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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. India’s Modi urged to attend China’s victory parade. What would it mean at home?

2. Working in Hong Kong, living in Shenzhen: why people are moving to mainland China city

3. Sex, lies and video games: the heated debate over sexism and misogyny in China

4. China toughens import rules on Vietnamese durians after detecting health risks

5. Lost China diver survives 5 days underwater, lives on cave fish until rescue



US drone presence worries China, top neuroscientist moves to Shenzhen: SCMP’s 7 highlights

Appeasing the tai sui, Lunar New Year customs, Hong Kong borscht: 7 Lifestyle highlights

CATL’s battery game changer, Tesla’s AI training centre in China: 7 EV reads

Indonesia’s tourist visa, Filipino assaulted in Singaporean mall: 7 Asia highlights

SCMP Highlights

Modi urged to visit Beijing, Hong Kong’s cross-border workers: 5 weekend reads you missed

Staff members label durians to be exported to China at a durian processing plant in Dak Lak province, Vietnam in September 2023. Photo: Xinhua

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the 16th BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia on October 23, 2024. Photo: Xinhua

Troops take part in a military parade during celebrations marking 70 years of the People’s Republic of China in 2019. Commentators say Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is unlikely to attend China’s World War II victory parade in September. Photo: Xinhua

People head into Shenzhen via the Lok Ma Chau border crossing point on April 12. Photo: Dickson Lee

Illustration: Henry Wong

Visitors view durian products from Vietnam at the 21st China-Asean Expo in Nanning, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, September 28, 2024. Photo: CFOTO Getty Images

A Chinese man survived five days trapped underwater while diving in a cave by living on raw fish until he was rescued. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin

China summons Nvidia; world’s most powerful dam, disgraced head monk: SCMP’s 7 highlights

A video of Indonesians in Osaka gathering on a pavement and obstructing passage has prompted social media comments criticising their behaviour. Photo: X/parsonalsecret

President and CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang delivers a speech during the Computex 2025 exhibition in Taipei in May. Photo: AP

The actor has said he had suffered from sustained coughing since May, which had not improved even after two doses of antibiotics. Photo: Facebook/Will Or

The purge relating to Shi Yongxin, head of the Shaolin Temple in China’s Henan province since 1999, follows a public notice that has stunned millions of Buddhists and martial arts fans worldwide. Photo: Getty Images

The mega dam across the Yarlung Tsangpo River could produce triple the electricity generated by the Three Gorges dam further south of China. Photo: AFP

An underground parking space in Chai Wan has been flooded with water. Photo: May Tse

Chinese scientists say they can create a ‘storm eye’ for PLA forces in electronic warfare

Chinese scientists say they can create a a zone of electromagnetic calm, similar to the eye of a storm at the heart of an intense signal jamming environment. It can allow PLA forces in electronic warfare to protect their own troops and allies from signal jamming while disabling enemy communication. Photo: Shutterstock 

China denies FBI chief’s accusation; customised robots for rent: SCMP daily highlights

US FBI Director Kash Patel opened the bureau’s new New Zealand office in Wellington on Thursday. Photo: Getty

The containerised launch system was seen in footage from President Donald Trump’s visit to the US Army’s Fort Bragg base in June. Photo: X/Dan Scavino

Shenzhen, China’s southern tech hub, has reported lower GDP growth rates than the national average for the first half of 2025. Photo: Xinhua

Footage released by CCTV on Friday shows a six-minute confrontation at the Second Thomas Shoal, also known as Renai Jiao, in the South China Sea. Photo: Junhao

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From India’s prime minister being urged to visit China to Vietnamese durian imports, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend


From India’s prime minister being urged to visit China to Vietnamese durian imports, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend.


Modi urged to visit Beijing, Hong Kong’s cross-border workers: 5 weekend reads you missed

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}From India’s prime minister being urged to visit China to Vietnamese durian imports, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend

1. India’s Modi urged to attend China’s victory parade. What would it mean at home?

2. Working in Hong Kong, living in Shenzhen: why people are moving to mainland China city

3. Sex, lies and video games: the heated debate over sexism and misogyny in China

From India’s prime minister being urged to visit China to Vietnamese durian imports, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend