South China Morning Post

A tech bro with a steady, well-paid job is the latest person to get caught stealing pork in the south of China, as prices soar in the country due to the spread of African swine fever.

The man, surnamed Guo, admitted stealing 4.4 pounds of pork left unattended in a woman’s bike basket in the city of Foshan. It was the latest in a rash of reports about petty thefts of the staple as an epidemic devastates pig herds across the country.

According to surveillance camera footage posted online, the…

A parking place in Hong Kong was just sold for nearly $1 million, making it the most expensive parking spot on earth. 

The parking bay at The Center, a 73-story Hong Kong office tower that held the 2018 world record as the costliest commercial building ever sold, changed hands recently for HK$7.6 million ($969,000). 

Johnny Cheung Shun-yee, one of the 10 investors in the consortium that paid $5.15 billion last year for The Center, told the South China Morning Post that he had sold the last of…

A Chinese court has sentenced six men to prison over an unsuccessful assassination job that was subcontracted a total of five times, in a case that a legal expert said was emblematic of deep-rooted aversion in the country towards litigation. 

The men were convicted of attempting to murder a businessman in the southern city of Nanning, the Nanning Intermediate People’s Court said in a statement.

The story started in 2012, when property developer Qin Youhui was sued by a business partner…

After weeks of uncertainty and calls for a boycott of the NBA in China, basketball fans showed up online in droves to watch a season opener between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Clippers. 

According to Tencent Sports, the league’s exclusive streaming partner in China, 25 million viewers watched the live stream, dispelling any speculation of a popular backlash against the NBA.

By comparison, 21 million Chinese viewers watched the second-to-last final game of the previous season…

Scientists are breeding millions of beetles for a battle against a weed that threatens to choke rivers across China and clog the country’s famed Three Gorges Dam.

Alligator weed is native to South America but was introduced to the Yangtze River in 1937 by the occupying Japanese as a feed crop for their horses.

After the second world war, it was grown across southern China for animal feed, garden greening and herbal medicine.

It was not until the 1980s that researchers realized what people…

Comedian Ali Wong entered my life this summer when I desperately needed her.

I had returned to work three months after the birth of my fourth child. In a routine familiar to many working moms, every few hours, I excused myself to go to the nursing room to pump.

Somehow, I got the idea to watch something funny as I pumped to boost my supply. It worked! For many weeks, I watched Wong’s two stand-up Netflix specials Baby Cobra and Hard Knock Wife on a loop. 

Last week, the talented Chinese…

Like most small restaurants in this rural part of Wanan county in the eastern province of Jiangxi, the Little Wealth God does not have a menu. Diners go directly to the kitchen to pick vegetables, fish and raw meat, and let the chef know how they would like them cooked.

But due to its spiraling price, China’s most popular meat, pork, is nowhere to be seen. Instead, many locals are opting for a traditional dish that had lost appeal until recently.

“Why not choose dog meat if you want some meat…

Wang Shuping, a doctor who helped expose a tainted blood scandal in rural China in the 1990s, passed away in Salt Lake City at the age of 59 last month.

Family and friends have paid tribute to the whistleblower, who had to leave China in 2001 after being forced to close her lab in the central Chinese province of Henan, the epicenter of the blood selling crisis.  

Wang’s life has been immortalized in a play, The King of Hell’s Palace, which had its world premiere at the Hampstead Theatre in…

When news spread that Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was being pulled in China because of controversial scenes involving Bruce Lee, Chinese film fans reacted with collective disappointment, not support.

Many Chinese netizens said they backed Tarantino’s freedom of artistic expression and hated to see another movie being “banned.” The film was due to be shown in mainland China on October 25.

“Almost all the movies I planned to watch this year have been pulled,” read a…

The status of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is set out in two slogans: “one country, two systems” and “50 years no change.”

There seems to be an assumption that the two are linked, that nothing must change in the Hong Kong system for 50 years, but that after 2047, the capitalist system will be replaced by the socialist (communist) system.

This is assumed to mean the Basic Law will expire, Hong Kong will become just another city within China, with mainland Chinese laws applying…