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Leader heights ranked: how do you measure up?

How tall are you compared with prominent world figures, both past and present?

Explainer | Why is there a global shipping container crisis?

Explainer | Omicron: a visual guide to the new Covid-19 variant

Explainer | How big and bad is the ‘vaccination gap’ worldwide?

Who is getting vaccines – and who isn’t?

Is Beijing’s second wave of Covid-19 already under control?

Just when China’s capital was thought to be coronavirus-free, a second wave of coronavirus has been traced to a wholesale market in Beijing. 

Covid-19: our explanatory graphics collection

Curated by SCMP's infographics team, the collection covers interactive charts and images of the coronavirus' cases, symptoms, preventive measures and economic stimulus packages.

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How the coronavirus transformed human activities globally

Tracking the world’s mobility during the pandemic lockdown

How testing for Covid-19 in the US compares worldwide

Testing helps diagnose individuals and governments set policy.

How coronavirus became a pandemic

Many countries use their own criteria to count the number of Covid-19 cases, but more than 3 million people have been officially confirmed to have been infected, with more than 150,000 fatalities.

How the coronavirus disrupts food supply chains

The coronavirus is putting each link of the food supply chain under stress by disrupting agricultural production, transportation and supermarket sales. People around the world are facing food shortages.

How Europe’s coronavirus lockdown nightmare compares to China

Europe failed to learn from China how rapidly coronavirus spreads and is now struggling to cope with surging Covid-19 infections

Coronavirus: the world’s response to China

The world’s second-largest economy is finding itself increasingly isolated amid the Covid-19 outbreak as early as February, 2020

Australian bush fires’ impact on the rest of the world

The Australian bush fires have had a devastating impact globally: spreading plumes of carbon, destroying parks and forests, burning down homes and killing people and animals. 

Is the 2019 Rugby World Cup too close to call?

Tokyo 2020 Olympics sport climbing debut explained

Sport climbing is an eye-catching addition to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, with athletes putting on gravity-defying exhibitions of dexterity, strength, endurance and problem-solving using only their bodies.

Illustrations by Brian Wang

Hindenburg disaster: The end of the airship era

Eighty-two years ago on May 6, 1937, the German airship LZ129 Hindenburg claimed 36 lives when it caught fire at New Jersey in the United States.

How China is looking beyond borders

The “Belt and Road Initiative” was announced by the Chinese government in 2013 as a global trade strategy based on the ancient Silk Road trading route.

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Executing the death penalty

How every Boeing 737 MAX was grounded in five days

It took less than a week for Boeing’s 737 MAX to be grounded following its second accident in five months. 

Brexit: how Britain voted

After 43 years in the European Union, the United Kingdom voted to leave on June 23, 2016. A hotly contested referendum uncovered a sharp regional divide across the nation. The vote was characterised by a high turnout and nail-biting margins of victory

How does Venezuela’s crisis affect ordinary people?

Venezuelans are suffering chronic shortages in a country that is home to the world’s largest oil reserves and blessed with an enviable abundance of natural resources. Here’s how it affects people on a daily basis

What is permafrost and why it could be the climate change time bomb

As North America freezes through a polar vortex, and Australia sweats out an extreme heatwave, there is growing consensus it could be game over for Planet Earth if we do not pay attention to the world’s permafrost

Tracking Trump’s tangled trade war tweets

Understanding political narratives is not always easy. Events often develop with many twists and turns but situations can be further exacerbated when politicians are seen to change their minds as often as the wind changes direction. The following is a visual thread of comments made by US President Donald Trump about the trade war with China.

The best of SCMP's visual journalism from 2018

As we greet the New Year and wave goodbye to 2018, we would like to refresh your memories of the diverse range of stories the graphics team tackled. We look forward to evolving in the year ahead, but in the meantime here are some shortlists for the best of our visual stories from 2018.

What is space junk and why is it a problem?

Low Earth orbit is becoming increasingly cluttered and full of junk. China is one of the many countries responsible for the mess

Interactive | What determines flight paths? Fares, airspace and jet streams

World Cup stars and the dark arts of the not-so-beautiful game

If World Cup coaches were Russian dolls, who would be the biggest?

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last updated:
9 September, 2024
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