South China Morning Post

Something strange happened during a spontaneous protest at the Space Museum at Tsim Sha Tsui in August of this year. As crowds gathered, chanted and pointed laser pointers at the concrete dome of the museum, someone cranked up a portable stereo with a song from 1982 – and turned the protest into a joyous dance party. It was a song from the man whose work has helped define an iden

The Lunar New Year holiday is one of the few times in the calendar year the South China Morning Post does not publish a newspaper. This year we’ve made a podcast talking to some of our journalists about the stories they cover at this time of year, as well as the new stories they’ve uncovered in the hunt for interesting people, places and happenings. The zodiac animal for this c

Bong Miquiabas speaks with Zhou Xin, SCMP political economy editor, about Louis Cha. How he grew up in the village that was the setting for Cha's first novel, the importance of wuxia fiction in Chinese culture, the massive cross-generational popularity of his books in China and how it's wrong to consider Cha as 'the Chinese Tolkien'. He also talks about Cha's career as a journalist

Typhoon Mangkhut roared into Hong Kong in September 2018, leaving a trail of destruction that residents say will take months to fully recover from. The intensity of the storm was the most powerful the city has seen since records began in 1946, prompting the Hong Kong Observatory to issue a typhoon signal No 10 that remained in place for 10 hours. From its headquarters in Causeway B