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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. China’s ‘metal storm’ weapon can fire millions of rounds per minute

2. ‘We are a frontline state’: how the Philippines is preparing for a US-China war

3. Stateless no more? Rohingya in Malaysia turn to tech to fight erasure

4. Japan’s far-right slams 2 history films for trying to ‘drive a wedge’

5. China worker with dual reproductive systems has kids with man, woman, shocks public



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

A Rohingya refugee and his wife look at a computer screen displaying threats and hate speech they have received, at their home in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Photo: Reuters

Soldiers march during a military parade held at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City last month to mark the 89th founding anniversary of the Philippine military. Photo: AFP

Many scientists believe that China’s own version of the Metal Storm weapon could surpass the Western prototype from a decade ago. Photo: Weibo

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr has reversed the anti-American stance of his predecessor. Photo: AP

Abu, a Rohingya refugee in Malaysia, organises activities to support young people who lack access to formal education. Photo: Steven Ooi/MSF

A scene from the Chinese-produced film 731 about the Imperial Japanese Army’s Unit 731, based in northern China during WWII, which conducted experiments on prisoners. Photo: Asian Movie Trailer/YouTube

The story of a factory worker in China with dual reproductive systems, who has had children with both a man and woman, has shocked the nation. Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock/Weibo

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

Videos and images posted on social media last week appear to show China’s first sixth-generation stealth fighter jet flying over Chengdu. Photo: Handout

Former US president Jimmy Carter (left) greets Deng Xiaoping outside the Oval Office of the White House on January 28, 1979. Photo: AP

The car was wrecked in the smash. Photo: handout

Firefighters conduct search operations at the wreckage site of the Jeju Air aircraft at Muan International Airport. Photo: EPA-EFE

A girl in China with different coloured eyes has been accepted by her classmates, dispelling her mother’s discrimination concerns. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin/Wikipedia

Visa-free China, students embrace being single, Tibet mega dam: 5 weekend reads you missed

Taiwanese and Lithuanian flags are displayed at the island’s representative office in Vilnius, a source of Beijing’s tensions with Lithuania. Photo: Reuters 

Tourists visit the ancient city wall in Xian, northwest China’s Shaanxi province on August 8, 2024. Photo: Xinhua

Illustration: Brian Wang

China plans to build a massive hydropower project in Tibet on a section of the Yarlung Tsangpo River known as the Grand Canyon, shown here near Nyingchi city. Photo: AFP

Ex-One Direction band member Zayn Malik praises Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa, a Chinese herbal syrup, as an “elixir” for his voice in an interview with British Vogue in June 2024. Photo: SCMP composite/YouTube (@British Vogue)/Ninjiom.com

“Umami is crucial to Japanese cuisine,” says chef Kazuo Takagi. Photo: Shutterstock

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From a Chinese weapon to Japan’s far-right slamming history films, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend


From a Chinese weapon to Japan’s far-right slamming history films, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend.
