Hong Kong’s love affair with instant noodles, China’s railways and landscapes captured: 5 weekend reads you may have missed

From the railways that traverse China’s varied landscapes to far-right views in Southeast Asia, here are stories you may have missed over the weekend

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Published: 12:00pm, 19 Feb 2024

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1. Plains, trains and uncommon zeal: China’s varied landscapes photographed via railways that traverse them

A freight train rolls through the Qianxinan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture in Guizhou province, China. Photo: Wang Lu

2. Hong Kong’s love affair with instant noodles is under fire. The Post has answers

Hong Kong’s love of instant noodles has surpassed even Japan, where the snack was first invented. Photo: Tory Ho

3. Far-right views in Southeast Asia? How 2 Singapore cases may reflect ‘anti-woke’ movement’s slow creep

Merlion Park with Marina Bay Sands in the background in Singapore. Photo: EPA-EFE

4. Is the Philippines becoming a US ‘proxy’ against Beijing in the South China Sea?

A service member from the Philippine Navy keeps watch in the South China Sea. Photo: Handout via AFP

5. A pregnant ex-prisoner of war’s anxious life in a Hong Kong camp after Japan’s World War II surrender

In his book, a journalist details his quest to understand his mother’s past. Photo: Blacksmith Books

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