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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. ‘We’re on our own’: Asian rice farmers brace for El Nino’s wrath as crops wither

2. Is the Philippines nearing ‘destabilisation’ over the Marcos-Duterte clan feud?

3. ‘Price to pay’: Iran and US wary of Israel-Gaza war’s spillover impact

4. Rice, rice, maybe? Asia’s middle class seek out low-carb alternatives

5. Healing holidays: how Malaysia’s Penang hopes to hook Chinese medical tourists

6. He loves the theatre. He wants the rest of Hong Kong to love it too



China’s missile breakthrough, PhD refugees from US, Bali tax: 5 weekend reads you missed

Yuan battles US dollar, China’s latest J-35 stealth jet: SCMP daily highlights

Bali’s tourism woes, Chinese scientists’ bamboo innovation: SCMP’s 7 highlights

Boosting China’s economy, downsizing US diplomats: SCMP daily highlights

SCMP Highlights

Southeast Asia’s El Nino crisis, low-carb alternatives to rice, Malaysia’s medical tourism: 6 weekend reads you may have missed

A Filipino farmer plants rice in a paddy field in Pulilan, Bulacan province in August. Photo: AFP 

An Indonesian farmer in Banda Aceh forcibly harvests rice in April due to a long drought. Photo: EPA-EFE

Outgoing Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte stands beside incoming Philippine President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jnr as they attend the oath-taking rites of Vice-President elect Sara Duterte in Davao city on June 19, 2022. Photo: AP

Israeli soldiers take part in an military exercise in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights near the Lebanon border on Wednesday. Photo: AFP

Fresh quinoa tabbouleh salad with tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers. Photo: Shutterstock

Tourists and locals in George Town, Penang. Photo: Shutterstock 

Hong Kong theatre wunderkind Tom Chan is the youngest and only producer to stage a long-running musical show in the city. Photo: Xiaomei Chen

San Francisco mocked in China, world’s fastest internet rolls out, bedbug invasion fears in Hong Kong: SCMP’s 7 highlights of the week

San Francisco has struggled to clean up the city ahead of hosting world and business leaders at this week’s Apec summit. Photo: AFP

China’s latest high-speed data link forms a backbone network between Beijing in the north and the southern city of Guangzhou, via Wuhan in central China. Shutterstock

US President Joe Biden shakes hand with Chinese leader Xi Jinping before their meeting at the Filoli estate in Woodside, California, on Wednesday. Photo: AP

Indonesia’s defence minister and presidential candidate, Prabowo Subianto, greets supporters at the election commission headquarters in Jakarta on October 25. Photo: Reuters

A woman jumps to the ground after climbing out the window of a massage parlour when the premises were raided by police. Image: Facebook

China’s record-breaking Stirling generator, intermittent fasting, Vietnam’s youth: 5 weekend reads you may have missed

A prototype for a new, extremely quiet, thermoacoustic Stirling generator could be used in submarines where silence is critical. Photo: PLA

The prototype of the Stirling generator has had promising results. Photo: PLA

Tourists at The Peak, Hong Kong. Photo: Sam Tsang

A train bisects a busy street in the Philippines. Photo: Shutterstock

A whole-food, plant-based diet is recommended for managing type 2 diabetes. Photo: Shutterstock

Groups of young Vietnamese people enjoy dinner at an open-air restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: Shutterstock

Chinese drone that ‘group chats’, Hong Kong’s ‘blinding’ NFT party, Pizza Hut puts snakes on a plate: SCMP’s 7 highlights of the week

A DJ at his brightly lit console at Yuga Labs’ first international ApeFest, which has led to complaints of eye problems among party-goers. Photo: Matt Haldane

Communication strategies for drone swarms are typically designed to simulate bee and ant colonies, but the Chinese team has designed swarms with the ability to talk and collaborate like humans. Photo: Li Xuelong

Protesters shout slogans and wave Palestinian flags during a rally in Jakarta on Sunday. Photo: AP

Having spent nearly three years in custody, Jimmy Lai will stand trial at the High Court on December 18. Photo: AP

Pizza Hut’s snake soup pizza, created in collaboration with heritage restaurant Ser Wong Fun, features the flavours and ingredients of snake soup on a pie. Photo: Charmaine Mok

China’s drone arms race, Hong Kong’s 5 types of ‘finance bro’, Malaysia Covid inquest: SCMP’s 7 highlights of the week

Hong Kong has several different types of “finance bro” - men who work in the banking and finance industries - and each has their own style of outfit. Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

An artist’s impression of a Chinese supersonic drone powered by low-cost turbofan engine. Photo: Zhu Junqiang, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

A schematic diagram of the chip from Tsinghua University. Photo: Handout

Tourists crowd the popular shopping district of Myeongdong in central Seoul. Some 250,000 Thais visited South Korea in the first eight months of the year. Photo: EPA-EFE

People on mainland social media have been delighted to find out that a world-famous Chinese meme, widely thought to have been generated by artificial intelligence, is in fact a real person. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin

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From Southeast Asia’s El Nino crisis to the rise of low-carb alternatives to rice in Asia, here are stories you may have missed over the weekend


From Southeast Asia’s El Nino crisis to the rise of low-carb alternatives to rice in Asia, here are stories you may have missed over the weekend.
