South China Morning Post

SCMP Publishers Limited

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About this app

The South China Morning Post (SCMP) has been the most authoritative voice reporting on China and Asia for more than a century. As Hong Kong’s English-language newspaper of record, our international team of Asia experts, reporters, journalists, photographers and filmmakers are dedicated to providing breaking news and analysis from Hong Kong, China and beyond.

Our unique home base of Hong Kong allows us to have in-depth understanding of the China story from an insider’s perspective, while enjoying a high level of press freedom and independence granted by the city’s special constitutional principle of “One country, two systems”. Today, our dedication to representing the region with our editorial motto, “truth and fairness” is more relevant than ever before.

Our new app is our biggest app update ever. The update lets you explore curated content tailored to your news interests with My News, and informs you on the stories that matter to you with the redesigned top menu that allows you customise your reading preferences.

AWARD-WINNING JOURNALISM
Download the South China Morning Post app and receive instant access to the SCMP’s award-winning journalism including coverage of the latest breaking news, both regionally and globally, including: Coronavirus, US-China trade war and tech war, Biden vs Xi Jinping, the Hong Kong National Security law, Hong Kong protests and electoral changes, China military, South China Sea news, China’s relations with the EU, India and Australia, health and wellness, fashion and lifestyle updates, climate change and much much more.

KEY FEATURES
Breaking news alerts to keep you updated with exclusives, explainers, live coverage and developing stories
Article bookmarking to save your favourite features and articles
‘My News’ - Follow your favourite topic/author and get five daily stories curated for you, plus a personalised feed of our most popular content
Customisable top menu so you can move what matters to the top
Resigned quick-access menu to browse articles with ease and speed
Store articles under ‘Reading history’ for later browsing

CONTENT AND COVERAGE
Keep informed with the latest Hong Kong and China headlines, opinion pieces, plus stories from the rest of the world
Full access to all SCMP content, including publications such as Post Magazine, This Week in Asia and Style
Full access to SCMP’s award-winning journalism including Hong Kong news, China news, Asia news, Business, Politics, Economy, Lifestyle, Tech, Health, and Sports
Wide-range of regional topics from our Asia experts including North Korea, South China Sea tensions, China’s Economy, Belt and Road, K-pop, as-well-as a spotlight on China’s tech-giants such as Tencent, Baidu, Bytedance, and Alibaba, Huawei and Xiaomi
Explore new ways to discover our insightful, unique content and current issues with SCMP Films, SCMP Spotlight and SCMP Podcasts, plus video, infographics, pictures and special reports

TERMS OF USE
All content in the South China Morning Post is copyright South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd 2020. All rights reserved. Terms of use and privacy policy apply when accessing content via the South China Morning Post app.

Privacy policy:
https://www.scmp.com/privacy-policy

Terms and conditions:
https://www.scmp.com/terms-conditions

Feedback and Enquiries:
If you have questions or concerns, please contact us at [e-mail] or (852) 2565 9388. Your feedback is important to us. If you have any suggestions for how we can improve the app please email us.

Support:
The app has been designed to run on Android OS versions 5 and above.

Ratings and reviews

As with all news sources, there is a taste of their political bias in their articles. Even with this bias, I trust it as a source of reliable information, although i use it in combination with multiple other news outlets to get the complete picture. The app itself is pretty great, with a sleek and simple interface that mimics but is not a cut and paste job of the desktop website.

I have used it for over a year now. It is slow and takes forever to refresh. So a fast WiFi is a prerequisite. My primary problem with the South China Morning Post is not as impartial as it likes people to think it is. It is just a bit slower in presenting news favorable to China and just a bit less space is devoted to what China can do, within its current constraints, including its political structure, to better handle its problems.

A great newspaper is committing suicide with this dreadful app. When it was free it worked beautifully and it was easy to navigate. I wouldn''t mind paying for the content but the app is so bad; screen freezes, scroll is sticky, layout appalling and incoherent, that I just give up. It's a mystery to me how they could have destroyed such a great app at the same moment they went behind a paywall. But sadly I have to give up and uninstall.

What's new

- Performance optimisation
- General bug fixes