On this day | Hong Kong’s Avenue of Stars has star-studded opening in 2004 with Jet Li, Sammo Hung in attendance – from the SCMP archiveA star-studded event marked the opening of a new attraction in Tsim Sha Tsui’s harbourfront...
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Forget Macau’s junket launderers, dirty Chinese cash has a new home: Southeast Asia’s casino scam hubsBillions of dollars of illegal Chinese funds are exiting mainland China and passing through Southeast Asia’s online gambling and scam centres, as they rapidly replace...
Hong Kong falling out of the world’s top 10 container ports for the first time is a sign of the city’s declining stature. Meanwhile, thriving rival cities such as Shanghai, Singapore and Shenzhen continue to secure top rankings. Also last...
Beijing to push subsidies for local firms to buy China-made chips to shore up city’s computing infrastructureBeijing’s municipal government has unveiled a scheme to subsidise local enterprises’ acquisition of Chinese-made semiconductors to bolster the city’s computing resources, as the nation...
Explainer | 4 bizarre ways that Chinese people seek supernatural guidance, blessings and wisdom from the godsChina has a long-established history of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by using supernatural means.From its earliest forms dating back 3,000...
Can Hong Kong cultivate its agriculture, fisheries sectors? Experts say more policy support needed to tend to neglected farming sceneFrom his floating farm off the coast of Hong Kong’s Sai Kung peninsula, Alex Lam Tsz-fung produces 200,000 fish each year...