https://www.scmp.com/rss/311489/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Click here to view this interactive feature https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1879235/interactive-feature-one-longest-bridges-world-being-built-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1879235/interactive-feature-one-longest-bridges-world-being-built-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:00:15 +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 Tree experts have called for reforms to protect the city's green heritage after a South China Morning Post analysis of official data revealed just 214 trees out of 484 rated "old and valuable" were in good or fair condition. Of the rest, over 100 had obvious wounds and others were riddled with "severe cavities", decay and "signs of pests and disease". INTERACTIVE: Tracking the health of Hong Kong's trees Nine government departments are responsible for the 1.7 million urban trees in Hong Kong,... https://www.scmp.com/news/article/1871109/poor-tree-care-puts-hong-kongs-green-heritage-risk-warn-experts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/1871109/poor-tree-care-puts-hong-kongs-green-heritage-risk-warn-experts?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 22 Oct 2015 16:00:45 +0000 View the map in full size here This map was created by the South China Morning Post using data from the government's Tree Register web-based map. We recommend readers refer to the government's records for the latest changes, as our version will not receive regular updates. Source: Tree Register, Development Bureau Access the raw data on Google Fusion Tables READ MORE: Poor tree care puts Hong Kong's green heritage at risk, warn experts https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/1865837/tracking-health-hong-kongs-trees-interactive-map?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/1865837/tracking-health-hong-kongs-trees-interactive-map?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 22 Oct 2015 15:15:00 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/1859268/everything-you-need-know-about-xi-jinpings-us-visit?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/1859268/everything-you-need-know-about-xi-jinpings-us-visit?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:00:30 +0000 Chinese social media erupted in mockery and jokes - amid the praise and applause - during China's military parade on Thursday, marking 70 years since the end of the second world war. Internet users found plenty to talk about, from former president Jiang Zemin's hands to Mao Zedong's rotund grandson looking deflated from the heat - even if much of the chatter was eventually blocked by the internet police. Deletions of posts on Weibo - the Twitter-like service massively popular in China - picked... https://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1855254/jiang-zemin-has-how-many-fingers-twitter-jokes-and-censored-weibo?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1855254/jiang-zemin-has-how-many-fingers-twitter-jokes-and-censored-weibo?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 04 Sep 2015 10:30:45 +0000 When it launched here in 2013, online dating website Ashley Madison said it had hundreds of thousands of locals flocking to its site, ready to flirt with an affair. In reality, analysis by the South China Morning Post showed about 2,600 men paid a total of more than HK$3 million to chat up women, some of whom were reportedly fake profiles to lure customers. The figures were gleaned from information on Ashley Madison leaked by hackers last month. READ MORE: What was in the Ashley Madison hack?... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/economy/article/1854272/just-2600-hong-kong-men-paid-join-ashley-madison-site?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/economy/article/1854272/just-2600-hong-kong-men-paid-join-ashley-madison-site?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 31 Aug 2015 23:00:45 +0000 View the interactive graphic here https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1851150/scale-south-china-sea-reclamation-projects?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1851150/scale-south-china-sea-reclamation-projects?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 20 Aug 2015 08:45:15 +0000 View the graphics package here https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1850547/graphics-bangkok-shrine-bombing-kills-least-21-people-injuring-more-120?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1850547/graphics-bangkok-shrine-bombing-kills-least-21-people-injuring-more-120?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 18 Aug 2015 12:00:45 +0000 Click here to view the high-resolution image https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1849750/infographic-toxic-cocktail-warehouse-centre-fatal-explosions-tianjin?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1849750/infographic-toxic-cocktail-warehouse-centre-fatal-explosions-tianjin?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 15 Aug 2015 07:00:15 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1849419/graphics-warehouse-explosion-tianjin-port-kills-scores?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1849419/graphics-warehouse-explosion-tianjin-port-kills-scores?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 14 Aug 2015 00:45:00 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1834577/graphic-which-component-stocks-hang-seng-index-fell-hardest?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1834577/graphic-which-component-stocks-hang-seng-index-fell-hardest?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Jul 2015 11:45:15 +0000 View the full-size infographic https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1826287/infographic-perfect-bowl-wonton-noodles?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1826287/infographic-perfect-bowl-wonton-noodles?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 24 Jun 2015 15:30:00 +0000 Click to view the full-size infographic in high resolution https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1815609/infographic-balance-superpowers-comparing-armed-forces-us-and-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1815609/infographic-balance-superpowers-comparing-armed-forces-us-and-china?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 03 Jun 2015 01:27:36 +0000 A quarter of the 1,200 people who got to vote for the city's leader in 2012 had held on to their roles for at least a decade, according to a South China Morning Post study that indicated how likely it would be for others to join the nominating committee in future polls. And most of those election veterans are delegates to the National People's Congress, Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference - loyalists appointed by Beijing - business tycoons and religious leaders. They held either... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1792404/hong-kong-kingmakers-300-committee-members-long-history?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1792404/hong-kong-kingmakers-300-committee-members-long-history?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 10 May 2015 20:00:15 +0000 View infographic https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1778859/infographic-chinas-overseas-investments?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1778859/infographic-chinas-overseas-investments?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Apr 2015 09:45:00 +0000 View the infographic here https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1772460/infographic-mountain-way-third-runway?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1772460/infographic-mountain-way-third-runway?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 20 Apr 2015 16:07:42 +0000 View map in full-size Based on a Legco document released on January 2, 2015, we mapped 79 housing sites that need to be rezoned from open space, green belt and government, institutional and community usage types. In the document, the locations of those sites are approximate, and therefore the map is a rough representation of the true location based solely on the address provided and current zonings. The base map was created using zonings provided on the Statutory Planning Portal website. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1760200/where-will-government-rezone-new-housing-sites?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1760200/where-will-government-rezone-new-housing-sites?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Apr 2015 22:00:15 +0000 View the budget calculator here The budget calculator was coded by Code4HK. The South China Morning Post provided translations and minor code changes. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1723973/scmp-budget-calculator-work-out-how-hong-kong-budget-affects-you?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1723973/scmp-budget-calculator-work-out-how-hong-kong-budget-affects-you?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Feb 2015 09:15:30 +0000 View the interactive here https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1723511/interactive-visualisation-hong-kong-budget?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1723511/interactive-visualisation-hong-kong-budget?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:00:45 +0000 Link to the full-screen map Using data provided by the Hong Kong Department of Health on February 24, the South China Morning Post has mapped the number of patients with severe cases of seasonal influenza who were treated at various public and private hospitals throughout the city between January 2 and February 23.  By mid-day Monday, a total of 352 patients with severe cases of seasonal influenza had been admitted to intensive care units at Hong Kong hospitals this year, of whom 254... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1722357/where-are-hong-kongs-flu-patients-being-treated?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1722357/where-are-hong-kongs-flu-patients-being-treated?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 24 Feb 2015 08:15:45 +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 View the interactive here https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1712004/chasing-ghosts-where-chinas-next-wave-empty-new-towns?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1712004/chasing-ghosts-where-chinas-next-wave-empty-new-towns?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 13 Feb 2015 10:00:30 +0000 Link to the full-screen interactive graphic https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1691300/long-run-visualising-2015-hong-kong-marathon-results?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1691300/long-run-visualising-2015-hong-kong-marathon-results?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 25 Jan 2015 17:15:45 +0000 View the interactive here https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1689187/interactive-chinas-air-pollution-2014?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1689187/interactive-chinas-air-pollution-2014?