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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. More Singapore singles seek ‘meaningful connections’ in dating events and shun matchmaking apps

2. Havoc in the sky: how to stay safe in severe flight turbulence – a visual guide

3. How ‘2-dish-rice’ meals went from Hong Kong workers’ staple to culinary classic

4. Body odour? Sighing? In Japan, that could be workplace harassment

5. US-returned Chinese physicist and team achieve world first in quantum computing



China builds world’s first ‘coal battery’, war on Alzheimer’s: 7 science highlights

UAE’s Opec exit, why Japan shared Mogami warship design with India: 7 Asia highlights

Cheaper durians for China, Hong Kong helpers camp in tents: 5 weekend reads you missed

King Charles’ gift amuses Chinese, anti-spy agency makes allegation: SCMP’s 7 highlights

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Singapore singles shun dating apps, a visual guide to severe flight turbulence: 5 weekend reads you may have missed

More people in Singapore are shunning dating apps, and instead are signing up to events for singles who want to mingle with potential partners in person. Photo: TNS

A couple poses for pre-wedding photographs next to the Merlion statue in Singapore. Photo: AFP

A look at what causes severe turbulence, where some of the world’s most turbulent flight paths were in 2023 and how travellers can stay safe. Illustration: Victor Sanjinez

The “two-dish-rice” shops typically operated in lower-income neighbourhoods before the pandemic. Photo: Daniel Suen

In Japan, a person with poor hygiene habits or who wears too much perfume could be a perpetrator of “smell harassment”. Photo: Bloomberg

Duan Luming (right) with some members of his quantum computing research team at Tsinghua University. Photo: Handout

Hong Kong 47 case, traveller’s banned meat fine, Keanu Reeves’ lookalike in Thailand: SCMP’s 7 highlights of the week

Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

Bai Tianhui (centre), former general manager of China Huarong International Holdings, was sentenced to death by a Chinese court on Tuesday for corruption. Photo: Weibo

The food included rice with roast pork and soy sauce chicken, both typical Cantonese dishes. Photo: Handout

Regardless of the type of diabetes, failure to maintain normal blood glucose levels over time can lead to serious side effects, including heart disease, vision loss and kidney disease. Photo: Shutterstock

A German man has become a global online hit and sparked a media frenzy in Thailand because of his staggering resemblance to Hollywood superstar, Keanu Reeves. Photo: SCMP composite/TikTok/Lionsgate

In Vietnam’s ‘game of thrones’, is China the only constant?

To Lam takes his oath to become Vietnam’s next president during the National Assembly’s summer session in Hanoi on May 22. Photo: AFP

US President Joe Biden meets Vietnam’s former President Vo Van Thuong at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi in September 2023. Photo: Reuters

Lam (second from left), Vietnam’s then-minister of public security, pays his respects in 2018 at the funeral of late President Tran Dai Quang in Hanoi. Photo: Vietnam News Agency/Handout via EPA-EFE

Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with Vietnam’s Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in Hanoi in December. Photo: Xinhua

An artist’s impression of the controversial US$1.7-billion Funan Techo Canal Cambodia is planning to link capital Phnom Penh to the sea. Photo: Handout

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From singles in Singapore to a Hong Kong culinary classic, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend


From singles in Singapore to a Hong Kong culinary classic, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend.


Singapore singles shun dating apps, a visual guide to severe flight turbulence: 5 weekend reads you may have missed

.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;}From singles in Singapore to a Hong Kong culinary classic, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend

1. More Singapore singles seek ‘meaningful connections’ in dating events and shun matchmaking apps

From singles in Singapore to a Hong Kong culinary classic, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend