HONG KONG, 14 February 2022 – The South China Morning Post (SCMP) announced today the release of ‘Year of the Tiger: Same Routine, New Stripes’, a limited series of illustrations by award winning political cartoonist Harry Harrison via an online auction starting on 24 February, 1100hrs (HKT).

The auction features a selection of six one-of-a-kind framed illustrations by Harrison, a longtime contributor to the Post. Regarded as one of Hong Kong’s top political cartoonists for over 20 years, his drawings perfectly depict all the foibles, quirks and contradictions of life in the city grappling with the Covid pandemic as the city heralds the Year of the Tiger in 2022. 

With the use of a pen and watercolours, Harrison not only captures the tone of the new normal after Covid, but also skillfully conveys a satirical take on the existential sentiment and cultural paradox of living in Hong Kong during the pandemic.

“The collection is largely inspired by observing how the covid pandemic reveals Hong Kong’s stripes as the city turns the page in 2022. The Year of the Tiger offers a fresh take on how we have been living under the pandemic and I hope the series brings some much-needed humour and levity to those who appreciate my cartoons,” said Harrison.

The six pieces, namely ‘Skin Deep’, ‘The Poisoned Chalice’, ‘The Covid Treadmill’, ‘The Negative Test’, ‘Hysteria’, and ‘No Exemption’, will be auctioned online at SCMP Shop on 24 February starting from 11:00am (HKT). The minimum starting bid for each piece is HK$2,022 with bid increments of HK$200. 

Harrison drew his first cover cartoon for the Post a week after the handover in 1997 and since 2001, his work appears every day in ‘Harry’s View’.  His art has delighted the Post’s daily readers for over two decades with its signature style and skillful comic rendering of current events.

Interested parties can visit here for more information. 

 

ABOUT SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST 

The South China Morning Post is a leading global news company that has reported on China and Asia for more than a century. Founded in 1903, SCMP is headquartered in Hong Kong, where it is the city’s newspaper of record, with a growing correspondent staff across Asia and the United States. SCMP’s vision is to “Elevate Thought” and our mission is to “Lead the global conversation about China”. It is the recipient of hundreds of awards for its journalistic excellence, from such prestigious organisations as the World Association of News Publishers and the Online News Association. A digital-first media organisation, SCMP is also home to Goldthread, a content platform with a focus on food, travel and culture in China, and publishes a portfolio of premium lifestyle and fashion titles in Hong Kong including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire and Harper’s BAZAAR. In 2020, SCMP became the first news organisation in Asia to join the Trust Project, a consortium of top news companies developing global transparency standards for credible journalism.

About Harry Harrison 

Harry Harrison was born in Britain in 1961, but is every bit a Hongkonger after 27 years here. He met the love of his life, Helena, while backpacking through the city in 1990. Four years later, the couple came back, settled down and had two children – Charlie and Lucy. It was also in Hong Kong where he found his calling as a political cartoonist for the Post. He drew his first cover cartoon for the Post a week after the handover in 1997 and since 2001, his work appears as the daily Harry’s View cartoon every day of the week. For more than two decades, his art has been a staple that Post readers have come to admire and appreciate, with its signature wry humour that entertains, informs and even educates. He has won many awards and his work has been widely published and recognised overseas, while he has also found fame as an illustrator of children’s books. 

For more information, please contact: 

Jabe Lau

jabe.lau@scmp.com 

 

22 November 2021 (HONG KONG) – ​Harper’s BAZAAR hosted Asia’s inaugural ‘BAZAAR At Work Summit’ today, bringing together inspiring female leaders for empowering talks, thought-provoking panel discussions and unmissable networking opportunities. 

Themed “Connecting Visionary Women”, the interactive summit provides a platform for thought leaders and puts the spotlight on the myriad achievements of female trailblazers and pioneers in Hong Kong. Over the past two years, Harper’s BAZAAR has put the spotlight on female leaders in the city through the BAZAAR At Work initiative. “Our interviews with female leaders in Hong Kong have left us inspired and encouraged by the achievements in their respective fields. We are honored to host this in-person event to celebrate their stories and insights”, said Ms. Sophia Yu, Publisher of Harper’s BAZAAR Hong Kong and Chairperson of the ‘BAZAAR At Work Summit’. 

The half-day summit, held at Rosewood Hong Kong, enjoyed a 200-strong audience who were inspired by topics covering women’s roles in STEM, entrepreneurial spirit, career development and the arts in work and business. Attendees were inspired by stories of reinvention and insights from thought leaders such as Ms. Cindy Chow, Executive Director of Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund, Ms. Zuraidah Ibrahim, Executive Managing Editor, and Ms. Winnie Chung, Editorial Director of Specialist Publications, of the South China Morning Post, Mr. Xaven Mak, Editor-in-Chief of Harper’s BAZAAR, Ms. Anais Mak, Creative Director & Founder of ANAÏS JOURDEN and Ms. Sarah Tong, Co-founder of Big Bang Academy.

During the event, Harper’s BAZAAR Hong Kong also presented the Visionary Women Awards, which aim to recognize and honor high-achieving, outstanding female leaders with impactful visions in different fields. The awardees, who also spoke at ‘BAZAAR At Work Summit’ are role-models who connect, empower and inspire the next generation of women leaders. The seven awardees are Ms. Winnie Chiu, President and Executive Director of Dorsett Hospitality International, Ms. Norma Chu, Founder of DayDayCook, Professor Ava Kwong, Chief of breast surgery at the University of Hong Kong, Ms. Rany Lai, CEO of McDonald’s Hong Kong, Ms. Vicky Lau, Chef Owner of Tate Dining Room, Dr Cathy Lui, CEO of OPER Technology and Ms. Betty Ng, Founder of COLLECTIVE. 

About Harper’s BAZAAR Hong Kong

Part of the South China Morning Post Group, Harper’s BAZAAR Hong Kong started in 1988 as a print magazine that offers luxurious lifestyle content for sophisticated women. Since then, Harper’s BAZAAR Hong Kong has expanded its digital content offerings, reaching more than 1 million audiences on a monthly basis. Harper’s BAZAAR Hong Kong has produced new initiatives  such as “BAZAAR At Work” and “BAZAAR Museum” aimed at broadening offerings that cater to the changing needs of modern Hong Kong women.

For further information, please contact:

Stef Lo

stef.lo@scmp.com

Hong Kong, 23 November 2021 – The South China Morning Post released its full whitepaper today on the ARTIFACT NFT metadata standard for tokenising history, as well as announcing the Post’s inaugural NFT collection on Flow, drawn from its 118-year-old media archives, called ‘ARTIFACTs by SCMP’. 

ARTIFACT’s metadata structure will be built on the Flow blockchain originally created by Dapper Labs, the company behind NBA Top Shot video collectibles and the partner of choice for world-renowned digital collectibles and consumer-facing decentralised applications. Flow’s reliability, scalability, speed, and high quality UX are essential factors for establishing ARTIFACT’s global NFT marketplace and ecosystem.

The whitepaper previews the visual design and rarity levels of the new NFT collection ‘ARTIFACTs by SCMP’ that will feature the first use case of the ARTIFACT standard. Conceptually, the launch will come in the form of ‘Base Series’ and ‘Thematic Drops’, released in boxes. This will include the inaugural ‘1997 Series’ that showcases significant historical events from that year, containing a randomised bundle of ARTIFACTs presented as collectible cards (images here).

“We are delighted to join the Flow ecosystem and partner with a major global blockchain innovator in Dapper Labs. This partnership is essential for creating world-class NFT experiences of our historical archives. Through our ARTIFACT whitepaper, we look forward to inspiring other ‘guardians of history’ to share our vision of making history more discoverable, connected, and collectable,” said Gary Liu, SCMP’s CEO.

“SCMP’s innovative approach to transform its ledgers of historical journalism with blockchain technology has all the markings of being a game-changer. We’re proud for SCMP to launch this visionary project that reanimates meaningful historical moments and we’re excited they have chosen Flow to be the foundation of ARTIFACT’s launch protocol,” said Mickey Maher, SVP, Partnerships, Dapper Labs.

The ARTIFACT whitepaper comprehensively outlines a proposed governance structure and the development of a dedicated marketplace. A global council of cross-disciplinary experts will co-develop ARTIFACT’s metadata structure which imbues NFTs with the comprehensive context and provenance needed to establish historical significance and value, and raises their discoverability, connectivity, and collectibility. The project will be governed by a non-profit foundation and solicit participation from museums, archives, universities, publishers, art galleries, and other institutions. A marketplace will be developed specifically for the minting, sale and trade of ARTIFACTs to serve the global community of historical NFT issuers and collectors.

Details on ARTIFACT’s governance, marketplace and technology are available in the full whitepaper here. More details on the launch of ‘ARTIFACTs by SCMP’ will be announced soon.

ABOUT SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST

The South China Morning Post is a leading global news company that has reported on China and Asia for more than a century. Founded in 1903, SCMP is headquartered in Hong Kong, where it is the city’s newspaper of record, with a growing correspondent staff across Asia and the United States. SCMP’s vision is to “Elevate Thought” and our mission is to “Lead the global conversation about China”. It is the recipient of hundreds of awards for its journalistic excellence, from such prestigious organisations as the World Association of News Publishers and the Online News Association. A digital-first media organisation, SCMP is also home to Goldthread, a content platform with a focus on food, travel and culture in China, and publishes a portfolio of premium lifestyle and fashion titles in Hong Kong including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire and Harper’s BAZAAR. In 2020, SCMP became the first news organisation in Asia to join the Trust Project, a consortium of top news companies developing global transparency standards for credible journalism.

About Flow

Flow is a fast, decentralized, developer-friendly, next-gen blockchain chosen for its combination of scalability and usability, and its commitment to excellence, longevity and empowering communities. Flow is the only layer-one blockchain originally created by a team that has consistently delivered great consumer blockchain experiences including CryptoKitties, Dapper Wallet and NBA Top Shot. 

