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We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing.
1. Chinese satellite imagery analysis challenges US-Iran war claims

Chinese scientists have used detailed satellite imagery analysis to examine damage to US military bases in the Middle East, uncovering discrepancies in both Washington and Tehran’s claims over the scale of the conflict.
2. China plans to strengthen Great Green Wall with fastest-growing plant: bamboo
Researchers are working on ways to use bamboo, one of the most resilient and sustainable materials on the planet, in the fight against desertification in China’s arid north.
3. US sanctions mainland China, Hong Kong firms over Iranian oil shipments
The United States on Wednesday sanctioned a group of mainland Chinese and Hong Kong shipping companies accused of operating vessels that transported Iranian oil to China, extending Washington’s economic campaign against Tehran alongside its naval blockade.
4. All went wrong: A380 flight to China becomes 10-hour ordeal

When an Emirates Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger airliner, touched down at Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport last week – a novelty for the city’s planespotters, mostly accustomed to seeing smaller narrowbody jets – everything that could go wrong, did.
5. Woman rejects links to Singapore ex-minister Faishal’s resignation
A Singapore fitness instructor identified as allegedly linked to former acting minister-in-charge of Muslim affairs Faishal Ibrahim’s resignation has denied rumours that she was the woman with whom he had inappropriate interactions.
6. Internet personality ‘Mr Ho’ dies at 79, week after receiving jail term

A Hong Kong man known on the internet as “Mr Ho” has died, a week after receiving a two-month prison sentence for stabbing his wife. A source told the South China Morning Post on Tuesday that Ho Huen, 79, had died in a public hospital a day earlier.
7. Debt honoured: China repays family for wartime grain loan 8 decades later

A wartime grain loan certificate discovered within an old family home in eastern China has been donated to local authorities nearly eight decades later, illuminating a villager’s remarkable faith in the troops.


Chinese data challenges US-Iran war claims; bamboo vs desertification: SCMP’s 7 highlights

Shenzhen’s new museum; Hong Kong’s old cookbooks on exhibit: 7 Lifestyle highlights

Having babies in space; China’s first Fields Medal winners: 7 science highlights

Indonesia’s Singapore rival, India’s one-shot win over SpaceX: 7 Asia highlights

SCMP Highlights

Chinese researchers have proposed using bamboo as a sand barrier in the north of the country. Photo: Handout

The launch of American and Israeli air strikes against Iran on February 28 triggered an armed conflict that has escalated throughout the region. Photo: EPA

Emirates Flight EK302 from Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, stranded on the tarmac at Hangzhou airport last week. Photo: mrjjxw.com

Ho Huen leaves Tuen Mun Court in October last year. Photo: Karma Lo

In 1947, a Chinese villager lent his entire 850kg grain supply to the army, receiving a handwritten receipt as an official IOU. Photo: CCTV

Apple leak in India, China eyes Indonesia for mineral access: 5 weekend reads you missed

Customers purchase the newly launched iPhone 17 at Apple Hebbal, in Bengaluru on September 19, 2025. Photo: AFP

Illustration: Henry Wong

A nickel mining site in Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Photo: AFP

Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

“The Belief” has not made it to the big screen in mainland China, despite film posters advertising a July 25 release date. Photo: Baidu

Fresh US tariffs on 60 economies; first China duo win Fields Medal: SCMP’s 7 highlights

US President Donald Trump at a rally in Georgia on Wednesday, before the administration’s tariff announcement. Photo: AP

Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim pictured during his swearing-in ceremony at the Istana in Singapore in May last year. Photo: AFP

Veteran actor Patrick Tse’s career spanned seven decades. Photo: Weibo

Isabel Rose (centre) has been sentenced to six years in prison. Photo: Jonathan Wong

While the photo above captures a traditional Chinese wedding in progress, a separate hazing ritual elsewhere went tragically wrong, leaving a 20-year-old bridesmaid with a fractured vertebra. Photo: Shutterstock

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From a 10-hour A380 ordeal in China to a repaid 1947 wartime grain debt, here are highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting


From a 10-hour A380 ordeal in China to a repaid 1947 wartime grain debt, here are highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting.


Chinese data challenges US-Iran war claims; bamboo vs desertification: SCMP’s 7 highlights

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}From a 10-hour A380 ordeal in China to a repaid 1947 wartime grain debt, here are highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting

1. Chinese satellite imagery analysis challenges US-Iran war claims

From a 10-hour A380 ordeal in China to a repaid 1947 wartime grain debt, here are highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting