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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. Bali fumes at frugal tourists who spend time but less money

2. South Korean teacher accused of killing 7-year-old reportedly laughed in hospital

3. Philippines doubles down on Typhon missile system despite China’s warnings

4. Tesla faces boycott as Malaysians link Musk’s support for Trump to Gaza plan

5. American F-35 or Russian Su-57 stealth fighters: which will India choose?

6. How long can Singapore’s NMP scheme stay relevant?

7. Kim Sae-ron the latest in a long line of Korean stars bullied to death



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SCMP Highlights

Bali fumes at frugal tourists, Tesla faces boycott calls in Malaysia: 7 Asia highlights

Tourists wander at Kuta Beach in Bali, Indonesia, on February 3. Photo: EPA-EFE

Tourists at Kuta Beach in Bali, Indonesia. More than 6.3 million international travellers visited Bali last year. Photo: EPA-EFE

A portrait of Kim Ha-neul is displayed at an altar at a hospital in the central city of Daejeon, two days after she was stabbed to death by her teacher. Photo: dpa

US Army soldiers conduct a test of the Mid-Range Capability (MRC), or Typhon, launcher in California in 2023. Photo: US Army

Elon Musk listens to US President Donald Trump speak in the Oval Office on February 11. Photo: Reuters

The US Air Force’s F-35 fifth-generation fighter aircraft performs at Aero India 2025, a military aviation exhibition held in Bengaluru last Thursday. Photo: AFP

Parliament House in Singapore. The city state’s nominated member of parliament scheme faces a reckoning. Photo: Shutterstock

South Korean actress Kim Sae-ron, 24, at the 2017 Mnet Asian Music Awards in Hong Kong. She was found dead at home after enduring years of online abuse following a drink-driving incident. Photo: Reuters

India’s challenge amid USAID freeze, young women swipe left on romance: 7 Asia highlights

South Korean women carry flags reading “Feminist” as they march during a rally in Seoul to mark International Women’s Day in March 2024. Photo: AFP


Philippine resupply vessel Unaizah May 4 is hit by Chinese coastguard water cannon blasts as it tries to enter the Second Thomas Shoal, locally known as Ayungin Shoal, in the disputed South China Sea on March 5, 2024. Photo: AP

A man looks at residential buildings in Jakarta. Photo: AFP

Screenshot of Kim Yo-jong with what is believed to be her two children. Photo: Handout

Pritam Singh, secretary general of the opposition Workers’ Party, speaks to reporters after the verdict in his trial on Monday. Photo: AFP

A USAID officer watches as a US military cargo plane taxis to a stop at an airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 2015. Photo: AFP

Candles and flowers are seen with a picture during a vigil in central Budapest, Hungary on February 4, 2025 to commemorate a 43-year-old Japanese woman. Photo: AFP

More young women across Asia say they are ditching traditional relationship timelines. Photo: Dreamstime/TNS

Singapore’s pandan cakes, extortion at Jakarta airport: 7 Asia highlights

An advert for pandan cake from Old Seng Choong in Singapore. Photo: Instagram/oldsengchoong


Shoplifting cases have surged in Japanese retail stores, including thefts involving foreign suspects. Photo: Getty Images

North Korean leader Kim Jong- un meets soldiers during a training in North Korea. Photo: AP

Eyka, a Malaysian TikTok influencer, was reportedly rescued from a jungle in Bandung, Indonesia, on Wednesday. Photo: Amnazhan/TikTok

Indian police escort a migrant man (centre) who arrived in Amritsar on Wednesday after being deported from the United States. Photo: AP

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr and his deputy Sara Duterte-Carpio at the inauguration ceremony in Manila in 2022. Photo: AP

A Bengawan Solo outlet in Singapore’s Changi Airport Terminal 2. Photo: Shutterstock

People walk with their luggage at Soekarno-Hatta Airport in Jakarta. Photo: Reuters

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

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From Bali’s frustration with tourists that don’t spend money to India’s choice of stealth fighter jets, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent Asia reporting


From Bali’s frustration with tourists that don’t spend money to India’s choice of stealth fighter jets, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent Asia reporting.
