https://www.scmp.com/rss/519442/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Associated Press Associated Press A dangerous super typhoon in the Pacific Ocean is barrelling towards a group of remote US islands. Super Typhoon Sinlakua is expected to make landfall on Tuesday in the Northern Mariana Islands and bring destructive winds, widespread heavy rain and flooding, the National Weather Service said on Monday. Power cuts on the islands could be lengthy, forecasters warned. Guam, a US territory with American military installations and about 170,000 residents, could also see damaging winds and is under a... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/3349957/pacific-ocean-super-typhoon-sinlakua-bears-down-group-remote-us-islands?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/3349957/pacific-ocean-super-typhoon-sinlakua-bears-down-group-remote-us-islands?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:42:11 +0000 Peggy Sito Peggy Sito For Raymond Tan, football is more than just a sport – it is a vehicle for social change that can, at times, be an effective way to build government relations when it comes to businesses. The key to running a sustainable charity, said the CEO of Luen Thai Holdings, was to view it not merely as philanthropy, but as a venture, and this approach had proven effective with the TSL Football Foundation. “I look at [the foundation] like a start-up,” Tan said in a recent interview with the Post. “I... https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3329631/hong-kong-industrialists-winning-football-strategy-transform-lives-across-5-markets?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3329631/hong-kong-industrialists-winning-football-strategy-transform-lives-across-5-markets?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:30:09 +0000 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange landed to an ecstatic welcome in Australia on Wednesday after pleading guilty to violating US espionage law in a deal that sets him free from a 14-year legal battle. Assange disembarked from a private jet at Canberra airport just after 7:30pm, waving to waiting media and cheering supporters before passionately kissing his wife, Stella, and lifting her off the ground. He embraced his father before entering the terminal building with his legal team. Assange has not... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/3268055/julian-assange-freed-us-court-after-admitting-leaking-state-secrets-next-stop-australia?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/3268055/julian-assange-freed-us-court-after-admitting-leaking-state-secrets-next-stop-australia?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 26 Jun 2024 02:27:31 +0000 Better known for its sandy beaches and Second World War wrecks, the tropical Pacific island of Saipan will soon host the final act of Julian Assange’s 14-year legal odyssey. Assange is en route to a courtroom on the island where he is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday to a single criminal charge in a plea deal that will see him walk free and return home to Australia. Where is Saipan? Saipan is the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), a US commonwealth in the western Pacific which... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3267976/why-julian-assange-flying-remote-pacific-island-saipan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3267976/why-julian-assange-flying-remote-pacific-island-saipan?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:00:20 +0000 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has reached a deal to plead guilty to one count of violating the US espionage law, prosecutors said in court papers on Monday. He is due to appear in a US federal court in the Northern Mariana Islands this week where he is expected to be sentenced to time served and allowed to return home to Australia. Following are some key events and details in Assange’s life: July 1971 Assange is born in Townsville, Australia, to parents involved in theatre. As a teenager, he... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3267952/timeline-wikileaks-founder-julian-assanges-legal-battles?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3267952/timeline-wikileaks-founder-julian-assanges-legal-battles?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 25 Jun 2024 07:24:45 +0000 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is due to plead guilty on Wednesday to violating US espionage law, in a deal that will end his imprisonment in Britain and allow him to return home to Australia, ending a 14-year legal odyssey. Assange, 52, has agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defence documents, according to filings in the US District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands. The deal marks the end of a legal saga in which... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3267895/wikileaks-julian-assange-expected-plead-guilty-us-espionage-charge-document-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3267895/wikileaks-julian-assange-expected-plead-guilty-us-espionage-charge-document-says?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 24 Jun 2024 23:43:11 +0000 US bases and aircraft in the Pacific are facing intense threat from Chinese missiles, and the Pentagon isn’t doing enough to counter that challenge, according to American lawmakers. In a Wednesday letter to Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall and Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro, 13 members of Congress pointed out glaring vulnerabilities in the Pacific region and demanded “immediate changes.” “We are concerned about the alarming lack of urgency by the Department of Defence in adopting such defensive... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3262301/us-military-bases-and-aircraft-pacific-most-vulnerable-chinese-missile-strikes-lawmakers-warn?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3262301/us-military-bases-and-aircraft-pacific-most-vulnerable-chinese-missile-strikes-lawmakers-warn?