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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Undercovered last week Worth reading: Tree planting has been hailed as climate solution, particularly in South Asia. But, as this investigation by Ishan Kukreti for Scroll.in finds, in India many of these plantations, in which huge sums have been invested, simply don’t exist. Not covered during the recent
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This week: Taiwan's indigenous progress, how Philippines fishers cope with the geopolitics of the South China Sea, and searching for her missing husband in Laos, one decade on. Subscribe now Undercovered last week The New Year got off to a horrible start in Hong Kong where the Pillar
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Undercovered last week It was long assumed, but now we have proof. China’s top leadership, including Xi Jinping, played a key role in the creation of the Uyghur camps, which hold potentially a million and come alongside efforts to reduce birthrates and destroy Uyghur culture. Will this be enough
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This week: Malacca election stunner, how Bhutan achieved sustainable development, and disappearing articles in Kashmir. Subscribe now Undercovered last week In remote North Maluku, a province of Indonesia, the capital has been moved to a small town of just 18,000, in a mangrove forest. And, according to Mahmud Ichi,
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This week: Mining fails to enrich Mongolia, Duterte is back (again) and a successful grassroots effort protects a forest in Malaysia. Subscribe now Undercovered last week An investigation by Khaliun Bayartsogt for Nikkei Asia looks into how millions went missing during Mongolia’s mining boom, which was supposed to bring