https://www.scmp.com/rss/501115/feed Zinnia Lee is an associate video producer at the South China Morning Post. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The Communist Party of China has been the dominant political entity running the nation since 1949. During that time, the body also known as the Chinese Communist Party has led the country from a poor, insular existence to a role as a global economic powerhouse. But along the way, the party has kept a tight grip on power and quashed any form of dissent. The Post explains how the Communist Party works and how it runs China. https://www.scmp.com/china/how-does-chinese-communist-party-operate/article/3123864?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/how-does-chinese-communist-party-operate/article/3123864?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 03 Mar 2021 10:31:01 +0000 A Chinese hotpot restaurant in Shaanxi province, which has male topless models as its waiters, has become a viral hit on social media. https://www.scmp.com/china/male-topless-models-serving-chinese-hotpot-restaurant-turn-shop-viral-hit/article/3123688?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/male-topless-models-serving-chinese-hotpot-restaurant-turn-shop-viral-hit/article/3123688?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Mar 2021 11:48:04 +0000 China’s Chongqing municipality celebrated the Lunar New Year with festive “fire-breathing dragons.” The Tongliang dragon dance is staged every year during the Spring Festival. This year the performance was viewed online because of the coronavirus pandemic. https://www.scmp.com/china/chinese-new-year-celebration-fire-breathing-dragons/article/3121981?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/chinese-new-year-celebration-fire-breathing-dragons/article/3121981?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Feb 2021 09:35:21 +0000 An artist in Xi’an, China has spent more than 5 years making a kite depicting an ancient terracotta warrior. It’s based on the famous Terracotta Army sculptures unearthed in Shaanxi province. The figures were created to protect Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, in the afterlife. https://www.scmp.com/china/artist-china-makes-bamboo-kite-depicting-ancient-terracotta-warrior/article/3113139?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/artist-china-makes-bamboo-kite-depicting-ancient-terracotta-warrior/article/3113139?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 10 Dec 2020 10:46:27 +0000 Normally made out of mud and clay, one farmer in Gurugram is trying to support the government’s “Make in India” campaign by making “Diya” lamps out of eco-friendly cow dung. Aside from being an inexpensive material, the creator is keen to stress the lamp’s environmental benefits as they can be recycled as organic compost. https://www.scmp.com/business/india-cow-dung-lights-diwali-festival-become-part-countrys-boycott-china-campaign/article/3109977?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/india-cow-dung-lights-diwali-festival-become-part-countrys-boycott-china-campaign/article/3109977?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 16 Nov 2020 10:19:36 +0000 A video production studio in Wuxi, China has employed a huarizo, a cross between a male llama and female alpaca, to bring joy to his “colleagues.” The company has been making videos about Tuo Baiwan’s daily life, and the clips have earned the animal fame on Chinese social media. https://www.scmp.com/china/office-pet-you-didnt-know-you-needed/article/3104468?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/office-pet-you-didnt-know-you-needed/article/3104468?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Oct 2020 10:36:15 +0000 Lau Kai-fai and his family recently started making themselves at home in a 293 square feet prefabricated flat in the Sham Shui Po district of Hong Kong. The apartment is part of a transitional social housing project in the low-income area of thee city. The apartments are meant to provide temporary accommodation to families in need or people waiting for an opening in public housing blocks. https://www.scmp.com/society/tiny-temporary-home-upgrade-hong-kong-family/article/3103597?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/tiny-temporary-home-upgrade-hong-kong-family/article/3103597?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 30 Sep 2020 10:23:32 +0000 You can check in but you can never leave, at least for now, from Taiwan’s Songshan Airport. The terminal in Taipei offered “fake” flights on July 2, 2020, to satisfy passengers hungry for a chance to travel as they wait for Covid-19 pandemic restrictions to be lifted. Thousands of people applied for “tickets to nowhere” that offered about 60 lucky passengers a chance to go through check-in procedures and board a plane that never left the ground. https://www.scmp.com/society/taiwan-offers-fake-flights-people-who-miss-flying/article/3091924?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/taiwan-offers-fake-flights-people-who-miss-flying/article/3091924?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 Jul 2020 07:50:27 +0000 Statues depicting Taiwan’s former leader Chiang Kai-shek continue to generate controversy. Chiang fled to Taiwan after his Nationalist troops lost a civil war on the Chinese mainland to Communist forces in 1949. While some revere him for his anti-communist stance, others recall Chiang’s brutal imposition of martial law and purge of thousands of opponents. More than 70 years later, there is intense debate about Chiang’s legacy, as statues are being removed under a law meant to address issues of... https://www.scmp.com/politics/future-chiang-kai-shek-statues-questioned-taiwan-reckons-former-leaders-legacy/article/3090658?