https://www.scmp.com/rss/327835/feed Michelle Wong is a former reporter at the Post. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Tensions mounted in Hong Kong on Friday as police arrested prominent pro-democracy activists and at least three lawmakers in a crackdown ahead of a banned mass march as the city braced for the 13th straight weekend of anti-government protests. Among those arrested were young activists Joshua Wong Chi-fung and Agnes Chow Ting, both from the political party Demosisto, Andy Chan Ho-tin, convenor of the now-outlawed Hong Kong National Party, and three pro-democracy lawmakers, Cheng Chung-tai, Au... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/3025173/wave-arrests-hong-kong-police-prominent-activists-and-lawmakers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/3025173/wave-arrests-hong-kong-police-prominent-activists-and-lawmakers?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Aug 2019 15:52:01 +0000 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists Joshua Wong Chi-fung and Agnes Chow Ting were arrested on Friday for their involvement in an unlawful assembly, police have announced. Wong was arrested on three charges of organising, inciting and taking part in an illegal assembly during a siege of police headquarters on June 21. Chow was detained on charges of inciting and taking part in the same illegal assembly. Sha Tin District Council member Rick Hui Yui-yu was also arrested, in Kwun Tong on Friday... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3024996/hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-arrested-according-demosisto?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3024996/hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-arrested-according-demosisto?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Aug 2019 01:16:47 +0000 The ambitious Greater Bay Area plan will not curb Hong Kong’s soaring property prices, two veteran property developers have said. “We cannot force people to go north to live across the border. You can offer them initiatives and opportunities, but Hong Kong is their home,” Chinachem chief executive officer Donald Choi told the audience at the South China Morning Post’s China Conference on Wednesday. “The elephant in the room is confidence in social institutions. Not just about property, but also... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3024754/greater-bay-area-plan-not-solution-rising-property?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3024754/greater-bay-area-plan-not-solution-rising-property?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 28 Aug 2019 10:59:30 +0000 When a Hong Kong police officer fired his gun on a major avenue lined with jewellery stores and local eateries just after 8pm on Sunday, many did not realise at first that the shot came from a revolver. The sound was similar to the firing of tear gas canisters or rubber bullets, no longer alien acoustics to protesters so inured to physical clashes with police during the city’s worst political crisis since the handover unfolded in June. “Run!” masked protesters and also local residents, some in... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3024440/hong-kong-protests-video-footage-reveals-why-police-officer?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3024440/hong-kong-protests-video-footage-reveals-why-police-officer?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 26 Aug 2019 23:00:16 +0000 Anti-government protesters formed long human chains across Hong Kong on Friday night, standing on pavements in snaking lines that stretched along three railway lines in an unprecedented event they dubbed the “Hong Kong Way”. They began at 7pm, flocking outside MTR stations and lines and at other gathering points, from where they spread out over a couple of hours to stand side by side in human chains extending from Kennedy Town to Causeway Bay, from Kowloon Tong to Yau Ma Tei, along the Tsim Sha... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3024169/demonstrators-offer-sparkling-visions-unity-human-chains?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3024169/demonstrators-offer-sparkling-visions-unity-human-chains?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:07:32 +0000 Hong Kong’s embattled railway operator secured an injunction from the High Court on Friday night to prevent anti-government protesters from besieging and vandalising its subway stations. Mr Justice Anderson Chow Ka-ming granted an interim injunction order in favour of the MTR Corporation after hearing submissions from its lawyers. In a statement, the MTR Corp said the injunction would restrain people from “unlawfully and wilfully obstructing or interfering with the proper use of the stations and... