Brian Rhoads

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Brian Rhoads |Raymond Ma

4 hours agoChina: Monkey helps woman by plucking thorns from her armHenan, China - May 17, 2025 This is the amusing moment a monkey helped a woman by plucking thorns from her arm. The zookeeper sought help from the macaque after a couple of prickles from a plant she was watering lodged in her skin in Jiyuan, China. Footage shows the local, wearing a glove, extending her arm as she walks toward the primate lounging on the ground on May 17.

1 month ago | scmp.com | Brian Rhoads

SCMP Plus, the South China Morning Post’s premium service, collected a top global accolade for innovation, marking its work in providing curated news, context and analysis on China to busy readers. The award in the best digital subscription/reader revenue project category came after SCMP Plus beat out three competitors at Wan-IFRA’s Digital Media Awards Worldwide. Wan-IFRA is the World Association of News Publishers.

2 months ago | scmp.com | Brian Rhoads

With US President Donald Trump levying extra 145 per cent tariffs on China this year, and Beijing responding nearly in kind, it would be easy to assume Chinese green technology companies would be facing a reckoning after losing the vital US export market. After all, China is the world’s top producer of electric vehicles, photovoltaic cells for solar panels and lithium-ion batteries.

Mar 19, 2025 | scmp.com | Brian Rhoads

The epicentre of leadership in the fight against climate change is undergoing a tectonic shift. A recent flurry of news has emerged from the United States as it dismantles safeguards and institutions once considered key to environmental protection under previous presidents but now out of favour with the new administration of President Donald Trump. On the first day of his second term, Trump withdrew the US from the Paris climate accords. The action has not stopped since.

Feb 20, 2025 | scmp.com | Brian Rhoads

Gloom and doom seem the only way to describe the battle against climate change of late. US President Donald Trump in January again withdrew the world’s second-largest polluter from the landmark Paris Agreement limiting green house emissions to curb rising temperatures. Argentina’s President Javier Milei, a climate sceptic, last week said he, too, may leave.