As Hong Kong marks the 29th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule on July 1, the South China Morning Post talks to the city’s senior officials about the administration’s achievements so far and what may lie ahead.
Hong Kong students should not be barred from using technology and electronic devices simply because they do not know how to use them responsibly, the city’s education minister has said, arguing that the next generation must learn to navigate the digital era.
Secretary for Education Christine Choi Yuk-
Wang Xiangwei was the Post's editor-in-chief from 2012-2015.
If one word could capture the essence of Hong Kong, it would be resilience.
Just two years ago, much of the international community had written off Hong Kong. A widely circulated newspaper commentary carried the headline: “It pains me to say Hong Kong is over”. Though the writer later changed his opinion, the piece
A Shanghai restaurant has captured attention on mainland Chinese social media for launching a special dish of stir-fried tomato and scrambled eggs at an exorbitant price of 520 yuan (US$75), triggering a heated discussion.
The dish itself is among the most common, affordable household food items in the country, containing ordinary ingredients – tomatoes and eggs.
But the dish served at Jinlong Dabianlu Restaurant in Hongkou district in downtown Shanghai is sold at 520 yuan, dozens of times more expensive than its counterparts
The round-the-clock trading is the centrepiece of South Korea’s years-long effort to improve foreign access to local markets
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Part of a network of more than 20 artificial fish ponds in Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis development occupies government land without permission, with a green group warning that materials used at the site also threaten the area’s ecology.
The ponds are near the Mai Po Nature Reserve and the Inner Deep Bay wetlands, which have been designated as internationally important under the Ramsar Convention as they are a vital habitat for migratory birds.
Some of the ponds also fall within the proposed 338-hectare (835
The Israeli PM said the unnamed villages requested annexation ‘because we protect them against Hezbollah fanatics who want to kill them’
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that some Christian villages in southern Lebanon had asked to be annexed by Israel so that they could be protected from Hezbollah militants.
Lebanon was drawn into the wider war in the Middle East on March 2 when Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel in retaliation for the
Wu Xinbo is the dean of the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai and a leading Chinese researcher on the US. In this interview, he analyses how shifts in US foreign policy are changing the relationship between the two countries.
As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, how do you assess US foreign policy and the future direction of its relations with China?
Simply put, US foreign
