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Anti-racism protests that started in the US after African-American George Floyd died in police custody on May 25, 2020, have been taking place in cities across Europe, Africa and Asia. Over the weekend starting June 6, thousands of people supporting the Black Lives Matter movement took to the streets in Australia, B…
Hong Kong marked the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown amid a police ban against the annual Victoria Park vigil because of Covid-19 social distancing restrictions. Thousands defied the ban and gathered in the park anyway, knocking down steel barriers and entering the football pitches. Elsewhere in t…
Asian Australian sisters were racially attacked in Sydney on March 30, 2020 during the Covid-19 crisis.
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Australian police filmed a kangaroo hopping through the empty streets of Adelaide in South Australia on April 19, 2020, while most people were indoors during a lockdown to fight the spread of the coronavirus. Australia is looking into relaxing restrictions on movement as the country saw a steady decrease of cases co…
A gigantic 46-metre (150ft) long organism called a siphonophore was discovered on March 16, 2020, during an expedition near the Ningaloo Reef off Western Australia. Scientists at the Schmidt Ocean Institute said they are still working to confirm the accuracy of their measurements, but they believe it is the longest …
Demand for rescue animals has soared in Australia as people stay at home during the Covid-19. Many are looking for cats and dogs to help them through the coronavirus shutdown.
Australia’s largest supermarket chain has been opening stores one hour earlier each day since March 17, 2020, providing extra shopping time for elderly and disabled customers. Waves of panic buying in the country have made it difficult for many people to buy daily essential items.
US President Donald Trump announced on March 11, 2020, that all travel from 26 European countries to the United States will be suspended for the next 30 days to contain the coronavirus pandemic. The suspension does not apply to travellers from the UK. Trump also promised to provide financial help for Covid-19 patien…
As the deadly coronavirus that causes Covid-19 continues to spread to more countries around the world, unsubstantiated rumours are amplifying fears about the disease and causing a wider round of panic buying of essential supplies. The latest rush is focused on toilet paper, and has been causing long queues and empty…
Baby grey-headed flying foxes recused from droughts and bushfires in New South Wales, Australia, try fruit at a rescue centre in Queensland.
Normally bustling Chinatowns around the world from London to Melbourne have fallen silent because of fears about the deadly novel coronavirus. Businesses in the districts are struggling to survive as customers associate them with the Covid-19 disease that originated on the Chinese mainland.
John Ma, a 20-year-old Australian student from the University of Queensland, describes how he is coping with a citywide lockdown in Wuhan, China. More than two weeks ago, authorities ordered the shut down to try and stop the spread of the novel coronavirus that was first discovered in the central Chinese city over a…
A hospital in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia is at the centre of efforts to preserve koalas as prolonged drought, intense heat and strong winds continue to fuel bush fires that started in September 2019.
World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on February 3 that there was no need for measures that “unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade” amid the coronavirus outbreak. Many countries, including the US, Australia and Singapore, are trying to contain the spread of the new vi…
The demand for face masks has continued to surge in many places around the world including Hong Kong, Japan and Australia as the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak has spread.
Scientists in Australia have become the first to recreate the coronavirus outside of China. The sample will be shared with the World Health Organisation in the hope of combating the global spread of the disease. China’s Wuhan coronavirus had killed 132 people and infected more than 6,000 as of January 29, 2020.
Some baby kangaroos unlucky enough to be caught up in Australia's recent bush fires have caught a break after they were rescued by a volunteer wildlife carer. Laurie Carter has been spending money out of his own pocket to build a sanctuary for the animals, and investing plenty of time to nurse the animals back to he…
A four-year-old English springer spaniel that was trained as a conservation detection dog is saving injured koalas amid Australia’s ongoing bush fires.
Several videos show a pod of false killer whales swimming through Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour on January 17, 2020. Experts from Hong Kong Dolphinwatch said they seem to be false killer whales.
Wildfires ravaging Australia have affected more than one billion animals since September 2019, prompting locals and soldiers to rescue singed koalas, kangaroos, possums and others.
Video taken on board a Royal Australian Air Force plane on January 4, 2020, shows the view shrouded by a glowing orange haze from Australia’s raging bush fires. The aircraft was on a mission to rescue people stranded by the months-long wildfires.
Australia’s iconic wild animals are being caught up in the nation’s months-long bush fire crisis, with many species now in danger of extinction. The South China Morning Post spoke with Christopher Dickman, an ecology professor at the University of Sydney, who estimates that more than 1 billion animals have been affe…
An eco-lodge operator on Australia’s Christmas Island invented attachments for cars that can gently sweep aside red crabs as they swarmed across roads during their annual migration.
An approved New Year’s Day march from Hong Kong’s Victoria Park to Chater Road in Central was abruptly cut short by police three hours after it began, as violence broke out on the sidelines.
December 31, 2019, was one of the worst days in Australia’s months-long bush fire crisis, as thousands were forced to take refuge on beaches while deadly flames ripped through towns in the southeastern states of New South Wales and Victoria.
Australian flyer Scott Paterson has emerged the victor at a wingsuit tournament in Yunnan, China. He was among 15 flyers from 11 countries who joined the three-day event. Chinese state media reported that the prize money will be donated to poor local children.
A video showed firefighters giving water to a koala caught up in bush fires in Cudlee Creek, Adelaide, as huge blazes continue to torch states across Australia. As of December 23, 2019, the fires had killed at least six people, and ravaged more than 3.7 million hectares (9.1 million acres) of land across five states.
Australia experienced its hottest day on record on December 18, 2019, as average temperatures soared to 40.9 degreesCelsius (105.6 Fahrenheit). For months, the nation has been reeling from an unprecedented series of bush fires, which scientists say have been worsened by climate change and prolonged drought in the co…
Smoke from bush fires in New South Wales has severely reduced air quality in populated areas of the southeastern Australian state. On December 10, 2019, some areas of Sydney recorded air quality 12 times worse than levels considered “hazardous”.
Singapore unveiled a new mosquito breeding facility on December 4, 2019, as part of its programme to fight dengue fever. Male insects infected with the Wolbachia bacteria in labs of the city state’s National Environment Agency do not bite, and when released into the wild to breed with females, their eggs do not hatc…
An Australian company has developed a sophisticated drone that could mean the difference between life and death for people in shark-infested waters. The device can detect more than 20 objects in the water including sharks and crocodiles and is capable of taking countermeasures in crisis situations. In 2018 it perfor…
Ellenborough Lewis, the koala rescued from a bush fire in the Australian state of New South Wales a week ago, died on November 26, 2019. The 14-year-old marsupial was put to sleep by the animal hospital after vets determined his wounds were not going to improve.
Wang "William" Liqiang says he is a Chinese spy who defected to Australia with information on China’s political interference operations in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia, according to media reports. Wang, who is now seeking asylum in Australia, gave its counter-espionage agency the names of senior military intellig…
Lewis, the seriously injured koala who was rescued from a bush fire, was being treated in a koala hospital in New South Wales, Australia.
At least 350 koalas are feared killed as bush fires continue to burn in the eastern part of Australia.
Australian firefighters warned they were in “uncharted territory” as they struggled to contain dozens of out-of-control bushfires across the east of the country on November 8. There were around a hundred blazes within the New South Wales and Queensland countryside. Dozens of them are dangerous and uncontained.
Four anti-government protests were planned in Hong Kong on Saturday November 2, 2019. In Victoria Park, protesters held “election meetings” after police rejected an application for a proposed rally there. Before the event began, tensions flared up around the park.
Large numbers of tourists have been rushing to scale Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock, before climbing ban goes into effect on October 26, 2019.
Hong Kong’s AFC middleweight champion Sasha Palatnikov joins the South China Morning Post’s martial arts correspondent Nick Atkin to break down this weekend’s huge UFC 243 headline bout between Robert Whittaker and Israel Adesanya at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne, Australia.
Over 450 runners embarked on a gruelling road race from the iconic seafront to the heights of The Peak
Anti-government protesters wallpapered the streets of Hong Kong Island with posters creating a Lennon Wall that ran from Victoria Park to Admiralty.
Indonesia is returning another 547 containers of trash back to Australia, Britain, New Zealand, Spain and the US after hazardous materials were discovered in was identified as waste for recycling. The discovery announced by Indonesian customs officials on September 18, 2019, follows an earlier decision to reject ano…
Hong Kong observed the Mid-Autumn Festival amid the shadow of protests against the government and their handling of the now withdrawn extradition bill. The fire dragon danced as usual and people gathered in Victoria Park to admire the lanterns on public display. But across the harbour, a human protest chain was form…
The outlook for Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has been downgraded from “poor” to “very poor”, the lowest possible level. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority released the ranking on August 30, 2019. The researchers cited concerns such as rising sea temperatures driven by global warming that have caused majo…
After earlier clashes in Admiralty, protesters and police fought a running battle through the streets of Wan Chai and into Causeway Bay. A huge fire was set near police headquarters and water cannon trucks advanced steadily down Hennessy Road. Eventually police chased protesters into Victoria park and several arrest…
Rallies in support of the Hong Kong democracy movement and in support of China were held in more than a dozen cities over the weekend of August 17 and August 18. Extradition law demonstrations took place in Adelaide, Berlin, Brisbane, Copenhagen, London, Melbourne, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Taiwan, Tok…
Protesters gather on August 18, 2019 in Victoria Park, Causeway Bay for an anti-government protest.
Sunday saw another day and night of violent clashes in Hong Kong between the police and anti-government protesters who are angry with the government’s handling of the extradition bill crisis. A potential clash in North Point between protesters and Beijing loyalists never materialised. Instead, an approved rally in V…