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3024161/mtr-corporation-may-seek-injunction-keep-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3024161/mtr-corporation-may-seek-injunction-keep-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 23 Aug 2019 13:58:37 +0000 Hong Kong’s education authorities will check with schools about the number of students and teachers who fail to show up when classes resume next month as guidelines are issued to schools on how to deal with a looming class boycott. Education minister Kevin Yeung Yun-hung stressed on Tuesday that the authorities had the responsibility to grasp a general picture of how the boycott campaign was going in schools and would leave it to individual schools to decide if punishment was needed. The... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3023633/education-bureau-will-check-universities-class-boycotts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3023633/education-bureau-will-check-universities-class-boycotts?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 20 Aug 2019 13:52:13 +0000 A vocal opponent of parallel trading who is also against Hong Kong’s controversial extradition bill said he was viciously attacked by a gang armed with wooden sticks in Sha Tin and warned to stop “stirring up trouble”. Leung Kam-shing, convenor of the North District Parallel Imports Concern Group, was drinking alone on the Shing Mun River Promenade, near Star Seafood Floating Restaurant, when he was ambushed by up to four masked men at about 11pm on Sunday. The stick-wielding men threw an... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3023418/hong-kong-campaigner-who-organises-protests-against?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3023418/hong-kong-campaigner-who-organises-protests-against?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 19 Aug 2019 08:21:57 +0000 The developer of Discovery Bay on Lantau Island has announced plans to turn its marina into “Hong Kong’s most exclusive” superyacht club, which will hold vessels up to 100-metres (328 feet) long, but the plan has received mixed reactions from locals and the yachting community. The renamed Lantau Yacht Club, which evicted more than 150 families living on houseboats for renovation last year, will offer 150 slips, including thirteen 60-metre-long berths with capacity to accommodate superyachts up... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3023305/discovery-bay-developers-plan-attract-superyachts-draws?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3023305/discovery-bay-developers-plan-attract-superyachts-draws?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 18 Aug 2019 23:00:12 +0000 A watchdog investigating complaints against the Hong Kong police said on Thursday that the force turned down some of its requests for information related to recent anti-government protests. The force said some of the photographs and video clips sought by the Independent Police Complaints Council (IPCC) were needed for prosecution purposes. Tony Tse Wai-chuen, vice-chairman of the IPCC, said a special task force set up to look into police use of force in recent protests had received more than... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3023000/hong-kong-police-watchdog-says-force-turned-down-requests?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3023000/hong-kong-police-watchdog-says-force-turned-down-requests?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Aug 2019 13:58:52 +0000 Beijing on Wednesday condemned anti-government protesters for assaulting two mainland Chinese men at Hong Kong International Airport, comparing their behaviour to acts of terrorism, while an injunction was secured to ban demonstrations in all but two designated terminal zones. On the sixth straight day of protests that crippled flights at the transport hub and led to unprecedented violence on Tuesday night, airlines were scrambling to resume normal operations. In the aftermath of Tuesday’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3022684/court-order-bans-protests-hong-kong-airport-apart?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3022684/court-order-bans-protests-hong-kong-airport-apart?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 14 Aug 2019 01:22:23 +0000 The league of Hong Kong’s real estate developers has again condemned anti-government protesters, accusing them of worsening the city’s economic slump and eroding its core values. The second statement by the Real Estate Developers Association (Reda) on Tuesday came a day after Beijing called the escalating violence “signs of terrorism”. “The Real Estate Developers Association of Hong Kong strongly condemns the escalating violent behaviour and vandalisation. These are eroding the city’s core... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3022618/hong-kongs-developers-blame-violent-acts-anti?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3022618/hong-kongs-developers-blame-violent-acts-anti?