Close up of the first issue of The South China Morning Post. The South China Morning Post was established in 1903 by Mr Tse Tsan Tai and Mr Alfred Cunningham. It was first published on 6 November ...

Chief justice Zhang Jun says stern measures will help public ‘truly feel fairness’ but lighter punishments may be better for lesser crimes. From a confused tourist’s costly mistake to a ...

Earlier this month, China declared new “baselines” around Scarborough Reef, a large coral atoll topped by a handful of rocks barely above sea level in the South China Sea. By doing so ...

For three days earlier this year, defence personnel from more than 20 Nato and Indo-Pacific countries descended on the South Korean capital ... members in April. While China did not take part ...

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Southern Theatre Command, which oversees the South China Sea, said that naval and air forces conducted a “combat-ready vigilance patrol” over the ...

China will face increased pressure from the US and its Indo-Pacific allies, especially in the South China Sea, analysts have warned, citing Washington’s consolidation of regional security ...

In a joint statement, Kuala Lumpur and Hanoi pledged to continue working together to “maintain peace, security, stability, safety, and freedom of navigation” in the South China Sea, ...

in which officials have condemned alleged “online trolls” or coordinated social media activity said to be spreading false information and pro-Beijing views on the South China Sea dispute.

A Chinese analyst of the South China Sea has warned of more trouble at sea after revelations about the involvement of a US special task force at a disputed shoal. US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin ...

They have accounted for more than half of retail passenger vehicle sales in the four months from July, according to the China Passenger Car Association, a trend that is poised to send appetite for ...

Donald Trump’s second White House term is bound to bring new China tariffs – but analysts wonder if it will bring manufacturing back. The US has deployed one of its newest nuclear-powered ...

star geometer Sun Song made the move back to China. He joined Zhejiang University’s Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics after leaving his most recent post as a professor at the ...