South China Morning Post

Following Sunday’s peaceful mass protest, Hongkongers have bonded over photos of feet – wrinkly, peeling ones resulting from hours of walking in torrential rains.

Hundreds of thousands of people filled up major streets on Hong Kong Island in the latest show of defiance against the city’s Beijing-backed government.

The downpours left protesters drenched. Their feet appear to have suffered the most from standing in wet socks and shoes for an entire afternoon.

On the Reddit-like forum LIHKG,…

Over the past week, nationalist fury has enveloped China’s internet, prompting actors, musicians and other public figures in the mainland to criticize the continuing anti-government protests in Hong Kong.

Against this backdrop, outspoken Chinese mixed martial arts fighter Xu Xiaodong has bucked the trend by speaking up for Hongkongers on social media.

On Sunday, Xu, who has controversially made a name for himself by challenging what he calls “fake” kung fu masters, wrote on Twitter that Hong…

There is no question that Hong Kong has messed up big time. But a cloud of questions hangs over how to defuse the city’s biggest political crisis in decades.

Last week, the Hong Kong government announced a basket of extra budget measures valued at $2.4 billion, spanning everything from relief for small businesses to more generous student subsidies and goodies for low-income households.

Although Financial Secretary Paul Chan cited the gloomy economic outlook and downplayed the political crisis…

President Donald Trump on Thursday urged his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to meet with anti-government protesters in Hong Kong.

Trump was apparently clarifying comments he made a day earlier that were taken as a suggestion that Trump himself wanted to meet with Xi over the political crisis in the semi-autonomous Chinese region.

If President Xi would meet directly and personally with the protesters, there would be a happy and enlightened ending to the Hong Kong problem. I have no doubt!…

When Hong Kong’s richest person, Li Ka-shing, took out newspaper ads to break his silence on the continuing anti-government protests, many readers had to recall their Chinese literature classes to decipher the message.

Li, nicknamed “Superman” for his success, took out two full-page ads. One of the ads was simple enough.  

It featured the Chinese word for “violence” with a red cross through it, flanked by slogans about loving China and loving Hong Kong. At the bottom, it said “stop anger and…

A mainland Chinese director has vowed to ignore a national boycott and keep her documentary in the running for Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards, the Oscars of the Chinese-speaking world. 

The film, whose title loosely translates as Young People Question Taoism, was directed by filmmaker Zhu Yu. It is the only mainland Chinese production still registered for the festival, which is held every year in self-ruled Taiwan. 

The documentary follows four young Taoist priests on a 370-mile pilgrimage…

Rap music has its roots in the African-American counter cultural experience.

But in China, big name rappers, including some with global fanbases, are lining up to back the establishment, after an attack on a journalist during anti-government protests in Hong Kong provoked patriotic fury.

On Tuesday night, Fu Guohao, a reporter working for the nationalist tabloid Global Times, was assaulted and tied up by demonstrators at the Hong Kong International Airport, before being rescued by paramedics…

Last month, the Supreme People’s Court of China published four so-called typical cases of sexual abuse of children. The top court vowed to use all means, including the death penalty, to punish child sex offenders.

I feel encouraged by the news as it shows China is adopting a zero-tolerance attitude. I was also a victim of child sex abuse, one of many girls molested by a teacher at my primary school in the eastern city of Nanjing.

This is a hidden but growing epidemic. News portal Caixin.com…

Shanghai-based fruit importer Lucas Liu is on the front line of the US-China trade war.

The cost of American cherries, for example, has risen by roughly half, prompting him to cut back on what he orders from the US.

Liu, who sells American fruit to Chinese consumers, is continuing to buy from the US to maintain his long-standing relationships with his suppliers – but he is also looking elsewhere.

This month he is planning a trip to Uzbekistan to assess the possibilities for cherry…

At a restaurant in China’s southern tech hub of Shenzhen, 28-year-old engineer Wang Xiaoxu was hungry.

But her hunger quickly turned to frustration and then resignation.

Refusing to share her personal data with the ordering system, she was blocked from buying a meal. She gave up.

“There were no paper menus, only a QR code that can be scanned on the table,” Wang said. “I had to agree with a request to collect my WeChat name, portrait and region and could not see the menu, make an order or pay…