Beijing wasted little time in hitting back at Washington’s latest round of tariffs on Chinese imports by announcing a new list of US products that will be subject to punitive action, as the world’s two largest economies edge ever closer towards an all-out trade war.
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They are the first team from Poland to play at the Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens and they want to quit their jobs if they win the Women’s World Series qualifier.
On April 4, 1968, Dr Martin Luther King Jnr was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee.
China’s Tiangong-1 space lab hurtled through Earth’s atmosphere on April 2 and plunged towards a watery grave in the South Pacific.
Veteran photojournalist Wong Kan-tai’s latest publication “Fukushima” is a collection of Polaroid photos taken in Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan in 2012, a year after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami that caused a nuclear accident.
The government has long followed a policy to sell land to the highest bidder. With limited supply and increasing demand, property prices have shot through the roof in the last two decades. Should the government continue with this policy or is it time for a change?
Young Hong Kong author Annabel Lucy Yue was inspired to write her first book at age six when she saw an ant crawling up the wall. Now eight years old, Yue has published three books and donated all the proceeds – a total of HK$44,523 – to Teach For China.
Chinese archaeologists have unearthed a bronze kettle containing an alcoholic drink dating back more than 2,000 years in northwest China's Shaanxi province.
Chinese state media has embarked on an aggressive propaganda campaign to build up president Xi Jinping's cult of personality. The propaganda blitz includes a 90-minute documentary, which focuses on Xi’s role in driving progress during his first five years as China's top leader.
More than 50 passengers scrambled to get out of a bus after it caught fire in Harbin, in northeast China's Heilongjiang province. The bus exploded two minutes after all the passengers were able to escape.
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May 16, 2016, marks the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
When completed, the 42km-long Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge will be one of the longest bridges above water in the world, constructed with the mission to speed up integration of cities in the Pearl River Delta. Will it be worth its staggering cost?
Sixteen years after its return to China, Macau is a city at the crossroads. In this South China Morning Post multimedia package, Raquel Carvalho delves into its chequered history, charts its meteoric rise and asks what the future holds.
China announced it would abandon the one-child policy. Reuters photographer Carlos Barria shot these intimate portraits of young Chinese people born since the start of the policy in 1979 and captured their raw thoughts on the prospect of having a sibling.
Tree maintenance has come into sharper focus recently following the government’s controversial decision to cut down four giant century-old banyans in August, and the collapse of a number of trees in recent months that have caused injuries. With experts expressing concern over the health and maintenance of trees citywide, the South China Morning Post has put together an interactive guide to the condition of more than 3,000 trees across Hong Kong, based on the latest data contained in a register originally created by the Development Bureau in 2010. Our map contains information on the health of more than 900 trees included in the register along with 2,700 others deemed "failed" or which were removed and not found on the register.
