PODCAST

News - South China Morning Post

All the latest breaking news from Hong Kong, China and around the world

All Episodes

Shanghai premium office market picks up amid...

News - South China Morning Post ·

2025/11/17

Lower rents improved occupancy rates in Shanghai’s premium office market as the city reported solid economic growth, but most companies remained cost-conscious amid a cloudy economic outlook and expectations for bigger discounts, according to JLL. Discounts attracted corporate tenants in the quarter ended September, prompting relocations from business parks and suburban areas to grade-A office buildings, the property firm said. “As the rental disparity between grade-A and grade-B properties...

Hong Kong’s Legco election should priortise substance...

News - South China Morning Post ·

2025/11/17

These are interesting times in Hong Kong politics. Rarely has the city seen the government get so involved in galvanising voters ahead of the Legislative Council election. These things have traditionally been the work of political parties and groups. And that is one prominent feature of the development of Hong Kong’s “patriots-only” political system. Before the overhaul of the election system, voter turnout was a barometer of sorts for the election outcome. Conventional wisdom was that the...

Chinese man who donated US$20 as child to aircraft...

News - South China Morning Post ·

2025/11/17

A man from southern China who donated 140 yuan (US$20) as a child to help build an aircraft carrier has seen his dream of the country becoming a stronger nation come true. To top his wish, in November, the China State Shipbuilding Corporation invited him to visit the carrier fleet and gave him a commemorative watch. Chen Yuwen, from Qinzhou city in Guangxi province, developed an early interest in the military, influenced by his father’s background as a soldier. In 1999, at just five years

Polarised Chile facing presidential run-off between...

News - South China Morning Post ·

2025/11/17

Chile was headed to a tense presidential run-off after a closely fought first-round vote on Sunday set up a showdown between a member of the Communist Party and an ultraconservative veteran politician, sharply polarising the country between the political left and right. Jeannette Jara, 51, the communist former labour minister and candidate of Chile’s centre-left governing coalition, won 26.8 per cent of valid ballots with almost 100 per cent of the vote counted, failing to pass the 50 per

‘Workplaces of death’: South Korean president’s...

News - South China Morning Post ·

2025/11/17

South Korean Kim Yong-ho thought he would die within seconds after a 200kg (441lbs) industrial press at a Hyundai Steel plant sprang to life during maintenance and crushed his legs and back. It was 2019, and Kim said he thought the heavy machinery around him had been switched off as he made repairs. “I was flattened like a squashed frog in a roadkill,” he said. “I couldn’t breathe for a few seconds.” A quick-thinking colleague saved his life by alerting the machine’s operator, said Kim, now...

What are Hong Kong Legco election candidates...

News - South China Morning Post ·

2025/11/17

Integration with mainland China and boosting Hong Kong’s sluggish economy have dominated the manifestos of candidates contesting functional and Election Committee constituencies in the Legislative Council election, while those running for directly elected seats have prioritised livelihood concerns, the Post has found. A check by the Post of all 161 candidates’ manifestos on the government’s election website also found that only 38 of them, or 23 per cent, provided English versions. Of the 161...

In Malaysia’s Johor, silicon dreams meet parched...

News - South China Morning Post ·

2025/11/17

Malaysia’s southern state of Johor is being transformed by a torrent of tech investment. Global heavyweights – Microsoft, Nvidia, ByteDance – are pouring billions into vast data centres, the digital foundries that underpin the international AI industry and cloud economy. For Malaysia’s government, these investments are nothing short of transformative, representing a once-in-a-generation opportunity to vault ahead in Southeast Asia’s technology race. But for Johor residents like Muhammad

Israeli strike in Lebanon kills man in car amid...

News - South China Morning Post ·

2025/11/16

An Israeli strike killed a Lebanese man in the south of the country on Sunday, according to the Lebanese health ministry and the country’s main news agency. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to an Agence France-Presse query, but has previously said it reserves the right to strike militant targets in Lebanon it deems a threat. The ministry said the strike hit a car in the town of al-Mansouri, south of Tyre and just over 10km (6 miles) from the Israeli border, and “resulted in

Syria detains security forces over sectarian violence...

News - South China Morning Post ·

2025/11/16

Members of Syria’s security and military services have been detained as part of an investigation into sectarian violence in the southern province of Sweida in July that left hundreds of people dead, investigators said on Sunday. The head of a Syrian committee investigating the violence in Sweida held a news conference in the capital, Damascus, to talk about progress made but did not release a death toll, saying this will come in the final report that is expected by the end of the year. In...

Chinese economist Lu Feng on why the time is ripe for...

News - South China Morning Post ·

2025/11/16

Lu Feng is a professor of economics and a former deputy dean at Peking University’s National School of Development. In more than 40 academic papers, six books and numerous magazine articles, he has studied issues critical to China’s economy, including the exchange rate, industrial development, food security and external imbalances. Lu has also served as an adviser to several government agencies, including the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. This...