Flow boasts a rich ecosystem of top entertainment brands, development studios, and venture-backed startups. Flow ecosystem partners include global IP brands like Warner Music, Ubisoft, NBA and UFC; e-commerce leaders Shopify, leading game developers, including Animoca Brands, Sumo Digital and nWay; and many leaders in the crypto space such as Circle and Binance. For more on Flow, visit https://www.flow.com/.  

For further information, please contact:

Stef Lo

stef.lo@scmp.com

Hong Kong, 3 November 2021 – The annual “Operation Santa Claus” (OSC) campaign, jointly organised by Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) and South China Morning Post (SCMP), kicked off today (November 3) at Broadcast Drive announcing 18 beneficiaries for this year’s fundraising drive, and a performing arts initiative aimed at engaging and revitalising disadvantaged communities in Hong Kong.  

The Financial Secretary Paul CHAN Mo-po, Director of Broadcasting Patrick LI Pak-chuen, the South China Morning Post’s CEO Gary LIU and the composer of the OSC theme song Harry NG graced the ceremony.  They were joined by OSC 2021 ambassadors, award-winning actress Crisel CONSUNJI, singer and actress Kandy WONG and artiste Pakho CHAU, who will be supporting the fundraising campaign for his third consecutive year.  Other guests included representatives from beneficiaries and donors. 

In line with this year’s ‘performing arts’ theme, the ceremony featured performances by WONG, who sang the OSC theme song “Caring Christmas” and CONSUNJI who performed two classical songs “Colours of the Wind” and “Don’t Rain on My Parade”.   The young Australian guitar duo, Saxon and Jarvis Whittaker, also surprised guests with a rendition of “Hungarian Rhapsody”.

Eighteen charities were selected as the beneficiaries for this year’s fundraising drive, including NGOs and causes serving children and youths, the elderly and individuals with physical and mental disabilities. 　As part of this year’s campaign, five local artists have minted NFTs to raise funds for OSC 2021.  These new works by a diverse range of creators demonstrate the artistic energy and will be auctioned on crypto art marketplace.　　To encourage active participation from supporting groups, the most outstanding supporters of the OSC will be recognised at the end of the campaign with special awards for categories including “Top Corporate Fundraiser”, “Top School Fundraiser”, “Most Creative Fundraiser”, and “Most Creative School”.  The award list will be announced during the closing ceremony of OSC in January 2022.

The ceremony was hosted by RTHK R3 DJ Alyson HAU and was broadcast live on the RTHK Radio 3 YouTube Channel (youtube.com/c/Radio3RTHK3) and ”Operation Santa Claus HK 愛心聖誕大行動” Facebook page (facebook.com/opsantahk/).  For more information about the OSC campaign, please visit the OSC website (oschk.org) as well as “Operation Santa Claus HK 愛心聖誕大行動” Facebook page.

About Operation Santa Claus

Operation Santa Claus (OSC) is an annual charity campaign jointly run by RTHK and SCMP. Established in 1988, OSC aims to make a difference to the community and beyond by combining the fundraising power of two of the city’s most respected media organisations. Mainly during the months of November and December every year, the public, various non-profit making organisations, commercials and educational sectors in Hong Kong demonstrate their compassion by organising creative fundraising initiatives for specially selected deserving causes.

ABOUT SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST

The South China Morning Post is a leading global news company that has reported on China and Asia for more than a century. Founded in 1903, SCMP is headquartered in Hong Kong, where it is the city’s newspaper of record, with a growing correspondent staff across Asia and the United States. SCMP’s vision is to “Elevate Thought” and our mission is to “Lead the global conversation about China”. It is the recipient of hundreds of awards for its journalistic excellence, from such prestigious organisations as the World Association of News Publishers and the Online News Association. A digital-first media organisation, SCMP is also home to Goldthread, a content platform with a focus on food, travel and culture in China, and publishes a portfolio of premium lifestyle and fashion titles in Hong Kong including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire and Harper’s BAZAAR. In 2020, SCMP became the first news organisation in Asia to join the Trust Project, a consortium of top news companies developing global transparency standards for credible journalism.

For further information, please contact:

Stef Lo

stef.lo@scmp.com

Hong Kong, 26 October 2021 – The South China Morning Post today announced the appointment of David Wightman to the newly created role of Global Head of Advertising. 

The senior-level appointment signals the continued growth of SCMP as a globally recognised and trusted partner to brand advertisers, powered by adtech innovation and data-driven advertising effectiveness.

Wightman will spearhead the on-going growth and international expansion of SCMP’s global advertising business. He will lead a department spanning Hong Kong, mainland China, Asia, USA and Europe, and oversee global media sales, marketing and creative solutions, branded content, events, custom publishing, advertising technology, and sales operations.

“We are delighted to add a leader of David’s global expertise and reputation, and look forward to broadening our business reach and international relevance with his strategic, operational and commercial experience,” said Gary Liu, CEO of SCMP. “His C-suite exposure across the EMEA and APAC markets will greatly benefit SCMP’s growing portfolio of international clients.”

David has more than two decades of industry experience, gained at the intersection of media, data and technology. He has previously built and led local and international sales and operations teams within digital and traditional media companies.

Before joining SCMP, Wightman was based in London as the Group Director of Business Operations for Ebiquity, the world leader in media investment analysis. Prior to this, he was the Managing Director of [M]Platform, where he launched and scaled the regional programmatic, data and technology division of GroupM Asia Pacific. 

As the Chief Operating Officer of GiveMeSport, he overhauled the editorial and content marketing approach, increasing readership, revenues and investment. Earlier in his career, Wightman held senior commercial leadership roles at media organisations, including Geeknet, CBS Interactive, Yahoo!, and Mirror Group Newspapers. 

“I am energised and enthused to be joining SCMP,” said Wightman. “The award-winning history of the brand, coupled with an innovative approach to how we harness data and technology, offers an unprecedented opportunity. I believe the future is very exciting for our company, our advertising partners and our audiences.”

ABOUT SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST

The South China Morning Post is a leading global news company that has reported on China and Asia for more than a century. Founded in 1903, SCMP is headquartered in Hong Kong, where it is the city’s newspaper of record, with a growing correspondent staff across Asia and the United States. SCMP’s vision is to “Elevate Thought” and our mission is to “Lead the global conversation about China”. It is the recipient of hundreds of awards for its journalistic excellence, from such prestigious organisations as the World Association of News Publishers and the Online News Association. A digital-first media organisation, SCMP is also home to Goldthread, a content platform with a focus on food, travel and culture in China, and publishes a portfolio of premium lifestyle and fashion titles in Hong Kong including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire and Harper’s BAZAAR. In 2020, SCMP became the first news organisation in Asia to join the Trust Project, a consortium of top news companies developing global transparency standards for credible journalism.

 

For further information, please contact:

Stef Lo

stef.lo@scmp.com

Hong Kong (October 6  2021) – The South China Morning Post launched the next version of its successful award-winning brand suitability tool SIGNAL 2.0, bolstered with a suite of new functions to help drive optimisation for advertisers and brands. 

Marketing effectiveness and driving impact is essential to marketers. To meet this demand, SCMP Advertising built a proprietary insight and activation technology platform that ensures true performance measurement and enhancement at no extra cost, while aligning with supply path optimization goals and ensuring more media investment is put to work.

SCMP’s SIGNAL has its own viewability and time-in-view measurement for all campaigns and this data has been integrated for optimization and reporting to ensure the Post can deliver quality engagement and post-click action.  This means advertisers can increase their brand familiarity by up to 55% and ad recall by up to 79% with the platform engines’ ability to target ad placements with exposure time beyond five seconds.

Extensive reports and research have shown that one-third of advertising dollars is spent on tech tax, or percentage-wise almost 50% of advertising spend. With the understanding that marketers want to ensure their advertising commitment avoids all possible malicious and fake inventory, SCMP SIGNALensures the immediate identification and exclusion of  spiders &  bot traffic that minimises advertising fraud to help drive effective advertising spend. 

Data collected by the new version of SIGNAL can help brands optimise their activation by making format, content, sentiment recommendations before a campaign goes live by looking at Ad log data from the brand’s  past campaigns as well as aggregated cohort data. Brand Lift studies for all scaled display campaigns have also been introduced to help brands demonstrate the effectiveness of their branding campaigns and measure, awareness, consideration and intent, amongst other insights. 

Ian Hocking, Vice President of Digital said: “This advancement of our proprietary technology clearly demonstrates the value of working directly with a publisher as brands can now reduce their tech costs whilst also driving their overall performance.” 

Timmy Bankole, Associate Director  of Operations said: “SCMP continues to invest in its own advertising technology tools to ensure the best possible result for our advertisers, while ensuring we can continue to provide effective solutions independent of changes to the identity and data privacy marketplace. We also remain committed to transparency and third-party measurement so that brands may measure the uplift for themselves.” 

SCMP SIGNAL 2.0 Factsheet – Activation Optimisation

SCMP’s new version of SIGNAL is essentially one product, with three key features: 

1.     Brand Suitability 
   • Brand safety 
   • Contextual suitability 
   • Ad Fraud detection – NEW
2.   Personalisation – NEW 
3.   Measurement – NEW
   • Viewability 
   • Brand Lift 

SCMP SIGNAL was built in May 2020 and was the first publisher-built brand suitability platform designed to: 

• Keep brands safe whilst on SCMP across all platforms from the first impression. 

Built into our CMS, SIGNAL scores content as it’s written, so you’re safe the moment an article is published.

• Determine the true nature of the article utilising our Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) based A.I. through reading article keywords, context and sentiment.
• Improve your performance by an average of 40% across an average campaign by actively finding content and context that works for you. 

• Increase your reach of key audiences by an average of 25%. Using SIGNALs improved analytics, we can whitelist more content. 

Understand more about our audiences. SIGNAL data is added to our central customer data platform (CDP) 1PlusX and appended to their unique I.D. This data includes: 

•       Contextual content consumption. 
•       Behavioural interest/intent. 
•       Observed sentiment preference. 
•       Reading level – Generalist, advanced or expert. 

Since its launch last year, Signal has gained global recognition, winning Campaign Asia-Pacific’s Tech Most Valuable Product Award (2021) and claiming second place at the INMA Global Awards for the ‘Best Use Of Data to Drive Advertising’.

ABOUT SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST

The South China Morning Post is a leading global news company that has reported on China and Asia for more than a century. Founded in 1903, SCMP is headquartered in Hong Kong, where it is the city’s newspaper of record, with a growing correspondent staff across Asia and the United States. SCMP’s vision is to “Elevate Thought” and our mission is to “Lead the global conversation about China”. Additionally, SCMP publishes a portfolio of premium lifestyle and fashion titles in Hong Kong including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire and Harper’s BAZAAR. SCMP is also home to Goldthread, a content platform with a focus on food, travel and culture in China. In 2020, SCMP became the first news organisation in Asia to join the Trust Project, a consortium of top news companies developing global transparency standards for credible journalism. 

ABOUT SCMP ADVERTISING 

SCMP Advertising’s mission is to help partners make an impact on readers who want to understand global issues from an Asian perspective. Our principal focus is to deliver effective and efficient marketing solutions that engage and activate the right audiences through a comprehensive portfolio of integrated offerings – including SCMP Lighthouse, the first Asia publisher built first-party-data platform that offers marketers unparalleled consumer insights to drive efficiencies by enhancing audience targeting, and SCMP Signal, a proprietary brand suitability tool that offers marketers with customisable contextual, keyword & sentiment targeting options. The award-winning studio Morning Studio offers clients with successful bespoke brand-storytelling solutions. Visit advertising.scmp.com for more information.

For more information, please contact:

Stef Lo

Stef.Lo@scmp.com

HONG KONG, 31 August 2021 – The South China Morning Post released its new annual China Internet Report 2021 today, offering an extensive study on Beijing’s crucial role in shaping the country’s technology ecosystem and unveiling new trends and insights impacting China’s fast-growing internet industry. 

The fourth edition of the China Internet Report examines timely and highly-debated trends in China’s tech industry, analysing risks, challenges and new opportunities as businesses adapt to shifting market dynamics, while revealing emerging new customer segments and demographic shifts. Some of the year’s most significant insights include:

•    Tightening Regulations on Multiple Fronts: Sweeping regulatory crackdowns since the second half of 2020 have focused on four main areas — antitrust, fintech, data protection, and cryptocurrencies. 
•   Bumpy Road Ahead for Chinese Tech IPOs: Chinese tech companies weigh the risk of removal and strict regulations by listing overseas for the economic opportunity or join the growing number of companies going public domestically.
•    Changing Overseas Expansion Plans amid Geopolitical Tensions: Companies are increasingly forced to switch their focus to Southeast Asia or downplay their Chinese origins to look outside their established markets, because of growing tensions between China and other countries.
•   Shifting Demographics Highlighting Underserved Internet User Segments: The evolving demographic of internet users has created the rise of new niche customer segments. The ‘silver economy’, ‘sheconomy’ and under-penetrated sinking markets in third-tier cities and rural areas are heated battlegrounds for businesses competing for growth.
•    Growing Focus on Private-domain Traffic: eCommerce brands opt to create private-domain traffic and build direct communication channels with customers because of rising customer acquisition costs.

“Given the sheer size of China’s internet sector and its intertwined relationship with the global financial system, evolving regulations and market fundamentals will have significant implications for the entire world,” said Gary Liu, CEO of the South China Morning Post. “This year’s edition provides essential reading on the new phase of change in this digital ecosystem and a curated look behind those trends.”

“Technology transforms how every industry operates in China,” said Edith Yeung, General Partner with Race Capital and co-creator of the China Internet Report. “With over 1,800 companies raising over $41.1 billion in 2020, China is a leading market for technological development and investment, so it’s essential for investors, CEOs and operators to learn and gain insights on the Chinese market to stay ahead of the innovation curve.” 

Race Capital is a supporting partner of the China Internet Report 2021. 

Download the free China Internet Report 2021 at http://sc.mp/cir-2021. A more comprehensive China Internet Report 2021 Pro Edition is also available for purchase here, which includes additional, exclusive deep-dives into ten key sectors of the tech market with in-depth case studies and expert commentaries that provide unprecedented insights from technology insiders and industry leaders. 

 

China Internet Report 2021 – Executive Summary

The China Internet Report 2021 provides an annual update on the industry and is a must-read for global businesses and investors, finance professionals, policy-makers, marketing, technologists, academics. 

Following a period of rapid growth and innovation, the China internet sector enters a new phase of development with both push and pull factors driving internet companies to evolve. Tightening regulation, increasingly saturated domestic markets with changing demographics, and geopolitical tensions are influencing companies to look outside their established markets, pivot business models, focus on new customer segments, and adapt to shifting dynamics to remain competitive and capture funding opportunities.

China is the world’s biggest digital market with 989 million internet users that is larger than the populations of the U.S.A, Russia, Mexico, Germany, UK, France, and Canada combined. It remains on a growth trend with 85 million new internet users in the past year alone. 

Here are the top five trends from this year’s China Internet Report:

Tightening Regulations on Multiple Fronts

China’s tech industry has been hit by sweeping regulatory crackdowns since the second half of 2020, driven by Beijing’s desire to better align the country’s technology development with national strategic goals and public interests. The tightening has focused on four areas — antitrust, fintech, cybersecurity and data privacy, as well as cryptocurrencies.

Bumpy Road Ahead for Chinese Tech IPOs

Chinese tech companies are facing increasingly difficult decisions on where to go public. Geopolitical tensions and relaxed listing rules in Hong Kong are leading to more listed companies seeking secondary listings closer to home. For start-ups, China’s tightening screws on overseas listings and regulatory oversight in the mainland are adding further complications.

Changing Overseas Expansion Plans amid Geopolitical Tensions

Chinese tech companies are changing their global expansion strategies to cope with intensifying geopolitical tensions. Some find success by switching focus back to Southeast Asia while a new generation downplays their Chinese origins.

Shifting Demographics Highlighting Underserved Internet User Segments

China’s demographics are quickly changing, creating new niche segments to compete over. The silver economy, the sheconomy, and “sinking” markets are three of the most heated battlefronts.

Growing Focus on Private-domain Traffic

E-commerce brands have relied on paid ads offered by platforms to acquire and re-target customers. Slowing growth has pushed up the cost of customer acquisition. Brands are now paying more attention to private-domain traffic as they look to build direct communication channels with customers and engage them directly to drive repeat repurchases.

 

ABOUT SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST

The South China Morning Post is a leading global news company that has reported on China and Asia for more than a century. Founded in 1903, SCMP is headquartered in Hong Kong, where it is the city’s newspaper of record, with a growing correspondent staff across Asia and the United States. SCMP’s vision is to “Elevate Thought” and our mission is to “Lead the global conversation about China”. It is the recipient of hundreds of awards for its journalistic excellence, from such prestigious organisations as the World Association of News Publishers and the Online News Association. A digital-first media organisation, SCMP is also home to Goldthread, a content platform with a focus on food, travel and culture in China, and publishes a portfolio of premium lifestyle and fashion titles in Hong Kong including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire and Harper’s BAZAAR. In 2020, SCMP became the first news organisation in Asia to join the Trust Project, a consortium of top news companies developing global transparency standards for credible journalism.

ABOUT RACE CAPITAL 

Race Capital in an early stage venture capital fund focuses on investing in exceptional founders who are building market-transforming companies in the data, enterprise, infrastructure, and fintech sectors. Our previous investments include FTX, Goodnotes, Opaque Systems, Social Chat, Polysign, Slack (NYSE: WORK), Agora.io (NASDAQ: API), Solana, and many other great companies.

 

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HONG KONG, 9 August 2021 – The South China Morning Post announced today the launch of its Group Subscription product that provides unparalleled intelligence and insights on China, tailored for enterprises and corporate organisations.  

SCMP’s Group Subscription packages offer holistic solutions that combine comprehensive award-winning news reporting and industry insights, that illuminate global trends as the epicentre of global economic growth continues to shift towards Asia. 

Group subscribers can access all the latest news coverage on international trade, finance technology, geo-economic policies, as well as environment, sustainability and governance trends. Exclusive member benefits will include policy briefings, research and industry reports, access to flagship events and conferences, and invite-only conversations with a community of globally influential senior executives, China experts and SCMP editors.

“It is increasingly essential to understand nuances in global trends to keep ahead of the competition in a fast-changing environment,” said Ang Jin, SCMP’s Senior Vice President leading the enterprise subscription business. “SCMP’s Group Subscriptions are designed for professionals to make well-informed decisions with customised news and industry intelligence and to help navigate complex economic, business and political issues. As a product aligned to organisational needs, we believe it is an investment that will see invaluable benefits in return.” 

SCMP recently launched a global brand campaign to communicate its ‘Understand China, Understand the World’ value proposition, demonstrating its mission to lead the global conversation about China. SCMP positions itself as an important resource for readers looking to acquire a more complete understanding of global trends.

Interested parties can visit the SCMP Group Subscription page for more details.

ABOUT SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST

The South China Morning Post is a leading global news company that has reported on China and Asia for more than a century. Founded in 1903, SCMP is headquartered in Hong Kong, where it is the city’s newspaper of record, with a growing correspondent staff across Asia and the United States. SCMP’s vision is to “Elevate Thought” and our mission is to “Lead the global conversation about China”. It is the recipient of hundreds of awards for its journalistic excellence, from such prestigious organisations as the World Association of News Publishers and the Online News Association. A digital-first media organisation, SCMP is also home to Goldthread, a content platform with a focus on food, travel and culture in China, and publishes a portfolio of premium lifestyle and fashion titles in Hong Kong including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire and Harper’s BAZAAR. In 2020, SCMP became the first news organisation in Asia to join the Trust Project, a consortium of top news companies developing global transparency standards for credible journalism.

For more information, please contact:

elgan.kua@scmp.com

stef.lo@scmp.com

HONG KONG, 19 July 2021 — The South China Morning Post announced today its  ‘ARTIFACT’ Litepaper, advocating a standardised metadata structure for recording accounts of history and historical assets on the blockchain as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). 

The Post believes that factual accounts of history and authentic historical assets should be immutable, and that ownership of these digitised and tokenised assets, which are part of our collective human experience, should be decentralised. 

