wen Jiabao Just when retirement seemed within reach, Beijing's No2 leader was rocked by revelations in an exposé in The New York Times about the vast wealth built up by his family while he has been in office. Even Wen's 90-year-old mother was, apparently, in on the act, amassing a US$120 million stake in financial service giant Ping An Insurance. The Foreign Ministry condemned the allegations - but did not deny them.   Jerome Kerviel France's most famous rogue trader lost his appeal... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1071436/bad-week-october-28-2012?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1071436/bad-week-october-28-2012?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000 1. Chicago Tribune You've heard this horrific story by now: A Taliban gunman boarded a school bus in Pakistan's Swat Valley badlands last week and shot 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai in the head. The reason? Malala wanted to go to school. That's forbidden by the Taliban. Taliban terrorists in Pakistan have destroyed at least 200 schools for girls. But Malala would not back down. … Now she'll need surgery to repair or replace damaged bones in her skull and neurological treatment. British doctors... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1071438/how-they-see-it-october-28-2012?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1071438/how-they-see-it-october-28-2012?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Albert Cheng King-hon The radio host's Digital Broadcasting Corp went off air after he failed to reach a deal with fellow investors in the station amid claims of political interference. Still, it's not like losing his show is a new experience for the former lawmaker - it's the seventh time he has left a job as a radio presenter, and it looks like he may be back on air this week.   Mototaka Ikawa The ex-head of Daio Paper is swapping Macau casinos for a Japanese prison after gambling away 5... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1060594/bad-week-october-14-2012?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1060594/bad-week-october-14-2012?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Mo Yan The novelist became the first Chinese national to win the Nobel Prize for literature. The Swedish Academy, which picks the winners of the award, praised Mo Yan's "hallucinatory realism", saying it "merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". The 57-year-old will collect the 8 million kronor (HK$9.26 million) prize at a ceremony in Stockholm in December. Mo Yan (real name Guan Moye) is perhaps best-known for his 1987 novella Red Sorghum.   Jasper Tsang Yok-sing Tsang was re-elected... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1060590/good-week-october-14-2012?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1060590/good-week-october-14-2012?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000 1. Global Times The US has repeatedly obstructed Chinese companies from entering into US domestic competition under the pretext of "national security". The US is gradually becoming reduced to an unreasonable country. Its lack of self-confidence is astonishing. Out of fear, the US is becoming oversensitive to China and even suspects equipment makers such as Huawei and ZTE. If China held the same state of mind as the US, it would search for substitutes to drive US products out of China … US and... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1060593/how-they-see-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1060593/how-they-see-it?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000