https://www.scmp.com/rss/315743/feed Aleksander Solum is the executive producer for video at the South China Morning Post. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Connor Mycroft,Aleksander Solum,Cynthia H. W. Chan Connor Mycroft,Aleksander Solum,Cynthia H. W. Chan For Abdulwahab Tahhan, a Syrian student in Hong Kong, the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime may mean reuniting with his friends and loved ones for the first time in 12 years. The 37-year-old PhD student in communications at Baptist University, who fled his country shortly after a popular uprising against now-deposed president Assad evolved into a brutal civil war, is among the millions who see the success of rebel fighters as a turning point. Tahhan first sought asylum in the United Kingdom... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3290800/new-history-assads-fall-brings-joy-hope-syrian-students-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3290800/new-history-assads-fall-brings-joy-hope-syrian-students-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 14 Dec 2024 07:10:00 +0000 Yemen’s Houthi rebels have been attacking ships travelling through the Red Sea corridor since October 2023. The violence, which the rebels say is a response to the Israel-Gaza war, has disrupted international shipping through a region which had been handling an estimated US$1 trillion worth of goods annually. Part of Iran’s self-proclaimed “Axis of Resistance” against Israeli and US influence in the Middle East, the Houthis maintain that they target ships linked to Israel, the US or the UK.... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3289657/violence-sea-how-armed-attacks-high-seas-affect-mariners?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3289657/violence-sea-how-armed-attacks-high-seas-affect-mariners?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 08 Dec 2024 03:30:13 +0000 The Street Fighter video game franchise that dominated arcade markets and home consoles of the 1990s endures today with a new fan base and a fresh generation of young players. When it was first released on Capcom’s arcade machines, online gaming was almost unheard of, so young people in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan instead found companionship in arcade halls. Few people today know that a mysterious group of Street Fighter fans from that environment would play a surprising role in the development... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3252438/street-fighter-saga-how-legendary-version-arcade-hit-made-video-game-history?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3252438/street-fighter-saga-how-legendary-version-arcade-hit-made-video-game-history?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 19 Feb 2024 08:59:33 +0000 It was late spring and Uma Feed had just dropped her son off at a kindergarten in Oslo when her phone rang unexpectedly, bringing news she’d been searching for her whole life: the true identities of her birth parents. Adopted as a baby from South Korea in 1983, Feed grew up in Norway being told she’d been abandoned – a story she refused to believe but could only disprove in May this year, when at age 40 she was finally reconnected with her biological mother thanks to DNA testing. A long letter... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3234719/south-koreas-dark-past-wests-baby-farm-laid-bare-adopted-children-sale-who-grew-far-home?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3234719/south-koreas-dark-past-wests-baby-farm-laid-bare-adopted-children-sale-who-grew-far-home?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 16 Sep 2023 03:30:26 +0000 The Peninsula is one of the Hong Kong’s great hotels. Known as the “Grande Dame of the Far East,” tourists and locals alike still flock to its beautiful colonial lobby for afternoon tea, or head to the bar for a classic cocktail done right. And the staff are just as loyal as the patrons. Senior bartender Johnny Chung is the hotel’s longest-serving employee. His father worked at the hotel before him, and now Johnny has been at The Peninsula for more than six decades. In his time at the hotel,... https://www.scmp.com/style/peninsula-hong-kongs-longest-serving-bartender-johnny-chung/article/2165809?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/style/peninsula-hong-kongs-longest-serving-bartender-johnny-chung/article/2165809?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:00:15 +0000 Tam Wan-ho, 29, started dreaming of a life in the countryside while he was working for an online marketing firm five years ago. “I was typing away on my computer and asked myself: ‘Is my whole life going to be like this?’” he said. “That’s when my friends told me about the eco-villages in Taiwan.” Nine months ago he moved out to a similar village in Sheung Shui, where he now offers weekly training sessions in woodwork and pottery together with three other local residents. Watch: Sheung Shui... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/2064236/how-hong-kong-city-dweller-found-his-calling?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/2064236/how-hong-kong-city-dweller-found-his-calling?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 21 Jan 2017 08:28:47 +0000 Landlocked Laos, the poorest member of Asean, may be taking a page from Beijing’s playbook with a new set of restrictions for NGOs operating in the country, which have alarmed both non-profit groups and Western diplomats. Foreign and local NGOs play a crucial role guiding development strategy and leading discussions about land redevelopment in the small communist nation, whose civil society is still embryonic after two decades of isolation that ended in the 1990s. The new set of restrictions... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1594490/laos-ngo-restrictions-threaten-development-say-non-profit-groups?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1594490/laos-ngo-restrictions-threaten-development-say-non-profit-groups?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Sep 2014 03:43:52 +0000