South China Morning Post

A group of Hong Kong protesters has turned to Washington for help as they continue pushing for democratic reforms and an investigation into police conduct.

While the city’s leader, Carrie Lam, has acceded to one of the protesters’ key demands by dropping a contentious extradition bill, many demonstrators remain angry about what they call the police’s abuse of force and Beijing’s meddling in the city’s governance.

The former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997 under the promise…

Hong Kong’s leader, Chief Executive Carrie Lam, has said she would appoint a panel of experts to investigate the root causes of the city’s unrest, in a move that a government insider compared to the forming of the Ferguson Commission in the US.

The commission was created after violence broke out in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014 after Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was shot dead by a white police officer.

The report produced by the 16-member commission eventually made 189…

A mainland Chinese company that sells a popular brand of mooncakes caught up in the maelstrom of Hong Kong politics said it would have to destroy its stock of the cakes.

This week, state media denounced a director of Hong Kong-based Taipan Bread and Cake for supporting the ongoing protests in Hong Kong.

Wu Haotian, general manager of a company that sells the Taipan brand of mooncakes to retailers in mainland China, said they had received too many returns to cope with, according to the…

In 1996, Ma Ge watched his first live NBA game in Houston. 

“It was awe-inspiring,” said Ma, 64, a retired policeman originally from China’s eastern city of Hangzhou. 

“I remember feeling so small but so moved at this huge stadium,” Ma told Inkstone. “It was pure enjoyment and entertainment.” 

On Wednesday night, Ma, a life-long basketball player and fan, came to a spacious, brightly-lit basketball court built by Nike near his Beijing home to watch the Chinese national basketball team. 

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Across China, the price of pork has doubled since July, prompting some cities to take the unusual step of offering discounts on the country’s favorite meat.

In the southwestern city of Nanning, coupons have been distributed to shoppers since Sunday. The bearer is entitled to a 10% discount on the average price of pork, according to the government-backed Nanning Evening News.

But there is a catch. The discount is only be available at 10 pilot sites. Each local resident restricted to just 1…

Chinese internet users have joined an online protest to support children who were forced to move out of one of Shenzhen’s biggest migrant neighorboods.

Following calls from a performance artist called Nut Brother, WeChat users are sharing pictures of evicted migrant children, in order to pressure the government into finding new schools for them. 

In China’s megacity of Shenzhen, home to some of the country’s biggest tech firms, so-called urban villages have housed successive waves of migrant…

Some anti-government protesters in Hong Kong have dismissed a key concession by the city’s leader, who has struggled to resolve a political crisis that has led to almost weekly clashes between police and demonstrators since June.

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Wednesday evening that she would officially withdraw a controversial extradition bill from the city’s legislative agenda. It was one of five demands put forward by the protesters.

“The government will formally withdraw the bill in…

In 1558, at the very beginning of her reign, Queen Elizabeth I of England famously declared that she had “no desire to make windows into men’s souls.”

What the 25-year-old monarch meant was that under her rule, people’s religious convictions would be a matter for their own conscience, and would be no business of the state, nor indeed of any corporate body.

Instead of launching an inquisition to root out those whose religious practices differed from her own, as her predecessor and half-sister…

For many young people in Hong Kong, the start of September usually means it’s time to go back to school.

But this is no ordinary September. As a summer of dissent continues over fears of eroding freedom in the former British colony, some students have chosen to skip classes in order to protest against the government.

Since Monday, thousands of young people have joined anti-government protests, now in their 13th week, in the political heart of Hong Kong to pile pressure on the local…

As tear gas filled Hong Kong’s streets over the weekend amid an unending governing crisis, a different political show played out just an hour’s ferry ride away in Macau.

On Sunday, 400 members of the gambling hub’s pro-Beijing elite went ahead as expected and picked Ho Iat-seng, the son of an industrial tycoon with strong ties to China, as the city’s next leader.

He was the only candidate on the ballot.

For Hong Kong’s young protesters, the tightly scripted appointment of Ho is yet another…