https://www.scmp.com/rss/308744/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com A Hong Kong piano prodigy is quickly gaining international fame after her stunning performance on a popular American television chat show went viral. Phoenix Li wowed an audience on the Ellen DeGeneres Show with her rendition of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee. A video of the performance has been viewed more than half a million times since it was uploaded to YouTube on February 24. The seven-year-old pupil at the Methodist School in Kowloon, who has been playing the piano for... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1920463/meet-phoenix-li-seven-year-old-hong-kong-piano?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1920463/meet-phoenix-li-seven-year-old-hong-kong-piano?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 04 Mar 2016 03:30:45 +0000 Robin Fall Robin Fall Cuba’s Barrio Chino De Havana is one of the oldest and largest Chinatowns in Latin America. Yet this once vibrant neighbourhood has been in decline for decades. Many Cubans of Chinese descent fled the island nation soon after Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution. Louis Chan, 61, is a painter and designer in Havana. His parents emigrated from Guangdong, China, to escape hardship and seek their fortune. “What would one like?” asks Chan. “The return of those old prosperous times with the aromas of foods,... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1904408/cubas-chinatown-bears-ghosts-past-and-hope-future?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1904408/cubas-chinatown-bears-ghosts-past-and-hope-future?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 24 Jan 2016 09:00:30 +0000 Click here to view the four-part multimedia package https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1877879/macau-rise-and-fall-empire?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1877879/macau-rise-and-fall-empire?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:00:00 +0000 Every weekend, the South China Morning Post presents its top video picks from SCMP.tv and the web, highlighting news, features, mini-documentaries and more. This week... Kumbali and Kago, Cheetah Cub & Puppy Friendship Better than a cute kitten video: meet Kumbali and Kago, a rare and unique friendship between a cheetah cub and a puppy. It's a well-narrated story about how their unusual bond came about.    Artist creates self-proclaimed world's biggest calligraphy artwork on Russian... https://www.scmp.com/lists/article/1865276/top-5-videos-week-worlds-biggest-piece-calligraphy-chinas-infamous-traffic?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lists/article/1865276/top-5-videos-week-worlds-biggest-piece-calligraphy-chinas-infamous-traffic?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Oct 2015 11:00:00 +0000 WATCH: Locked in: A Japanese American’s boyhood in an internment camp Riki Shimogaki was 11 years old when him and his family were forced to abandon their home in Bellevue, Washington, and sent to an internment camp in California. Shimogaki was one of approximately 120,000 Japanese-Americans shipped away and incarcerated into camps across the country following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941. Launching the US into the second world war, the attack sparked suspicion and distrust towards... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1853641/they-rounded-us-sheep-and-stripped-our-rights-japanese-american-recalls?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1853641/they-rounded-us-sheep-and-stripped-our-rights-japanese-american-recalls?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 29 Aug 2015 07:15:00 +0000 LISTEN TO ASTI MARIA TALK ABOUT HER PHOTOGRAPHY Domestic helper Asti Maria only gets to see Hong Kong's landscapes on Sundays, her days off, but she preserves the memory of the city's mountains and hills, and the feeling of peace she gets from it, through photographs. "My favourite photo is of a dog sitting on a cliff. You can see a beach in Sai Kung in front of it. I like that because I feel serenity [when I look at it]," says the 33-year-old from Malang, East Java, in Indonesia. Even before... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1834514/behind-lens-hong-kong-domestic-helpers-discover?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1834514/behind-lens-hong-kong-domestic-helpers-discover?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 16 Jul 2015 23:00:45 +0000 LISTEN TO SINNA TALK ABOUT HER PHOTOGRAPHY Risna Hermanto, now 30, was just out of high school when she moved to Hong Kong from her native Indonesia to become a domestic helper in 2004.  A keen writer, Risna (nicknamed Sinna) started penning in diaries her experiences in the new city, then soon after discovered the joys of blogging. Inspired by those blogs, she started yearning to add visuals to complement her writings. There was just one problem: she couldn't yet afford a camera. She was... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1830601/shooting-stars-domestic-helpers-discover-their?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1830601/shooting-stars-domestic-helpers-discover-their?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Jul 2015 04:30:30 +0000 Hong Kong-born Vivek Mahbubani, who is fluent in Cantonese and English, is one of the comedians performing in this week’s Magners Comedy Festival. He talks to the SCMP about his experiences of racism in the city he calls home. For details of Vivek's upcoming performances, visit http://funnyvivek.com/schedule/#content-area https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/1734987/vivek-mahbubani-discrimination-no-laughing-matter-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/1734987/vivek-mahbubani-discrimination-no-laughing-matter-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Mar 2015 04:00:15 +0000 View the interactive here https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1711475/maids-tale-story-one-womans-struggle-become-domestic-helper?