Channel
@scmpnews
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Citations · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
805subscribers
+24 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001485513063 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @scmpnews |
| Created | Between 1 April 2019 and 30 September 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 18 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 7 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 18 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/scmpnews |
National news — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 20 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 73% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 18 Sept 2026, 13:17 | 805 | +14 |
| 10 Sept 2026, 15:58 | 791 | +7 |
| 19 Aug 2026, 21:12 | 784 | +5 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 12:07 | 779 | -1 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 19:20 | 780 | -1 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 15:36 | 781 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 02:52 | 781 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 6 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 6 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Coded for glamour and glory, AI make-up arm steals the show in Hong Kong hackathon https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3363197/coded-glamour-and-glory-ai-make-arm-steals-show-hong-kong-hackathon?utm_source=rss_feed
Former Standard Chartered bank staff jailed over HK$28m Africa investment scam https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3363206/former-standard-chartered-bankers-jailed-over-hk28m-africa-investment-scam?utm_source=rss_feed
More checks for embryo biopsies, overhaul reproductive tech law, DAB urges https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3363205/more-checks-embryo-biopsies-overhaul-reproductive-tech-law-dab-urges?utm_source=rss_feed
Social services face hard questions over missed red flags in boy’s starvation death https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3363182/social-services-face-hard-questions-over-missed-red-flags-boys-starvation-death?utm_source=rss_feed
Hong Kong must be realistic and flexible in re-engaging with the US https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3362869/hong-kong-must-be-realistic-and-flexible-re-engaging-us?utm_source=rss_feed
Chinese satellite captures video of SpaceX rocket debris crashing into the moon https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3363199/chinese-satellite-captures-video-spacex-rocket-debris-crashing-moon?utm_source=rss_feed
Media backlash in China after US think tank hails 46% drop in Chinese student visas https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3363195/chinese-media-hits-back-after-us-think-tank-hails-46-drop-chinese-student-visas?utm_source=rss_feed
‘Decades of heartbreak’: Chinese women switched at birth 37 years ago live 4km apart https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3363196/decades-heartbreak-chinese-women-switched-birth-37-years-ago-live-4km-apart?utm_source=rss_feed
Germany jails man for life over deadly Munich car-ramming https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3363194/germany-jails-man-life-over-deadly-munich-car-ramming?utm_source=rss_feed
Chinese AI robot delivers needle-free pig vaccinations with 93% accuracy https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3363193/chinese-ai-tail-tracking-robot-delivers-needle-free-pig-vaccinations-93-accuracy?utm_source=rss_feed
Falling concrete disrupts Terminal 2 train at Hong Kong airport https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3363185/passengers-all-sea-hong-kong-airports-terminal-2-train-breaks-down?utm_source=rss_feed
China adds US sanctions, drone curbs in trade tit-for-tat https://www.scmp.com/plus/news/china/politics/article/3363167/china-adds-us-sanctions-drone-curbs-trade-tit-tat?utm_source=rss_feed
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @scmpnews. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Named by 3 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
This channel appears in 2 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 18 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“SCMP” (@scmpnews), 805 subscribers as measured 18 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/scmpnews.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.