Grand Egyptian Museum introduces time slots to cope...

News - South China Morning Post ·

2025/11/16

Thirty years in the making, the world’s biggest archaeological museum – and before its opening also the world’s most delayed museum – is now struggling to cope with the crowds. The Grand Egyptian Museum, located near the Giza Pyramids, was opened on November 1 in a lavish ceremony attended by dozens of world leaders and media representatives. Two weeks later, it is still welcoming an average of around 19,000 people every day, according to a spokesman. The collection includes the glittering...

Trump floats possible talks with Maduro as US strike...

News - South China Morning Post ·

2025/11/16

US President Donald Trump said Sunday that the US “may be having some discussions” with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, a potential diplomatic avenue as the US further builds up its military presence near the South American country with the arrival of its most advanced aircraft carrier. Trump did not offer details about the possible discussions with Maduro, but he said “Venezuela would like to talk”. The development comes as the Trump administration has carried out a series of military...

In reversal, Trump says House should vote to release...

News - South China Morning Post ·

2025/11/16

US President Donald Trump said House Republicans should vote to release the files in the Jeffrey Epstein case, a startling reversal after previously fighting the proposal as a growing number of those in his own party supported it. “We have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party,” Trump wrote on social media late Sunday after landing at Joint Base Andrews following

India arrests suspect in New Delhi car blast that...

News - South China Morning Post ·

2025/11/16

India’s anti-terror investigating agency said on Sunday it arrested a man from Indian-controlled Kashmir on suspicion of conspiring with a suicide bomber to carry out a deadly car blast in the capital New Delhi. The National Investigating Agency said in a statement that the car that exploded on Monday was registered to Amir Rashid Ali, who it alleged had travelled to New Delhi from Indian-controlled Kashmir to buy the car. It said Ali’s arrest was a “major breakthrough” in the case. The...

Greece and Ukraine sign US gas supply deal amid...

News - South China Morning Post ·

2025/11/16

An agreement to supply Ukraine with US liquefied natural gas (LNG) was signed in Athens on Sunday during the official visit of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Greece. Zelensky and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis attended the signing of the deal between Greece’s gas supplier DEPA and Ukraine’s Naftogas, as did the US ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle. The gas will be supplied via pipelines from the northern Greek port of Alexandroupolis to the Ukrainian port of Odesa....

Outcry forces cancellation of Holocaust artefacts...

News - South China Morning Post ·

2025/11/16

Poland’s foreign minister said on Sunday that an “offensive” auction of Holocaust artefacts has been cancelled in Germany, relaying information from his German counterpart, following complaints from Holocaust survivors. Radoslaw Sikorski made the comments on the X platform, saying he and German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul “agreed that such a scandal must be prevented”. The top Polish diplomat thanked Wadephul for the information that the auction was cancelled. Earlier, a Holocaust

China rare earths deal will ‘hopefully’ be done by...

News - South China Morning Post ·

2025/11/16

A rare earths deal between the US and China will “hopefully” be done by Thanksgiving, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in remarks that were broadcast on Sunday. Bessent’s comments follow a framework agreement announced last month in which Washington agreed not to impose 100 per cent tariffs on Chinese imports and China would hold off on an export licensing regime for crucial rare earths minerals and magnets. “I am confident that post our meeting in Korea between the two leaders,

China’s jumbo Sichuan 076 amphibious assault ship...

News - South China Morning Post ·

2025/11/16

China’s next-generation “drone-carrier” amphibious assault ship, the Sichuan, completed its first sea trials on Sunday afternoon, state broadcaster CCTV said. The three-day trial marks a major step forward for the People’s Liberation Army to take delivery of its first Type 076 amphibious assault carrier, seen as a key asset for China’s unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations. The trials, which began on Friday morning, aimed to test the reliability and stability of the supersized warship’s...

Hong Kong rock climber found dead after suspected...

News - South China Morning Post ·

2025/11/16

A Hong Kong veteran rock climber was found dead on Sunday afternoon after a suspected fall while hiking in Tuen Mun’s countryside. The 43-year-old man left his home at Tsui Ping (South) Estate in Kwun Tong for a hike on Saturday. His family alerted the force at about 8am on Sunday after he failed to return, a source said. Search and rescue teams found the man caught among trees in the Kau Keng Shan area within Tai Lam Country Park at around 1pm, where he was confirmed dead at the scene. A...

Netanyahu faces backlash over US-backed statement on...

News - South China Morning Post ·

2025/11/16

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel remained opposed to a Palestinian state after protests by far-right coalition allies over a US-backed statement indicating support for a pathway to Palestinian independence. Netanyahu spoke two days after Israel’s key ally the United States and many Muslim-majority nations endorsed a draft UN resolution backing US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, saying the process offered a route to Palestinian statehood. The 15-member UN...

15,605 results