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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. China, US agree to preliminary deal in Malaysia ahead of possible Xi-Trump talks

2. The STEM crisis in China’s universities: how outdated courses are wasting talent

3. Boeing picks Mandarin-speaking ex-White House adviser to lead China business

4. Von der Leyen vows to strike back against China as EU feels rare earths squeeze

5. China boxer survives Australia attack, divorces wife over failure to protect her



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STEM crisis in China’s universities; preliminary deal struck: 5 weekend reads you missed

The library building at the Fuyao University of Science and Technology, Fujian province, China. Photo: SCJiang, CC by SA 4.0

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice-Premier He Lifeng appear on Saturday before their talks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which wrapped up on Sunday. Photo: Xinhua

Illustration: Henry Wong

An estimated 1,855 Boeing planes are operating in China, where the company has done business for some 50 years. Photo: Reuters

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced a new plan to counter China’s choke on rare earths. Photo: EPA

A Chinese boxing champion who, along with his wife, was attacked in Australia, says he is going to divorce his partner because he failed to protect her. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin

Regina Ip, Hong Kong’s colourful ‘Iron Lady’, says ‘mission accomplished’

Regina Ip will now focus on nurturing new talent. Photo: Eugene Lee

Regina Ip resigned as secretary for security in the wake of the 2003 protests against Article 23. Photo: SCMP

Regina Ip (right) ran head-to-head against former chief secretary Anson Chan (left) in a high-profile Legco by-election in 2007, but was defeated. Photo: SCMP

Regina Ip presides over a question-and-answer session about Article 23 at Heung To Middle School in Kowloon Tong in November 2002. Photo: SCMP

New People’s Party chairwoman Regina Ip (fifth from right) poses for a photo with her colleagues during a press conference in Wan Chai about the party’s candidates for the coming Legislative Council election. Photo: Eugene Lee

Regina Ip celebrates the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2024. Photo: Facebook/Regina Ip

Fans celebrate Regina Ip’s 75th birthday outside Causeway Bay’s Sogo department store. Photo: Dickson Lee

As China churns out artificial gems, is a diamond still forever?

 Illustration: Henry Wong

Compressing machines for creating lab-grown diamonds line a factory floor at a facility run by Zhongjing Diamond in China’s central province of Hubei. Photo: Luna Sun

A cube containing lab-grown diamonds sits inside a compressing machine at a facility run by Zhongjing Diamond in China’s central province of Hubei. Photo: Luna Sun

How UOB’s Wee Ee Cheong is planting the seeds for the next 90 years

UOB CEO Wee Ee Cheong. Photo: David Wirawan 

UOB CEO Wee Ee Cheong with ones of his beloved bonsai trees. Photo: David Wirawan

Wee Cho Yaw speaks to reporters at the 80th birthday celebration of Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew in 2003. Photo: AFP 

A handout map shows the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone’s nine strategic flagship zones. Photo: United Overseas Bank/Handout

Jakarta. UOB’s FDI advisory units span markets from Indonesia and Hong Kong to Vietnam. Photo: Shutterstock

A customer opens an account at Radanasin Bank in Bangkok in 1998. Photo: AFP

A ship is seen at the container terminal of the port of Qingdao, in Chinas eastern Shandong province. Photo: AFP

The Hong Kong skyline. Wee said he thought the city would succeed because it had Beijing’s backing. Photo: Jelly Tse

Wee Ee Cheong says he has nurtured a leadership team from whose ranks a future CEO would be chosen. Photo: David Wirawan

China bids farewell to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen-ning Yang

Chen-ning Yang, shown here in 2017, has been described as one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century. Photo: Imaginechina

Professor Chen-ning Yang was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1957. Photo: Handout

Penniless Japan lorry driver, 60, discovers he was switched at birth, is heir to rich family

A Japanese man, who spent 60 years as a struggling truck driver, recently discovered he was switched at birth and is the heir to a wealthy family. Photo: COMBO/Shutterstock/QQ.com

Old family photos of the lorry driver as a young child. It was six decades before he found out the truth about his life. Photo: Handout

An investigation of decades-old hospital documents helped reveal who the lorry driver really is. Photo: Handout 

The man’s actual rich relatives used a DNA test to unveil the real history of their family. Photo: Shutterstock

The lorry driver has had a hard life after growing up in poverty with an adoptive family. Photo: Shutterstock

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From a crisis in Chinese universities to a US-China initial deal framework, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend


From a crisis in Chinese universities to a US-China initial deal framework, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend.


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STEM crisis in China’s universities; preliminary deal struck: 5 weekend reads you missed

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}From a crisis in Chinese universities to a US-China initial deal framework, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend

1. China, US agree to preliminary deal in Malaysia ahead of possible Xi-Trump talks

2. The STEM crisis in China’s universities: how outdated courses are wasting talent

3. Boeing picks Mandarin-speaking ex-White House adviser to lead China business

From a crisis in Chinese universities to a US-China initial deal framework, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend