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This issue: More arrests of Tibetans and Uyghurs, the long impact of the Sino-Vietnamese war, and saving Jakarta from flooding is possible. Subscribe now Undercovered last week The more we know, the worse it becomes: In 2017, a principle and six teachers from a Uyghur-language high school in China were
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This month’s Asia Undercovered Journalist Q&A is with Boonyanin Pakvisal, who also goes by Wanpen Pajai, a Thai reporter at Southeast Asia Globe. Wanpen’s reporting caught our eye as she covers broad topics on her home country, ranging from the social impacts of development, how communities
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A reminder: Why this newsletter exists As a freelance journalist, I’ve often has issues with gatekeepers at major media outlets in the United States and Britain, many of whom have little understanding of regions like Southeast Asia. So I wasn’t surprised to, last week, see this tweet, not
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This week: The impacts of Cyclone Amphan, a year later, how China is winning a divided SE Asia, and a 4000 year old sport goes global. Subscribe now Uyghur genocide update More evidence has emerged about China’s plans for Xinjiang, the homeland of the Uyghurs – long-term birth decline, more
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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