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Asia Undercovered Round-up: 4 March 2026
Regional Flashpoints and Shifting Power Dynamics into March This week, Asia has been marked by a shifting political landscape following key elections, democratic backsliding, and a sobering series of escalating armed conflicts. From the perilous "open war" on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to the sweeping electoral changes in Bangladesh
Asia Undercovered Round-up: 19 February 2026
A Turbulent February (Feb 8 – 18) This week, Asia was marked by a shifting political landscape following key elections and a sobering series of ongoing armed conflicts. While new power dynamics emerged in Thailand and Bangladesh, tragic news of loss of life continued to stream out of Myanmar and Pakistan.
Asia Undercovered Round-up: 19 February 2025
This week in Asia Undercovered: Death row inmate Pannir Selvam Pranthaman's case in Sinapore, hypocrisy of military involvement in forest management, Tamil media blocked by the Indian government for publishing satire cartoon, access denied to Bangladesh's state violence sites, reportage from the Sanakham Dam in Thai-Lao
Asia Undercovered Round-up: 5 February 2025
This week in Asia Undercovered: human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka and Nepal, worst air quality across Asia, rising concerns on militarization in Indonesia, 2025 climate budget of India and Indonesia, and torture trial in Kazakhstan. Subscribe to Asia Undercovered Sri Lanka’s human-elephant conflict and Nepali villages’ solution Supun Lahiru