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

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

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

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The Venetian casino in Macau. Photo: Shutterstock

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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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
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