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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This week: The 70 year long war in Myanmar, Kashmir’s simmering conflict, China’s domestic social media strategy, and much more. New to Asia Undercovered? Sign up for free weekly updates on Asia’s top undercovered stories here. A forgotten, but important date. March 10th was the 60th Anniversary
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This week: Growing criticism of China’s Belt and Road, intra-coalition agitation in Malaysia, and a new, remote military outpost in Central Asia. New to Asia Undercovered? Sign up for free here. Undercovered this week First, several stories from China, starting with a thought piece by Minxin Pei in Nikkei
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This week: China’s Little Red Smartphone, Indonesia’s second Presidential debate, salt mining in Myanmar, could Japan join 2019’s Asia wave of elections? New to Asia Undercovered? Sign up for free here. Undercovered this week The smartphone: China’s latest tool to control its population, now with its
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This week: Election news from Taiwan, India and the Philippines, dredging the Mekong, and some good and bad Lunar New Year stories. New to Asia Undercovered? Sign up for free here. Undercovered this week First, the good - some timely Year of the Pig journalism from Martin Choi on how
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Happy Lunar New Year to those who celebrate it! China’s Uyghur Propaganda Propaganda is a tool of dictators and strongmen around the world, and China is using it to great effect to shape global discourse around its mass incarceration of more than a million Uyghur Muslims in secret re-education
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This week in Asia Undercovered: another date set in Thailand, Whatsapp being used to divide Indians by caste, a postmortem, and a big misstep by Jokowi in Indonesia. Undercovered this week I really enjoyed this piece by Than Toe Aung on what it was like to grow up Muslim just
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A short, but important edition this week: several elections updates (including a debate), and more worrying news from China. New to Asia Undercovered? Sign up here. Undercovered this week It’s not just Xinjiang. Uyghurs have disappeared from daily life everywhere in China. Another sobering report on China’s ongoing
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Lots of undercovered news this past week, as 2019 in Asia gets off to a busy start while the US media obsesses over a bunch of burgers. A quick note – I’ve changed the newsletter a bit, adding sections on regional geopolitics, and elections. The latter will be a busy
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Happy New Year! For the first issue of Asia Undercovered in 2019, I am highlighting pieces about important events to watch in the coming year. In fact, 2019 is going to be a uniquely important year in the region. We have elections in several countries, including both of the largest
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As this is last edition of Asia Undercovered in 2018 (though many of you will receive this in 2019), I though that instead of telling you what happened last week, I’d do something different. Sometimes, we get so focused on current events that we never get the chance to
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This week: Forced labor in Xinjiang camps, India’s regional elections, and an assassination in Myanmar. New to Asia Undercovered? Sign up here. A holocaust in our times: Xinjiang Every week, it’s becoming more and more clear that these concentration camps are a massive human rights atrocity. There are
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Asia Undercovered: Journalist Nithin Coca's weekly roundup of the news, events, trends and people changing Asia, but not getting enough attention in the US media. Media clampdown in Asia One of the big stories this month was the filing of an arrest warrant for the editor of Rappler