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South China Morning Post
The South China Morning Post is Hong Kong's leading English-language newspaper, covering China, Asia, and international affairs since 1903.
What is South China Morning Post?
The South China Morning Post has been publishing from Hong Kong since 1903, making it one of the oldest English-language newspapers in Asia. Its history spans colonial Hong Kong, the transition to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, and the dramatic changes of the following decades — periods during which the paper's editorial independence has been a recurring subject of scrutiny and debate. Alibaba Group acquired the SCMP in 2015, and the paper subsequently removed its metered paywall for most content, repositioning itself as a free-access publication with revenue models beyond subscription.
The SCMP's digital platform serves a global audience interested in China, Hong Kong, and Asia-Pacific coverage from an English-language perspective. Given Alibaba's infrastructure involvement, the site draws on substantial cloud resources for content delivery, though the editorial operation and its servers are based in Hong Kong. The SCMP app provides push notifications for breaking news, a feature that has become increasingly valuable as the publication expanded its coverage of geopolitically sensitive events in China, Taiwan, and the broader region that many readers follow closely. The site's accessibility in various countries can also vary due to geopolitical content filtering.
When the SCMP's digital services experience problems, the website may fail to load entirely or serve only partial page content with broken layout. The app may lose the ability to push breaking news notifications or fail to load article content beyond the headline and summary. Video content embedded in articles — the SCMP has expanded its video production significantly — may fail to play. Users accessing the site from outside Hong Kong through CDN edge servers may encounter availability issues that are invisible to readers accessing from within the city, creating geographically uneven outage experiences.
Outage.gg tracks South China Morning Post service status using community-submitted reports from readers worldwide. If the SCMP website or app is down, content is not loading, or notifications have stopped, the live status page shows current impact from across the SCMP global readership.
Common South China Morning Post Problems
Issues users most frequently report when South China Morning Post is having problems.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about South China Morning Post outages and server status.
You can check the live South China Morning Post server status at outage.gg/services/south-china-morning-post. The page shows real-time community-submitted outage reports, an hourly trend chart, and the current health status.
South China Morning Post can stop working for a number of reasons including scheduled maintenance windows, unexpected server failures, network infrastructure problems, or DDoS attacks. Check the live status page on Outage.gg for the latest community reports to see if others are experiencing the same issue.
Go to outage.gg/services/south-china-morning-post and click the "Report an Issue" button. Your report is counted immediately and helps confirm whether a problem is widespread. Reports from multiple users trigger a status change visible to everyone watching the page.
Click the "Notify Me" bell button on the South China Morning Post status page at outage.gg/services/south-china-morning-post. Create a free account and we will send you an email the moment South China Morning Post comes back online — no app download required.
Many services maintain official status pages with planned maintenance notices. Outage.gg aggregates real-time community-reported outages which often surface faster than official channels.
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