South China Morning Post

In 2016, a Chinese engineering student in Oregon told Apple that his iPhone wouldn’t power on. He turned in the device, and Apple sent him a replacement iPhone.

Then it happened again. And again.

Over the next two years, the man, Quan Jiang, sent in a total of some 3,000 fake iPhones and claimed that they were defective. He eventually made off with 1,493 replacement iPhones, costing Apple an estimated $895,800.

Jiang pleaded guilty to trafficking in counterfeit goods on Wednesday and agreed…

Industries in eastern China produced massive emissions of an illegal, ozone-depleting gas in recent years, a peer-reviewed study has shown.

Chlorofluorocarbon-11 (CFC-11), once widely used in making insulation foam, has been banned globally as a potent ozone destroyer and a greenhouse gas. But scientists have found an unexpected rise in its emissions from eastern Asia since 2012.

A study published on Nature this week has identified China as a major culprit.

Researchers said annual CFC-11…

It took Bruce Lee less than a minute to show the world what was possible when you mix martial arts.

In the opening frames of Enter the Dragon – shot in 1973 – Lee and Sammo Hung Kam-bo meet in organized combat. Their characters throw everything they have at each other, until Lee brings the fight to an end with his own unique version of the “armbar.”

It’s a fighting technique that was up until then, only commonly associated with the likes of jiu-jitsu and judo. By using it in this scene with…

As a new economic cold war breaks out between the United States and China, Apple has found itself caught in the crossfire.

The Trump administration’s move to put Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei on a trade blacklist last week has provoked anger in China, where the brand is seen as a symbol of Chinese innovation. 

Some longtime Chinese fans of Apple say they have ditched the American brand for a Huawei handset amid rising US-China tensions.

“There is a calling from my heart that I need…

Chinese President Xi Jinping has visited a rare earth plant in what analysts describe as the latest show of strength, after Beijing switched to a tougher rhetoric amid the escalating trade war.

China accounts for more than 90% of the global production of rare earths, a group of 17 chemical elements that are key components of high-tech and defense equipment, from laptops to electric vehicles to weapon systems.

With the US relying heavily on imports from China, rare earths are among the few…

After Taiwan legalized same-sex marriage on May 17, the self-ruled democracy has been praised as the first place in Asia to recognize equal rights.

But one message of approval has irked the Taiwanese government.

People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, tweeted a gif image that read “love is love” and which featured symbols of same-sex and heterosexual couples in rainbow colors.

But its post referred to the Taiwanese lawmakers who passed a bill legalizing gay marriage as…

There is no animal like the giant panda. But between themselves, the fluffy, rotund creatures can be hard to tell apart.

But a new app could soon help us do just that using facial technology.

Researchers spent two years amassing a database of more than 120,000 images and 10,000 video clips of giant pandas.

Analysis of these images has allowed them to create an app that can identify unique features on each panda’s face, the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding said on Friday.

This…

It’s ironic that faster-than-expected climate change has created a new economic opportunity in the Arctic just as environmentalists start talking up a “blue economy” based on the sustainable use of ocean resources.

Thanks to global warming and the melting of the ice caps, a new ocean is steadily emerging and with it the prospects of new shipping lanes and access to hitherto untapped natural resources.

But the geopolitical risks involved in exploiting these opportunities – to say nothing of…

Beijing is the fourth most innovative city in the world, ranking ahead of London, New York and Hong Kong, according to real estate consultant JLL.

San Francisco, with its robust tech industry, topped the list of the top 20 innovation-oriented cities published by JLL last week, followed by Tokyo, Singapore, Beijing, and London.

“Beijing now has a deep-rooted innovation ecosystem,” JLL says in its Innovation Geographies report. “It has nurtured the most unicorns outside of Silicon Valley and is…

A Cathay Pacific Airways ad showing a same-sex couple has been banned from being displayed by two leading transport companies in Hong Kong.

The advert, which showed two men strolling hand in hand along a beach, was part of a rebranding campaign by the city’s flagship carrier intended to highlight the airline’s attitude to diversity.

Both the Airport Authority, which runs the city’s airport, and subway operator MTR Corporation rejected the LGBT content, the South China Morning Post has learned…