https://www.scmp.com/rss/502362/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com China on Friday successfully launched its first reusable satellite in a mission that aims to make progress in seed science, microgravity research and international cooperation in space, according to state media. The Shijian-19 was successfully delivered into orbit by a Long March 2D (CZ-2D) rocket from the northwestern Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, state broadcaster CCTV said. The new satellite represents progress in improving efficiencies – including lower costs – as well as faster testing... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3280356/china-launches-first-reusable-satellite-payloads-thailand-and-pakistan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3280356/china-launches-first-reusable-satellite-payloads-thailand-and-pakistan?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 28 Sep 2024 09:00:20 +0000 This is the second in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of instrument, and their history. For most people, gourds are for eating, not for making musical instruments, but in Chinese music, gourds are one of the eight categories of instruments and produce some of the most essential sounds in a modern orchestra such as the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. The category,... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3275869/how-traditional-chinese-instruments-sheng-and-chinese-bagpipes-make-music-using-gourds?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3275869/how-traditional-chinese-instruments-sheng-and-chinese-bagpipes-make-music-using-gourds?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 26 Aug 2024 04:30:10 +0000 It was a moment of serendipity that allowed Michael Zee, the British-Chinese food writer behind the social media sensation SymmetryBreakfast, to find some of the most treasured recipes featured in his new cookbook, Zao Fan: Breakfast of China. Towards the end of 2022, he had finished recording a recipe for baba – a puffy, delicately fried breakfast bread served daily as part of the staff meals at Miao Lu vineyard in China’s Yunnan province – and was on his way to Chongqing by train. He decided... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3275314/breakfast-recipes-hidden-china-open-new-world-british-chinese-authors-cookbook?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3275314/breakfast-recipes-hidden-china-open-new-world-british-chinese-authors-cookbook?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 22 Aug 2024 23:15:10 +0000 The United States on Monday condemned prison sentences given to women’s rights activist Sophia Huang Xueqin and labour rights activist Wang Jianbing in China and urged Beijing to release both activists immediately. The sentences demonstrate China’s “continued efforts to intimidate and silence civil society”, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement. Supporters said Huang has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges of incitement to subvert state authority, almost... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3266988/us-calls-immediate-release-chinese-rights-activists-held-beijing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3266988/us-calls-immediate-release-chinese-rights-activists-held-beijing?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:18:35 +0000 Journalist and feminist activist Sophia Huang Xueqin was sentenced to five years in prison by a court in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on Friday in a case that feminists fear will have a chilling effect. Her friend, labour activist Wang Jianbing, who was charged in the same case, received a 3½ year sentence. Both Huang and Wang were found guilty of “inciting subversion of state power”, according to a part of the verdict obtained by the Post. The verdicts were handed down at the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3266600/prominent-chinese-activists-sentenced-5-years-charges-inciting-subversion?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3266600/prominent-chinese-activists-sentenced-5-years-charges-inciting-subversion?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 14 Jun 2024 06:39:23 +0000 A team of Chinese military scientists and defence industry engineers have developed a microwave source for drones that is more powerful than anything available worldwide, according to a new paper. This technological breakthrough, they claim, has the potential to alter the balance of military power permanently. High-powered microwave devices along with all their sophisticated support equipment are usually big and bulky. A military with deep pockets can carry that weaponry on expensive aeroplanes... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3243508/world-first-chinese-scientists-create-high-power-microwave-weapon-small-drones?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3243508/world-first-chinese-scientists-create-high-power-microwave-weapon-small-drones?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 05 Dec 2023 13:00:09 +0000 Chinese feminists fear a chilling effect and more restrictions as the journalist who helped to ignite China’s #MeToo movement stood trial recently, and now faces years in jail. Journalist and feminist activist Sophia Huang Xueqin and her friend, labour activist Wang Jianbing, have been in detention for two years. They stand accused of “inciting subversion of state power” and were tried in the southern city of Guangzhou on September 22, according to friends. Under China’s criminal law, the charge... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3237808/brutal-chilling-effect-chinese-feminists-fear-future-metoo-leading-activist-faces-judgment?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3237808/brutal-chilling-effect-chinese-feminists-fear-future-metoo-leading-activist-faces-judgment?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 14 Oct 2023 11:00:12 +0000 Thousands of Hongkongers have streamed through border crossings from mainland China and returned to the city on the last day of the long weekend, after enjoying good deals on food and self-pampering options in neighbouring Shenzhen. A Post reporter was among about 1,000 travellers at the Futian checkpoint in Shenzhen who crossed the border into Hong Kong via the Lok Ma Chau spur line around noon on Monday. Hongkongers go bargain hunting in Shenzhen for National Day long weekend The crossing was... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3236526/thousands-return-home-hong-kong-after-enjoying-good-deals-no-brainer-shenzhen-over-national-day-long?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3236526/thousands-return-home-hong-kong-after-enjoying-good-deals-no-brainer-shenzhen-over-national-day-long?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Oct 2023 09:25:14 +0000 Hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers have crossed the border to mainland China for the long weekend that covers the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day, with some saying Shenzhen offers more affordable and appealing options. Immigration figures showed more than 300,000 Hongkongers headed to the mainland on Friday, with others following on Saturday as the three-day long weekend started. The Lo Wu border crossing was packed with so many travellers on the first day of the break that some were... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3236387/hundreds-thousands-hongkongers-cross-border-mainland-china-mid-autumn-festival-long-weekend-eyeing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3236387/hundreds-thousands-hongkongers-cross-border-mainland-china-mid-autumn-festival-long-weekend-eyeing?