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1711475/maids-tale-story-one-womans-struggle-become-domestic-helper?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 21 Feb 2015 16:00:30 +0000 There are more than 300 genres, or performing styles, in Chinese opera, but only three are on Unesco’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity: Kunqu, Peking Opera and Cantonese Opera. They are also the most popular among Hong Kong audiences and are performed throughout the year in the city. To celebrate the beauty and diversity of this traditional art form, Chinese opera veterans Liza Wang Ming-chun, Law Ka-ying and Tang Yuen-ha explain the distinct characteristics... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/1716314/chinese-opera-stars-celebrate-its-beauty-and-diversity?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/1716314/chinese-opera-stars-celebrate-its-beauty-and-diversity?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 Feb 2015 22:45:30 +0000 Click here to access the multimedia site https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1646845/closing-time-how-hong-kongs-street-hawkers-struggle-survive?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1646845/closing-time-how-hong-kongs-street-hawkers-struggle-survive?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 23 Nov 2014 02:15:45 +0000 Click here to access the multimedia site https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1600809/multimedia-living-heritage-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1600809/multimedia-living-heritage-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 Sep 2014 11:45:15 +0000 In a special report, the Post examines how Japan is recovering from the 2011 mega earthquake and how things have changed since then. Three years after the disaster wiped out a large swathe of Japan’s eastern coast and triggered nuclear meltdown in a Fukushima power plant, residents in affected areas are slowly rebuilding their homes, but many question whether the government has learnt their lesson from the nuclear crisis. Click here to access the report https://www.scmp.com/article/1521763/stories-fukushima-three-years?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/1521763/stories-fukushima-three-years?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 May 2014 03:15:15 +0000 When Harry Harrison arrived in Hong Kong, he was a 32-year-old freelance artist intent on cementing a career in illustration. Now, as he celebrates two decades in the city, the South China Morning Post's satirical cartoonist is, perhaps more importantly, seen by his children's friends as having a "cool" job. Harrison, 52, drew his first cover cartoon for Post Magazine a week after the handover in 1997. It featured Hong Kong's first chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, wringing the new SAR flag... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1509866/toons-twist-harry-harrison-looks-back-two-decades-humour?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1509866/toons-twist-harry-harrison-looks-back-two-decades-humour?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 12 May 2014 02:30:15 +0000 The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant went into meltdown just 13 kilometres away from Naoto Matsumura's home. After being turned away from an overcrowded temporary shelter, he decided to take his chances back home in Tomioka city, Fukushima prefecture, and take care of his animals. "I have two cats, one dog, one ostrich, one horse, 31 cows and four wild boars," Matsumura said proudly. Initially, he says he took animals that were left behind in his hometown, whose owners were told the evacuation of... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1445896/japans-most-radioactive-man-and-his-animals?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1445896/japans-most-radioactive-man-and-his-animals?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 11 Mar 2014 01:45:15 +0000 Link to the full-screen multimedia https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1445467/three-years-stories-fukushima?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1445467/three-years-stories-fukushima?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:00:00 +0000 Did you hear the one about the African-American Jewish guy who married a Chinese-Jamaican woman? Sounds like the start of a risqué joke about racial stereotypes, but for Hong Kong-based comedian Jim Brewsky, it's the stuff of real life. Brewsky, 36, who has been working the city's stand-up circuit for a year, has made a comic virtue out of the rich mix of his personal situation, and it's just one example of the schtick that's turning Hong Kong into Asia's stand-up hub. One of his gags... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1338606/comedians-mixed-heritage-gives-him-last-laugh?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1338606/comedians-mixed-heritage-gives-him-last-laugh?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 24 Oct 2013 19:00:15 +0000 A British news channel has claimed it is the first Western news organisation to question North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during a military parade marking the 60th anniversary of the Korean War armistice. The secretive nation allowed in a large group of foreign journalists last week to cover Saturday’s lavish celebrations of the truce that ended the 1950-53 Korean war, which North Korea says it won. Channel 4 News’ Asia correspondent John Sparks was attending the event where tens of thousands of... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1292750/channel-4-becomes-first-organisation-question-kim-jong-un?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1292750/channel-4-becomes-first-organisation-question-kim-jong-un?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 29 Jul 2013 04:17:20 +0000