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We have put together stories from our coverage last weekend to help you stay informed about news across Asia and beyond. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing.
1. Ming dynasty shipwreck treasures offer new clues to ancient trade route

2. How Mexico’s early Chinese migrants traded their way to success

3. As China ties deepen, Malaysia’s Anwar says geopolitics is no zero-sum game

4. China’s Belt and Road Initiative a plus, the rest so-so on Hong Kong-Chiang Mai journey

5. Why Beijing may not rush to act on new coastguard rules in South China Sea



Philippines prepares for war, Chinese ‘metal storm’: 5 weekend reads you missed

China’s new sixth-generation jet, Hong Kong’s wealthy lose billions: SCMP’s 7 highlights

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Beijing sanctions, US’ Chinese migrants, FBI cyber fears: 7 US-China relations reads

SCMP Highlights

Ming dynasty shipwreck, Malaysia’s Anwar: 5 weekend reads you may have missed

Robotic arms from a research submersible are shown retrieving porcelain relics in the South China Sea. Photo: NCHA

The shipwreck has yielded hundreds of artefacts ranging from coins to wooden logs, revealing valuable insights about trade during the Ming dynasty. Photo: CCTV

A Chinese store in Hermosillo, in the northern Mexican state of Sonora, in 1900. Photo: Historical Society, from The Chinese in Northern Mexico/HKU

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is interviewed at his office in Putrajaya by the South China Morning Post. Photo: Hadi Azmi

A road in northern Laos adjacent to the Laos-China Railway built under China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Photo: Kristian Odebjer

China’s coastguard has sweeping new powers, which the Philippines has described as particularly worrisome. Photo: AP

Taiwan Strait ‘hellscape’, Louis Koo sued, Shanghai’s foreigners: 7 highlights of the week

Chinese-made drones on display at an airshow on the mainland. Photo: Xinhua

The USS Connecticut submarine was involved in an underwater accident in 2021, which has now helped Chinese researchers looking into submarine detection. Photo: US Navy

Actor Louis Koo in a still from Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In, a 2024 film he stars in. Photo: Handout

Illustration: Brian Wang

Lots of water, protein, exercise, a positive attitude and a little sunshine are the secrets to looking young, according to 58-year-old Chuando Tan. Photo: instagram.com/chuando_chuandoandfrey

Chelsea Manalo, 24, was crowned Miss Universe Philippines on May 22, making history as the first Philippine winner of African-American descent. Photo: Facebook/Miss Universe Philippines

‘Lying flat’, ‘difficult to work with’: Gen Zers on some wrong ideas about young people

Graduating students take a group photo at the University of Hong Kong. Fresh Gen Z graduates and students offer their thoughts on other people’s perceptions of their generation’s attitudes towards work. Photo: Dickson Lee

A lot of the current Generation Zs are still in secondary or tertiary education. Photo: Shutterstock

Students attend a job fair at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Many Gen Z students are making last-minute decisions to study for a master’s degree mainly to put off adulthood or finding a full-time job. Photo: Xinhua

Young jobseekers at a job fair in Mong Kok, Hong Kong, in 2024. Gen Z workers have been described as valuing flexibility and work-life balance more than previous generations. Photo: Yik Yeung-man

“Lying flat” refers to a rejection of societal pressure to overwork and overachieve. Photo: Shutterstock

Is Simon Yam Hong Kong’s most fearless actor? Triads, gigolos, killers, he played them all

Simon Yam at the 2017 Hong Kong Film Awards presentation ceremony. Photo: Edward Wong

Hong Kong actor Simon Yam at an interview with the Post in 2013. Yam is known for his work ethic, his roles in 1990s adults-only films, and for playing triad criminals. Photo: Antony Dickson

Simon Yam pictured in 1988. Photo: SCMP

Simon Yam (left) and Sandra Ng in a still from Echoes of the Rainbow (2010).

Chou Han-ning (left) and Simon Yam in a still from A Light Never Goes Out (2022).

Simon Yam in a still from Dr Lamb (1992).

Simon Yam (front) in a still from The Mission (1999).

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From a Ming dynasty shipwreck to an exclusive interview with Malaysia’s Anwar, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend


From a Ming dynasty shipwreck to an exclusive interview with Malaysia’s Anwar, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend.
