https://www.scmp.com/rss/323358/feed Ryan Kilpatrick is a Hong Kong writer specialising in China and maritime affairs. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com There may be something fishy about Chinese salmon. Last week China’s state-run CCTV network aired a program that has caused a splash among the country’s growing number of seafood lovers. And it wasn’t even an expose. It was a puff piece praising the advanced technologies on display at Longyangxia Reservoir, China’s largest salmon fishery, according to CCTV, and the source of one third of the country’s salmon. But viewers were shocked when the hosts casually let slip that all this salmon wasn’t... https://www.scmp.com/food/chinese-seafood-lovers-just-found-out-their-salmon-isnt-salmon-all/article/2148472?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/food/chinese-seafood-lovers-just-found-out-their-salmon-isnt-salmon-all/article/2148472?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 30 May 2018 09:45:30 +0000 For many Americans, Memorial Day isn’t a happy occasion. It’s about honoring those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. Happy Memorial Day! Those who died for our great country would be very happy and proud at how well our country is doing today. Best economy in decades, lowest unemployment numbers for Blacks and Hispanics EVER (& women in 18years), rebuilding our Military and so much more. Nice! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 28, 2018 It’s a mood shared, if not by... https://www.scmp.com/politics/how-china-simultaneously-held-and-kept-down-its-veterans/article/2148326?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/politics/how-china-simultaneously-held-and-kept-down-its-veterans/article/2148326?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 29 May 2018 10:30:00 +0000 On December 18, 1941, Hongkonger Algernon “Algy” Ho scoured the skies for enemy planes from an anti-aircraft battery in Chai Wan. Japanese troops had just taken Tsim Sha Tsui and had bombarded the northern shore of Hong Kong Island for days. Shells soared over the water and exploded into fortifications overlooking the Lei Yue Mun channel near Shau Kei Wan, where Victoria Harbour funnels to its narrowest point. When local troops refused to surrender, the Japanese crossed the harbour, closing in... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2055214/history-buffs-re-enact-battle-hong-kong-streets-remind-city-home-grown?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2055214/history-buffs-re-enact-battle-hong-kong-streets-remind-city-home-grown?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 18 Dec 2016 00:00:45 +0000 WASHED by the shallow waters of the Tumen River that divides Russia and North Korea, China’s Hunchun has few tourist attractions other than a coin-operated set of binoculars, on an elevated platform, that lets the occasional visitor survey the three neighbours’ only junction. But if business expands along Arctic shipping routes linking the Atlantic and Pacific, this obscure city of little more than 200,000 could become “an international shipping centre equal to Singapore”, Xinhua, China’s... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/business/article/2046117/chinas-plan-arctic-and-shipping-centre-rival-singapore?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/business/article/2046117/chinas-plan-arctic-and-shipping-centre-rival-singapore?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 15 Nov 2016 04:45:00 +0000 It was with a flurry of exultation that free-spirited Romantic poet Lord Byron wrote of how man’s control “stops with the shore”. Hong Kong’s underwater archaeologists, however, looking to discover, document and preserve relics of the city’s maritime past, have been less exalted to find the same applies to concern for local heritage. Although heritage conservation has become a focal point in public discourse in Hong Kong, Bill Jeffery, leader of the Hong Kong Underwater Heritage Group, says:... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2023605/hong-kongs-underwater-archaeologists-call-deeper-government-support?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2023605/hong-kongs-underwater-archaeologists-call-deeper-government-support?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 02 Oct 2016 21:30:00 +0000