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/politics/future-chiang-kai-shek-statues-questioned-taiwan-reckons-former-leaders-legacy/article/3090658?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 Jun 2020 08:54:40 +0000 The North Korean government “blew up” its joint liaison office with South Korea on June 16, 2020. Located in the border city of Kaesong in North Korea, the destruction of the building was confirmed by South Korea’s Unification Ministry in a report sent to journalists. The move by North Korea comes after Pyongyang cut off communication with Seoul on June 9, and expressed anger over North Korean defectors sending balloons across the border filled with pamphlets critical of Kim Jong-un. https://www.scmp.com/politics/north-korea-blows-inter-korean-liaison-office/article/3089351?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/politics/north-korea-blows-inter-korean-liaison-office/article/3089351?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Jun 2020 12:35:49 +0000 While nightclubs have closed in Germany as part of its coronavirus restrictions, a club held the country’s first drive-in social-distancing rave on May 9, 2020. https://www.scmp.com/society/germanys-first-social-distancing-car-disco/article/3084139?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/germanys-first-social-distancing-car-disco/article/3084139?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 May 2020 10:32:39 +0000 A bakery in Finland is providing a bit of comic relief in spite of the pandemic by offering homebound customers some cakes that resemble toilet rolls. Inspired by a round of panic buying of toilet paper in March 2020, the novelty items have been enough of a hit to save the shop from financial ruin after business dried up because of lockdowns to fight the spread of the coronavirus. https://www.scmp.com/society/toilet-roll-cakes-keep-finnish-bakery-business-amid-coronavirus-pandemic/article/3079385?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/toilet-roll-cakes-keep-finnish-bakery-business-amid-coronavirus-pandemic/article/3079385?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 10 Apr 2020 10:01:41 +0000 As deaths from the coronavirus mount in New York City, a temporary field hospital has been built in Central Park to help ease the burden on local hospitals. Covid-19 cases continue to surge in the city, with the death toll surpassing 900 on Monday, March 30. Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has estimated that about 200,000 Americans could die from the pandemic. US President Donald Trump has extended stay-at-home guidelines for the... https://www.scmp.com/health/tent-hospital-erected-central-park-coronavirus-deaths-mount/article/3077715?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/health/tent-hospital-erected-central-park-coronavirus-deaths-mount/article/3077715?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 31 Mar 2020 10:36:28 +0000 British actor Nigel Dixon is trying to calm frayed nerves in the central Chinese city of Wuhan with his online social media miniseries Mr Pea. The 53-year-old, who does an impersonation of British sitcom character Mr Bean, traveled to the region at the epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic in early January. He refused to leave Wuhan even as it went into lockdown, saying he worried that he could spread the virus and that he wanted to show support to the people in China. https://www.scmp.com/society/mr-bean-impersonator-tries-raise-spirits-coronavirus-hit-wuhan/article/3052234?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/mr-bean-impersonator-tries-raise-spirits-coronavirus-hit-wuhan/article/3052234?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 25 Feb 2020 09:52:20 +0000 Dancers at Shanghai Ballet Company have started training again after an extended Lunar New Year break. But the coronavirus outbreak means their pirouettes and plies won’t look the same. https://www.scmp.com/china/masked-ballet-dancers-shanghai-pirouette-and-plie-amid-coronavirus-epidemic/article/3052036?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/masked-ballet-dancers-shanghai-pirouette-and-plie-amid-coronavirus-epidemic/article/3052036?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 24 Feb 2020 12:15:33 +0000 People in China have come up with creative ways to avoid touching elevator buttons, which they see as breeding grounds for bacteria and virus, amid the coronavirus outbreak. https://www.scmp.com/china/coronavirus-outbreak-3-ways-avoid-touching-elevator-buttons/article/3050382?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/coronavirus-outbreak-3-ways-avoid-touching-elevator-buttons/article/3050382?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 13 Feb 2020 10:18:54 +0000 Medical workers in protective clothing danced with quarantined patients in a temporary hospital in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. https://www.scmp.com/china/coronavirus-medical-staff-dance-quarantined-patients-wuhan/article/3050222?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/coronavirus-medical-staff-dance-quarantined-patients-wuhan/article/3050222?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 12 Feb 2020 12:25:47 +0000 Hundreds of people put aside worries about the coronavirus outbreak to join the annual lantern festival in Taiwan’s New Taipei City on February 8, 2020. https://www.scmp.com/china/taiwans-annual-lantern-festival-kicks-despite-coronavirus-outbreak/article/3050000?