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:11:49 +0000 Hong Kong’s rail operator urged police on Monday to consider the safety of passengers and staff after officers fired tear gas inside a subway station in an unprecedented deployment. Kwai Fong MTR station had reopened on Monday morning – just hours after its ground-level concourse was filled with the irritant smoke – and was packed with commuters and other passengers. Services were operating normally despite some traces of the intense violence still visible in the station, which sits on the Tsuen... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3022367/tear-gas-fired-kwai-fong-station-hong-kong-police-told-mtr?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3022367/tear-gas-fired-kwai-fong-station-hong-kong-police-told-mtr?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 12 Aug 2019 02:49:00 +0000 The Hospital Authority has stepped up control measures in the fight against deadly superbug Candida auris after a month-long outbreak in Hong Kong hospitals. The multidrug-resistant fungal species has been increasingly prevalent around the world since 2009, with 16 cases recorded in the city in a breakout earlier this summer. The pathogen, which could cause bloodstream infections and even death, has spread to more than 20 countries in Asia, Europe, America, Africa and Australia, with those... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3022331/hospital-authority-strengthens-control-measures?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3022331/hospital-authority-strengthens-control-measures?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 11 Aug 2019 23:00:08 +0000 More than 1,000 black-clad demonstrators were gathering in Victoria Park in Causeway Bay for an anti-government protest on Sunday afternoon as Hong Kong braced for another day of unrest. The rally in one of Hong Kong’s most popular shopping districts was given official approval, but two marches planned in Sham Shui Po and east Hong Kong Island on Sunday have been banned by police. But it was expected large crowds of protesters would go beyond the restricted area in Causeway Bay and occupy roads... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3022316/hong-kong-protests-more-1000-gather-causeway-bay-approved?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3022316/hong-kong-protests-more-1000-gather-causeway-bay-approved?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 11 Aug 2019 06:24:49 +0000 Residents of Wong Tai Sin are used to the sight and smell of smoke, but only from the burning of incense at the altars of its famed temple, which, like the district itself, is also named after the Taoist deity whom people pray to for healing. On Saturday night, the usually quiet working-class neighbourhood was rocked by unprecedented violence, with residents up in arms as their streets became smoking battlegrounds – the fumes this time from tear gas rounds fired by riot police against... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3021387/night-quiet-working-class-neighbourhood-hong-kong-became?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3021387/night-quiet-working-class-neighbourhood-hong-kong-became?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Aug 2019 01:00:17 +0000 More than 20 people have been arrested for offences including unlawful assembly in Tsim Sha Tsui, Mong Kok and Wong Tai Sin, where chaos and violence raged until around 4am on Sunday morning. Eighteen people were injured during the clashes, the Hospital Authority said. Six had been discharged as of Sunday afternoon. After police started dispersing protesters in Mong Kok in the west of Kowloon, where an approved rally at a sports ground had spilled into protests in Yau Ma Tei and Tsim Sha Tsui,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3021353/hong-kong-protests-more-20-arrested-after-clashes-tsim-sha?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3021353/hong-kong-protests-more-20-arrested-after-clashes-tsim-sha?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 04 Aug 2019 04:16:28 +0000 More than 700 flights were cancelled or delayed on Wednesday, and Hong Kong came to a near standstill with transport services suspended as Tropical Storm Wipha hit the city. Wipha also brought the year’s first No 8 typhoon warning, which was downgraded to a No 3 warning at 11.40pm as the storm continued to pass Hong Kong. Apart from the No 8 typhoon signal raised at 1.40pm, Wipha also brought two amber rainstorm warnings to the city in the afternoon, which were upgraded to a red one between 8pm... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3020735/hong-kong-observatory-considers-raising-typhoon-signal-no-8?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3020735/hong-kong-observatory-considers-raising-typhoon-signal-no-8?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 31 Jul 2019 02:15:51 +0000 Two buses crashed in Hong Kong on Tuesday morning on the Tsing Long Highway, injuring 77 people and leading to a major operation involving at least 41 emergency vehicles. A rescue mission was launched following the incident just before 8.30am on the highway, near the Tsuen Wan exit of Tai Lam Tunnel. The crash had trapped a driver in one of the vehicles. A government spokesman said 77 people were injured, with six sent to public hospitals Caritas Medical Centre, Kwong Wah Hospital, Princess... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3020568/two-buses-crash-hong-kong-leaving-50-injured-and-driver?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3020568/two-buses-crash-hong-kong-leaving-50-injured-and-driver?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Jul 2019 01:48:14 +0000 Train services in Hong Kong have returned to normal after protesters ended a blockade of MTR operations and did not follow up on threats to disrupt other parts of the transport network. Demonstrators, angry at Beijing’s response to the extradition bill crisis, prevented trains from leaving Tiu Keng Leng and North Point stations during the morning rush hour on Tuesday, leading to commuter chaos and mixed reactions from passengers. Some services were also suspended at Causeway Bay, the city’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3020553/hong-kong-facing-rush-hour-chaos-anti-government?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3020553/hong-kong-facing-rush-hour-chaos-anti-government?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 29 Jul 2019 22:00:12 +0000 The Housing Authority has announced it will allow subsidised homeowners to sublet their units to those waiting for public flats without paying a premium, in an effort to help address Hong Kong’s mounting housing problem. Eligible owners must have owned their flats for more than 10 years, while tenants are restricted to general public housing applicants who have been waiting for more than three years, or non-elderly single applicants who have been waiting for at least six years. The 10-year... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3020542/hong-kong-housing-authority-approves-proposal-allow?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3020542/hong-kong-housing-authority-approves-proposal-allow?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 29 Jul 2019 14:06:20 +0000 Hong Kong’s young protesters changed tactics on Sunday as they turned a rally in Central into a 6km multipronged march all the way from Sai Wan to Causeway Bay. Tens of thousands of protesters on Sunday defied a police ban for the second consecutive day and occupied major thoroughfares on Hong Kong Island. A day earlier, an estimated 280,000 Hongkongers joined a march in Yuen Long that ended in violence, tear gas and more chaos. The police had earlier turned down a request to hold a march from... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3020412/hong-kong-protesters-use-guerilla-tactics-clashing-police?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3020412/hong-kong-protesters-use-guerilla-tactics-clashing-police?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 28 Jul 2019 15:07:21 +0000 Hong Kong police’s decision to fire tear gas in the heavily populated and residential district of Yuen Long on Saturday has come under fire, after a viral video showed residents of an old people’s home choking on the noxious substance. The footage shows a cloud of tear gas spreading inside the room through a window, which is soon completely blocked from view. It contradicts the police’s earlier claim that no nursing homes had been affected by their clearance operation. Sounds of coughing can be... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3020393/hong-kong-protests-police-under-fire-viral-video-shows?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3020393/hong-kong-protests-police-under-fire-viral-video-shows?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 28 Jul 2019 10:06:38 +0000 Cracks in a cofferdam have caused flooding, tilted structures and a sinkhole at the construction site of Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, a “serious” problem that could add more uncertainty to a multibillion-dollar project plagued by cost overruns and controversy. Photos taken on Thursday showed evidence of leakage from the cracks and signs of subsidence on the building site that sits on land reclaimed from Victoria Harbour. Several cargo containers and buildings leaned at awkward... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3020106/sinkhole-leaks-and-flooding-plague-construction-hong-kongs?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3020106/sinkhole-leaks-and-flooding-plague-construction-hong-kongs?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:49:06 +0000 A major redevelopment project near Hong Kong’s shopping hub of Causeway Bay should have at least a third of its commercial area slashed to make way for public facilities and greenery, a district councillor has said. On Wednesday, Yolanda Ng Yuen-ting said: “The site on Caroline Hill Road is like a back garden of Causeway Bay, one of the most crowded and busiest districts in the city. We hope the redevelopment plan will take into account residents’ needs.” Under a government plan, a 286,140 sq ft... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3019947/less-commercial-space-more-public-facilities-and-greenery?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3019947/less-commercial-space-more-public-facilities-and-greenery?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 24 Jul 2019 11:43:23 +0000 Yuen Long resident Nicole Chan Hei-man was at home and glued to the television set as news of the horrifying attacks at an MTR station in her neighbourhood unfolded on Sunday. She has since suffered from insomnia, haunted by the harrowing images of white-clad men with sticks and metal rods beating up commuters indiscriminately. The housewife, 36, said she was furious at the mob and frustrated with police’s seeming inaction, while worrying for her son, aged three. “I will avoid going out with... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3019819/black-and-white-hong-kong-town-yuen-long-haunted-colours?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3019819/black-and-white-hong-kong-town-yuen-long-haunted-colours?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 24 Jul 2019 04:00:57 +0000 Shops and businesses have reopened in the Hong Kong district that was the scene of unprecedented violence on Sunday night, but residents say they have lost all faith in the city’s police. Shoppers and children returned to malls in Yuen Long on Tuesday, a day after a shutdown turned the New Territories neighbourhood into a ghost town following attacks by rod-wielding men who targeted random commuters and protesters against the now-suspended extradition bill. An air of anxiety still lingered,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3019766/yuen-long-recovers-anxiety-looms-over-weekend-protest?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3019766/yuen-long-recovers-anxiety-looms-over-weekend-protest?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Jul 2019 09:14:32 +0000 Hong Kong’s business district has slowly returned to normal after police and protesters clashed overnight. Roads were cleared for vehicles on Monday morning, the MTR ran as usual, and rubbish was swept aside in the hours before people arrived for work in Sheung Wan and Central. Normal services at Yuen Long MTR station resumed, opening at 5.44am after being the scene of unprecedented late-night violence, in which men in white T-shirts attacked black-clad protesters and passengers, injuring 45... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3019534/hong-kong-gradually-returns-normal-after-another-night?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3019534/hong-kong-gradually-returns-normal-after-another-night?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 22 Jul 2019 02:17:29 +0000 We walked into Bao Noodles in Tsim Sha Tsui, a place that, according to the proclamations on the wall, serves noodles with “heart” and “sincerity”. The restaurant offers four different soup bases:original, pepper, hot and sour, and hot and numbing. The menu states that the broth is cooked with fresh pork and chicken bones and vegetables using the traditional Han method. The menu also boasts about its handmade noodles and offers wide, thin, rough and medium. We went for a bowl of pork cartilage... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3014782/bao-noodles-tsim-sha-tsui-handmade-noodles-served-heart-less?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3014782/bao-noodles-tsim-sha-tsui-handmade-noodles-served-heart-less?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 18 Jun 2019 10:00:15 +0000 A day after violent protests rocked the heart of Hong Kong, protesters trying to stop an unpopular extradition bill opened a new front on Thursday – disruption of public transport services, much to the annoyance of commuters affected. A group of unnamed protesters placed adverts in newspapers and spread invitations online targeting the MTR metro system and cross-harbour tunnels in a non-cooperation campaign. They also urged workers to strike and students to skip classes in a bid to force the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3014400/protesters-disrupt-hong-kongs-mtr-train-services-non?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3014400/protesters-disrupt-hong-kongs-mtr-train-services-non?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 13 Jun 2019 10:41:32 +0000 The spiralling protest against the extradition bill in Admiralty on Wednesday had a contrasting effect on businesses in the surrounding areas, with some outlets forced to close temporarily, while other shops and restaurants did a healthy trade, to the point of leaving some emptied of stock. The thousands of protesters who surrounded the government complex in Tamar hampered road access to commercial buildings such as the Admiralty Centre, the United Centre and Citic Tower, while cars... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3014240/mixed-fortunes-businesses-hong-kong-anti?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3014240/mixed-fortunes-businesses-hong-kong-anti?