Name: South China Morning Post: News
Rating: 4.7 (115 reviews)
Author: South China Morning Post Publishers

Confortable app, still displaying ads even after subscribing

The app is very confortable and well designed to read on iPad. Nonetheless it’s very disappointing to still see advertisements even after subscription 🙁

Recent update made it unusable

This used to be an excellent news source for Chinese and international news alike. I used to consult it several times a day. A recent update made it unacceptably slow and unwieldy. Now I hardly even open it once a week, and I do that only in the vain hope that they restored it to an acceptable quality. Update: I wrote the text above one year ago. It still applies, and my impression is that it recently got worse with each update.

New version

Landscape mode no more supported

Beautiful revamped app

Dec 2018. New version of the app is beautifully designed with fluid and intuitive navigation. I also enjoy receiving news alerts on my Apple Watch. As a Hong Kong resident for many years, I can confidently say that SCMP remains the best media to get unbiased news from Hong Kong and China offering in-depth articles.

Good

Handy but too many ads

Getting worse & worse

the articles are full of meaningless information and sentences, just to make them look longer, wasting time to filter

Good but has anti Chinese bias sometimes

A lot of the articles written by Jeoffrey Maitem and Maria Siow have a strongly pro Filipino and anti Chinese bias. This is a very odd editorial choice.

Copied and pasted the other one star as it perfectly summarises the issue with this app

The SCMP has become a tool for censorship and a platform for pro-Beijing trollers to post misinformation, disinformation, deceitful and disrespectful comments about Hong Kongers, democracy and other democratic nations (90% WolfWarriors). Opinions by SCMP columnists have frequently posted biased reports that promotes hate on Hong Kongers and democratic countries. Disrespectful, deceitful, misinformation and disinformation postings in the comment sections by Pro-Beijing Communist trollers often get ignored, despite their comments being reported. However, reviewers who have retaliated against the offensive posts by CCP trollers often get deleted and censored. This is the very definition of double standards. The SCMP has now become far from independent or impartial. I'm about to delete and discontinue use of this newspaper app. You have been warned about this biased media outlet.

Ads even for paid edition

I hate opening this app. Every time I’m greeted with a 5 second ad - if I’m on free then that’s fine but this is hardly acceptable on a paid edition.

Way too many ads

I'd rather pay a little more in my subscription than use an app with full screen ads on timers. It's unusable for me and I will use my web browser instead.

Chart	Category	Rank
Top Grossing	Malaysia News	6
Top Grossing	Singapore News	7
Top Grossing	Indonesia News	8
Top Grossing	Philippines News	12
Top Free	Hong Kong SAR China News	15

South China Morning Post: News

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