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We have selected seven stories from the SCMP’s coverage of Asia over the past week 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. ‘Migrate while you can’: Malaysian nurses seek better pay overseas

2. Philippines’ Marcos calls assassination threat ‘troubling’ after VP’s comments

3. Seoul’s subway operator apologises for calling Chinese tourists ‘villains’

4. Mahathir hits out at Chinese signboards in Kuala Lumpur’s shopping centres

5. Indonesia condemned her to death. But soon she’ll return home to the Philippines

6. Fake views: Japan’s Fukuoka apologises for AI-generated tourist attractions

7. AirAsia’s Tony Fernandes talks Comac, being ‘loyal to China’ and Asean expansion



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SCMP Highlights

Malaysia’s migrating nurses, Chinese ‘villains’ comment forces apology: 7 Asia highlights

Chinese tourists carry their baggage on Myeongdong Street in downtown Seoul, South Korea. Photo: EPA-EFE/Yonhap

Commuters pack a subway car in Seoul, South Korea. Photo: MCT

The nursing crunch is not unique to Malaysia as there has been a global shortage of such workers. Photo: AP

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr with his deputy Sara Duterte-Carpio in Manila. Photo: Kyodo

The Kuala Lumpur city centre. Social media users say Mahathir’s observation about Chinese signboards is politically charged. Photo: Reuters

Filipino drug convict and death row prisoner Mary Jane Veloso pictured in 2015. Photo: AFP

Fukuoka old town along the Naka river. Photo: Shutterstock

AirAsia planes are seen parked on the tarmac at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in October 2020 amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo: Reuters

China hits jackpot with gold reserves, Japan’s first kiss rate: 5 weekend reads you missed

Technicians check rock samples at the Wangu gold mine in Pingjiang county, central China’s Hunan province. Photo: Xinhua

People work at the Wangu gold field in Pingjiang county, China’s Hunan province. Photo: Xinhua

Choi Soon-hwa, 81, during the 2024 Miss Universe Korea in Seoul, South Korea. Photo: AP

Is there a growing disinterest in romance in Japan? Photo: Shutterstock

HSBC has argued that it took all necessary steps to clarify the woman’s information in accordance with regulations. Photo: Nora Tam

Australian soldiers conduct joint manoeuvres with Indonesian marines during an amphibious landing exercise. Photo: AP

China’s record-breaking cable laying machine, GDP forecast cut: SCMP daily catch-up

China has built the world’s first machine capable of laying submarine cables in the Challenger Deep, the deepest known place on Earth. Photo: Dalian Maritime University

The Mariana Trench is one of the most inaccessible places on the planet, but now the Chinese Haiwei GD11000 cable can reach this remote seabed. Photo: Dalian Maritime University

Changing the threshold for issuing an air raid alert would leave people on Taiwan less time to respond to an attack, critics say. Photo: Handout

Anti-stealth radar, such as this one at a Chinese air show, will be blind to aircraft and weapons coated with a newly developed stealth material made by Chinese scientists. Photo: Dickson Lee

Tokyo’s emergence as sex tourism capital, rise of Singapore’s opposition: 7 Asia highlights

Tokyo’s notorious Kabukicho district – a maze of bars, love hotels and host clubs. Photo: Shutterstock

A woman looks out at the Tokyo skyline. Photo: AFP

A group of migrants is apprehended by border officers after crossing into the US earlier this year. Photo: AFP

Supporters of the opposition Workers’ Party wave party flags in Singapore in 2020. Photo: EPA-EFE

Chinese Maritime Militia vessels are pictured near the Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea on March 5, 2024. Photo: Reuters

Starbucks has faced backlash due to its perceived connections to the US and Israel, even though it is not officially blacklisted by Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Malaysia. Photo: Getty Images/TNS

Rafale and Super Etendards fighter jets are seen on board France’s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier. Photo: Reuters

A plane takes off from I Gusti Ngurah Rai airport in Bali, Indonesia. Photo: AP

China unveils rock-catching spacecraft, ‘Jay Chou of fitness world’: SCMP’s 7 highlights

Jordan Yeoh is one of the featured experts at the 2024 Hong Kong Fitness and Wellness Expo. Photo: Jordan Yeoh

As China gets closer to launch date for its Tianwen-3 Mars mission, scientists have designed a device to safely capture rock samples for the all-important return back to Earth. Photo: Shutterstock


Beijing says there are “strict controls” on the export of Chinese military drones. Photo: Kyodo

The number of Chinese studying in the US has steadily declined since the 2019-20 academic year. Photo: AP

Guests attend the opening ceremony of a new Chagee outlet in Kuching, Malaysia. Photo: Facebook/my.chagee

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From Malaysia facing a nursing crunch to AI-generated tourist attractions, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent Asia reporting


From Malaysia facing a nursing crunch to AI-generated tourist attractions, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent Asia reporting.


Malaysia’s migrating nurses, Chinese ‘villains’ comment forces apology: 7 Asia highlights

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}From Malaysia facing a nursing crunch to AI-generated tourist attractions, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent Asia reporting

1. ‘Migrate while you can’: Malaysian nurses seek better pay overseas

2. Philippines’ Marcos calls assassination threat ‘troubling’ after VP’s comments

3. Seoul’s subway operator apologises for calling Chinese tourists ‘villains’

From Malaysia facing a nursing crunch to AI-generated tourist attractions, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent Asia reporting