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The world’s tallest Confucius statue will be formally launched on Monday in Qufu, east China’s Shandong province. Photo: Xinhua

World’s largest Confucius statue to open in sage’s east China home

Massive brass effigy in Qufu, Shandong province, which stands 236 feet tall, to be formally inaugurated for Mid-Autumn Festival.

21 Sep 2018 - 5:21pm 5

A journey back through time to look at significant news and events reported by the South China Morning Post from this week in history

Mahjong-playing imperial guards, twins by different dads: past headlines

21 Sep 2018 - 1:07pm

Oversteegen and her sister were part of a band of female resistance fighters, who sabotaged bridges, smuggled Jewish children out of the Netherlands, and ‘liquidated’ amorous Nazis they picked up in bars

Death of Dutch hero, who seduced Nazis and killed them when she was 14

17 Sep 2018 - 8:18pm 5

Taxis wait for passengers in Tsim Sha Tsui ahead of a fare increase in the late 1970s. Photo: Chan Kiu

‘King of Liars’, parking meters and the last Warner brother: past headlines

14 Sep 2018 - 4:33pm 2

Opponents of archaeological digs by the Kremlin-backed Russian Military History Society say they are trying to cover up Stalinist purges in a forest where thousands were executed

Kremlin archaeologists are accused of burying Stalin’s atrocities

13 Sep 2018 - 12:25pm

The Hong Kong Jockey Club’s proposal to rebuild the collapsed block at Tai Kwun has been welcomed by government advisers. Photo: Sam Tsang

Mixed reaction to Jockey Club’s plan for Tai Kwun rebuild

7 Sep 2018 - 2:32pm 2

Residents got their first look at Hong Kong’s MTR in 1978. Photo: Chan Kiu

Australia’s not-so-secret spy appeal, smallpox warning, and an MTR preview

6 Sep 2018 - 6:41pm 1

Firetrucks parked outside the National Museum after it was gutted by a fire in Rio de Janeiro. Photo: AP

Probe begins into Rio museum blaze that destroyed most exhibits

4 Sep 2018 - 10:37pm 2

People watch as a fire burns at the National Museum of Brazil. Photo: Reuters

Firefighters try to save relics as blaze engulfs Brazil’s National Museum

3 Sep 2018 - 5:00pm 1

Ryan Gosling playing Neil Armstrong in the film ‘First Man’. Photo: AP

Neil Armstrong biopic ‘unpatriotic’ for not showing US flag-planting

1 Sep 2018 - 5:03pm 2

The old Hongkong Club Building on Statue Square in Central in 1978. Photo: Sunny Lee

Yves Saint Laurent perfume ban, motorcycle worries: past headlines

30 Aug 2018 - 9:45pm

Infantrymen of the British army storm the forts of Amoy (Xiamen) in the Battle of Amoy (1841) during the First Opium War. Photo: World History Archive/Alamy Stock Photo

Why Hong Kong should have reformed history curriculum long ago

28 Aug 2018 - 5:31pm 2

A vintage painting of The Endeavour, the ship Captain James Cook sailed to Australia and New Zealand from 1768 to 1771 and which still had a part to play in history years after its famous voyage.

Not just a ship, Captain Cook’s Endeavour captured spirit of the age

28 Aug 2018 - 6:35pm

Japanese people lower their head toward the Imperial Palace in Tokyo as Emperor Hirohito announces Japan’s defeat in the second world war. Photo: AP

Diary reveals Japanese emperor’s anguish over second world war

23 Aug 2018 - 9:10pm 9

A number of convicted drunk drivers sent on courses to help their drinking problems were turning up drunk at the lectures, a court in Darwin, Australia, was told in 1978. Photo: Handout

Drink-drive convicts hit rehab – drunk: headlines from 4 decades ago

23 Aug 2018 - 10:11pm

Sheng Kung Hui compound comprises four heritage buildings constructed between 1845 and 1919. Photo: David Wong

The loophole that could allow a 25-storey hospital on this historic site

19 Aug 2018 - 10:53pm 6

The balloon Double Eagle II crossing the French Coast near Le Havre on August 17, 1978, near the end of the transatlantic crossing. Photo: AP

Rat infestation, penile implants and balloon crossing: past headlines

16 Aug 2018 - 9:04pm

Whether it’s playing arcade games in New Hampshire or getting to customise your own cup noodle in Japan, these interactive museum exhibitions are worth a visit

Seven of the weirdest and most wonderful museums in the world

16 Aug 2018 - 9:55am

Collection at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum includes a gold hat decorated with gems that was discovered in a Ming dynasty prince’s tomb and items from the shipwreck Nanhai No. 1

Never-seen-before objects shed light on China’s maritime silk routes

14 Aug 2018 - 6:03pm

Jews from Israel and around the world participating in the annual “March of the Living” to commemorate the Holocaust victims walk through a barbed wire fence in the former German Nazi death camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland on April 24, 2017. Photo: AP

Should Jews blame themselves for being different?

13 Aug 2018 - 11:01pm 3

Ceremony at the Chinese section of Anfield Cemetery in Liverpool, England, to commemorate five Chinese labourers who served on the battlefields of the first world war, on August 10, 2018. Photo: SCMP/Hilary Clarke

Britain commemorates China’s forgotten war dead

16 Aug 2018 - 10:11am 9

Pope Paul VI visiting Hong Kong in December 1970. Photo: S. Pang

A royal letter delivered 382 years late and a plot to kidnap the Pope: past headlines

9 Aug 2018 - 9:03pm 1

A Beijing cultural bureau said it had not approved Airbnb’s plan to allow competition winners to spend a night on the Great Wall of China. Photo: Handout

Airbnb’s Great Wall of China competition crumbles to nothing

8 Aug 2018 - 11:21pm 1

The Vikings’ descendants thrived on a lucrative trade in walrus tusks, which were sold to Europe’s elite and carved into luxury items. Photo: AP

Greenland’s Vikings may have been doomed by failing ivory market

8 Aug 2018 - 10:07pm

A botched restoration job that painted over Buddhist sculptures in Anyue township, Sichuan province, has drawn harsh criticism. Photo: ThePaper.cn

China’s technicolour Buddha joins botched repairs wall of shame

8 Aug 2018 - 12:35pm 9

Soyuz 26 crew heading to space station Salyut 6 in 1977. Photo: Handout

Test-tube trees and a dead pig on a president’s helicopter: past headlines

2 Aug 2018 - 9:43pm 1

Landmarks featured include the Astor Theatre, Nathan Hotel, Tai Lin Radio, Chung Kiu Chinese Products Emporium, Kwong Wah Hospital and Methodist College

Travel back to old Hong Kong with these photos of 1970s Nathan Road

2 Aug 2018 - 3:27pm 19

St Joseph’s Chapel on Yim Tin Tsai, a small island off Sai Kung in eastern Hong Kong, officially opened in 1890 and is now listed as a grade two historic building. Photo: Antony Dickson

Is it too late to save old Hong Kong from wrecking ball?

14 Aug 2018 - 11:49am 7

Leung King-foon, 69, visits a temple during a walking tour of Hung Hom. Photo: Felix Wong

Kowloon walking tours reveal the old Hong Kong fast disappearing

28 Jul 2018 - 3:30pm 3

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