South China Morning Post

Sushi is pretty ubiquitous: from nigiri, with its slice of raw fish on a pillow of rice, to the maki roll wrapped in nori, or seaweed. But the sushi we know today tastes and looks very different from how it did centuries ago. 

First of all, the rice in the original “sushi” was not intended to be eaten. Mixed with salt, it was used to preserve the fish and then thrown out.

Sushi’s origins aren’t even Japanese, says Nobu Hong Kong executive sushi chef Kazunari Araki, who has more than 20 years…

When confronted with some of the worst turmoil since the Hong Kong handover, the response from the city’s administration and many from the pro-government camp is that our city must get back to “money”: that the focus should be on addressing socio-economic problems. 

They attribute the massive anti-extradition bill protests to severe inequality and dissatisfaction amongst the youth about their job prospects. The government is vowing to set aside controversial policies and return to livelihood…

Over two nights, 20 Democratic candidates for the 2020 US presidential election faced off at the first primary debate in Miami.

China was on the agenda, with several calling it America's greatest geopolitical threat.

This is what the presidential hopefuls have said about the China challenge:

Tim Ryan, congressman, Ohio

When asked whether he could promise that manufacturing jobs would return to places like Ohio, Ryan said:

"Yes, I believe you can, but, first, let’s say the president came,…

The break-up between Fan Bingbing, China’s highest-paid actress, and her actor fiance Li Chen has made headlines around the world.

Fan, 37, and Chen, 40, got engaged in 2017. News of the breakup, which was announced on Fan’s official social media page, soon became one of the most searched terms on China's Twitter-like microblogging platform Weibo.

But considering Fan’s fame, the reaction was fairly muted, with a relatively paltry 40 million views. Most of the messages expressed support for…

If you get a copy of The New York Times or The Guardian this week, you may find an ad inside advocating for Hong Kong’s autonomy and freedoms.

The ads, in the form of open letters to readers, were placed by Hong Kong activists trying to mobilize the international community to help fight the city’s unpopular extradition bill, just as world leaders convene at the Group of 20 summit in Japan. 

Although Hong Kong’s government has suspended the bill following massive demonstrations, many people…

Hong Kong activists are appealing to foreign governments to help defend the city’s autonomy, as they continue fighting against a now-suspended bill that could allow suspects to be extradited to mainland China. 

Hundreds of mostly young people marched to more than a dozen foreign consulates in drizzling rain on Wednesday, to ask diplomats to advocate for Hong Kong at the upcoming G20 summit. 

The city's top leader, Carrie Lam, has apologized repeatedly and suspended the extradition bill…

Vancouver has for decades attracted waves of millionaires and money from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Now a study has found long-sought evidence linking foreign ownership to extreme housing unaffordability in the Canadian city.

The white paper by Josh Gordon, an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University’s school of public policy, found a near-perfect 96% (or 0.96) correlation between various metro Vancouver municipalities’ price-to-income ratios – a common measure of…

Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s president has accused the United States government of creating “a toxic atmosphere” for academics of Chinese descent, in its efforts to prevent Beijing from acquiring advanced American technology.

“I am well aware of the risks of academic espionage, and MIT has established prudent policies to protect against such breaches,” L. Rafael Reif said in a letter to the school’s faculty, students, staff and alumni.

“But we must take great care not to create a…

Three years ago, I met a girl at a nightclub in Coventry, England, where many ethnic Chinese students – from mainland China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and elsewhere – often gather. We arranged to meet up the next day for a formal date. 

The vibes were good at the start. Arrived on time. Greetings. Drinks and snacks. And then, at some point, I innocently uttered the phrase: “Because we from Hong Kong…” 

My date, from mainland China, swiftly interrupted me. She raised her voice and…

More than 100 executives from some of China’s top online media companies are wrapping up a four-day tour after immersing themselves in Communist Party history and lore.

Leaders from the likes of Baidu, ByteDance, Sina and more than 40 other tech companies traveled to the southeastern province of Fujian this week as part of a “red tourism” tour. The color red is closely associated with Communism.

The annual tour is organized by the city of Beijing’s internet watchdog, which monitors and…