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:00:15 +0000 Former fashion designer turned visual artist Jono Toh paints geometrical abstractions punctuated by a narrative of continuous lines. He spoke to Andrew Sun. I’m originally from Sydney, Australia and have been living in Hong Kong for five years. My father is Singaporean and my mother is Australian, so I grew up influenced by both cultures. I’ve always said I’m not a fussy eater as long as it’s good. To start, once a week I like going to Mon Kee Café (142 Jaffe Road, Wan Chai. Tel: 2528 2927) for... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3234898/life-changing-pancakes-amazing-fried-rice-dog-friendly-muffins-australians-go-places-eat-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3234898/life-changing-pancakes-amazing-fried-rice-dog-friendly-muffins-australians-go-places-eat-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 21 Sep 2023 05:15:17 +0000 A Hong Kong court has backed an application to give a 90-year-old licenced street vendor her roast chestnut cart back after a man arrested for looking after the stall without a licence pleaded guilty to illegal hawking and two other charges. Chan Tak-ching said she was told by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department after the court case had finished that she could have the cart back on Thursday. The itinerant hawker told the Post outside Kowloon City Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday two... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3215263/hong-kong-court-approves-return-roast-chestnut-stall-90-year-old-vendor-after-man-admits-illegal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3215263/hong-kong-court-approves-return-roast-chestnut-stall-90-year-old-vendor-after-man-admits-illegal?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 29 Mar 2023 09:18:30 +0000 My mum was born in Hong Kong and moved to New Zealand when she was a child. It was there that she met my dad, a Briton, and I was born in 1991. Before I turned one, we moved to Somerset, in the UK, and my dad started his own business in printing. My mum had been an air hostess and then worked in the police and is now with the NHS (National Health Service). I was an only child until I was eight, when my brother came along, and was quite solitary. I had a vivid imagination and was always making up... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/3209767/olivia-cotes-james-founder-natural-period-products-brand-luuna-talks-about-her-obsession-finding?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/3209767/olivia-cotes-james-founder-natural-period-products-brand-luuna-talks-about-her-obsession-finding?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 11 Feb 2023 04:45:08 +0000 Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has told UN envoy Michelle Bachelet that Beijing hopes her visit will help “clarify misinformation” about its human rights record. Wang met the human rights commissioner at the start of her six-day trip and blasted “some countries and anti-China forces” for spreading “false information” and “vilifying China with slanderous attacks”, according to a report by state news agency Xinhua. “Their purpose is to use human rights issues as excuses to suppress China and to... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3178910/chinas-wang-yi-urges-un-rights-envoy-clarify-misinformation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3178910/chinas-wang-yi-urges-un-rights-envoy-clarify-misinformation?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 24 May 2022 05:46:04 +0000 I miss China. It’s been three long years since I was last there and the itch for street noodles, speedy trains and the wafting scent of temple incense has become overwhelming. Pre-pandemic, I was visiting annually, often for weeks at a time, travelling to small villages and odd outposts in the name of guidebook research before settling in for a craft beer at the Great Leap Brewing bar in Beijing. But two years into the pandemic, China feels farther away than ever. Luckily I live in London, a... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3176708/chinese-food-and-culture-tour-through-london-noodles-dim?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3176708/chinese-food-and-culture-tour-through-london-noodles-dim?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 08 May 2022 09:15:16 +0000 Activist Wang Aizhong was taken into custody and charged by authorities in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou with “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” in May last year. Nearly a year later, he is still behind bars without having gone to trial: his hearing scheduled for mid-April was cancelled abruptly the week before, with no reason or new date given. “I’m worried that they keep delaying it,” Wang Henan, his wife, said. China has long held a strict line against large-scale protest... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3176605/crackdown-chinas-moderate-rights-voices-how-tweets-are-now?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3176605/crackdown-chinas-moderate-rights-voices-how-tweets-are-now?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 05 May 2022 16:00:13 +0000 Two activists in southern China are expected to face trial soon, with police handing their cases over to prosecutors for investigation. Women’s rights campaigner and freelance journalist Sophia Huang Xueqin and labour activist Wang Jianbing have been detained in Guangzhou since September, unable to meet their lawyers or families, according to friends close to the activists. Guangzhou police barred Huang from leaving China six months ago when she tried to go to London via Hong Kong for a master’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3173058/chinese-activists-sophia-huang-and-wang-jianbing-expected-face?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3173058/chinese-activists-sophia-huang-and-wang-jianbing-expected-face?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 04 Apr 2022 13:44:24 +0000 Beijing may be the capital of China, but neighboring Tianjin can rightfully be called the region’s street food capital. Located just an hour outside Beijing, this busy port city has a long history of trade thanks to its coastal location on the Grand Canal, a water route that snakes for 1,000 miles along the eastern coast of China. With the business and merchants came vendors and their food stalls, creating a vibrant street food culture. Because of northern China’s arid environment, Tianjin’s... https://www.scmp.com/food/tianjin-street-food-northern-china/article/3031306?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/food/tianjin-street-food-northern-china/article/3031306?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:13:35 +0000 A visit to northern China is not complete without sampling the carb-loaded street food staple known as jianbing. Somewhere between a crepe and an omelette, jianbing hails from the port city of Tianjin, where it’s a common breakfast item. But the snack’s popularity means it’s also served at all times of the day, much like the all-day breakfast menu at American diners. One can start the morning with jianbing and end a night clubbing with jianbing. And while the city of Tianjin has tried, in vain,... https://www.scmp.com/food/jianbing-avocado-sriracha-chinese-crepe/article/3030428?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/food/jianbing-avocado-sriracha-chinese-crepe/article/3030428?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Sep 2019 06:00:44 +0000