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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. ‘Caught off guard’: China’s garment makers cut out of US market as tariffs bite

2. How Hong Kong’s hawker rules are forcing a 92-year-old to sit all day at stall

3. Why China’s luxury hotels are selling street food to survive

4. Debate rages over ancient crater after China returns rocks from moon’s far side

5. Maths star Hong Wang targeted by China’s cyber nationalists for English lectures



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This image created by Chinese researchers shows the moon’s far side. Photo: Xinhua

Workers sew apparel at a garment workshop in Zunhua, north China’s Hebei Province. Photo: Xinhua

Workers make garments at a workshop in Qiandongnan, southwest China’s Guizhou province. China’s garment industry is rapidly losing market share in the United States amid the trade war. Photo: Getty Images

Hawker licence holder Chan Tak-ching tends to her stall at Lai Chi Kok. Photo: Sun Yeung

Zhongwu Hotel street vendor in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, China, on July 3, 2025. Photo: Handout

A view of the moon’s surface captured by a panoramic camera aboard the lander-ascender combination of China’s Chang’e-6 spacecraft. Photo: Xinhua via AP

Mathematician Hong Wang is known for helping to solve the three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture – a century-old problem in geometric measure theory. Photo: NYU Courant: Institute

Trump wants to ground China’s drones – but have they flown too high to reach?

Illustration: Henry Wong

Trump’s new tariffs, Hong Kong bomb scare over British cannon barrel: SCMP’s 7 highlights

An expanded visa-free entry policy has provided a much-needed boost to China’s overseas tourism. Photo: Xinhua

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shows a letter on tariffs from US President Donald Trump to Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, during a press briefing at the White House on Monday. Photo: Reuters

A cannon barrel has been found at a construction site on Mody Road. Photo: Handout

Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

Malaysian beauty queen, actor and television host Lishalliny Kanaran alleges she was assaulted by a Hindu priest at a temple near Kuala Lumpur International Airport on July 5. Photo: Instagram/lishallinykanaran

In her career oncologist and Jilin Cancer Hospital diector Cheng Ying received the Chinese Physician Award and named Outstanding Hospital President. Photo: Handout

Top AI medical scientists Roland Eils and Irina Lehmann take on part-time posts in China

Roland Eils and Irina Lehmann have taken up part-time positions at Fudan University in Shanghai, while retaining their primary affiliation with BIH at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Photo: Handout

Roland Eils and Irina Lehmann visit a hospital affiliated with Fudan University. Photo: Handout

China’s Shijian satellite pair appears to dock in orbit for historic refuelling mission

Satellite-to-satellite refuelling in high orbit presents technical challenges such as the need for precise docking and fluid transfer between uncrewed spacecraft in microgravity. Photo: Handout

Chinese team says carbon dioxide can turn to sugar, offering solution to global problems

A team of Chinese scientists says its biotransformation system produces the sugar sucrose without the need to grow sugar cane or sugar beets by converting methanol. Photo: Shutterstock Images

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From China’s luxury hotels selling street food to a lunar science debate, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend


From China’s luxury hotels selling street food to a lunar science debate, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend.


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