South China Morning Post

The former Hong Kong mansion of Bruce Lee is now being torn down, despite calls from Lee’s fans to preserve the property known as “Crane’s Nest” as a museum. 

The two-story, 5,700 square-foot townhouse, located in the upscale district of Kowloon Tong, was where the martial arts legend spent his final years. But it will soon be demolished to make way for a Chinese cultural studies center. 

The demolition work kicked off on Tuesday. In the morning, the entrance to the compound was locked, while…

Hong Kong is set to tone down celebrations on China’s big day, the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic.

The local government said it would move guests indoors at a flag-raising ceremony on China’s National Day, on October 1, to avoid potential disruptions by anti-government protesters who are poised to escalate their actions to embarrass Beijing.

This means Hong Kong’s leader, Chief Executive Carrie Lam, and other officials and dignitaries will watch the ceremony on a…

Today’s iPhone has 100,000 times the processing power of the Apollo computer that landed humankind on the moon 50 years ago, while costing a tiny fraction of the Nasa machine.

This is down to Moore’s Law, the observation by one of the founders of Intel, a chip maker, that computing power doubles every two years.

That this correlation has held for five decades helps to explain China’s position on the proverbial hamster wheel – never quite catching up in semiconductor technology.

As a relative…

On the 25th anniversary of the premiere of Friends, its fans in China are sharing their memories about the TV classic that has impacted a generation of urban Chinese. 

Friends is where many Chinese millennials learned English as well as American culture. 

Today, some English teachers still assign Friends as learning materials. Replicas of the Central Perk cafe have sprung up across the country. And one popular Chinese sit-com has been accused of stealing jokes from Friends.

The first group…

They are the invisible Hong Kong taxi drivers who have carried anti-government protesters away from police in the midst of countless confrontations over the past three months of political turmoil.

Some of these “protest drivers” said they started to help the protest movement because they could not be at the front lines themselves. Others said they felt sympathy with the protesters after watching too much violence on the nightly news.

Others still said they put themselves in danger to be like…

A mainland Chinese journalist who was assaulted by anti-government protesters in Hong Kong last month has been rewarded with 100,000 yuan ($14,000) in cash by his employer, the Chinese nationalist newspaper Global Times.

The reporter, Fu Guohao, received a hero’s welcome at home in the mainland after he was beaten by a mob of masked demonstrators at Hong Kong airport in August.

Chinese state-run media outlets have seized on the attack to condemn the months-long pro-democracy protest movement…

China’s booming online video scene offers something for everyone: cute animals, cooking tutorials, quirky artwork and now, a glimpse into the world’s most reclusive country.

Residents in China’s northeast near North Korea have gained legions of fans online by posting videos of North Koreans on the other side of the border. 

On the popular video and live-streaming site Kuaishou, users have posted hundreds of videos of North Koreans walking on the road, shopping at markets, riding bicycles and…

Brian Shan says the way he views the world has been reshaped since he arrived in the United States to study seven years ago.

The 30-year-old Beijing native, working on a PhD in materials engineering at an Ivy League university, has come to accept that same-sex marriage is no different from men marrying women.

He gets news from both CNN and China’s state-backed People’s Daily and uses social media platforms both within and beyond China’s Great Firewall.

His broad exposure to US culture has…

Thousands of reporters and editors working in Chinese state media across the country will have to take an exam to test their loyalty to President Xi Jinping.

Some will be asked to take part in “pilot tests” in early October, before the exams are held nationwide, according to a notice late last month from the media oversight office of the Communist Party’s propaganda department. 

It did not say when the nationwide exams would be held.

About 10,000 reporters and editors from 14 state-run…

US House speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday threw her support behind legislation meant to back Hong Kong’s anti-government protesters.

Speaking at a news conference featuring Hong Kong activists Joshua Wong and Denise Ho, who testified before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China on Tuesday, Pelosi said she would bring the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 to a vote “as soon as possible.”

The bill, which has angered Beijing, is currently under review in the House…