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While many people dream of travelling the world once they retire, a pair of UK siblings have logged visits to nearly 40 countries between before they reached the age they would start school. Four-year-old Esme Bayes and her one-year-old brother Quinn have joined travel-mad parents on trips to Bolivia, Hong Kong, Per…
At least five were killed and five officers were wounded after a shooting at an industrial estate in Aurora, Illinois, on February 15, 2019. Schools nearby were in lockdown as police officers were trying to control the situation.
At a time when efforts to combat climate change desperately need global leadership, one young activist is spearheading environmental education across Asia. Samantha Kong is a 26-year-old environmental engineer from Hong Kong who values getting her hands dirty to solve problems. She is also a green policy maker who b…
Lalit Patidar, a 13-year-old boy from Madhya Pradesh state in Central India, was born with a rare condition that causes extensive body hair growth. The eighth-grade student’s condition meant he suffered bullying, breathing problems and inconvenience when hair kept getting in his mouth while eating. But now villagers…
Pattaya, a city 150km (93 miles) south of the Thai capital Bangkok, is a very popular tourist destination. Despite a shady reputation for its nightlife, the city is “home sweet home” to an estimated 50,000 Russians, who are more or less permanent residents attracted by Pattaya’s sun, cheap lifestyle and relaxed visa…
A university student and her boyfriend, both 18 years old, were whipped in front of hundreds of spectators for cuddling in public. Flogging is common in Indonesia's Aceh province, where 98 per cent of its five million practices sharia law. Flogging is used to punish a range of offences including gambling, drinking, …
Tian Haicheng's cervical spinal cord was injured in a car crash in 2016. He became paralysed from the neck down. Despite being unable to walk, Haicheng still accompanies his daughter to and from school every day. And this is his story.
Video of a Chinese school principal teaching students a shuffle dance has taken the internet by storm. Zhang Pengfei, 40, appeared dressed in black and with a microphone in hand leading his pupils through a dance routine in front of their Xi Guan Primary School in Linyi county, Shanxi province. Here is the backstory…
Chinese solar-powered drone “Meiying” has successfully completed its 10-hour long-haul test flight in dimly-lit winter. Scientists from the Northwestern Polytechnical University hope the drone can fly throughout the year even in low light conditions.
Hong Kong researchers are developing a soft magnetic robot that moves like a caterpillar on hair-like legs to deliver drug treatments. The device being developed at City University of Hong Kong can be cut into various shapes and sizes, and ultimately will be miniaturised to travel along blood vessels in human patien…
In Xi Guan Primary School in China’s Shanxi province, students can shuffle dance with their principal during break time. The principal, Zhang Pengfei, learned the shuffle dance himself and taught his students. Knowing that students tend to stay in front of computers and phones, he hoped every student would exercise …
Wang Jinxiang, 62, spends two hours every other day of the week singing and staging fashion shows on live-streaming platforms. She found her new hobby two years ago when her nephew's teacher introduced her to online singing platform Quan Min Karaoke. She now has around 23,000 online followers and thinks China’s boom…
A giant centipede kept as a pet in Taiwan is sending chills across the internet after its owner posted videos of the venomous creature crawling over his skin. Taiwanese student Neil Cheng said he bought the female Peruvian giant centipede in 2014 when she was just a fraction of her current size. The arthropods norma…
The 17-year-old company provides hotel management training. It is the latest in a series of Chinese education firm listings on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
When Cai Mingjing, the youngest recipient of the Ma Yun Rural Teacher Award, made a live broadcast to her students from a beach in Sanya on China’s Hainan Island, Jack Ma made a surprise appearance. The chairman of the Alibaba Group – which owns the South China Morning Post – was in Hainan for the awards event launc…
Vlastimil Gular’s life took a turn for the worse one year ago when minor surgery on his vocal cords revealed throat cancer. Doctors had to remove his larynx, and with it, his voice. But the 51-year-old father of four is still chatting away using a recreation of his own voice rather than the tinny timbre of a robot –…
The number of wild boars caught in Hong Kong reached a five-year high in 2018, with district councils calling for better education to warn the public not to feed the animals – thought to be one of the reasons behind the soaring numbers of chaotic appearances in urban areas.
After graduating from the University of Hong Kong 13 years ago, Mok Ho-Kwong started living off-grid to protect the earth and named himself “Yeah Man” (similar to the Cantonese pronunciation of ‘wild man’). Living in a remote village, Mok grows his own vegetables, makes fire with sticks and gets water from a creek. …
Twenty pupils at a Beijing primary school were wounded on Tuesday in a hammer attack that police said left three seriously injured, state news agency Xinhua reported.
‘School janitor’ detained after 20 primary pupils wounded in Beijing attack.
University canteens in China are using an automated checkout system that can help diners work out how meals will affect their waistlines as well as their wallets. The Aeye-Go system developed at Shanghai’s Jiao Tong University uses artificial intelligence to recognise food as it tallies up the number of calories and…
As the China-US trade deal deadline fast approaches, SCMP’s senior editor for political economy John Carter speaks to Dr William Overholt, a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Asia Centre. Dr Overholt senses the mood is “complex” but feels there is “more support for President Trump among the Chinese elit…
A third Canadian, teacher Sarah McIver from Alberta, has been detained in China over reported visa issues.
Born without the ability to walk or stand on two legs, eight-year-old Mukhlis Abdul Holik gets to school on all fours. His daily journey, covering 3km of hilly terrain in Indonesia’s West Java province, has made Mukhlis a source of inspiration for classmates.
Two women sneaked into a primary school canteen in southern China’s Hunan province, helping themselves to students’ food during mealtime. While the children were still eating, the women grabbed the food with their bare hands and tossed it into bags and buckets.
Chinese students have won an international design award with an idea for a rescue drone that could one day save people trapped in high-rise fires. The team of designers from Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University earned a Golden Pin Concept Design Award for their “Net Guard” unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) concept.
Nine people, including seven primary school pupils, were hurt when a school bus hit a concrete divider on the Kwun Tong Bypass in Hong Kong's Kowloon East district on the morning of December 11. Police said all the victims were conscious after the accident, but no further details about their conditions were available.
At least four people have been killed and more than 10 others injured after a school bus mounted a pavement in Hong Kong on Monday.
Two people have been killed and 12 others injured after a school bus mounted a pavement in Hong Kong on Monday.
Pingliang Arabic School in China’s northwestern province of Gansu has been told by city education officials to close by December 17.
China’s astonishing economic growth over the past four decades since its open-door policy provided substantial resources to boost the country’s military research and development. Chinese military is making strides in building up its capabilities, and is on its way to becoming a world-class force.
Hong Kong’s Victoria Road Detention Centre has been converted into a modern academic complex for the University of Chicago. Restoration and construction work for the university’s Hong Kong campus cost US$75 million (HK$586 million).
Chinese children are showcasing their gymnastic skills by flipping back and forth at the Red Kids Martial Arts School in Yantai, in China’s eastern Shandong province. The school headmaster says the tough and intensive training provided helps students cope now as well as when they grow up.
He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist, who claims to have created the world’s first gene-edited babies, has apologised after his announcement sparked a global controversy. He also revealed at a conference in Hong Kong that there may be another woman pregnant with gene-edited baby. The academic said that he was proud of …
Lucmacha primary school used to have more than 300 students, now there are only three. Every day, these three students have to cross a deep valley to get to and from school. In the village nearest to the school, there are no people who are younger than 40 years-old, all the young people have left. SCMP reporter went…
Shenzhen, the once rural village close to Hong Kong, has benefited from China’s economic reform and opening up policy. It has transformed into one of the country's largest and most modern cities in just 40 years.
Operation Santa Claus is a yearly charity appeal supported by the South China Morning Post. Every year, millions of dollars are raised to support charities and good causes around Hong Kong. A series of videos have been made by the students of HK Baptist University highlighting some of the worthy causes that recieve …
In 1978, ex-Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping announced the “reform and opening up” policy. It kicked off unprecedented economic growth that transformed China from a largely rural country to the world’s second-largest economy. And Henry Tang Ying-yen’s family was among the first to invest in mainland China.
Operation Santa Claus is a yearly charity appeal supported by the South China Morning Post. Every year, millions of dollars are raised to support charities and good causes around Hong Kong. A series of videos have been made by the students of HK Baptist University highlighting some of the worthy causes that recieve …
Operation Santa Claus is a yearly charity appeal supported by the South China Morning Post. Every year, millions of dollars are raised to support charities and good causes around Hong Kong. A series of videos have been made by the students of HK Baptist University highlighting some of the worthy causes that recieve …
Operation Santa Claus is a yearly charity appeal supported by the South China Morning Post. Every year, millions of dollars are raised to support charities and good causes around Hong Kong. A series of videos have been made by the students of HK Baptist University highlighting some of the worthy causes that recieve …
Operation Santa Claus is a yearly charity appeal supported by the South China Morning Post. Every year, millions of dollars are raised to support charities and good causes around Hong Kong. A series of videos have been made by the students of HK Baptist University highlighting some of the worthy causes that recieve …
A 14-year-old Cambodian boy mastered 12 languages while selling souvenirs to tourists. The enterprising youngster works at the iconic Angkor Wat temple, a popular tourist spot. The boy says he is trying to make money to go to school.
A school bus on the Chinese University campus was reduced to a smouldering wreck in just minutes after it caught fire on Tuesday afternoon. Flames erupted from the back of the coach as it passed near the Leung Kau Kui Building on Central Avenue at the institution’s Sha Tin campus. No injuries were reported and the c…
China’s economy has developed more rapidly than any other country in history. It went from a poverty stricken nation in the late 1970s to the engine of growth it is known as today. The rapid economic growth emerged from the vision late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, who introduced capitalist reforms into a communis…
Deng Xiaoping is regarded as the “father” or the “chief architect” of the reforms that opened up China to the rest of the world. It was 40 years ago that his ambitious economic reform and open-door policy was adopted at the Third Plenum of the Communist Party’s 11th Central Committee. Since 1978, the country has emb…
Duojie Caidan, a 13-year-old Tibetan boy, lives among mountains in Qinghai, China. Like generations before them, his family are nomadic herders. Duojie and his siblings spend their school holidays on a pasture herding yaks. Their days start at 6am, helping to milk the yaks, and then herding them, which the children …
Horse racing, ingrained in Tibetan and Mongolian culture for nearly a thousand years, has been a significant part of the lives of people in those regions. Ejian Cairang has been racing horses since he was eight years old and treating his horse as a family member. Unlike most of the horse trainers, who didn’t receive…
The Chinese government is going on a charm offensive over what is happening in Xinjiang. The governor of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has spoken for the first time and in detail about its network of camps for Muslim minorities. Shohrat Zakir describes the facilities as “professional vocational training instituti…
An Islamic boarding school in Bantul, Indonesia is known amongst the trans community to be a safe haven for transgender people, or “waria” – a word blending the Indonesian words for “woman” and “man”. In 2016 the school was raided by a group of vigilante Islamists, but people are now slowly returning to pray and study.