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/taiwans-annual-lantern-festival-kicks-despite-coronavirus-outbreak/article/3050000?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:59:20 +0000 Chinese soldiers stationed in Tibet are receiving special training to sharpen their driving skills so they can handle complicated road conditions in the area, according to state media reports. https://www.scmp.com/china/chinese-soldiers-sharpen-driving-skills-tibet/article/3049151?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/chinese-soldiers-sharpen-driving-skills-tibet/article/3049151?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 05 Feb 2020 12:40:04 +0000 Staff in one of the few hotels still open in Wuhan, the central Chinese city at the center of the coronavirus outbreak that has claimed at least 300 lives in China, has been engaging in daily group exercise to stay fit. https://www.scmp.com/china/hotel-staff-wuhan-exercises-daily-stave-coronavirus-infection/article/3048696?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/hotel-staff-wuhan-exercises-daily-stave-coronavirus-infection/article/3048696?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 03 Feb 2020 10:15:35 +0000 Felicity Feng, a Canadian visiting her parents in Wuhan over the Lunar New Year holiday, was caught up in the deadly coronavirus outbreak and the lockdown. Feng said her father was one of the project managers overseeing the construction of a new hospital for coronavirus patients.  Feng said she is worried about her father’s situation but is also glad that her family can contribute to the fight against the disease. https://www.scmp.com/health/very-hard-moment-us-says-daughter-project-manager-new-wuhan-coronavirus-hospital/article/3048446?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/health/very-hard-moment-us-says-daughter-project-manager-new-wuhan-coronavirus-hospital/article/3048446?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 31 Jan 2020 11:36:47 +0000 Daredevil “jetmen” jumped out of a plane with small jet engines strapped to their backs for a stunt flight over the dramatic scenery of Zhangjiajie, in China’s central province of Hunan. For their flight on November 14, 2019, they used carbon fiber wings with attached jetpacks to zip around at speeds up to 250mph. The demonstration was part of Expo 2020 Dubai’s “Mission: Human Flight” program, which aims to develop equipment that ultimately allows “fully autonomous human flight.” https://www.scmp.com/sports/jetmen-fly-push-boundaries-human-flight-over-chinas-zhangjiajie-scenic-area/article/3046331?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sports/jetmen-fly-push-boundaries-human-flight-over-chinas-zhangjiajie-scenic-area/article/3046331?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 16 Jan 2020 09:01:35 +0000 Two Taiwanese artists, one painting with his fingers and the other creating Japanese manga-style portraits, took inspiration from the self-ruled island’s political scene ahead of its 2020 presidential election. https://www.scmp.com/arts/taiwan-artists-draw-2020-presidential-candidates-contrasting-mediums/article/3045145?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/arts/taiwan-artists-draw-2020-presidential-candidates-contrasting-mediums/article/3045145?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Jan 2020 10:42:39 +0000 Taiwan’s top military official and 7 others were killed on January 2, 2020. Their Black Hawk helicopter crashed in a mountainous area near the capital Taipei, according to officials. https://www.scmp.com/china/taiwans-top-military-chief-among-8-killed-helicopter-crash/article/3044440?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/taiwans-top-military-chief-among-8-killed-helicopter-crash/article/3044440?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 03 Jan 2020 09:43:46 +0000 Located on the Tibetan plateau, Namsei Township in China’s Yushu Prefecture, Qinghai province is home to endangered species including snow leopards.  The big felines have earned the district the name “Valley of the Cats."  It is inside Sanjiangyuan Park, one of the first wildlife areas to be included in China’s new national park system. https://www.scmp.com/china/welcome-chinas-valley-cats/article/3040157?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/welcome-chinas-valley-cats/article/3040157?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Dec 2019 10:10:06 +0000 Satellite image analysis reportedly shows that China has flattened dozens of Uygur graveyards in Xinjiang, the autonomous region in the country’s far west, since 2014. The report, from the news agency Agence France-Presse and non-profit satellite imagery analysts Earthrise Alliance, said the Chinese government exhumed and bulldozed the burial sites, and that most of the graveyards were cleared from 2017 to 2019. https://www.scmp.com/china/satellite-images-show-china-has-bulldozed-uygur-burial-sites-xinjiang/article/3033499?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/satellite-images-show-china-has-bulldozed-uygur-burial-sites-xinjiang/article/3033499?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 18 Oct 2019 09:16:02 +0000 China’s new Daxing International Airport in the capital Beijing formally opened for business on Wednesday.   President Xi Jinping presided over the official launch of the new aviation hub, just days before the People's Republic celebrates its 70th anniversary on October 1. British architect Zaha Hadid designed the unique starfish-shaped airport before her death in 2016. https://www.scmp.com/china/beijings-new-daxing-international-airport-formally-opens-its-doors/article/3030411?