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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
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.
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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.
Experts warn the change has dissipated Bavi’s energy from the core to its overall cloud structure, making it potentially more dangerous.
Across region, residents stock up, airlines cancel or reschedule flights, school is disrupted and zoo appeals for help finding lost animals.
‘Catastrophic’ winds expected from strongest and most wide-ranging typhoon of this year’s flood season.
Meteorologists warn of a ‘complex’ series of challenges this year, with severe wind, rainstorms and geological disasters across the country.
Authorities issue top flood alert, order rescue and evacuation, with more bad weather expected.
At present, millions of workers cannot register in the cities where they work, limiting access to services such as health and education.
Zhang Shuguang, who was promoted to the rank of full general, will take over as head of the PLA’s top graft-busting body.
Meeting urges steps to prevent disaster and ‘always put the safety of people’s lives first’.
Flight schools have been grounded and safety inspections are being carried out after the aircraft hit the tallest building in the capital.
Beijing is also providing satellite images of the affected areas, as Chinese businesses and overseas communities in the country pitch in.
Apart from the senior commanders, the former Xinjiang party chief and a senior financial regulator were also stripped of their status.
The 40-volume project marks the first time that the complete court records from the tribunal have been published in Chinese.
