https://www.scmp.com/rss/330538/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Chinese portal Duowei News, known for its Chinese political news and commentary, has closed its website and mobile app, ending 23 years of operation. All content has been taken down from the website, which was originally named Chinese News Net. The portal notice said the closure from Tuesday 4pm was caused by an adjustment to company operations. Chinese web users told to report ‘historical nihilism’ against party line Its owner, Hong Kong listed company Nan Hai Corporation, also owns the HK01... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3175717/chinese-duowei-news-closes-its-doors-content-taken-website-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3175717/chinese-duowei-news-closes-its-doors-content-taken-website-and?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Apr 2022 12:21:04 +0000 The editor of a closed Singaporean news website was on Thursday jailed three weeks for defamation over a letter the portal published alleging corruption among government ministers. It is the latest case to fuel concerns about worsening press freedoms in tightly controlled Singapore, with authorities accused of using heavy-handed tactics to silence dissent. The Online Citizen (TOC), which was often critical of authorities, had its licence to operate cancelled in October over a failure to declare... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3175063/closed-singapore-news-websites-editor-jailed-defamation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3175063/closed-singapore-news-websites-editor-jailed-defamation?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 21 Apr 2022 10:48:06 +0000 Myanmar’s media is headed into 2022 in a parlous state, with independent journalists who remain in the junta-ruled country forced to operate surreptitiously to avoid arbitrary detention, beatings and violent repercussions for their families, according to interviews by This Week In Asia. State media, meanwhile, has intensified the propagation of falsehoods depicting peace returning to the country, even as anti-junta fighters step up their guerilla campaign against the generals, the local... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3160620/myanmars-journalists-detained-beaten-killed-junta-tightens-grip?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3160620/myanmars-journalists-detained-beaten-killed-junta-tightens-grip?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 Dec 2021 03:00:24 +0000 Tap here to launch this special feature https://www.scmp.com/infographics/hong-kong/article/3154851/south-china-morning-post-hong-kong-story-120-years-making?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/hong-kong/article/3154851/south-china-morning-post-hong-kong-story-120-years-making?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 06 Nov 2021 00:30:17 +0000 While the city of Hong Kong sleeps, the presses at the South China Morning Post’s Tai Po factory are in full gear. A day here begins at 3 p.m., when the factory starts receiving proofs of the next day’s paper. Every hour, each of the facility’s 18 presses churns out 50,000 to 60,000 copies. They don’t stop until 6 a.m. the next day. “Even in the worst typhoons, we have to go to work,” says Clare Chu, the plant’s operations director. This is the life that the factory’s 95 workers have chosen.... https://www.scmp.com/videos/inside-one-hong-kongs-last-newspaper-factories/article/3000229?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/videos/inside-one-hong-kongs-last-newspaper-factories/article/3000229?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Nov 2018 11:41:14 +0000