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1. China’s AI-powered laser mosquito zapper goes viral after crowdfunding success

2. Why Malaysia’s tourism boom lives and dies on a Chinese app

3. As Europe sizzles amid extreme heat, the hunt for China’s aircon remains elusive

4. Cathay Pacific says sorry to actor Wu Chun over 3-day luggage delay ordeal

5. Why are Hong Kong, mainland universities rising in global rankings as US ones fall?



China’s aircon scarce in Europe, Wu Chun’s luggage ordeal: 5 weekend reads you missed

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Hidden cost of China’s electric car boom, record-breaking week for sales: 7 EV reads

SCMP Highlights

People swim in the Canal Saint-Martin on Friday after public swimming was permitted in certain areas due to high temperatures amid a heatwave in Paris. Photo: Reuters

Photon Matrix Lab’s portable laser mosquito defence system promises to rapidly detect and eliminate mosquitoes mid-flight with the help of an AI-powered vision module and lidar. Photo: AFP

A RedNote user poses near the McDonald’s in Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Photo: RedNote

People in Paris are dipping into the water to escape the extreme heat. Photo: Xiaofei Xu

Wu posted a video on Thursday afternoon in France via social media platform Weibo, expressing his anger over the incident. Photo: Weibo

CityU came in 52nd in the QS rankings. Photo: May Tse

Chinese tourists pose for photographs while dressed in kimonos at the Sensoji Temple in the Asakusa district of Tokyo. Photo: AFP

US Vice-President J.D. Vance speaks to reporters after talks at Lake Lucerne in Switzerland on Monday. Photo: Reuters


A security guard uses a metal detector to check students’ bags at a high school in Quezon City, the Philippines, on Tuesday, a day after the school shooting in Tacloban. Photo: Reuters

The case has been linked to the firing and arrest of a 24-year-old intern doctor originally working at Caritas Medical Centre. Photo: Dickson Lee

A man living alone in eastern China was sentenced to jail for breeding over 300 pythons at home. Photo: CCTV

Ayo Canlas with daughter Arya in August 2022 (left) and June 2026. Photo: Ayo Canlas

Li Sitong as the young Nanzhi in a still from Dear You (category IIA, Teochew), directed by Lan Hongchun. Wang Yantong and Wu Shaoqing co-star.

Hong Kong singer and actor Andy Hui Chi-on in 1997. Hui, one of Cantopop’s “New Four Heavenly Kings”, was embroiled in a cheating scandal in 2019 that threatened to destroy his legacy. Photo: Dickson Lee

Gavin Yeung, co-founder of Hong Kong matcha brand Celadon, stirs matcha with a traditional tea whisk. The company uses powder from China’s Zhejiang province to spotlight the green tea’s true Chinese origins, which, the founders say, are contrary to “everything this generation knows about matcha”. Photo: Chloe Loung

A$AP Rocky poses with Eva Sam at Sam’s Chinatown goldsmith shop Popular Jewelry, which has become a hip-hop landmark, in New York City. The rapper has developed a friendship with Macau-born Sam since his first visit in the early 2010s. Photo: Popular Jewelry

Tourists in China call locals smelly, Philippine school shooting: 7 Asia highlights

Malaysian tourists have sparked outrage at home with viral videos mocking locals in China. Photo: Threads

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan (left) meets Singapore’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong at the World Cities Summit, where London has been awarded the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize 2026. Photo: dpa

People stand next to the entrance gate of San Jose National High School after a shooting incident in Tacloban City, Leyte province, the Philippines, on Monday. Photo: AFP

A still from “Dear You”, the hit Chinese film shot in southern Teochew dialect. Photo: Handout

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From China’s AI-powered mosquito zapper to RedNote’s power over Malaysia’s tourism, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend


From China’s AI-powered mosquito zapper to RedNote’s power over Malaysia’s tourism, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend.


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China’s aircon scarce in Europe, Wu Chun’s luggage ordeal: 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 China’s AI-powered mosquito zapper to RedNote’s power over Malaysia’s tourism, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend

1. China’s AI-powered laser mosquito zapper goes viral after crowdfunding success

From China’s AI-powered mosquito zapper to RedNote’s power over Malaysia’s tourism, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend