South China Morning Post

The South China Morning Post (Chinese:????; Cantonese {{IPA2|n?m11 w?11 ts??35 b??33}}, Jyutping: naam4 waa4 zou2 bou3; Mandarin Pinyin: nán huá z?o bào) (also referred to as the SCMP) and its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is the leading English language newspaper in Hong Kong published by the SCMP Group. The current Group Editor-in-Chief is David Armstrong.

Online ventures

Launched online in December 1996, there are four online versions for different audiences: world.scmp.com, hongkong.scmp.com, asia.scmp.com and china.scmp.com. The online version is a subscription-based service, which also allows the retrieval of archive articles dating back from 1993. A division of the SCMP, www.totallyhk.com, was launched in April to provide a guide to lifestyle, events and entertainment in Hong Kong.

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In 1997, the SCMP provided 30 hours of non-stop live coverage via webcast of the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China.

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