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:30:45 +0000 Click to launch interactive in full-screen mode Get the raw data used to make this graphic https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1679645/interactive-behind-soundbites-leung-chun-yings-2015-policy-address?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1679645/interactive-behind-soundbites-leung-chun-yings-2015-policy-address?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 14 Jan 2015 10:00:45 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1665522/timeline-eight-month-saga-hong-kong-biggest-corruption-trial?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1665522/timeline-eight-month-saga-hong-kong-biggest-corruption-trial?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:30:45 +0000 View the immersive multimedia here https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1659355/multimedia-tracing-moments-occupy-hong-kongs-streets?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1659355/multimedia-tracing-moments-occupy-hong-kongs-streets?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Dec 2014 23:45:15 +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 Two years into President Xi Jinping's massive anti-corruption campaign in China, we have collected all the Communist Party's announcements of graft probes since Xi's rise to power. The data show how graft probes have spread across the nation and intensified since early 2014. Explore timelines on investigations in key provinces that are now graft hotspots, and find out how party investigators trace political links and money trails to bring down the “flies” and “tigers.” Click here to access the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1626744/tigers-and-flies-chinese-communist-partys-anti-corruption?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1626744/tigers-and-flies-chinese-communist-partys-anti-corruption?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:15:00 +0000 Click here to view the full-size map Videos are updated every hour. Fooatge provided by the Transport Department. https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1608683/interactive-time-lapses-major-protest-sites-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1608683/interactive-time-lapses-major-protest-sites-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 03 Oct 2014 01:30:15 +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 A fraudulent smartphone app claiming to coordinate the Occupy Central pro-democracy movement has circulated online, a group of programmers said on Wednesday. The spyware is disguised as an application for Android smartphones or tablets, Code4HK, a group of coders trying to improve government transparency in Hong Kong, said. Activists first received a link to the application in messages from a phone number unknown to them on Tuesday. “Check out this Android app designed by Code4HK for the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1594667/fake-occupy-central-app-targets-activists-smartphones?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1594667/fake-occupy-central-app-targets-activists-smartphones?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:15:30 +0000 Hong Kong's Food and Environmental Hygiene Department continues to update a list of bakeries, restaurants, retailers and distributors in Hong Kong suspected to have traded or used lard products supplied by Chang Guann, the firm at the centre of the "gutter oil" scandal. The Taiwanese company blended some of its lard with "gutter oil" - made from recycled food waste - and sold it as cooking oil.  About 70 per cent of the lard that bakeries used in Hong Kong came from Taiwan, according to an... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1593130/hong-kong-gutter-oil-map-v40-your-neighbourhood-store-list?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1593130/hong-kong-gutter-oil-map-v40-your-neighbourhood-store-list?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Sep 2014 03:30:45 +0000 Link to the full-screen interactive graphic Design of the original graphic was made by Jane Pong https://www.scmp.com/sport/tennis/article/1587417/paths-victory-2014-us-open?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/tennis/article/1587417/paths-victory-2014-us-open?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 07 Sep 2014 14:30:45 +0000 To help explain the differing opinions and terms being used, we asked several of those involved — either for Occupy Central, or against it — a few questions. Click here to access the multimedia site https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1581798/occupy-central-debate-or-against?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1581798/occupy-central-debate-or-against?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:45:45 +0000 Special report: In this two-part multimedia feature, we take a look back at Hong Kong's historic typhoon encounters and explore how the territory copes with severe weather events. Click here to access the two-part multimedia series https://www.scmp.com/weather/hong-kong/article/1571405/eye-storm-how-deadly-typhoons-have-changed-face-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/weather/hong-kong/article/1571405/eye-storm-how-deadly-typhoons-have-changed-face-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 Aug 2014 11:15:30 +0000 July 28, 2014 marks the centenary of the first world war’s outbreak in Europe. A hundred years later, the story of the hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers, the largest non-European labour contingent in the war, is only slowly being rediscovered.    