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Asia Opinion

Opinion | India is losing its regional primacy as Beijing and Washington move in

India is being denied the uncontested dominance it once held. The task ahead is not to restore the old hierarchy but to find a new path.

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The View | Why Hong Kong’s student housing market faces race against time

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Opinion | Hong Kong’s lawmakers don’t need to be coddled

27 Jul 2026 - 9:30AM

Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | The one voice Hong Kong can’t ignore on ride-hailing? The public

The government must keep its promise to review and adjust permit quotas – or face a backlash from commuters.

27 Jul 2026 - 5:30AMvideocam

An Uber Taxi advertisement at Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, on November 21, 2023. Ride-hailing services have captured 22 per cent of Hong Kong’s point-to-point transport market with 114,000 daily trips. Photo: Jelly Tse

Opinion

My Take | The West should stop blaming China for its economic woes

US is so deindustrialised and EU so uncompetitive that they will not be able to meet the demands of Chinese consumers if the mainland market is flung open to them.

27 Jul 2026 - 5:02AM

Asia Opinion

Opinion | America’s North Korea strategy needs a dose of reality

Washington’s dogged insistence on denuclearisation first has led to a prolonged deadlock that has only widened Pyongyang’s options.

26 Jul 2026 - 8:30PMvideocam

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China Opinion

Opinion | How China aims to turn household savings into a tech financing machine

The old chain of savings flowing into bank deposits is being replaced by one where they are sent into capital markets and tech investment.

26 Jul 2026 - 5:36PMvideocam

An electronic board shows Shanghai stock indices as people walk on a pedestrian bridge in the Lujiazui financial district in Shanghai on March 2. Photo: Reuters

Opinion

Asian Angle | Decades of talk, zero barrels stored: why can’t Asean stockpile oil?

The Iran war energy crisis revived Asean’s joint reserve plans. To avoid another shelved ambition, the bloc needs swift, binding action.

26 Jul 2026 - 2:30PM

Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | 4 ways Hong Kong can shape its future – and the world’s

By focusing on its foundational and emerging strengths, as well as its global potential, the city can adapt to a world in flux.

26 Jul 2026 - 9:30AMvideocam

World Opinion

Opinion | The West is debating AI’s future with half the world absent

Any meaningful debate must include China, where the AI experiment is also running, at greater speed and scale and with different results.

26 Jul 2026 - 5:30AMvideocam

A woman poses next to humanoid robots by Spirit AI at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 18. Photo: AFP

Opinion

My Take | Judge’s actions could harm public confidence in Hong Kong’s system of justice

Justice Wilson Chan has been found to have extensively and improperly copied legal arguments in a ruling. And it is not the first time he has done so.

25 Jul 2026 - 11:18PM

Mr Justice Wilson Chan Ka-shun was found to have improperly copied legal arguments in a 2024 ruling. Photo: Handout

World Opinion

Macroscope | Who pays when overheated roads melt and rails buckle?

Costs are mounting from the damage caused by extreme weather on roads, railways, bridges and other basic infrastructure.

25 Jul 2026 - 4:30PMvideocam

Opinion

Asian Angle | Cambodia’s war on scammers needs a blueprint built to last

Rounding up foot soldiers is easy. The hard part is tracing cash, exposing high-level enablers and protecting coerced victims.

25 Jul 2026 - 12:00PMvideocam

China Opinion

Being Chinese | The self-sacrificing Chinese mother I never wanted to become

By always stepping in, I enabled my husband to step back. But the consequences of years of unequal parenting became impossible to ignore.

25 Jul 2026 - 9:30AM

Anxious parents wave as their children emerge from the National Higher Education Entrance Examination at a high school in Beijing in 1998. In Chinese society in the 1980s and 1990s, the self-sacrificing mother could be seen and heard everywhere. Photo: AP

China Opinion

Opinion | China’s AI vision gives the Global South a seat at the table

A new global AI body gives Beijing the platform to push for affordable access and technological autonomy, framing AI as a public good.

25 Jul 2026 - 5:30AMvideocam

Illustration: Mario Cameira

World Opinion

As I see it | How the death of Argos, Odysseus’ faithful dog, still haunts us

The quiet, devastating reunion of master and dog, recently given the Hollywood treatment, remains one of the most poignant scenes in Western literature.

24 Jul 2026 - 8:30PM

World Opinion

Outside In | Why Donald Trump may regret reheating his global trade war

Over the coming months, efforts to China-proof supply chains are likely to drive US foreign policy. Success, however, is unlikely to follow.

24 Jul 2026 - 8:49PM

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Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | Is Hong Kong doing enough to lose its top spot for expensive housing?

For all the city’s recent successes, the benefits are not translating to more affordable lives for many Hongkongers.

20 Jul 2026 - 9:30AMvideocam

The monthly rent for this cage home in Sham Shui Po, measuring less than 20 sq ft in size, was HK$2,500 in 2024. Photo: Dickson Lee

China Opinion

Opinion | Can Russia and China ever have a truly equal relationship?

In a partnership in which one side relies on the other for both export revenues and critical imports, the notion of equality is questionable.

19 Jul 2026 - 8:30PMvideocam

China Opinion

Opinion | Why China is untangling its banks from the property wreckage

Authorities are rewiring financial architecture to address the systemic risk, breaking the deep structural ties between property and banking.

19 Jul 2026 - 5:28PMvideocam

Opinion

My Take | Churches must ensure that complaints of sexual abuse are taken seriously

As the city prepares for a sex crime legislation overhaul, every community sector should work to ensure that people are free from harassment.

18 Jul 2026 - 10:28PM

St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, regarded as the heart of Catholicism. File photo: Reuters

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMERICA!

SCMP managing editor Yonden Lhatoo sings a totally different tune to wish America a happy 250th anniversary.

HELP, WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE

US-Israel war on Iran is as reckless and catastrophic as it is stupid and illegal

THEY WON’T EVEN LET US MOURN IN PEACE!

Yonden Lhatoo has a go at those who are politicising Hong Kong’s fire tragedy

Super stupid behaviour during a super typhoon

Super stupid behaviour during a super typhoon in Hong Kong

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