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/beijings-new-daxing-international-airport-formally-opens-its-doors/article/3030411?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Sep 2019 09:36:06 +0000 Receding waters in China’s largest freshwater lake in the eastern province of Jiangxi each year reveal the normally submerged features of a 1,000-year-old historic island and former lighthouse. But Luoxingdun island in Poyang Lake has been left standing in a sea of grassland weeks earlier than usual this year, as low-water levels were recorded in early September. A unique habitat for animals including the Siberian crane, Poyang Lake has had successively lower water levels blamed on drought as... https://www.scmp.com/china/falling-water-level-chinas-poyang-lake-reveals-ancient-architecture/article/3030245?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/falling-water-level-chinas-poyang-lake-reveals-ancient-architecture/article/3030245?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:20:01 +0000 A Beijing-based company with a reputation for animal cloning has successfully produced what is reportedly China’s first cloned cat on July 21, 2019. The animal’s owner shelled out more than $35,000 for the procedure to create an identical genetic copy of a pet cat that died months earlier. https://www.scmp.com/china/chinese-firm-creates-first-cloned-kitten/article/3025980?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/chinese-firm-creates-first-cloned-kitten/article/3025980?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 06 Sep 2019 10:06:02 +0000 A woman was filmed on CCTV trying to open a subway train's doors with her bare hands at the Little India station in Singapore. https://www.scmp.com/society/women-opens-subway-station-platform-doors-bare-hands-board-train/article/3024814?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/women-opens-subway-station-platform-doors-bare-hands-board-train/article/3024814?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 29 Aug 2019 10:03:29 +0000 A four-year-old Chinese boy showed off his incredible parallel parking skills with a toy car in northern China. The boy, named Bingo, successfully reverses his toy car into a narrow gap between two objects at home. https://www.scmp.com/china/four-year-old-boy-china-shows-incredible-parallel-parking-skills-toy-car/article/3024465?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/four-year-old-boy-china-shows-incredible-parallel-parking-skills-toy-car/article/3024465?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Aug 2019 09:17:36 +0000 The 2019 World Robot Conference is being held in Beijing this week. The annual expo showcases over 700 exhibits with the latest, coolest robots. https://www.scmp.com/tech/cutting-edge-robots-showcased-beijings-2019-world-robot-conference/article/3024043?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/cutting-edge-robots-showcased-beijings-2019-world-robot-conference/article/3024043?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:25:51 +0000 China’s pre-marriage photo industry is thriving as young couples spend money for glamorous portraits to display on their wedding day. https://www.scmp.com/china/pre-wedding-photo-industry-booms-china/article/3023839?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/pre-wedding-photo-industry-booms-china/article/3023839?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 22 Aug 2019 10:47:15 +0000 Karst cave in Bijie, southwest China’s Guizhou, was converted into an indoor playground for villagers. https://www.scmp.com/china/karst-cave-china-turns-indoor-basketball-court/article/3023527?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/karst-cave-china-turns-indoor-basketball-court/article/3023527?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:45:46 +0000 A Chinese driving instructor has become an online sensation with videos showing him using fresh produce to teach students how to operate a car. In one video published August 7, 2019, the instructor from Yueyang in China’s central Hunan province, carves a watermelon to look like a manual-transmission gearbox to demonstrate shifting patterns. The instructor also has videos using other fresh produce such as a pumpkin, as well as common objects like smartphones, to simulate accelerator pedals. https://www.scmp.com/society/chinese-driving-instructors-melon-gearbox/article/3022149?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/chinese-driving-instructors-melon-gearbox/article/3022149?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Aug 2019 09:41:26 +0000 China launched a rocket from a mobile platform on a civilian cargo ship in the Yellow Sea on Wednesday, June 5. In the nation’s first use of maritime launch technology, five commercial satellites and a pair of probes were launched into the atmosphere. The world’s first ocean rocket launch platform was jointly built by companies from Russia, the US, Norway and Ukraine in the late 1990s. But China is the first to fully own and operate such technology for space missions. Watch the video above. https://www.scmp.com/science/last-wonton-china-leaps-ahead-space-race-first-offshore-rocket-launch/article/3013532?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/science/last-wonton-china-leaps-ahead-space-race-first-offshore-rocket-launch/article/3013532?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 07 Jun 2019 10:02:46 +0000