As the gaming world eagerly awaits Grand Theft Auto VI, rumoured to allow players to enter over 40 per cent of its virtual buildings, scientists in Shanghai have quietly achieved something far ...

Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. China’s ‘national team’ intervenes to stabilise ...

Set in 1930s Shanghai, in a theatre that doubles as a secret socialist safe house, we meet Jiang Qing – the future wife of Mao Zedong – rehearsing Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Here, she meets Sun ...

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The blaze broke out in a six-story building housing Hotel Grand Sarovar. Fire brigade teams were immediately deployed to the site to control the fire. Fortunately, early evacuation ensured there ...

Gabby Wong and Millicent Wong as Jiang Qing and Sun Weishi in ‘Shanghai Dolls’ (Marc Brenner) ...