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Phoebe Zhang
Senior Reporter, China
Phoebe Zhang is a senior reporter with the South China Morning Post. She has a master's degree in journalism. She likes to write human-interest stories and has written many about people living on the fringes of society. She believes there's no story or person that's too small.
Phoebe Zhang is a senior reporter with the South China Morning Post. She has a master's degree in journalism. She likes to write human-interest stories and has written many about people living on the fringes of society. She believes there's no story or person that's too small.
Areas of Expertise:
Social issuesLanguages Spoken:
English, Mandarin
New role for Li, industry and information technology minister since April 2025, is among several regional leadership changes.
Tourists staying outside hotels can fill in paperwork online, in the latest move to make visiting the country easier.
Announcement from China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection comes in the lead-up to Apec meetings in tech hub.
Suspects should learn what to do before being detained, lawyers say, as they might spend months cut off from legal counsel.
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The latest incident has exposed many failings in local authorities’ work in a country where a mindset of favouring sons over daughters still exists.
Commerce ministry retort follows CIA official’s defence of spying on China’s AI and chip sectors just weeks ahead of US visit by Xi.
CCTV warning follows comments by de facto US ambassador that the island did not need to show it could win a war outright to deter an attack.
Undercover investigation leads to allegations of two labs operating illegally, despite the nation’s tough stance against the practice.
A new generation is embracing Mao’s teachings to cope with modern pressures, but analysts say the trend gives Beijing reason to be wary.
A draft law aimed at combating cross-border corruption has been submitted for its first reading by the country’s top legislature.
Far from a temporary crackdown, the campaign has proved to be a key tool for enforcing party discipline and driving economic strategy.
Li takes over from Qin Weizhong as China prepares to showcase the city to the world in November summit.
Six weeks after ‘historically rare’ disaster, Guangxi authorities update fatalities, quadrupling total from 39.
Niu Lai’s runaway success is not an endorsement of its quality. Audiences are paying for the perverse enjoyment of seeing how bad it gets.
Lawyers say that officials trying to meet quotas are improperly labelling crimes as gang-related and even turning to torture.
Chinese ministries denounce Japan as defence chief visits controversial shrine and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi sends ritual offering.
The campaign targets ‘covert’ crimes that have spread online, from ‘soft violence’ to sexual extortion.
The weather system is maintaining its strength as it heads north with rains forecast to grow increasingly stronger over the next three days.
Analysis of 125,000 articles from People’s Daily suggests it is increasingly framing women in a domestic rather than public context.
Coastal provinces halt shipping and activities and evacuate fishermen as storm targets Zhejiang and Fujian.
His supposedly sky-high salary and internship at a conservative think tank sparked online fury and rumours he was a US spy.
As Trump’s toughening rules spark anxiety, Chinese parents pay for camps teaching how to survive being seized by gunmen or ‘hidden dangers’.
The third typhoon to hit the country this month is expected to make landfall overnight bringing heavy rains and strong winds.
Instead of just addressing AI misuse on a surface level, policymakers should explore how to support those seeking social comfort.
The southern city has prohibited more items from the subway and outlawed drones from the downtown area.
US leader’s explosive accusations against Beijing prompt mockery, concern and calls for self-reliance from online commenters.
For under US$5 in tokens, a Beijing civil servant has created an app to keep track of which families have been evacuated.
As northern regions log historic rainfall, experts caution that local storms are part of global chain of climate disasters.
Emergency alerts are in place as flooding affects Liaoning and Hebei provinces, destroying roads and trapping residents.
