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What's China's hottest job?

Jobs related to the internet and e-commerce pushed aside banking and finance as China’s most sought-after white collar jobs in the first quarter of 2017, as future prospects and promises of stock options offset low salaries in the short term. Among internet related jobs, one specialty stands heads and shoulders over mere programmers and engineers: the cyber security specialis...

SCMP | 2017-08-03 10:14

Hong Kong sensation flies high in America's Got Talent [VIDEO]

Pint-sized Hong Kong singer Celine Tam Tsz-kwan will be heading to the next stage of America’s Got Talent after adding a popular US actress to her growing list of fans. Wearing a gold dress, the nine-year-old star with a huge voice belted out Michael Bolton’s 1983 ballad How Am I Supposed To Live Without You during the show on Tuesday, local time.

SCMP | 2017-08-03 09:55

Xi's show of force declares China's battle readiness to the world [PHOTOS]

China’s massive display of military might on Sunday sent a clear message to the army, the country and the world that the PLA under its commander, President Xi Jinping, is quickly modernising and improving its readiness for war. The event in Zhurihe in Inner Mongolia, to mark this Tuesday’s 90th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army, had none of the c...

SCMP | 2017-07-31 11:24

Marriage migration warned by Hong Kong 'slave husband' from Pakistan

A Pakistani man claiming he was deprived of food and forced to work as a “slave husband” after he immigrated to Hong Kong is speaking out to prevent others from living his heartbreaking story. Ashraf, 35, who spoke on condition of not disclosing his first name, married a Hong Kong permanent resident of Pakistani descent in Islamabad on April 24, 2011. The two had met through ...

SCMP | 2017-07-30 11:23

China stages high-profile naval drill off Korean peninsula

China is flexing its military muscle in a high-profile naval exercise in the Yellow Sea, off the western coast of the Korean peninsula, days ahead of the PLA’s 90th anniversary. Beijing has so far released scant information about the three-day live-fire drill, which is expected to last through Saturday, but analysts say it is also aimed at demonstrating China’s resolve amid h...

SCMP | 2017-07-30 11:17

US student detained in China after taxi driver dispute

The family of an American university student detained in China for five days without charge or contact beyond the police station have enlisted the help of US politicians to try to secure his release. Guthrie McLean, a student at the University of Montana, was detained on Sunday evening in Zhengzhou in Henan province and formally arrested the following day.

SCMP | 2017-07-21 10:33

100 days down: still no China-US trade deal but all-out row 'unlikely'

China and the United States have failed to reach a deal on ways to reduce their trade imbalance despite high-level talks in Washington. Observers said relations between the two countries had worsened but China and the US would both take steps to avoid an all-out confrontation between their closely tied economies.

SCMP | 2017-07-21 10:27

The secret lives of Chinese missionaries in northern Iraq

Last month’s execution of two Chinese missionaries by Islamic State (IS) militants in Pakistan put the risks of such work into stark relief but two young Chinese Christians who have lived close to an IS stronghold in northern Iraq for more than a year said life could be more peaceful there than back at home.

SCMP | 2017-07-17 13:56

X-Men actress Fan Bingbing hits back at fugitive tycoon Guo Wengui

Chinese actress Fan Bingbing announced on Thursday she was suing exiled tycoon Guo Wengui in the United States for defamation, joining a queue of plaintiffs hitting back at the fugitive over largely unsubstantiated allegations. In a statement posted on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, Fan’s management team accused the Chinese businessman of “malicious slander” that had “sev...

SCMP | 2017-07-17 11:36

17 years of hell: Hong Kong prisoner recounts his time in Philippine jail

Inside his 60 sq ft cell in the notorious New Bilibid Prison in Manila, convicted Hong Kong drug offender Tang Lung-waicompleted a mission impossible - writing a book detailing his ordeal in the Philippines over the past 17 years.

SCMP | 2017-07-16 11:25

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Inter-Korean Summit in Pyongyang