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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 13 August 2020
Informing the uninformed: Uyghur Genocide As many of you know, Asia Undercovered has regularly highlighted stories about the human rights crisis in Xinjiang. But many remain mostly uninformed, partly due to western media not giving enough prominence to the story. Here’s a great thread of informative pieces that you
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Asia Undercovered Special Issue: Black Lives Matter in Asia
We at Asia Undercovered try to steer clear of over-covered news like Trump’s latest tweets, but here’s a trending topic that we feel deserves more attention: #BlackLivesMatter. Over the past few months, a renewed BLM movement has spread around the world, including in Asia, where protesters are not
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Breaking News Backgrounder #1 – Asia Floods
Floods are ravaging Asia In the past month, unusually heavy, persistent rains have caused flood disasters in several Asian countries. Japan, China, Indonesia, Nepal and India have all experienced historical flooding, and widespread loss of life. The timing is not a coincidence – there’s strong evidence that climate change is
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Breaking News Backgrounder #1 – Asia Floods
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Asia Undercovered Media Analysis #1: Miscovering Chinese Apps
Media Analysis: How western media undercovered the rise of Chinese apps – and still gets it wrong today To ban, or not to ban, TikTok. This debate, on the popular Chinese streaming video app, is dominating United States tech media now. But go back just a year to 2019, and you’
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Asia Undercovered 29 July 2020
This week: Terror capitalism spreads around the world, media outlets shut down in China and the Philippines, and the geopolitics of human rights in Asia Subscribe now Asia Undercovered is launching paid subscriptions from August 3, and the first subscriber-only issue will go out on August 13. I’m offering
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Asia Undercovered 23 July 2020
We have a new, better designed logo! Scroll down to see it. It’s in preparation for our paid subscription launch in just two weeks. More details on that in the next issue. Uyghur Genocide Update Increasingly, it’s being called a genocide, due to a preponderance of evidence. This
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Asia Undercovered 15 July 2020
This week: Singapore election results, press crackdown in Malaysia, and the rise of women in positions of power in Southeast Asia. Subscribe now Singapore Elections The outcome was as expected – the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) won another massive majority. But dig deeper, and the results actually show that
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Asia Undercovered 8 July 2020
This week: The lost children of East Timor, contrasting minority language policies in China and Taiwan, and an little-covered dam collapse in Uzbekistan. Undercovered this week Poignant and tragic. The names of disappeared Uyghur artists, scholars, and musicians. Many, perhaps, gone forever. Back in the 1970s and 80s, it was
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Asia Undercovered 1 July 2020
This week: More evidence of genocide in Xinjiang, Singapore’s long-time ruling party, and a dynasty in the making in Cambodia. Subscribe now Genocide, slowly The Associated Press has just released the results of an investigation that documents in detail China’s deliberate policy to reduce Uyghur birthrates and population