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 12 Jun 2019 13:18:06 +0000 Workers dining at a cafeteria in eastern China’s Zhejiang province were interrupted by an unwanted guest. A hungry wild boar sprinted into the canteen and snapped up some food before it was chased out and captured. Watch the video above. https://www.scmp.com/china/wild-boar-tears-through-staff-cafeteria-china/article/3013863?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/wild-boar-tears-through-staff-cafeteria-china/article/3013863?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:00:03 +0000 Like generations before him, Sun Lianxi made a living as a fisherman. He and 17 family members used to live on a large houseboat that they also operated as a restaurant for day-tripping tourists. But in 2017, local authorities seized the houseboat and banned fishing on certain days in the name of environmental protection. It was also part of a broad-ranging poverty alleviation scheme to move fishermen off boats and re-settle them on land. But Sun says the scheme has left him and his family... https://www.scmp.com/china/fisherman-left-behind-chinas-poverty-alleviation-plan/article/3013038?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/fisherman-left-behind-chinas-poverty-alleviation-plan/article/3013038?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 04 Jun 2019 11:17:23 +0000 Tucked away on a remote lane in Wan Chai, Quan Viet boasts that it serves authentic Vietnamese pho and the menu lists a great variety of Vietnamese noodles and snacks. At the top of the menu is rare beef noodles (HK$52) with a big thumbs-up next to it. Soon after we ordered it, a steaming bowl of noodles and soup arrived topped with beef that was still pink. The savoury broth made from bone marrow was flavourful with a strong aroma of Thai sweet basil, coriander, and other spices and herbs. The... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3012978/vietnamese-beef-noodles-us7-highlight-pho-specialist-quan-viet?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3012978/vietnamese-beef-noodles-us7-highlight-pho-specialist-quan-viet?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 04 Jun 2019 04:30:09 +0000 Panic selling of Huawei smartphones on Carousell, a community marketplace app, offered Singaporean buyer Eugene Teo an opportunity he couldn’t resist. His new Huawei P30 cost S$600 ($435), about $217 below the normal retail price. The bargains are being driven by recent restrictions the United States imposed on the Chinese tech giant. Watch the video above. https://www.scmp.com/business/singaporeans-rush-online-sell-huawei-phones-amid-us-restrictions/article/3011632?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/singaporeans-rush-online-sell-huawei-phones-amid-us-restrictions/article/3011632?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 May 2019 08:09:39 +0000 Opposite Olympian City, a commercial and residential complex in West Kowloon which houses the offices of two of the world’s largest banks, is an area with several inexpensive restaurants. One of these is Chef Choi’s Prawn Mee, offering delicious Southeast Asian snacks and dishes. On the menu is a short profile of chef Choi, which says he learned how to make the hawker dish of prawn mee 30 years ago from his uncle on Jalan Alor (Alor Street) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which is famous for its food... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3011057/tasty-prawn-soup-noodles-hainanese-chicken-rice-and-cuttlefish?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3011057/tasty-prawn-soup-noodles-hainanese-chicken-rice-and-cuttlefish?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 May 2019 04:00:11 +0000 “The former Officers’ Mess at the junction of Garden Road and Queen’s Road East is haunted. So is the former HMS Tamar building a short distance to the east,” read the opening lines of a report in the South China Morning Post on May 5, 1963. So convinced were some government employ­ees that ghosts prowled the premises that they sought permission to exorcise the spirits through Taoist rituals. Members of the Rating and Valuation Department, which had recently moved into Murray House – the renamed... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3010485/haunted-hong-kong-murray-house-and-its-ghostly?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3010485/haunted-hong-kong-murray-house-and-its-ghostly?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 16 May 2019 09:30:12 +0000 Meghan Markle has captivated the world with her celebrity-turned-royalty fairy tale, but she’s not the first actress to marry a prince – that trail was blazed by Grace Kelly, the Academy Award winner who became Princess Grace of Monaco. An exhibition that opens today in Macau recalls the magic of Kelly – who was born 90 years ago this year – and her simple, yet elegant style that made her a fashion icon. “For the people of Monaco, Grace Kelly is a timeless icon. She’s really someone who... