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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 Round-up: 15 Nov 2022
This week: Key Asia climate and environment stories ahead of #COP, approaching elections in Malaysia and Nepal, and a call to release an unjustly-imprisoned Filipina journalist. Subscribe now Undercovered last week A huge tragedy in West Papua. The official cause of death is an accident, but many in the region,
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Asia Undercovered Round-up: 1 Nov 2022
This week: More violence against ethnic minorities in Myanmar, Malaysia's upcoming elections, and China's Party Congress cements dictatorial rule. Subscribe now Undercovered last week There have been a lot of tragedies in Asia in the past few months. This one, which killed dozens of mostly Hazara
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News Backgrounder: Asia’s most Important Political Event of 2022
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Asia Undercovered Round-up: 5 Oct 2022
This week: Another journalist killed in the Philippines, the death penalty remains popular in Taiwan, and the soccer disaster in Malang, Indonesia. Subscribe now Undercovered last week Balochistan – a region occupied by Pakistan and which has been home to an independence movement since 1949, doesn’t get much attention. But
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Asia Undercovered Round-up: 21 September 2022
Asia Undercovered Special: Women's rights, gender, and feminism in the Asia Pacific
Featuring a guest post from Kate Walton of Solidaritas
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Asia Undercovered Round-up: 31 August 2022
This week: Two political are held accountable in SE Asia, Pakistan faces multiple crisis, and could an Islamic climate right rise in Indonesia? Subscribe now Undercovered last week The United Nations finally released a report highlighting what we’ve known for far too long – there is widespread, state-led, forced labor
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Asia Undercovered Round-up: 18 August 2022
This issue: Indonesia's 2024 race heating up, already, India's growing military spending, and why one country wants to join ASEAN while another is leaving the Pacific Island Forum. Subscribe now Undercovered last week I want to see more of this. Read this data driven visual feature
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Asia Undercovered Round-up: 9 August 2022
This week: Climate disasters ignored (again) in Asia, China’s party congress, and how Indian police are using tech to plan false evidence on victims phones. Subscribe now Undercovered last week There's a new, temporary President in Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremasinghe, who, assuming nothing gets in the way,
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News Backgrounder: Sri Lanka's Political & Economic Crisis
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Asia Undercovered Round-up: 13 July 2022
Undercovered last week Another arrest of an environmental defender in the Philippines – a country with an horrific record. Sadly, its not just the Philippines – all across Asia, excuses are being used to suppress people’s rights. A rare case of police accountability in Thailand, where officers were sentenced to life