In a special report, the South China Morning Post traces their story from rural Shandong to the European war trenches and back through archive photos, eyewitness accounts, maps and news articles published in the Post at the time, when the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1555554/forgotten-army-first-world-war-how-chinese-labourers-helped-shape-europe?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1555554/forgotten-army-first-world-war-how-chinese-labourers-helped-shape-europe?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:45:45 +0000 Link to the full screen infographic Source of data: FlightAware https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1556623/infographic-wake-mh17-aerial-routes-between-europe-and-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1556623/infographic-wake-mh17-aerial-routes-between-europe-and-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 20 Jul 2014 01:15:15 +0000 View the interactive graphic in a new window https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1546646/infographic-mens-tennis-how-big-are-big-four?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1546646/infographic-mens-tennis-how-big-are-big-four?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 04 Jul 2014 10:45:00 +0000 Link to the full screen interactive graphic Group stage tiebreaker rules From the 2014 FIFA World Cup regulations book (section 40, paragraph 5): The ranking of each team in each group shall be determined as follows: a) greatest number of points obtained in all group matches; b) goal difference in all group matches; c) greatest number of goals scored in all group matches. If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings shall be determined as follows: d)... https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1537100/world-cup-2014-visualisation-group-matches-results-and-goals-scored?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1537100/world-cup-2014-visualisation-group-matches-results-and-goals-scored?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 20 Jun 2014 12:30:15 +0000 Link to the full-time interactive graphic https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1526054/infographic-road-maracana-travel-paths-final-each-team-world-cup?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1526054/infographic-road-maracana-travel-paths-final-each-team-world-cup?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 06 Jun 2014 03:00:30 +0000 Legend Red = Public restrooms (公廁) Yellow = Shopping malls or hotels (商場或酒店) Purple = Restaurants (食肆內 Blue = Inside estates (大廈內) Green = Temporary toilets (臨時廁所) Source: Nuthon IT solutions mobile app Toilet Rush (Data was provided in Chinese) Full-screen version https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1502035/map-hong-kongs-publicly-accessible-toilets?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1502035/map-hong-kongs-publicly-accessible-toilets?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 08 May 2014 04:00:45 +0000 Link to full-screen interactive graphic (Original design by Jane Pong, published on May 22, 2013) https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1461850/infographic-here-comes-rain-again-hong-kongs-rainfall-patterns-1997?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1461850/infographic-here-comes-rain-again-hong-kongs-rainfall-patterns-1997?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:15:30 +0000 Link to the full-screen version https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1458157/infographic-team-team-historical-results-every-hong-kong-sevens-2000?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1458157/infographic-team-team-historical-results-every-hong-kong-sevens-2000?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 27 Mar 2014 04:15:15 +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 Link to the full-screen version Raw data for developers and researchers https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1438790/deconstructing-2014-15-hong-kong-budget?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1438790/deconstructing-2014-15-hong-kong-budget?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 04 Mar 2014 04:15:30 +0000 The city's annual budgets have underestimated forecasts of profits tax income over the last four fiscal years for which figures are available, research by the South China Morning Post shows. The biggest gap was seen in profits tax revenue in 2011-12, when an additional HK$21 billion over the original estimate was collected in taxes from companies. In the following fiscal year, profits taxes exceeded expectations by HK$20 billion. Over the four years since 2009-10 to 2012-13, profits tax has... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1439976/profits-tax-soars-64-despite-governments-gloomy-forecasts-scmp?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1439976/profits-tax-soars-64-despite-governments-gloomy-forecasts-scmp?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 04 Mar 2014 03:15:30 +0000 Link to the full-screen interactive graphic https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1429707/long-run-visualising-hong-kong-marathon-results?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1429707/long-run-visualising-hong-kong-marathon-results?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:00:30 +0000 Link to full-screen version https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1423431/what-were-targets-us-bombs-hong-kong-during-world-war-two?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1423431/what-were-targets-us-bombs-hong-kong-during-world-war-two?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 08 Feb 2014 00:15:30 +0000