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 11 May 2024 06:00:30 +0000 “Sometimes I feel like John the Baptist out in the desert,” Arnold Palacios, the governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, declared recently in Washington. Speaking not at a church service but at a think-tank discussion during a recent visit to the US capital, Palacios put his pivot away from China in doleful terms that underscore the dire economic times that he is trying to manage back home. Drawing a parallel with the biblical prophet, the governor of the US territory... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3256969/leader-us-pacific-territory-tells-lonely-pivot-away-china-amid-dire-economic-crunch?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3256969/leader-us-pacific-territory-tells-lonely-pivot-away-china-amid-dire-economic-crunch?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:00:13 +0000 US President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump both clinched their parties’ nomination on Tuesday, kicking off the first US presidential election rematch in nearly 70 years. Biden needed 1,968 delegates to win the nomination, and he passed that number on Tuesday night as results began to come in from the primary contest in Georgia, Edison Research said. Results were also coming in from Mississippi, Washington state, the Northern Mariana Islands and Democrats living abroad. Hours later,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3255156/joe-biden-clinches-democratic-nomination-us-presidential-rematch-donald-trump-looms?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3255156/joe-biden-clinches-democratic-nomination-us-presidential-rematch-donald-trump-looms?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 12 Mar 2024 23:36:46 +0000 US President Joe Biden and Sarah Palin, a former Republican vice-presidential candidate-turned-right-wing firebrand, have never agreed on much. Same for Democratic senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, Hillary Clinton’s presidential running mate in 2016, and Bill Cassidy, his Republican colleague from Louisiana. But when it comes to an international convention governing who has rights to what parts of the oceans – including critical minerals and other potential riches beneath the surface – these... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3247072/why-wont-us-wary-chinas-ambitions-south-china-sea-join-un-agreement-ocean-rights?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3247072/why-wont-us-wary-chinas-ambitions-south-china-sea-join-un-agreement-ocean-rights?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 04 Jan 2024 14:00:18 +0000 In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, an abandoned US airfield once key to dropping the nuclear bomb on Japan – and nearly lost to history amid encroaching forest – is being revived. But as the Americans hack away at the jungle overgrowth at Tinian island airfield and other old, World War II-era bases across the region, it will not be with Japan on their mind. Rather, it’s Beijing’s growing influence in the Pacific that is spurring the recovery of a slew of abandoned runways on the 100 sqkm (40... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3246739/counter-china-us-revamps-second-world-war-era-pacific-airfield-launched-nuclear-bombings-japan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3246739/counter-china-us-revamps-second-world-war-era-pacific-airfield-launched-nuclear-bombings-japan?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 30 Dec 2023 04:01:36 +0000 To reword Charles Baudelaire about the greatest trick played by the devil was to have convinced the world he didn’t exist, let’s just say the greatest trick the United States ever pulled was convincing the world it wasn’t an empire. To be so convincing, you first need to convince yourself. That’s not too difficult as most Americans like to think their country was and is a democratic republic. This highly convenient (self-)deception was epitomised by George W. Bush when he told West Point... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3233383/de-dollarisation-new-decolonisation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3233383/de-dollarisation-new-decolonisation?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 04 Sep 2023 13:00:21 +0000 Actress Bona has recently grabbed attention for her impressive acting in the just-concluded Twenty-Five Twenty-One as Ko Yu-rim, a young Korean fencing legend and a gold medallist. Born Kim Ji-yeon, better known by her stage name Bona, the starlet has gained the love and sympathy of fans for portraying a character who cares deeply about her family and maintains a good attitude and warm friendship with her peers despite life’s difficulties. View this post on... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3173445/meet-bona-twenty-five-twenty-one-star-and-blackpinks?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3173445/meet-bona-twenty-five-twenty-one-star-and-blackpinks?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Apr 2022 02:00:16 +0000 Hong Kong could be represented by an under-23 side at this year’s East Asian Football Championship after being granted permission to play in the tournament alongside regional giants Japan, South Korea and China. Football Association chairman Pui Kwan-kay said he was “delighted” at the prospect of playing in the flagship competition, which has become a biennial event since 2013. “Under normal circumstances we have to go through a preliminary round before qualifying to the final four, but because... https://www.scmp.com/sport/football/article/3173236/hong-kongs-under-23-squad-awaits-call-test-their-skills-against?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/football/article/3173236/hong-kongs-under-23-squad-awaits-call-test-their-skills-against?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 06 Apr 2022 08:30:15 +0000