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1. Life in the slow lane: savouring the romance of rail travel in Malaysia

2. ‘Immoral’ move: Philippine conservatives vow to challenge divorce bill’s passing

3. Logged out: in the footsteps of the teak wallahs in northern Thailand

4. Nearly forgotten, 2 intrepid women artists who painted China

5. How to type in Chinese faster than in English? The genius of predictive text



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Philippines split over divorce bill, rail travel in Malaysia, the women who painted China: 5 weekend reads you missed

Pro-divorce advocates take part in a protest in front of the senate building in Metro Manila. Photo: AFP

A passenger on the “Jungle Train” sleeper service, which rumbles 526km northwards overnight through the spine of Peninsular Malaysia to the Thai border. Photo: Amirul Ruslan

The “Jungle Train” service, which runs along the spine of Peninsular Malaysia, is the country’s last sleeper train as cars and buses dominate travel. Photo: Amirul Ruslan

A room in a house built of teak in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, that is now a museum. The area’s ‘teak trail’ traces more than a century of logging of the hardwood. Photo: Oliver Raw

Detail from Entrance to a Chinese Temple – Beijing painted by American artist Mary Augusta Mullikin. She and Scottish-born Anna Hotchkis toured China together painting scenes and portraits, until World War II separated them. Photo: Mary Mullikin

Zhi Bingyi (left), was one of the key figures in the evolution of Chinese input method, which, after posing problems in its early days, has come on through the use of predictive text to reach levels of speed once unimaginable.

Singapore Airlines turbulence probe, Hong Kong restaurant service, Indonesian couple’s twist of fate: SCMP’s 7 highlights of the week

The interior of Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 after it landed at Bangkok in Thailand following severe turbulence that left a British man dead and several others hurt. Photo: Reuters

Passengers of Singapore Airlines flight SQ321, which made an emergency landing in Bangkok on its flight from London to Singapore, greet family members upon arrival at Changi Airport in Singapore on Wednesday. Photo: EPA-EFE

Matthew Trickett covers his face as he leaves Westminster Magistrates’ Court on May 13. Photo: AP

Yongshu, also known as Fiery Cross, is one of China’s artificial Islands in the South China Sea. Photo: PLA

Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

Singapore’s opposition, Nepal cleans up Everest, Asia’s ‘kidults’ have money to spend: 5 weekend reads you missed

Supporters of the opposition Worker’s Party wave party flags at the Hougang public housing district during the general election in Singapore in July 2020. Photo: AFP

Pritam Singh (centre) with former Workers’ Party chief Low Thia Khiang (fourth from right) and party members at their Aljunied stronghold in the lead-up to the July 10, 2020 election. Photo: Dewey Sim

Team members of the Clean Mountain Campaign sort through trash at Everest Base Camp. Photo: Clean Mountain Campaign/Handout

K-pop fans browse merchandise for sale at a BTS pop-up store in Seoul last month. Photo: AFP

The dugong, a shy, benign snub-nosed marine mammal and cousin of the manatee, has vanished from the waters around the Andaman Sea island. Photo: Shutterstock

Dark chocolate and olive oil ice cream at Burma Burma, a Burmese restaurant and tea room brand in India. Photo: Assad Dadan

China tests rail gun, Lawrence Wong ‘pride of Hainan’, Cathay bosses’ hefty pay rise:  SCMP’s 7 highlights of the week

Singapore’s new Prime Minister Lawrence Wong speaks during a swearing-in ceremony held at the Istana on Wednesday. Photo: Ministry of Communications and Information of Singapore/Handout via Xinhua

The Chinese team’s method reduces the costs of making wafers. Photo: Shutterstock

The Type 072 destroyer (pictured) was spotted in 2018, carrying what military experts believed to be the PLA Navy’s first electromagnetic rail gun. Photo: Handout

China’s Comac has already begun design work on the next generation of domestically produced airliners after its success with the narrowbody C919. Photo: CAAC

Famous China film producer, Zhang Jizhong, 72, is about to have his fifth child with his wife who is 30 years younger, and the age gap between them has sparked a social media debate. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin

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From the Philippines’ divorce bill to the nearly forgotten women who painted China, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend


From the Philippines’ divorce bill to the nearly forgotten women who painted China, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend.


Philippines split over divorce bill, rail travel in Malaysia, the women who painted China: 5 weekend reads you missed

.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;}From the Philippines’ divorce bill to the nearly forgotten women who painted China, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend

1. Life in the slow lane: savouring the romance of rail travel in Malaysia

From the Philippines’ divorce bill to the nearly forgotten women who painted China, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend