A round-up newsletter covering underreported news, trends and people across Asia, with regional coverage from Myanmar and Southeast Asia to South Asia and West Asia. Issues pair curated news summaries with original field reporting and commentary.
Website: https://www.asiaundercovered.org/
DUNIA is an independent nonprofit investigative newsroom covering Asia, with reporting on topics such as police use of pellet guns in India, South Korea's and the U.S.'s pursuit of deep-sea mining, and the founder's account of why the outlet exists. The newsletter gives readers long-form reporting on power, resources and human costs across the region.
Kawan is a newsletter from Kontinentalist that uses data literacy and nuanced storytelling to examine Asia, with essays on naming practices, protest culture and everyday consumer ethics. Readers get personal, reflective pieces that connect regional stories to broader questions of identity, resistance and responsibility.
A personal blog by an engineer who writes about building AI travel software, practical lessons from using Claude on real codebases, and travel and history in Japan and Asia. The reader gets thoughtful first-hand accounts of engineering tradeoffs and idiosyncratic, well-argued travel advice.
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