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Asia-focused (๐ฏ๐ต๐ฒ๐พ๐ฎ๐ฉ & Tibet) award winning global journalist covering environment, climate, Human Rights & supply chains. DM for Signal ๐ ๐Japan, sometimes California or Indonesia Mastodon: https://social.coop/@ncoca Contact: nithincoca.com
A new documentary film on the devastating โecocideโ happening in West Papua is screening as a world premiere in NZ this weekend. The 90min feature, Pesta Babi (โPig Feastโ), is about deforestation and militarisation.
davidrobie.nz/2026/03/deva...
A new report by the Environmental Justice Foundation alleges forced labor, shark finning and illegal fishing on Chinese vessels targeting jumbo flying squid in the Southeast Pacific.
The findings draw on interviews with 81 fishers, mainly Indonesians who worked on 60 vessels between 2021 and 2025.
If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.
The 8-month sentence for Kwok Yin-sang is a clear retaliatory attack on his daughter Anna Kwok for her pro-democracy activism.
Itโs the latest proof that national security laws are a tool for silencing free expression and dissent โ not for protecting Hong Kong.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The father of wanted activist Anna Kwok has been jailed for 8 months after he sought to cancel an insurance policy in her name, an offence under the city's homegrown security law. ๐ buff.ly/1QjNL21
โWhen Shah Alam did not follow police commands to drop his curtain rod, they Tasered and beat him, then arrested him, Macaluso said.โ
He didnโt speak any English. And he used the curtain rod as a walking stick.
Even just a tiny bit of empathy couldโve saved his life ๐
It was only a matter of time: transnational repression to support #China overseas business interests, this time in #Australia.
www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-ne...
I think it's also the type of rice - long grain, masoori, or basmati rice is much easier to cook than more finicky short-grain varieties used in East Asia.
One of the biggest reasons now that I think I may stay as a freelancer and not job hunt is that I don't want to be forced to use some terrible #bigtech "productivity" suite like #Google docs or #Microsoft Office365 or Teams everyday.
Mainland police are putting pressue on Chinese delivery riders working overseas in Sydney, including targeting their parents still in the Mainland, warning them to stop protesting in Australia for better pay and work conditions or face arrests upon returning to China.
All you people who claim you can't afford to pay for a privacy-minded alternative to #Google or #Microsoft all don't have #Amazon or #Netflix subscriptions, right?
Losar is the tibetan new year, monks are getting ready for the cultural rally. On the New Yearโs Day, people wake up early and put on new clothes after having taken a bath. They then make offerings to the gods by placing them on their household shrines and worship them. This day family members also exchange gifts. Families have a reunion dinner, usually consisting of a kind of cake called kapse and an alcoholic drink called chang, which is drunk to keep warm.
Happy #Tibetan New Year - Losar Tashi Delek!
Despite it often falling on the same day as #Chinese, #Korean, and other lunar new years, it's actually a different calendar and not always aligned.
Chinaโs information lockdown on Tibet works. Barring independent journalists, academics, human rights observers, etc., means that Tibet stories just donโt make it to international media.
Read an analysis that claimed that Chinese solar is "unfairly criticized" that then went on to make no mention of any of the many #humanrights concerns linked to solar production, such as #Uyghur forced labor in #Xinjiang
How is the solution to "unfair" criticism to put out biased, promotion?
one thing that sucks about being a tech critic is seeing all the ways people justify tech addition and the use of services that are socially harmful and degrade not just labor rights but the wider society because theyโve personally developed a dependence and canโt see any other way of doing things
In a world of Eileen Gu๏ผbe Alysa Liu
ๅจ้ๅฐ่ฐท็ฑๅ็ไธ็๏ผๅๅ็พ่ดค
Alysa Liu's father was a Tienanmen Square protester who escaped regime after 1989. Both him and Alysa have been harassed by the CCP. Alysa has refused the blood money from the CCP. She is true champion๏ผ
This is a tactic long used by the CPP to silence & punish Tibetans and Uyghurs, such as when the sister @rushanabbas.bsky.social was jailed by China in 2017.
Deeply worrying that punishing family members because of their relatives actions abroad out has come to #HongKong.
What's actually supporting #Palestine more - holding a sign at a rally, or actually quitting using platforms that enable their oppression, or of those who speak out?
It's not safe, in 2026, to be an activist, journalist, or, often, a minority and use big tech.
theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...
Pay attention to how many so-called #China" experts here have said nothing about Lai's unjust sentencing, or the many others in #HongKong who have been jailed.
Too many of them stay silent for a variety of reasons - visits, or partnerships, or perhaps, I wonder, funding.
My feed, both here and at Mastodon, is much more about the #Thailand election than the #Japan election today, despite living here now for nearly 3 years...
The Country That Cannot Be Named.
Hence why #Taiwanese athletes are calling attention to the fact that Taiwan's name is conspicuously absent from the national team outfits they are forced to wear in compliance with IOC rules and pressure from China.
China is now โbankrollingโ Russiaโs war in Ukraine providing โ60 per centโ of the funds needed by Moscow to continue fighting.
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/da5539f...
Pretty tough morning to hear how so many amazing journalist who I respect deeply, at one of the few newsrooms with a presence in #Asia, @washingtonpost.com, are being let go.
Another reason to not use #Google - they'll readily share your data with the government and give you minimal opportunities to respond. It's not worth it.
newrepublic.com/post/206088/...
Japanโs first woman prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, should promote new legislation prohibiting discrimination based on race, ethnicity, or religion, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2026.
www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...
More than six decades after displacement, #Tibetans in exile are electing their leaders through democratic processes. These #elections exist because Tibetans inside Tibet are denied the right to meaningful political participation.
sg.news.yahoo.com/exiled-tibet... (AFP)
Good piece here from @yasminjullah.bsky.social in @dvbenglish.bsky.social speaking on AI, misogyny & the war on Rohingya womenโs visibility
"Rohingya women are told, constantly, that we should advocate, but quietly. Lead, but from behind a curtain. Be visible, but not too much. Exist, but not fully"
imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead
Japan has delivered 3 thousand tons of domestically produced rails to Ukraine to help fix Russia-damaged transport networks,Embassy of Japan in ๐บ๐ฆ announced
The project was implemented by the Japan International Cooperation Agency(JICA)with the support of the Government of Japan
Thank you,Japan!
China has begun building the Guangdong section of the Tibet-Guangdong ultra high-voltage โgreen powerโ line, moving #Tibet hydropower, solar, & wind to Guangzhou/Shenzhen.
Due 2029: 43bn kWh/yr, cutting approx 12m tonnes of coal, & feeding AI-driven demand.
www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
