[Schoolmeister]

That's odd. When you scroll past the article the URL is rewritten to just https://www.asiaone.com. I wonder what would be the benefit of that.

[reustle]

Lower bounce rate? +1 pageview?

[lonelappde]

Because then you aren't on the article anymore.

[ubercow13]

It’s an annoying trend, I have also noticed it on other sites. You finish the article or viewing the image or whatever, scroll a bit past the end or flick to the bottom to check you aren’t missing anything, and then try to copy the URL and get some other page you never visited.