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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. No way home for Myanmar migrants stuck in Thai limbo 4 years after coup

2. Care or convenience? Debate rages over Malaysia’s ‘abandoned’ parents

3. Trump’s Paris exit could push Indonesia towards China for climate funding

4. Calls for more checks on Singapore’s political parties to ensure transparency

5. In Japan, a Muslim community’s wish to bury its dead stirs wave of hostility

6. From ‘ironclad’ to uncertain: Trump’s aid freeze shakes US-Philippines ties

7. Gwadar airport opening boosts China-Pakistan ties but raises India’s concerns



Shanghai’s changing expats, Hong Kong trail sign fallout: SCMP’s 7 highlights

Exhibition on gardens of China, Europe; art director’s top spots: 7 Lifestyle highlights

China builds world’s first ‘coal battery’, war on Alzheimer’s: 7 science highlights

UAE’s Opec exit, why Japan shared Mogami warship design with India: 7 Asia highlights

SCMP Highlights

Philippines reels from Trump’s aid freeze, Myanmar migrants in limbo: 7 Asia highlights

Accommodation occupied by Myanmar migrant workers in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand. Photo: AFP


A Myanmar migrant worker learns Japanese at a makeshift school inside a fellow worker’s flat. Photo: AFP

An elderly man is helped into a wheelchair in Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia. Photo: AFP

US President Donald Trump holds a letter to the UN stating the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement in Washington, DC, on January 20. Photo: AFP

Pritam Singh says the Workers’ Party has engaged commercial vendors to assist in candidate screening and personality reviews ahead of the general election. Photo: Reuters

Muslims arrive at Tokyo Mosque in Japan to perform the Eid al-Adha prayer in June last year. Photo: Getty Images

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr, (left) accompanied by a US soldier inspects a high mobility artillery rocket system on April 26, 2023. Photo: AFP

The Gwadar New International Airport opened on January 20, 2025. Photo: X/Chinese Embassy in Pakistan

Trump’s tariffs, US tech giants embrace China’s DeepSeek: 5 weekend reads you missed

US President Donald Trump has imposed tariffs on the country’s three largest trading partners, risking a trade war that could cause broad economic disruption. Photo: AFP

Ships are loaded at the container terminal of the port in Qingdao, in China’s eastern Shandong province on January 25, 2025. Photo: AFP

US tech firms are rushing to adopt DeepSeek as part of their AI offerings. Photo: Reuters

Illustration: Davies Christian Surya

China’s third aircraft carrier the Fujian leaves the Shanghai Jiangnan Shipyard on May 1, 2024 for its first navigation test. Photo: Xinhua

Donnie Yen in a still from Seven Swords, Tsui Hark’s 2005 sword-fighting epic and one of three notable wuxia films shot this century. Photo: Handout

China’s inbound Lunar New Year travel surges over 200% as visa-free policies pay off

Tourists from Belarus and Russia pose for a photo in Shanghai’s Yu Garden. China has seen an upsurge in tourism during the Lunar New Year holiday. Photo: Xinhua

Tourists crowd the Bund in central Shanghai. China saw a surge in inbound tourism during the Lunar New Year holiday. Photo: Xinhua

As humanoid robots take centre stage in China, do androids dream of economic spotlight?

Illustration: Henry Wong

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From concerns in Manila after US paused military aid to checks on Singapore’s political parties, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent Asia reporting


From concerns in Manila after US paused military aid to checks on Singapore’s political parties, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent Asia reporting.


Philippines reels from Trump’s aid freeze, Myanmar migrants in limbo: 7 Asia highlights

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}From concerns in Manila after US paused military aid to checks on Singapore’s political parties, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent Asia reporting

1. No way home for Myanmar migrants stuck in Thai limbo 4 years after coup

From concerns in Manila after US paused military aid to checks on Singapore’s political parties, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent Asia reporting