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This week: Why Laos is relying on China, pollution in Kashmir, illegal plantations in Indonesia, and a shoutout to the best investigation I've read all year.
This week: Why Laos is relying on China, pollution in Kashmir, illegal plantations in Indonesia, and a shoutout to the best investigation I've read all year.
This week: Refugees face more hurdles in Japan, new Prime Ministers but little real change in Thailand and Cambodia, and growing herbs to save forests in Bangladesh.
This week: Refugees face more hurdles in Japan, new Prime Ministers but little real change in Thailand and Cambodia, and growing herbs to save forests in Bangladesh.
Undercovered last week Pakistan, the fourth most populous country in Asia, gets very little attention in the global media. We should be paying more attention, writes David Brewster in this piece for Lowy Intepreter, due to concurrent economic and political crisis that could have regional impacts. Worth Reading: This in-depth
Last week, Cambodia held an election with an expected result. Despite this, it was a rare, brief moment when the small country got some global attention. But there's a lot more to Cambodia than just politics, which is why instead of a regular election-related recap, this week we&
Undercovered last week The crisis in Xinjiang had faded away from the headlines, likely due, in part, to the increasing difficulty that journalists face in accessing the region. But RFA was, despite these barriers, able to uncover how teenage Uyghurs are being forced to work in garment factories through secret
Undercovered last week You've likely seen numerous headlines about the floods in the US, or the heat in Spain. But did you hear anything about flooding that killed at least 50 in Pakistan last week? Likely not (Dawn). Horrible news from Bangladesh, where a labor organizer, Shahidul Islam,
The state of press and digital freedom in Asia, including the challenging facing journalists, activist, and dissidents, the links to democratic backsliding, and what some are doing to stem this tide.