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Sihanoukville in southern Cambodia, with its low taxes and easily obtained casino licences, became a hub for illegal online betting and cyberscams. Photo: Shutterstock
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Southeast Asia’s scam hubs, songwriter for BTS, Cantonese cuisine: 5 weekend reads you may have missed

  • From Southeast Asia’s scam hubs to Cantonese cuisine, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend
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1. Forget Macau, dirty Chinese cash has a new home: Southeast Asia’s scam hubs

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

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

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

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?

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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