NFTs make it possible to achieve both objectives, and SCMP aims to create a standardised metadata structure that anyone can use to tokenise history as NFTs, which will be called ‘ARTIFACTs’. This provides the foundation on which history can be discovered, connected, and collected in a meaningful way. 

The Post plans to showcase the use of this standard with an NFT collection drawn from the organisation’s historical archives under the name ‘ARTIFACTs by SCMP’. By tokenising key moments from SCMP’s 118-year-old collection of media assets, it aims to take the first steps towards creating greater value from the news organisation’s “first drafts of history.” 

“The South China Morning Post is committed to engaging and educating a global audience with information and technology,” said Gary Liu, SCMP CEO. “Blockchain offers immense potential to immutably preserve journalism that witnesses and explains history. The ‘ARTIFACT’ project is an opportunity to discover, collect, showcase, trade, and reanimate meaningful moments and objects from our collective human experience and we are excited to introduce this standard to the world.”

The ‘ARTIFACT’ project will begin with a few selected blockchains, with the intention to be chain-agnostic in the long-run. At launch, the ability to issue authenticated ‘ARTIFACTs’ will be available to a group of trusted partners who are globally recognised owners and guardians of authentic historical assets. The project roadmap includes plans for a decentralised authentication process that will eventually allow for anyone to tokenise assets using the ‘ARTIFACT’ standard.

The Post has recently announced a strategic partnership with The Sandbox, a leading decentralised gaming virtual world, to bring to life its 118 years of journalism about Hong Kong and China in the metaverse. This partnership is also a testament to how the Post is continuing to advocate for information accessibility through new technologies, innovation and creativity. 

The ‘ARTIFACT’ Litepaper is the Post’s first step on the ARTIFACTs journey. In the coming months, SCMP will work towards achieving its vision by launching ‘ARTIFACTs by SCMP’ and inviting other partners to tokenise accounts of history and historical assets as ‘ARTIFACTs’. SCMP will also explore how best to serve a community of collectors via an ‘ARTIFACTs’ platform and marketplace, along with the creation of a Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO) to decentralise long term project governance.

Visit https://artifact.scmp.com to download a copy of SCMP’s ‘ARTIFACT’ Litepaper. 

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HONG KONG, 11 June 2021 – The South China Morning Post ‘China Conference: Hong Kong’ takes place as a virtual conference from 15-17 June featuring former Chief Executive Hon. Leung Chun-ying, as well as Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Hon. Edward Yau Tang-wah as leading keynote speakers. 

Themed “Formulating Hong Kong’s emergence out of crisis”, the three-day conference convenes business leaders, government officials, academics and entrepreneurs from Hong Kong, mainland China and the international community to discuss Hong Kong’s immediate future, and a blueprint that can navigate the city towards positive and sustained growth. 

The agenda will focus on a wide array of topics including new avenues of growth for Hong Kong’s key industries, deliberating the future of work for its workforce, as well as the city’s long-term position within the Greater China framework and Beijing’s 14th five-year plan. 

Mr Leung, currently Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, will lead as the keynote speaker and share important perspectives on Hong Kong’s future as a financial and commercial hub and how legislative changes may impact this city’s business landscape. Mr Yau will offer insights on how policymakers are striving to rejuvenate Hong Kong’s economy.

The conference will provide an unparalleled lens into how Hong Kong can overcome one of the toughest challenges in its history by featuring perspectives from local and international experts. Notable speakers include Amar Gill, Managing Director & Head of Investment Stewardship, APAC, BlackRock; Ashley Alder, Chief Executive Officer, Securities and Futures Commission; Laura M Cha, Chairman, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd; Tara Joseph, President, American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong; James Liang, Co-founder & Executive Chairman of the Board, Trip.com Group; Dr Ted Suen, Chief Information Officer, MTR Corporation Limited; Siddharth Tiwari, Chief Representative for Asia and the Pacific, Bank for International Settlements; and Fuller Yu, Chief Information Security Officer, Hospital Authority Hong Kong.

Please refer to the full agenda here and the appendix attached for the full list of speakers. Kindly visit www.chinaconference.hk for more information. 

 

