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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. ‘Our youngest chef is 60’: Hong Kong’s disappearing dim sum

2. US neglect, shunned Muslims, extremists: Asia’s fears amid Israel-Gaza war

3. No Botox: this ageless-looking Asian TikTok star is 63. How does she do it?

4. As China-Rwanda ties deepen, more couples overcome cross-cultural challenges to say ‘I do’

5. ‘Cuter than anything’: the Chinese child star who took the US by storm



Trump threatens anti-drug tariffs for China, fighter jet thrust boost: SCMP daily catch-up

Malaysia’s migrating nurses, Chinese ‘villains’ comment forces apology: 7 Asia highlights

China’s record-breaking cable laying machine, GDP forecast cut: SCMP daily catch-up

China hits jackpot with gold reserves, Japan’s first kiss rate: 5 weekend reads you missed

SCMP Highlights

Disappearing dim sum in Hong Kong, TikTok star Gym Tan, Rwandan-Chinese couples: 5 weekend reads you may have missed

Hong Kong’s iconic dim sum restaurants, with staff pushing carts laden with bamboo steamers, are vanishing. Photo: SCMP

Old-school dim sum, including pork liver siu mai, pig’s stomach and large soup dumplings. Photo: Llewellyn Cheung

A woman weeps as she prays during a rally supporting the Palestinian people in Jakarta, Indonesia. Photo: EPA-EFE

Social media users marvel not just at her clothes but at her youthful verve and physique. Photo: Gym Tan

Lin Jin Qiu and Muhamira Brice-Gaël with their son Muhamira Lin Wycliff on an evening stroll in Rwanda. Photo: Tang Bi Feng

A rehearsal. Illustration: Samuel Porteous

Xi and Putin at belt and road forum, how to add 20 years to your life: SCMP’s 7 highlights of the week

In India, social activists, students and pro-Palestine activists hold a silent anti-Israel protest in Bangalore on October 16. Despite the Biden administration calling on the world to stand by its ally Israel, many in the Global South have criticised the Jewish state. Photo: EPA-EFE

Xi Jinping greets Vladimir Putin at the belt and road forum in Beijing on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters

illustration by Lau Ka-kuen

Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen speaks at the the state capitol in Lincoln. Photo: AP

Detail from a painting in the Écriture series by Korean artist Park Seo-bo hanging in the private dining room at the now closed Écriture restaurant in Central, Hong Kong. Photo: Écriture

Young naked women are their canvas – nude art of 2 anonymous Hong Kong artists challenges city’s conservative attitudes towards sex

Lousy’s body paint on a nude woman. The anonymous Hong Kong graffiti artist paints bold designs on young, naked women then photographs them in erotic poses. Photo: Lousy                                                         

Another of Lousy’s “kissfaces”, on Queen’s Road West in Hong Kong. Photo: Lousy

Lousy’s photobook “Yook”, published in 2020. Photo: Lousy

Matsushimaon’s body art on a nude woman. Photo: Matsushimaon

Professor Sonia Wong says there is not a lot of space in erotic or explicit artistic disciplines for women to express their sexuality, especially in Hong Kong. Photo: Professor Sonia Wong

Artist Lousy’s portrait. Photo: Lousy

Giant leap for China in moon race as SpaceX struggles to get its Starship rocket off the ground

SpaceX has told a US Senate hearing that FAA red tape is holding up America’s race for the moon. Photo: AFP

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From Hong Kong’s disappearing dim sum to 63-year-old TikTok star Gym Tan, here are stories you may have missed over the weekend


From Hong Kong’s disappearing dim sum to 63-year-old TikTok star Gym Tan, here are stories you may have missed over the weekend.


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