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 We’ve highlighted in past issues the shocking disappearance of Wanchalearm Satsaksit, a Thai dissident, in Cambodia last year. This just released, in-depth, detailed joint investigation from NewNaratif, Prachatai and VOD explores his last days in Phnom Pehn, and why the case remains unsolved to this day.
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This week: How China occupied Tibet, a Himalayan hero passes, and the geopolitics of New Guinea. Subscribe now Undercovered last week In 1951, China forced Tibet to accept a 17-point agreement that ended its independence and forced it to submit to its neighbor. Even that was too much, as the
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This week: Another undercovered cyclone hits India, the battle for influence in Laos, and a depressing Presidential poll from the Philippines Subscribe now Undercovered last week Very worrying news from Bangladesh, a country’s whose authoritarian slide gets little attention. A well-known journalist, Rozina Islam, has been arrested under the
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This week: West Papuans declared terrorists, Pakistan cracks down on Uyghur exiles, and another strong cyclone hits India. Subscribe now Undercovered last week While the world’s attention is on Gaza, don’t forget Asia’s occupied peoples, too. In fact, there is increasingly worrying news from West Papua. The
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Despite the World Health Organization’s call for the decriminalization of sex work, lack of appropriate legislation and workers rights, as well as criminalization and widespread societal stigma is still putting sex workers around the world in a particularly vulnerable position, including in Asia. And its gotten worse, as many
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This week: Myanmar falling increasingly under military control, can anyone overcome "Duterismo" and China occupying territory in...Bhutan. Subscribe now Undercovered last week A reminder that the human rights crisis in Xinjiang and Tibet are still not getting adequate attention in global media, or from governments, who’ve
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This issue: Crackdowns in China, a worrying new law in Thailand, and how graphic design can enable activism. Subscribe now Undercovered Last Week The Myanmar protests are, to most media, old news, disappearing from global headlines, despite an ongoing bloody struggle. In fact, its 60 years of struggle, in which
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