China Conference: Hong Kong speakers

• The Hon. Leung Chun-ying, GBM, GBS, JP, Vice Chairman, National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, People’s Republic of China
• The Hon. Edward Yau Tang-wah, GBS, JP, Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
• Amar Gill, Managing Director & Head of Investment Stewardship, APAC, BlackRock
• Ashley Alder, Chief Executive Officer, Securities and Futures Commission
• Selim Baek, Business Development, OKEx
• Laura M Cha, GBM, GBS, JP, Chairman, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd
• Joyce Chan, Partner, Clyde & Co.
• Nick Chan, MH, Vice Chairman, eBRAM International Online Dispute Resolution Centre
• David Chao, Global Market Strategist, Asia Pacific, Invesco
• Alan Chiu, Managing Partner, ELLALAN
• Cynthia Chung, Partner, Deacons
• Paul Colwell, Head of Advisory Portfolio Group & Senior Director, Investments Asia, Willis Towers Watson
• David Dodwell, Executive Director, Hong Kong-APEC Trade Policy Study Group
• Steven Fok, Head of Technology Risk Management, livi bank
• Ryan Fung, Chief Executive, Ping An OneConnect Bank
• Tom Gaffney, Regional Managing Director, CBRE Hong Kong
• Lucy Gazmararian, Founder & Managing Partner, Token Bay Capital
• Joanne Ho, Chief Operating Officer – Fung Academy, Fung Group
• Rockson Hsu, Chief Executive Officer, ZA Bank
• Cristal Hui, Head of Data Governance and Analytics, AIA Hong Kong
• Davon Hui, Co-founder & CEO, Blutech.io
• Prof. Witman Hung, JP, Principal Liaison Officer for Hong Kong, Shenzhen Qianhai Authority
• Tara Joseph, President, American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong
• Olivia Lai, Managing Director – Hong Kong, Global Institute For Tomorrow
• Kennas Lam, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Asia-Pacific, Johnson Controls
• Lawrence Lam, Chief Executive & Consumer Business Manager, Citibank Hong Kong
• Carman Lau, Group Head of Talent Acquisition, Jardine Matheson
• Eva Lee, Head Hong Kong Equities, UBS Global Wealth Management Chief Investment Office
• Prof. Jyh-An Lee, Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Gilbert Li, Corporate Partner & Co-Head, China Equity Capital Markets, Linklaters
• Nana Li, Research and Project Director, China, Asian Corporate Governance Association
• James Liang, Co-founder & Executive Chairman of the Board, Trip.com Group
• Clarence Ling, Co-founder, Ztore.com
• Gary Liu, Chief Executive Officer, South China Morning Post
• Vivian Lo, General Manager, Customer Experience and Design, Cathay Pacific Airways
• Christine Loh, Chief Development Strategist, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Dr Lawrence Ma, President, Hong Kong Blockchain Society
• Joe Ngai, JP, Senior Partner and Managing Partner, McKinsey Greater China
• Hanah Paik, Asia Pacific Lead, Cities, States and Regions, CDP
• Susan Poon, Chief Information Officer, TK Elevator
• Hong Qiu, Managing Director & Chief Operating Officer, Greater China, Lazard Greater China
• James Quinn, Managing Director, Q9 Capital
• Rob Sheffield, Managing Director – Greater China, Morgan Mckinley
• Hendrick Sin, President, Internet Professional Association
• Dr Ted Suen, MH, Chief Information Officer, MTR Corporation Limited
• Haochen Sun, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law
• Debra Tan, Director & Head, China Water Risk
• Siddharth Tiwari, Chief Representative for Asia and the Pacific, Bank for International Settlements
• Tony Á. Verb, Founder, GreaterBay Ventures & Advisors; Co-founder, Carbonless Asia
• Gabriel Wilson-Otto, Director, Sustainable Investing, Fidelity International
• Julia Wang, Executive Director & Global Market Strategist, J.P. Morgan Private Bank
• Allan Wong, Director of Information Technology, Hong Kong Baptist University
• Andy Wong, Head of Innovation and Technology, InvestHK
• Mike Wong, Chief Executive Officer, The Chamber of Hong Kong Listed Companies
• Yvonne Wong, General Manager, Qianhai International Liaison Services Limited
• Carl Wu, Chief Executive Officer, New Frontier
• Damien Wu, Director of Business Transformation and Innovation, Chinachem Group
• Zhang Yang, Director, Debt Origination and Advisory, Asia Pacific, Crédit Agricole CIB
• Gary Yeung, MH, President, Smart City Consortium
• Briana Young, Professional Support Consultant & Foreign Legal Consultant, Herbert Smith Freehills
• Fuller Yu, Chief Information Security Officer, Hospital Authority Hong Kong
• Dr Mingpeng Zhao, Founder, Han-Peng Assisted Reproductive Technology Limited
  
  
  

About the South China Morning Post

The South China Morning Post is a leading global news company that has reported on China and Asia for more than a century. Founded in 1903, SCMP is headquartered in Hong Kong, where it is the city’s newspaper of record, with a growing correspondent staff across Asia and the United States. SCMP’s vision is to “Elevate Thought” and our mission is to “Lead the global conversation about China”. It is the recipient of hundreds of awards for its journalistic excellence, from such prestigious organizations as the World Association of News Publishers and the Online News Association. A digital-first media organization, SCMP is also home to Goldthread, a content platform with a focus on food, travel and culture in China, and publishes a portfolio of premium lifestyle and fashion titles in Hong Kong including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire and Harper’s BAZAAR. In 2020, SCMP became the first news organisation in Asia to join the Trust Project, a consortium of top news companies developing global transparency standards for credible journalism.

About the China Conference

South China Morning Post’s China Conference was first launched in 2015 with the aim of setting the agenda for China watchers, business leaders and government officials around the world. Convening hundreds of thought-leaders at each event, renowned experts have debated pressing issues surrounding the world’s second-largest economy, and fostered better understanding and elevated thought about China’s culture, society, industries and economy. The event has been held in Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and the United States. Visit http://www.chinaconference.hk for more details.

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