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Sino FileThe Chinese vote-rigging scandals that raise the question: Why?

SCMP Columnist
Cary Huang
Cary Huang

The HongcouverCould this be Canada’s first ethnic Chinese prime minister?

SCMP Columnist
Ian Young
Ian Young

AbacusThe hidden agenda behind Japan’s Abenomics

Tom Holland
Tom Holland

Asian AngleWhy no one wants to rule Thailand other than the military

Thitinan Pongsudhirak
Thitinan Pongsudhirak

Sino FileWhy the yuan’s status means less to China than the IMF’s demands

SCMP Columnist
Cary Huang
Cary Huang

China BriefingWhat if China’s leaders were as keen on reform as they are on fighting graft?

SCMP Columnist
Wang Xiangwei
Wang Xiangwei

China BriefingWhat happened to the billions of yuan seized in China’s anti-graft campaign?

SCMP Columnist
Wang Xiangwei
Wang Xiangwei

On ReflectionWhy tensions are inevitable on China’s New Silk Road

Jonathan Holslag
Jonathan Holslag

Back To The FutureThe miser turned world’s biggest giver – and his lesson for China

SCMP Columnist
Chow Chung-yan
Chow Chung-yan

AbacusWhy Britain’s Hinkley nuclear reactor is a horror show, with or without China

Tom Holland
Tom Holland

Malaysian PM Ibrahim meets with Indonesian President Widodo

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Ex-factory boy eyes S. Korean presidency

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Billionaire Pansy Ho criticises Hong Kong protests

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Indonesian VP candidate Sandiaga Uno on economy, China, Islam and politics

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Singaporean armoured vehicle saga ends, but what now for Taiwan?

One of the armoured cars held in Hong Kong. Photo: Facebook
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I’d have joined Occupy protests in my youth, Hong Kong chief executive candidate declares

Retired judge Woo Kwok-hing appearing on a radio programme at Commercial Radio in Kowloon Tong on Friday. Photo: Edward Wong
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Longer hours, worse jobs: are Asians turning into working machines?

Polls apart: how Hong Kong’s minorities-free politics contrasts with Singapore

People – the vast majority ethnic Chinese – queue up to vote for the 2016 Legislative Council General Election at Lam Tin (West) Estate Community Centre in Lam Tin. Photo: Sam Tsang

What’s behind Singapore’s move to boost presidential chances of ethnic minorities?

Pre-school pupils from St Francis Xavier Kindergarten in Singapore. The city state is seen by many as an exemplar of racial harmony. Photo: Singapore Press Holdings

Asia in 3 minutes: New evidence in the search for MH370; claims about Duterte’s ‘Death Squad’

A piece of suspected aircraft wreckage found off the east African coast of Mozambique earlier this year. Australian authorities have confirmed the recovery of another piece of wing flap from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Photo: AFP / Neels Kruger

Another rally, but is Malaysia suffering 1MDB fatigue?

Thousands of anti-government demonstrators at the Bersih rally in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on August 30, 2015. Photo: Ritchie B. Tongo

What a handshake between Mahathir and Anwar really means for Malaysia

Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad (R) meets with jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim in a high court in Kuala Lumpur September 5, 2016. Najwan Halimi/Handout via REUTERS FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT THIS PICTURE WAS PROCESSED BY REUTERS TO ENHANCE QUALITY. AN UNPROCESSED VERSION HAS BEEN PROVIDED SEPARATELY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Indian media: how free is it really?

An Indian reads a censored magazine at a road-side stall in New Delhi. Photo: AFP
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The former swimsuit model hoping to lift Japan’s wobbly opposition

Japanese politician Renho. Photo: AFP

Outside China, these places are where Maoism is alive and kicking

Maoist rebels march in the jungles of the Indian state of Chhatisgarh, 1,500km southeast of New Delhi. The rebels, who claim to be inspired by Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong, have been fighting in several Indian states, demanding land and jobs for agricultural labourers and the poor. Photo: AP

Can China ever move on from Mao Zedong?

A show in Beijing celebrates “Red Songs” from the Cultural Revolution era. File Photo

Why Hong Kong’s new leaders leave me conflicted

Alan Li Tung-sing, Sixtus “Baggio” Leung Chung-hang, and Edward Leung Tin-kei, pay gratitude to their supporters in Tseung Kwan O after Baggio won a seat in New Territories East. Photo: David Wong

Are Malaysia arrests a bid to divert attention from 1MDB scandal?

Student activists hold clown-faced caricatures of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak (second right) and his wife Rosmah Mansor (second left) during a protest over the 1MDB scandal in Kuala Lumpur in August 2016. Photo: AFP

Can Obama help Laos emerge from China’s shadow?

US President Barack Obama and Laos' President Choummaly Sayasone at the Asean meeting in California in February 2016. Photo: AFP

Mao concerts hit wrong note for Australians – and Chinese soft power

A woman in Melbourne takes a picture of a portrait of Mao Zedong by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei. Photo: AFP

How Japan and China can put past behind them and move on

People release doves as a symbol of peace at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, in August 2016, to mark the anniversary of the end of the second world war. Photo: Reuters