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SCMP 115th Anniversary: All stories

SCMP 115th Anniversary: All stories
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This 115-year-old newspaper was founded to start a revolution
SCMP 115th Anniversary

This 115-year-old newspaper was founded to start a revolution

The South China Morning Post, of which Inkstone is a unit, is celebrating its 115th anniversary. Over its long history, it has had multiple owners and has reinvented itself many times, most recently as an international media company focusing on the global China story. Grace Tsoi takes you back to when it all began.

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How people survived without smartphones 115 years ago

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The Post: 115 years of unparalleled reporting on all things China and Asia

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SCMP 115th Anniversary x Young Post: Giving Hong Kong teens a voice

Youth engagement has long been important to the South China Morning Post. It published Children’s Corner – its first youth supplement – on March 11, 1951, as a Sunday feature, then launched Young Post-Herald, also on Sundays, on January 7, 1968. This was the forerunner of today’s Sunday Young Post.

SCMP 115th Anniversary x Young Post: Giving Hong Kong teens a voice
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Three South China Morning Post readers reflect on 115 years of news

The South China Morning Post published its first edition on November 6, 1903. As it now marks its 115th anniversary, three readers reflect on its importance to Hong Kong as a window to the English-speaking world and a gauge on public views.

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Carrie Lam on the Post’s connection to community as it marks 115 years

The SCMP, Hong Kong’s major English-language daily newspaper, boasts a team of more than 300 reporters, editors, photographers and other media professionals. They are based not only in Hong Kong but in the paper’s four mainland Chinese bureaus (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen) and two United States bureaus (New York City and Washington).

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Editor-in-Chief Tammy Tam celebrates 115 years of the Post

Birthdays are a time for celebration but also provide a good opportunity to reflect on the past and look ahead to the future. The 115th anniversary of the South China Morning Post is no exception.

Editor-in-Chief Tammy Tam (centre) with members of the 24/7 newsgathering team at the South China Morning Post’s headquarters in Times Square, Causeway Bay. Photo: Dickson Lee
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Post celebrates 115 years of helping bring the community together

Supporting charitable causes, highlighting unsung heroes, and spurring debate – the Post has always been at the heart of the community.

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A look back at 115 years of letters to the editor at the Post

Empires rise and fall, governments come and go, economies soar and sink, but some reader gripes are eternal.

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Revolution always on the mind of Post co-founder Tse Tsan-tai

Tse Tsan-tai, driving force behind establishment of newspaper, did not see Post as just a commercial endeavour, it became a platform for advocating the reform movement.

City. A newspaper born of revolution.__Illustration: Emilio Rivera
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Celebrating Hong Kong’s most famous photojournalist Chan Kiu

Former South China Morning Post chief photographer talks dark rooms, developing and dodging rioters to get the perfect picture.

Chan Kiu, former chief photographer of the South China Morning Post. Photo: Dickson Lee
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Newspaper bets on digital growth as it celebrates 115th anniversary

The newspaper, founded in Hong Kong in 1903, is now read more by Americans, other international readers curious to learn about China.

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The Post has had nine offices in 115 years. Here’s why it moved each time

From Central to Quarry Bay to Causeway Bay via Tai Po, the Post’s various office moves often broke new ground in Hong Kong’s media landscape.

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Sars, typhoons and war camps: how SCMP history mirrors Hong Kong's

The South China Morning Post has been a barometer of daily life in Hong Kong since it was founded 115 years ago. From its earliest days, the paper campaigned for more enlightened governance, and the newspaper’s reporters have experienced the same highs and lows as the rest of the city, including such indignities as being barred from society, detained in POW camps and being targets of rioting mobs

From war camps to Occupy: how South China Morning Post covered Hong Kong history
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Exciting times ahead as the Post turns 115

As in the past, our pages will continue to provide reliable, objective, fair and independent coverage of events shaping Hong Kong, mainland China and the world

Exciting times ahead as the Post turns 115
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Opinion | Three decades with the Post: we have changed, my principles haven’t

The Post has evolved, changed hands and moved offices over the past few decades, but why journalists do what they do should not change.

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Eight fastest-growing jobs benefiting from government policy and technology

New technologies create new jobs, but government policy and the social environment also play a part in shaping trends in the job market. While it’s never easy to predict the most popular jobs for the upcoming year, some jobs do look to have rosier prospects than others.

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Eight new jobs facilitated by technological innovation

The British newspaper the Daily Mail once ranked the greatest technological inventions of the 21st century in order. The shortlist included the iPhone, Facebook, YouTube, and 4G, all of which have markedly changed our way of life. These technologies have redefined the workforce, too. 

Eight new jobs facilitated by technological innovation
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Eight jobs of a bygone era

In the past 50 years, Hong Kong has transformed from a centre of industry into a service-based, knowledge-driven economy thanks to universal education and advances in technology. In the process, many new jobs have been created while traditional ones, mostly in light industry and manufacturing, have been radically redefined or consigned to oblivion. 

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Technology takes recruitment sector into new era

The fundamental objectives of recruitment have changed little over the years. It is basically still about attracting the best individuals available and getting them up to speed as quickly as possible.

Fashion

12 designers who shaped our sense of style

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115 years in fashion: 12 designers who shaped our sense of style
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Six of Hong Kong’s biggest achievements in Post’s 115-year history

With the South China Morning Post’s 115th anniversary hot on the heels of the express rail link and ‘mega bridge’ to Macau and Zhuhai opening, we celebrate six transport milestones that demonstrate how dynamic Hong Kong has never been a city to sit still.

A rickshaw in Hong Kong circa 1971. Picture: SCMP
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