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/3010322/grace-kelly-exhibition-macau-recalls-elegant-style-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/3010322/grace-kelly-exhibition-macau-recalls-elegant-style-and?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 16 May 2019 02:45:11 +0000 With its hanging red lanterns and classic Chinese tunes playing in the background, Shanghai Noodle brings some old Shanghai glamour to a small street in Jordan. We visited the restaurant on a Monday night and were given a friendly welcome before being ushered into a space packed with locals and tourists. On the wall was written “old Shanghai traditional yang chun noodle”. On first look, the yang chun noodles looked plain, with the dark soup base made of lard and pork or chicken broth. We ordered... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3010131/delicious-smoked-fish-tasty-skewers-and-stewed-egg-under-us12?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3010131/delicious-smoked-fish-tasty-skewers-and-stewed-egg-under-us12?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 15 May 2019 04:30:05 +0000 On a recent weekday afternoon, a Primary Six student in a Hong Kong school gave a crisp and confident presentation on a robot that could double up as a smoke detector. With the help of an iPad, she explained the creative process that went into her invention that could sense any object that comes within its vicinity before setting off an alarm with flashing red lights. Welcome to the Apple Education Summit. Her school is one of a few in Hong Kong that have enrolled in the global “1:1 iPad”... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/gadgets/article/3009969/classroom-ipad-use-how-it-helps-students-results-and-how-schools?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/gadgets/article/3009969/classroom-ipad-use-how-it-helps-students-results-and-how-schools?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 13 May 2019 13:15:06 +0000 “Harbour spectacular for The Bamboo Man,” read a headline in the South China Morning Post on April 16, 1992. “European event artist Andre Heller has announced he will make Hongkong the scene of his next spectacular. Called The Bamboo Man, it will feature a 50-metre-high bamboo sculpture sailing across Victoria Harbour on the night of May 3,” the story continued. “Taller than the Regent Hotel”, the HK$3.9 million project would be “accom­panied by a flotilla of giant internally lit symbolic... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3009510/when-giant-bamboo-sculpture-crossed-hong-kongs?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3009510/when-giant-bamboo-sculpture-crossed-hong-kongs?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 09 May 2019 23:15:10 +0000 “Death – sudden and terrifying – descended on West Point yesterday morning, when, following an explosion that shook buildings throughout the district, the contents of the largest gasometer in Hongkong [belonging to the Hongkong and China Gas Company] spread destruction through adjoining crowded tenements and buildings,” reported the South China Morning Post on May 15, 1934. “At the outbreak of the fire, when the force of the explosion and the sheets of flames hurled dozens of passers-by from... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3008553/sudden-and-terrifying-explosion-claimed-40?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3008553/sudden-and-terrifying-explosion-claimed-40?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 May 2019 23:15:08 +0000 The Island Bar in the village of Yung Shue Wan on Lamma Island will close at the end of the month after almost 40 years in operation. Established near the ferry pier in 1981, the family- and dog-friendly bar on Main Street is rated on TripAdvisor as one of the top 10 bars in Hong Kong. “It is more than a bar – it is a meeting point [and a] tourist attraction for weekend hikers and international visitors,” says the bar’s co-owner Craig Francis, who is based in Perth in Western Australia. But... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3008564/lammas-famous-island-bar-close-its-doors-after-almost-40-years?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3008564/lammas-famous-island-bar-close-its-doors-after-almost-40-years?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 May 2019 08:15:12 +0000 Just next to Wan Chai’s Lee Tung Street, which until its garish gentrification was once famous for its small printing shops, is a small block that is quickly becoming a mini Thai food area. One of the restaurants is the interestingly named Thaipei, which is amusingly decorated with refrigerator magnets of Thailand and Taiwan. A Mandarin-speaking staff member came up to introduce the menu, before another server, speaking English with a Thai accent, took our orders. We picked the two recommended... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3008257/beef-boat-noodle-under-us10-hong-kongs-thaipei-value-money?