Dutch brewing giant Heineken NV announced on Friday it would give China Resources Beer, the country’s biggest brewer, exclusive rights to use its Heineken brand in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, in a deal worth US$3.1 billion. The region... | Continue reading
Hi-tech drones that look and move like real birds have already flown over restive Xinjiang region | Continue reading
Zhuang Rongwen’s appointment to top job at Cyberspace Administration will make him a key point of contact for tech firms looking to do business in China | Continue reading
China accepts offer to join 26 other countries in exercise off Australian north coast despite recent strains in relations between Canberra and Beijing | Continue reading
The American film industry had long been racist. Lee thought he could change that, but studio bosses doubted US audiences would accept a non-American hero. The worldwide success of Enter the Dragon came too late | Continue reading
The programme draws on a huge amount of data, with information ranging from cocktail-party gossip to images taken by spy satellites, to contribute to strategies in Chinese diplomacy | Continue reading
After misjudging Donald Trump and misjudging the alliance between Washington and Brussels, Beijing needs to act fast, writes Zhang Lin | Continue reading
Policy to send ‘outstanding’ educators to schools in the countryside for at least a year is part of government drive to ease poverty in remote areas | Continue reading
David Zweig and Zoe Ge say Chinese students are returning home in droves after studying overseas, but whether they earn more and are satisfied with their lives depends on choice of major, work experience abroad and their reasons for returning | Continue reading
Malaysia, Vietnam and lower-cost economies in Southeast Asia are the new home for many Hong Kong manufacturers | Continue reading
With China and the United States at the centre of the biggest international trade dispute in decades, the South China Morning Post takes an in-depth look at the changing relationship between Beijing and Washington. In the second of a two-part series, Wendy Wu and Kristin Huang ex … | Continue reading
In the past, Beijing has reacted to economic challenges by opening its credit spigot and letting the money flow, and that’s what it has started doing this time too even though the mess from the last crisis is yet to be cleared | Continue reading
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Judiciary must ready itself for possible fallout from China-US trade row, mouthpiece of Beijing’s top court says | Continue reading
Judiciary must ready itself for possible fallout from China-US trade row, mouthpiece of Beijing’s top court says | Continue reading
Photographer Wu Guoyong travelled across the country to capture what happened when bike-sharing reached saturation point, inviting questions about the efficiency of the China’s industrial machine | Continue reading
Lijia Zhang says the Communist Party’s violent discarding of traditional values, suppression of religion and later embrace of cutthroat capitalism has severely damaged social trust. The party has attempted moral campaigns since then but, as the Changsheng scandal shows, they have … | Continue reading
State Drug Administration finds serious violations of manufacturing protocol, prompting company to order recall | Continue reading
Chinese producers of the ubiquitous ‘Make America Great Again’ baseball caps fear the worst as product appears on proposed tariff list | Continue reading
Chinese firms are turning to more-experienced Western partners to expand Beijing’s security capacity amid growing demand as the new Silk Road projects abroad appear fraught with danger | Continue reading
Drivers are using various techniques, including fake GPS apps found on the dark web, to inflate their numbers and get undeserved bonuses | Continue reading
Drivers are using various techniques, including fake GPS apps found on the dark web, to inflate their numbers and get undeserved bonuses | Continue reading
China start-ups accounted for 47 per cent of the world’s venture capital funding in the second quarter, the first time the country has surpassed North America in fundraising | Continue reading
The Google Pixelbook, the Microsoft Surface Laptop, Dell XPS 13, Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 and Huawei Matebook X Pro are convenient, slim and powerful | Continue reading
Chinese team file patent in United States after discovering method to ‘cheat’ the virus effective in almost 100 per cent of bird flu cases in mice | Continue reading
After call from Beijing to refrain from listing Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau as countries, many foreign airlines change their websites’ wording | Continue reading
Arrests in May over devices using earpieces and screens has led to allegations involving 12 groups as investigation spreads nationwide, police say | Continue reading
Children with autism have difficulty reading social cues and discerning other people’s emotions. Studies have shown that using Google Glass improves their ability to read facial expressions, making it an ideal tool in places such as China that have few therapists available | Continue reading
Trump’s trade war threats and curbs on Chinese investments have only strengthened Xi Jinping’s hi-tech ambitions. But pitfalls abound on China’s path to becoming a world leader in innovation | Continue reading
The case of baby Park Jeong-whan, who bumped his head, highlights the growing tendency of US hospitals to charge ‘trauma response fees’ that go into effect regardless of the eventual treatment and run as high as US$51,000 | Continue reading
Island’s business stand to lose from conflict with many companies dependent on their mainland links and factories | Continue reading
Mini programs are helping to boost customer retention on WeChat, which has 1 billion users globally. | Continue reading
Chinese scientists have developed a bird-like drone named “Dove”, which can be used for military purposes. | Continue reading
Handheld weapons that could set fire to targets from long distances are no longer confined to science fiction but a fact of life, according to researchers | Continue reading
Handheld weapons that could set fire to targets from long distances are no longer confined to science fiction but a fact of life, according to researchers | Continue reading
HBO joins a long list of Western media outlets that have had their websites blocked in China including The New York Times, Facebook and Twitter | Continue reading
Hi-tech drones that look and move like real birds have already flown over restive Xinjiang region | Continue reading
Developer China Electronics Technology Group says system will be able to monitor ‘high-speed flying objects in the upper atmosphere’ | Continue reading
Automated swarms, which communicate and coordinate with each other, have been featured in dozens of cities in the country that invented fireworks | Continue reading
Company is credited with making pocket calculators a household item | Continue reading
Excerpts from Einstein’s diaries written during his tour of Asia in the 1920s show his shocking racist and misogynist views. The theoretical physicist is considered a humanitarian, and his private views contradict this, writes the author | Continue reading
Almost a quarter of the country’s schools are testing ‘thinking’ technology designed to assess everything from an essay’s style and structure to its logic and remove human error | Continue reading
It's 20 years since demolition of Kowloon Walled City began, but former residents hold fond memories of the overcrowded slum they called home | Continue reading
As Tesla struggles, many shareholders are looking to oust Elon Musk and three of the board’s directors – but they’ll have a fight on their hands | Continue reading
Misdeeds of ‘severely discredited’ Chinese include trying to take a lighter through airport security, provocation on a plane and not paying fines | Continue reading
New national guidelines spell out punishment for plagiarism, fabrication of data and research conclusions, ghostwriting and peer review manipulation | Continue reading
Successful harvest of salt-resistant strain raises researchers’ hopes that one day large swathes of the desert could be turned into paddy fields | Continue reading
Gaw-backed Shanghai-based brand set to focus on securing wholesale land plots at low prices | Continue reading