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This week: stories from across the continent on trade, elections, air pollution, corruption, and more. Undercovered this week India’s chief of defense staff wants to put Kashmiri children in de-radicalization camps. If that sounds like what’s happening across the border in Xinjiang, that’s because, well, it is
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More stories #Undercovered due to the Coronavirus outbreak: hundreds dead in Himalayan avalanches, journalist sentenced in Thailand, and India acquiring land in Kashmir. Undercovered this week First, an undercovered disaster. A cold wave in the Himalayas has caused avalanches which have killed hundreds in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Nepal. Some
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Welcome to the first regular issue of 2020! Already the media obsession horserace politics in the 2020 election, along with the legitimately worrying #WuhanCoronavirus means most of Asia is already being ignored. Undercovered this week As chaos grows alongside Narendra Modi’s increasingly authoritarian dictates, KP Fabian asks if India’
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This special issue is a preview of What to Watch in Asia in 2020, highlighting the key events, elections, and trends to watch in the region – all of which I’ll follow-up on in future issues. With media attention focused on the upcoming United States Presidential primaries and election, it
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The goal of Asia Undercovered is simple – provide an alternative to the incessant Trump-focused media coverage, and highlight the Asian trends, people and stories that are not getting enough global attention. Every week I highlighted stories from across the continent, usually by local journalists in countries or regions that are
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Undercovered this week: Xinjiang update Imagine not hearing from a friend for two years, knowing they are in the camps, while the world mostly remains silent. Abby McTague shares letters and stories about her friend Zainur Turdi, who treasured her Islamic identity, for Global Voices. Hope for attention as this
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As the world gathers for a critically important climate conference in Madrid, Spain, all eyes will be on Asia. It’s beyond climate – the decisions that countries like China, Japan, India, Indonesia, and others make will determine the future of not only global warming, but biodiversity, energy, and water. In
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This week: Five-star propoganda tours in Xinjiang, female climate journalist in Pakistan, why Koreans are speaking up on Hong Kong, and more. Undercovered this week One way that China has been able to keep the human rights crisis in Xinjiang undercovered globally is through the running of what Coda Story
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First, credit due to a story that was well covered this week. I hope you saw the damning front-page New York Times report of a massive document leak that implicated Xi Jinping himself in the Xinjiang human rights crisis. I hopeful – but, sadly, skeptical – that this will finally lead to
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Firstly, apologies for missing last week – was on vacation and, in the rush to finish everything before departing, failed to either prepare a special issue, or send a note. We’re back on our regular schedule from now until the end of the year. Undercovered this week First, a harrowing
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Asia has become the engine of the global economy, but that does not mean the entire region is prosperous. While there are highly developed economies, such as Japan and Singapore, you also have countries on the other end of the spectrum, emerging from years of conflict and stagnation, such as
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This week: Indonesia protests, Xinjiang video ignored (again), Amazon in Japan and Xi Jingping though in Nepal. New to Asia Undercovered? Sign up here. Wrongly Covered: Indonesia protests For more than two weeks, Indonesia has seen widespread protests around a planned legal reform. Unfortunately, western media coverage has been lacking,