South China Morning Post

Scrutiny of Beijing’s influence in the United States is overdue, but Chinese-Americans should not become the targets, an Asian conservative group leader has said.

Cliff Zhonggang Li, the head of an Asian-American conservative group known as the “Asian GOP,” said his group is falling apart due to unfounded allegations that Chinese-Americans were facilitating China’s publicity and information-gathering campaigns.

“We’re literally falling apart,” the 53-year-old leader of the National Committee…

Hong Kong’s Peak Tram is one of the world’s steepest funicular railways, sweeping passengers from the busy city streets in the Central district to the Victoria Peak in only six minutes.

In service for more than 130 years, the Peak Tram is about to get a multi-million dollar upgrade.

Current carriages can handle up to 120 passengers at a time, but new larger ones will have a capacity of 210. The change will require replacement of all haulage and control systems, installation of new rails, as…

Starbucks’ Chinese challenger Luckin Coffee has filed for a US initial public offering, with an ambitious plan to displace the American giant as the largest coffee chain in China.

The final size of the IPO was not announced in a Monday regulatory filing. The loss-making company was valued at $2.9 billion in an earlier funding round this month.

An expanding, 400-million-strong middle class and a growing coffee culture have made China a sweet spot for global coffee chains. And with the fund…

After a nearly nine-month freeze on new video games, Chinese authorities on Monday began accepting new applications for publishing games in the country again – with strings attached.

China has stepped up its regulation of an industry that it considers harmful to the country’s young people, a move that has hurt companies like Tencent, China’s biggest gaming company.

The rules will be closely studied (and followed) by any developer who wants a piece of the world’s biggest gaming market.

They…

The tiny, dimly-lit library had no bookshelves and hardly enough books to fill a cabinet. But for the children in the central Chinese province of Henan, it was a godsend.

A pair of sisters built the mini-library in 2016 using books they salvaged from the trash they picked up in a township in Henan called Yangmiaoxiang, one of the poorest parts of China where families live on less than $1 a day.

The story of hardship behind the library underscores the staggering inequality between China’s…

The news in The New York Times last week about the US government revoking multi-year and multiple-entry visas for well-known Chinese scholars Zhu Feng of Nanjing University and Wu Baiyi of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of American Studies has now been matched by recent reports that the Chinese embassy in Washington did not issue visas to Donald Trump’s China adviser Michael Pillsbury and former deputy special trade representative Wendy Cutler to attend a conference in Beijing…

When a senior Malaysia trade official toured a Huawei training center in the country and mingled with the Chinese 5G champion’s executives last week, the vibe in the room was all smiles.

Yet half the world away in Washington’s corridors of power, it’s hard to imagine there was anything but grimaces.

Malaysia is just the latest in a string of Southeast Asian nations to have welcomed the world’s largest telecommunications company with open arms, flying in the face of warnings from the United…

A swine fever epidemic has spread to all parts of China, decimating the country’s hog industry and disrupting Chinese dinner tables.

The island province of Hainan has confirmed its first cases of African swine fever, meaning the pig-killing virus has spread to all 31 mainland Chinese provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions since the first infection in the country was confirmed in August.

The spread of African swine fever has disrupted the supply of pork in China, which raises about…

Two North Korean actions during the past week demonstrate how paramount leader Kim Jong-un senses that, with China’s help, he has reversed the balance of leverage between his country and the United States over the last year and a half.

On Thursday, Pyongyang announced it had tested a new type of “tactical guided weapon,” with no additional details. Later the same day, senior North Korean foreign ministry official Kwon Jong-gun made a public statement calling on Washington to replace Secretary…

In a country where sex remains a largely taboo subject, the condom maker Durex has managed to endear itself to many young Chinese people with ads loaded with humor and innuendo.

Then it went too far.

The condom maker’s social media campaign with the popular Chinese bubble tea brand Heytea has prompted an online outcry over the weekend.

On Friday, Durex posted a picture of a white, creamy droplet coming out of a bubble tea cup with the tagline: “Tonight, not a drop left.”

“Do you remember…