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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. All bets are off: will Thailand cash in as it spins the wheel on casinos?

2. Fight or flight: Myanmar youth flee conscription to take up arms against junta

3. Secular India’s fate hangs by a thread with Modi’s BJP ‘hell-bent’ on a huge win

4. ‘Punches below its weight’: is Indonesian cinema destined for greatness?

5. Hong Kong martial arts film icon Sammo Hung on his stellar career



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Gambling in Thailand, India’s election, Hong Kong martial arts icon Sammo Hung: 5 weekend reads you may have missed

Industry insiders speculate a legalised gaming sector could rake in as much as US$5 billion a year for Thailand by the end of the decade. Image: Shutterstock

The Thai government is betting on legalised casinos to bring in a windfall of tourism, jobs and taxes. Photo: Shutterstock

New women members of the People’s Defence Forces train at a jungle camp of the Dawna Battalion in Myanmar. Photo: Khu Sam

Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister and leader of the ruling BJP, holds the party symbol during a campaign event in Chennai on Tuesday. Photo: AFP

Netflix has announced a slate of made-in-Indonesia films and series coming soon. Photo: Netflix

Martial arts film icon Sammo Hung reflected on his glittering career in an interview with the Post. Photo: Xiaomei Chen

Chinese nationals in Philippine Coast Guard, twin sisters reunite: SCMP’s 7 highlights of the week

President Xi Jinping greets former Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou ahead of their talks in Beijing on Wednesday, nearly nine years after the pair met for a landmark summit in Singapore. Photo: Xinhua

Nasa introduced the working principles of Vulcan and some key equations it used in an academic paper published in 2020. The software is used to develop hypersonic weapons in the US. Photo: US Air Force

Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

A Philippine Coast Guard personnel looks through binoculars while conducting a resupply mission for Filipino troops stationed at a grounded warship in the South China Sea in October 2023. Photo: Reuters

The twins were adopted by different families in eastern China’s Shandong province. Photo: SCMP composite/Baidu/Douyin

Malaysia’s allure, Siobhan Haughey’s Olympic ambition, discovery of lunar minerals: 5 weekend reads you may have missed

The Kuala Lumpur skyline. Malaysia is moving up as an expat destination. Photo: Shutterstock

Tourists walk past a mural featuring the Malaysian flag in Kuala Lumpur. Photo: EPA-EFE

Siobhan Haughey. Photo: Kaon

The facial reconstruction of Emperor Wu. Photo: Pianpian Wei

Chang’e-5 landing site. Photo: Chinese National Space Agency Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center

Typical Orang Laut cuisine being shared at an event organised by Orang Laut SG. Photo: Instagram/oranglautsg

Taiwan earthquake, Kobe Bryant’s lookalike in China, Singapore’s 34-year-old grandma: SCMP’s 7 highlights of the week

A mother-of-five influencer from Singapore, who has become a grandmother at the age of 34, says she will “support and guide” her 17-year-old son, the new father. Photo: SCMP composite

Buildings were shaken from their foundations in a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Hualien City, Taiwan on Wednesday morning. Photo: CNA

US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida walk along the Colonnade of the White House in Washington on January 13, 2023. Photo: AP

Illustration: SCMP

Sheikh Ali Al Maktoum (left) and Alira, whose music career has been on a hiatus since 2023. Photo: SCMP

Senator Imee Marcos (left) with her brother, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr, after he delivered his second state of the nation address at the Philippine House of Representatives in July last year. Photo: AP

A young man in China who resembles the late basketball icon Kobe Bryant has amassed 500,000 fans in two weeks by copying the sporting legend’s look and style in live-streaming sessions. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin/Getty Images

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From Thailand betting on casinos to India’s high-stakes parliamentary election, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend


From Thailand betting on casinos to India’s high-stakes parliamentary election, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend.


Gambling in Thailand, India’s election, Hong Kong martial arts icon Sammo Hung: 5 weekend reads you may have missed

.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;}From Thailand betting on casinos to India’s high-stakes parliamentary election, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend

1. All bets are off: will Thailand cash in as it spins the wheel on casinos?

2. Fight or flight: Myanmar youth flee conscription to take up arms against junta

3. Secular India’s fate hangs by a thread with Modi’s BJP ‘hell-bent’ on a huge win

From Thailand betting on casinos to India’s high-stakes parliamentary election, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend