South China Morning Post

The late Chinese Communist Party leader known for his sympathy toward China’s student protesters in 1989 was finally allowed to have his tomb – 14 years after his death. 

Former Communist Party general secretary Zhao Ziyang, who in 1989 opposed a military crackdown on the protests, was buried together with his wife on the outskirts of Beijing on Friday, a day after the 100th anniversary of Zhao’s birth. 

Friday’s ceremony followed long, drawn-out negotiations between Zhao’s family and the…

One after another, international brands from the NBA to Dior have had to apologize for offending Chinese sensitivities.

But one country’s political correctness can be another’s taboo, as the fallout from the animated film Abominable has shown.

The DreamWorks co-production featuring a yeti in the Himalayas has found itself at the center of a geopolitical dispute over the vast waters of the South China Sea.

Several Southeast Asian countries with competing claims with Beijing in the resource…

President Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro faked an expert in his anti-China books, and the volumes’ publisher wants readers to know it.

All reprints of Navarro’s supposedly non-fiction Death by China will “alert” readers that the Harvard-educated economist Ron Vara quoted within its pages is fabricated, according to Pearson, which owns the book’s publisher Prentice Hall.

The 2011 book, which levels a laundry list of accusations against China’s trade practices, including deliberately…

The Hong Kong activist attacked with hammers and spanners is a veteran democracy campaigner and openly gay LGBT rights activist.

Jimmy Sham, 31, was attacked on Wednesday night for the second time in less than two months, just days before the organization he leads organized another mass anti-government rally. 

Sham is the convener of the Civil Human Rights Front, which has organized some of the largest democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong’s history. 

Although Sham is not leading the entire…

The Chinese government is cracking down on sales of black clothing to Hong Kong.

Black T-shirts, jeans and face masks have been a signature look of the anti-government protesters taking to the streets of Hong Kong week after week since June.

The blocking of shipments of protest outfits highlights the Chinese authorities’ efforts to undermine the increasingly violent protest movement, which demands greater accountability and electoral reform.

According to a July notice issued by the Guangdong…

Luxury brand Christian Dior has apologized after it used a map of China that did not include Taiwan in a campus presentation, joining a growing list of foreign companies running afoul of Beijing’s political correctness.

In a statement issued early Thursday, the fashion powerhouse says it “strictly upholds China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity” and “cherishes the Chinese people’s feelings.”

Chinese authorities have forced international companies, such as airlines, to follow its…

The attack on Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey’s tweet (“Fight for freedom. Stand with Hong Kong”) put China’s vision for a new world order in stark relief for an American audience, showing the lengths to which China will go in its campaign to squelch free speech.

Xi Jinping’s administration is doing to foreign businesses what it has long done to domestic dissenters: punishing those whose words stray outside ever-narrower red lines. Airlines have had to redraw maps. T-shirt slogans…

Air pollution doesn’t just damage people’s lungs. Breathing in polluted air is linked to a greater risk of miscarriages, according to a new study.

The research by Chinese scientists, published on Monday in the journal Nature Sustainability, examined data from more than 255,000 pregnant women living in Beijing over an eight-year period.

Researchers found a significant correlation between pollution levels and “missed abortions” in the first trimester, a common form of miscarriage that can go…

Hong Kong’s leader offered no immediate solutions to resolve continuing unrest in her first major policy speech since anti-government protests broke out in June.

Calling the crisis in the former British colony “the most formidable challenge” since it returned to Chinese rule in 1997, Chief Executive Carrie Lam ruled out giving in to more demands from protesters.

Large-scale demonstrations began in June in opposition to an unpopular bill feared to erode the political firewall between Beijing…

An animated family film about a fluffy white yeti has been caught up in an international territorial dispute.

The movie, Abominable, has been reportedly pulled from cinemas in Vietnam because of a brief scene featuring a map showing China’s disputed claims in the vast and resource-rich South China Sea. 

The map offended the Vietnamese government for including the so-called “nine-dash line,” which is used by Beijing to illustrate its claims in the contested waters, Reuters reported on Monday. …