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Nithin Coca
The founder and curator of Asia Undercovered, Nithin Coca is a Asia-focused freelance journalist who covers politics, society, and environment, across the region.
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Asia Undercovered 10 Dec 2020
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Asia Undercovered 9 Dec 2020
Another Year of Uyghur Genocide It’s becoming cliché to talk about how terrible 2020 was. And it was, for many around the world. But for Uyghurs, it was just another year of terror, following several in which millions were rounded up into camps, jailed, mosques and cemeteries bulldozed, part
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Breaking News Backgrounder #6 - The RCEP Trade Deal
Not China-led, despite what you saw on mainstream news.
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Asia Undercovered 25 Nov 2020
Undercovered this week So, apparently China may have territory from Nepal – and the pro-China leaders in Kathmandu...didn’t mind. Creeping imperialism in the Himalayas, again (The Telegraph). Meanwhile, in China, more signs that the war on the Uyghurs is turning into a war on Islam, with Chinese Muslims far
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Asia Undercovered Special: Religion
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Asia Undercovered 13 Nov 2020
Undercovered this week Typhoon Goni/Rolly hit the Philippines last week, devastating the island of Catanduanes, which lacks power and telecoms services. At least 25,000 homes have been destroyed, 20 have died, and the recovery efforts will likely take months (Channel News Asia). In fact, Goni is merely one
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Breaking News Backgrounder #5 - Myanmar Elections
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Asia Undercovered Special: Climate change in the Pacific
“You know that with a sea level rise of over 1.5 meters, hundreds of millions of people would be dead. They would simply be wiped out,” Mohamed Nasheed, then-President of the Maldives, told the UN Chronicle in 2009. “Countries are now under threat because of climate change and because
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Asia Undercovered 29 Oct 2020
Undercovered this week Uyghur Genocide Update: With millions of Uyghurs in camps or forced to work in factories around China, Uyghur children have been forcibly separated. Now, Ruth Ingram reports on thejail-like boarding schools where they’re being held, and likely indoctrinated. I can’t even imagine the trauma they
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Asia Undercovered 29 Oct 2020
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