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1. Forget Macau, dirty Chinese cash has a new home: Southeast Asia’s scam hubs

2. They’ve written for BTS, Tia Ray, Priscilla Abby – and they combined in Hong Kong to make new songs

3. How 139-year-old Hong Kong umbrella maker weathered storms from political instability to the Japanese – but not Jet Li

4. Thousands of Vietnamese lament life savings lost in nation’s largest financial scam

5. The world is borrowing from Cantonese cuisine – but is it a threat to authenticity?



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Southeast Asia’s scam hubs, songwriter for BTS, Cantonese cuisine: 5 weekend reads you may have missed

Sihanoukville in southern Cambodia, with its low taxes and easily obtained casino licences, became a hub for illegal online betting and cyberscams. Photo: Shutterstock

The Venetian casino in Macau. Photo: Shutterstock

A songwriting camp in Hong Kong brought together talent to create all-but-guaranteed chart-toppers. Photo: UMP Hong Kong

Jet Li famously weaponised one of its umbrellas in a fight scene – or rather 26 of them, given he broke them all. Photo: Yik Yeung-man

A Saigon Commercial Bank branch in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Photo: Bloomberg

Adana kebab dumplings at Gallada at The Peninsula Istanbul, Turkey. The siu-mai-style dumplings are one of many examples of how non-Cantonese chefs around the world are borrowing from Cantonese cuisine. Photo: Cihan Alpgiray

Taiwan to tear down Chiang Kai-shek statues, Hong Kong’s sushi packaging guessing game: SCMP’s 7 highlights of the week

There are hundreds of statues of late president Chiang Kai-shek in public spaces across Taiwan. Photo: Shutterstock

China’s JL-2 submarine-launched ballistic missile makes its debut during a military parade in Beijing in 2019. Photo: Xinhua

A Japanese supermarket in Tsim Sha Tsui replaced transparent plastic boxes for takeaway with paper packaging. Photo: Jelly Tse

Women use portable fans to cool off while walking around Tokyo in the summer of 2023. Photo: AFP

A woman tourist from China has died after she plunged off a cliff at a famous volcano site in Indonesia as her husband took her photo. Photo: SCMP composite/Baidu/Sohu

How the ‘anti-grindset’ movement is taking hold, as work-life balance takes priority

Participants in “forest bathing” at a retreat in India. Corporate high-fliers there and elsewhere have joined the “anti-grindset” movement that prioritises achieving better work-life balance. Photo: Ekaanta

In New Delhi, engineering business vice-president Akash Premsen spends time with his children after work. Photo: Akash Premsen

Ankita Gupta relaxes with her twin boys, who were conceived after she took a break from the daily grind of work as a corporate accountant. Photo: Ankita Gupta

After taking a short break from work as an accountant, and conceiving twins, Ankita Gupta established a networking platform for “mompreneurs”. Photo: Ankita Gupta

Manvi Lohia is head of holistic health at Ekaanta wellness retreat in Uttarakhand, India. Photo: Ekaanta

Ekaanta’s guests practise yoga on the banks of the Ganges River. Photo: Ekaanta

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From Southeast Asia’s scam hubs to Cantonese cuisine, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend


From Southeast Asia’s scam hubs to a Hong Kong umbrella maker, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend.


Southeast Asia’s scam hubs, songwriter for BTS, Cantonese cuisine: 5 weekend reads you may have missed

.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;}From Southeast Asia’s scam hubs to Cantonese cuisine, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend

1. Forget Macau, dirty Chinese cash has a new home: Southeast Asia’s scam hubs

From Southeast Asia’s scam hubs to Cantonese cuisine, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend