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Undercovered this week Typhoon Goni/Rolly hit the Philippines last week, devastating the island of Catanduanes, which lacks power and telecoms services. At least 25,000 homes have been destroyed, 20 have died, and the recovery efforts will likely take months (Channel News Asia). In fact, Goni is merely one
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“You know that with a sea level rise of over 1.5 meters, hundreds of millions of people would be dead. They would simply be wiped out,” Mohamed Nasheed, then-President of the Maldives, told the UN Chronicle in 2009. “Countries are now under threat because of climate change and because
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Undercovered this week Uyghur Genocide Update: With millions of Uyghurs in camps or forced to work in factories around China, Uyghur children have been forcibly separated. Now, Ruth Ingram reports on thejail-like boarding schools where they’re being held, and likely indoctrinated. I can’t even imagine the trauma they
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Undercovered this week In Sept 2019, environmental advocate and net idol Houayheuang Xayabouly, better known as Muay, was detained for posting a Facebook video criticizing the Laos government response to a flooding disaster. A year later, a movement for her release is growing, writes Mong Palatino for Global Voices. In
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