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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. US ‘risks electronic warfare’ with China after unveiling anti-satellite jammers

2. Philippines starts Spratly Islands upgrades after months of tension with China

3. Hong Kong sends task force to Thailand to look into cases of trapped residents

4. Ecstasy and agony: Malaysia’s festival drug deaths spur calls for testing kits

5. Year of the Snake may be unlucky for Snakes. How to avoid misfortune



Trump’s tariff threat to ‘US back door’, Shanghai woos Taylor Swift: SCMP daily highlights

Solar stations in space, tiny cat fossil found, Cambodia canal risks: 7 science highlights

Biden’s China message to Trump, RedNote tops Apple’s US app chart: SCMP daily highlights

Yoon impeachment blame game, Singapore’s Yale-NUS shutdown stirs ire: 7 Asia highlights

SCMP Highlights

US ‘risks electronic warfare’ with China, Malaysia drug deaths: 5 weekend reads you missed

Revellers at Selangor’s Pinkfish Festival on December 31. Photo: Instagram / pinkfishfestival


The Space Force’s Remote Modular Terminal is designed to jam enemy satellite signals. Photo: US Space Force

Philippine soldiers stationed on Thitu Island. Photo: AFP

Chinese actor Wang Xing has been found and returned from Myanmar to mainland China, after he was reported missing on January 3. Photo: Facebook

Revellers at Selangor’s Pinkfish Festival on December 31. Photo: Instagram / pinkfishfestival

Wearing red during the year of the Chinese zodiac sign you were born under is one of the ways to prevent bad luck. Photo: Shutterstock

Chinese actor Wang Xing rescued, Tibet earthquake, dementia tests: SCMP’s 7 highlights

Wang Xing’s disappearance caught public attention after his girlfriend posted on social media that she had lost contact with him near the Myanmar border. Photo: Weibo

People sift through rubble in the aftermath of a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in China’s southern Tibet autonomous region on Tuesday morning. Photo: Xinhua

A submarine drone suspected to be from China found by fishermen off a coast in Masbate province, Philippines. Photo: AFP

The motorcycle veered out of control and collided with a roadside metal pole. Photo: Facebook/Dennis Lui

The clock-drawing test requires a person to be able to interpret the placement of the hands in relation to the numbers. It is an ability often lost in people with early dementia. Photo: Shutterstock

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

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From Hong Kong sending task force to Thailand to why Snakes may have unlucky year, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend


From Hong Kong sending task force to Thailand to why Snakes may have unlucky year, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend.
