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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. Canada’s twin tariff wars with US and China add to strains on world trade system

2. Chinese parents planning on US-born babies face limbo in wake of Trump order

3. Rise of South Korea’s plastic surgery empire: ‘just like getting ice cream’

4. Taiwan may get less autonomy if reunited with mainland by force: NPC deputy

5. Ayurveda, TCM share approach to healing. How else are they similar?



Canada’s twin tariff wars, plastic surgery in South Korea: 5 weekend reads you missed

Betting on China’s bull market, ‘revolutionary’ light-speed chip: SCMP daily highlights

Chinese maths star solves geometry problem, Hong Kong actor bankrupt: SCMP’s 7 highlights

Navigating the Trump ‘chaos’, China’s economic priorities for 2025: SCMP daily highlights

SCMP Highlights

Beijing hit out at Canada’s tariffs when announcing its retaliatory measures. Photo: AFP

Trucks cross the US-Canada border along the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario, on March 8, 2025. Photo: AFP

It is not known how many babies are born each year to mothers who come to the US for “birth tourism”. Photo: Shutterstock

A South Korean woman walking past a street billboard advertising double-jaw surgery at a subway station in Seoul. Photo: AFP

Beijing has said the “one country, two systems” model could apply in Taiwan. Photo: EPA-EFE

A mass qigong session in Jiangsu, China. Qigong is to Chinese traditional medicine what yoga is to traditional Indian medicine, or Ayurveda. Photo: Xinhua

Chinese mathematician Wang Hong is an associate professor at the New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Photo: Handout

Premier Li Qiang speaks during the opening session of the NPC in Beijing. Photo: AFP

America’s F-22 jets are known to suffer coating cracks, but China is now using ancient weaving techniques to create a more advance type of coating to solve the problem. Photo: AFP

A former Sritex textile factory worker weeps as she listens to a farewell speech on Friday in Sukoharjo, Central Java. Photo: AFP

Chinese travellers are increasingly skipping traditional Western destinations in favour of the Middle East, Latin America and Southeast Asia, currency data suggests. Photo: Getty Images

Actor Vinci Wong has been declared bankrupt. Photo: Handout

Khalil Fong dies, Trump-Zelensky row, China’s ‘Fantastic Four’: 5 weekend reads you missed

Khalil Fong has died at the age of 41. Photo: Handout

Khalil Fong at his book launch in 2018. Photo: SCMP

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump talking over each other in the Oval Office. Photo: Reuters

Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

US President Donald Trump attends a press conference with British PM Keir Starmer at the White House on Thursday. Photo: Reuters

Kuala Lumpur city skyline. Malaysia’s goal to become a digital economy faces challenges such as a shortage in skilled manpower. Photo: Shutterstock

At this year’s ‘two sessions’ in Beijing, AI seems to be on everyone’s lips

Artificial intelligence has dominated talking points and Chinese media coverage of this year’s “two sessions”. Photo: VCG via Getty Images

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From Canada’s tariff wars with China and the US to South Korea’s cosmetic surgery empire, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend


From Canada’s tariff wars with China and the US to South Korea’s cosmetic surgery empire, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend.