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3008257/beef-boat-noodle-under-us10-hong-kongs-thaipei-value-money?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 May 2019 04:15:07 +0000 Thai national Supranee Thepdet and her American boyfriend Chad Elwartowski are on the run from the Thai authorities after setting up a floating home 14 nautical miles off Phuket island. The couple lived in the cabin, funded and built by Ocean Builders for two months before Thai navy raided the structure on April 13. They are part of what is known as the seasteading movement, building floating communities in international waters as a way to explore alternative societies and governments. Here are... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3007782/after-thai-navy-raids-floating-home-here-are-five-more?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3007782/after-thai-navy-raids-floating-home-here-are-five-more?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 Apr 2019 13:30:08 +0000 “Reagan may visit China in spring,” read a headline in the South China Morning Post on September 28, 1983. Chinese premier Zhao Ziyang had announced that he and the American president might exchange visits the following year, but warned that serious differences in opinion remained. “The main obstacle in developing Sino-US relations is the question of Taiwan,” said Zhao, referring to tensions over American arms sales to the island, with which Beijing sought – and still seeks – reunification. On... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3007645/what-happened-when-ronald-reagan-met-deng?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3007645/what-happened-when-ronald-reagan-met-deng?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:30:10 +0000 Swedish soprano Viktoria Tocca, who has sung numerous lead roles in popular musicals such as Phantom of the Opera and Evita, recently arrived in Hong Kong to perform with the Yao Yueh Chinese Music Association at the Hong Kong City Hall. The 43-year-old singer, who grew up in Stockholm – where she recently met Michelle Obama during the former US first lady’s book tour – talks to the Post about her experience working on Chinese music and her career. How did the collaboration with the Yao Yueh... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3006899/swedish-soprano-viktoria-tocca-makes-most-her-latest-foray?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3006899/swedish-soprano-viktoria-tocca-makes-most-her-latest-foray?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 Apr 2019 09:00:19 +0000 “Radio H.K. to get own premises,” ran a headline in the South China Morning Post on October 7, 1967. “Radio Hongkong will move into its new $6 million broadcasting station in Lung Cheung Road, in Kowloon […] by the end of next year,” the story continued. The four-storey block, overlooking Kai Tak airport and Kowloon Bay, would replace Radio Hongkong’s existing facilities in Central and Admiralty. Upon completion, the broadcaster would have a home of its own for the first time since it had been... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3006672/how-rthk-then-known-radio-hongkong-finally?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3006672/how-rthk-then-known-radio-hongkong-finally?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Apr 2019 23:15:12 +0000 With its chic design and a glowing logo, Tom Yum Noodles adds a young and Instagrammable Bangkok vibe to the heart of Hong Kong district Tsim Sha Tsui. We went there on a Tuesday in the early afternoon and were seated on a pink bench across from a plant-covered wall with colourful neon light decorations. Soon, the place was packed with office-goers in search of a quick lunch. The lunch menu offers Thai noodles with a choice of soup bases, toppings and noodles. With the restaurant’s name in mind,... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3006498/hong-kongs-tom-yum-noodles-offers-taste-thailand-under-us12?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3006498/hong-kongs-tom-yum-noodles-offers-taste-thailand-under-us12?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Apr 2019 04:15:09 +0000 After sharing bikes, portable chargers and karaoke rooms, China is taking the concept of the sharing economy one step further with shareable make-up. Shareable make-up booths can now be found in shopping centres in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Wuhan under the name “17 Beauty Box”. When a customer steps into the pink cubicle and scans a QR code on the wall, the transparent glass door behind them turns opaque and the glass cabinet in front of the mirror dramatically opens to reveal a... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/3006158/chinas-sharing-economy-now-includes-make-hygiene-doubts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/3006158/chinas-sharing-economy-now-includes-make-hygiene-doubts?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Apr 2019 05:00:16 +0000