https://www.scmp.com/rss/322803/feed Andrew is the South China Morning Post's Deputy News Editor, Asia, and Deputy Editor of This Week in Asia. He has been at the Post since 2014. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com JANUARY The year started much as it would end, with bad news for US President Donald Trump. This time, it was reporter John Power letting the big man down gently, with a report questioning whether America had lost the battle for the South China Sea before it had even begun. Experts told Power that with its military build-up, maritime militia and island-building activities, China was already capable of controlling the sea “in all scenarios short of war with the United States”. Has the US already... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3114584/burst-travel-bubbles-trump-covid-19-and-hong-kongs-national?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3114584/burst-travel-bubbles-trump-covid-19-and-hong-kongs-national?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 27 Dec 2020 02:00:11 +0000 It is a typical picture of modern dating in Hong Kong; they meet on the internet, head to the movies and then to dinner. The small talk begins, the drinks flow and laughter follows. She is petite, young and pretty; he is older, more affluent, and happy to shower her with gifts. But there is a twist to this date: the woman (often still a girl) is being paid up to HK$1,000 an hour for her company. And if they wake up together tomorrow morning she can expect a bonus payment. Yet this is not... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/2178909/child-sex-abuse-compensated-dating-christmas-trends-hong-kong-would?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/2178909/child-sex-abuse-compensated-dating-christmas-trends-hong-kong-would?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 23 Dec 2018 01:00:00 +0000 It is an unlikely setting for a pivotal moment in the rise of the “Asian Century”. Indeed, until recently even the most prescient of political observers in Washington or Beijing might have struggled to place it on a map. Yet it is in this small Australian electoral division on the outskirts of New South Wales that, according to some of the political world’s more fevered imaginations, a great battle is occurring, one that could not only decide the future of Australia’s coalition government – but... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2124559/turnbull-china-shop-can-beijing-bogeyman-sway-australian-election?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2124559/turnbull-china-shop-can-beijing-bogeyman-sway-australian-election?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 16 Dec 2017 01:15:30 +0000 With their mop-top haircuts, strange accents and off-the-wall sense of humour, they were initially dismissed by an American establishment who saw them as an oddball curiosity from overseas. A flash-in-the-pan pop sensation from a once-proud country struggling to regain relevance on the international stage. Yet those young musicians, little more than boys, and their catchy jingles went on to become the most successful band in history, in the process not only revolutionising the world of pop... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/2079161/tfboys-boyband-bringing-chinas-dreams-soft-power-life?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/2079161/tfboys-boyband-bringing-chinas-dreams-soft-power-life?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 19 Mar 2017 02:00:15 +0000 With their sudden mood swings, strange sleeping habits and penchants for extreme violence towards rival members of the family, they are not an obvious choice of cabin mate. They bounce around confined spaces like pinballs, throw tantrums at the dinner table and relish the chance to leap from moving platforms. The ultimate guide to long-haul travel with young children So as we prepare to board the SuperStar Virgo in Tsim Sha Tsui, I must cast away my trepidation in taking my toddlers Alice,... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/1974998/why-hong-kong-parents-should-forget-flying-and-take?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/1974998/why-hong-kong-parents-should-forget-flying-and-take?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 14 Jun 2016 04:15:15 +0000