History

Victory Monument commemorates the Viet Minh's victory over French forces in 1954. Photo: Mai Duong for Ceritalah

Vietnamese town that encapsulates country’s fighting spirit

Dien Bien Phu was the site of an ignominious French defeat that arguably marked the beginning of the end for European colonial powers in Asia

11 Dec 2018 - 10:57pm

Victoria Harbour in the early 1870s. Photo: Hong Kong Museum of History

How a fire in 1851 triggered Hong Kong’s first reclamation project

10 Dec 2018 - 11:08am 1

Shipwrecked Hong Kong sailors’ brush with Indian island tribe that killed US missionary John Allen Chau

When Hong Kong sailors faced tribe that killed US missionary John Allen Chau

10 Dec 2018 - 8:03pm 6

Preserve underwater relics of Hong Kong’s past as a 19th-century sea trade hub or risk losing them to reclamation, say Chinese University scholars

‘Preserve Hong Kong’s underwater relics or risk losing them to reclamation’

8 Dec 2018 - 10:39pm 10

Illustration: Craig Stephens

How IP, censorship have haunted the history of China-US trade talks

7 Dec 2018 - 6:58pm

Bao Ling and Bao Li – arrived in Hong Kong on a three-month loan from Guangzhou. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Pandas, ‘indecent’ stamps and a stray torpedo: past headlines

6 Dec 2018 - 10:43pm

The site was formerly the Victoria Road Detention Centre. Photo: K.Y. Cheng

US university’s Hong Kong site remembers dark past of brutal detention centre

6 Dec 2018 - 9:39am 9

Former US president George H.W. Bush talks to a reporter in 1978 during one of his visits to Hong Kong. Photo: SCMP

Hong Kong’s little-known role in George H.W. Bush’s rise to the presidency

6 Dec 2018 - 3:26am

Showgirls in the Jubilee show. Vegas showgirl extravaganzas have become a thing of the past.

Las Vegas showgirls: G-strings, long legs and life after the show ends

6 Dec 2018 - 4:22am 3

US president George H.W. Bush in Hong Kong: photos from his trips between 1978 and 2001

From Noon Day Gun to talking China: George H.W. Bush in Hong Kong

5 Dec 2018 - 7:00am

Now locked in head-on rivalry, the US once helped China kick-start its science and technology ambitions

US welcome of three scientists helped China transform into a tech superpower

7 Dec 2018 - 10:18am 62

It was estimated in 1978 that legal immigrants from mainland China would swell Hong Kong’s population by 400,000 by 1986. Photo: SCMP

Pigs on loose and cosmic cult leader: headlines from 4 decades ago

29 Nov 2018 - 8:46pm

Claudia Patatas and Adam Thomas, who named their baby Adolf out of “admiration” for Hitler.

What’s in a name? For neo-Nazis and ancient Chinese, quite a bit

29 Nov 2018 - 10:38am

South Korea's Prosecutor General Moon Moo-il wipes away tears. Photo: AP

Snatched, enslaved, raped: Seoul apologises to former vagrants

28 Nov 2018 - 6:29pm

Virtual reality project takes visitors on a tour of ancient Rome as it looked in AD320

Virtual reality project takes visitors into rebuilt ancient Rome

26 Nov 2018 - 7:19pm

Riot police readying tear gas shells to disperse left-wing protesters at Tung Tau resettlement estate in 1967. Photo: SCMP

Museum exhibition in 2022 to cover Hong Kong’s history, warts and all

24 Nov 2018 - 11:21pm 2

Xi Jinping and Rodrigo Duterte sit in front of the painting, the title of which translates to The Blood Compact. Photo: EPA

Xi and Duterte’s ‘Blood Compact’ in Manila

23 Nov 2018 - 12:35am 11

Church donation box raider Claude Gros finally came unstuck after a four-month spree using his favourite stealing device – a piece of chewing gum. Photo: Handout

Donation box thief and cracks in cult of Mao: headlines from 4 decades ago

22 Nov 2018 - 9:59pm

Ying Hsing Wen in cadet uniform (left and centre); with his granddaughter Harriet Tung (right), and a West Point class photograph taken in 1909. Photo: Handout

What we can learn from the man who warmed US-China ties 100 years ago

17 Nov 2018 - 11:14pm 14

International trade in ancient China and the surprisingly brief existence of the Silk Road

The surprisingly brief existence of the ancient Silk Road

15 Nov 2018 - 10:41pm

The supersonic jet, Concorde, departs from Kai Tak Airport. Photo: SCMP archive/C.Y. Yu

Rat tails for banks loans and a lord on the dole: past headlines

15 Nov 2018 - 9:32pm

Illustration: Craig Stephens

Will localists warp Hong Kong history as they mine British archives?

15 Nov 2018 - 7:07am 10

A Death in Peking: ex-police officer sheds new light on grisly 1937 murder of expat woman

A Death in Peking sheds new light on grisly murder of expat woman

15 Nov 2018 - 10:09am

Illustration: Brian Wang

Where to now? 40 years after the big experiment that changed China

23 Nov 2018 - 12:15pm 28

Yves Saint-Laurent

One-minute bio: Yves Saint-Laurent

13 Nov 2018 - 11:51am

World leaders mark 100th anniversary of end of first world war

100 years since the first world war

12 Nov 2018 - 3:42pm

The general manager of the Hong Kong Philharmonic quit the orchestra in 1978. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Greek woman held captive and orchestra rumpus: past headlines

8 Nov 2018 - 5:36pm

Rice on sale at a market in Bangkok. Thailand has a long history of rice exportation and was the world’s biggest exporter for decades. Photo: AFP

The Hong Kong ties that helped Thailand become No 1 rice exporter

8 Nov 2018 - 6:32pm 1

The front page of the SCMP on August 25, 1972 about Hong Kong police uncovering a Russian spy ring in the city.

When Russian spies tried to infiltrate Hong Kong to destabilise China

8 Nov 2018 - 6:13am 5

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