Asian Dispatch

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The social media accounts linked to from Asian Dispatch are: • Instagram • YouTube • LinkedIn • Website Besides social media accounts, asiandispatch has populated their site with: • Chalo Sansad: Palpable Anger Among Protesters Demanding Education Reforms in India • Measles Cases Continue to Rise in Maldives • How HIV Is Affecting Truck Drivers and Sex Workers Along India-Nepal Highways • In India’s reserves: tiger takes it all • Autonomy, Privacy, & Gender Equality Should Drive Asia’s Digital Growth • Dengue Crisis in Bangladesh Needs Action Now • Foreign Links, High Fees: Sri Lanka’s Guinness Record Dance Event Lands in Soup • Dust Clouds Vietnam’s Wood Pellet Boom • Forgotten: Nepal’s Roshi Flood Survivors Are Still Without Homes • Asian Cyber Resilience | Edition 24 | ‘Restriction doesn’t equal resilience’ • Escaped At Midnight: How Debt Bondage Traps Sri Lanka’s Malaiyaha Tamil Tea Workers • Socio-Cultural Beliefs Alone Can No Longer Protect Sacred Groves in India • Breathing in Plastic: When City Life Leaves No Choice but to Swallow Pollution • Apply to be a Social Media Coordinator with Asian Dispatch • Fish Banned in China, Consumed Freely in Malaysia’s Semporna • Apply to be an Associate/Senior Associate with Asian Dispatch • Locking Out: Why Blanket Social Media Bans Won’t Protect Children • ‘I Scammed So I Could Live’: Inside the Story of South Asians Trafficked and Enslaved in Asia’s Booming Scam Compounds • Iran War Hits Weddings and Wazas in Kashmir • Irregular Indians: What the World Doesn’t See in the Story of Undocumented Immigrants • CJP Protest at Jantar Mantar Seeking Dharmendra Pradhan’s Resignation • Migrants…don’t lose that number • The Value of Good Journalism in the Age of AI • Bangladeshi Journalists face threats and attacks, says Committee to Protect Journalists • Maldivian Politics Needs to be a Contest of Principles, Not Personalities • 1059 police officers accused of violence during 2024 Bangladesh protests, 41 arrested • Can the BJP Bring About a Change in West Bengal? • Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte arrested by International Criminal Court • Braving the Heat in Delhi-NCR; IMD Issues Yellow Alert • Parachute Journalism in Asia is alive and well • Interview With Mohamed Nasheed, Ex-Maldives President Seeking to Lead MDP • Apply for Journalism Connect • Bangladesh Govt Faces Public Trust Test Within Two and a Half Months • A Tale of Two Nations: Pakistani Hindus Gain Voting Rights. But Will It Change Their Lives for Better? • Two Journalists in Maldives Detained as Aisha Case Mobilises the State Against the Press • What Meta’s Tipping Point Means for Asia • Clean Water Still a Distant Dream for Residents of Malab in Haryana • ‘No One May Survive’: India’s Inability to Clean Up Its Coal-Fired Power Plants is Poisoning People’s Health • Behind Vijay’s Political Rise in Tamil Nadu: Of Dravidian Politics & Youth Connect • Whose (Clean) Air is it Anyway?: Asia’s Toxic Air Evokes the Larger Question of Inequality • Sri Lanka Hit by Fuel Storage Capacity, Not Supply • Crisis in West Asia Puts 1.7 Million Nepalis at Risk • In Bangladesh, Cops Accused of Killing Protesters During 2024 Uprising Roam Free • From a Photo to Abuse: How AI Is Used to Harm Women Online in Indonesia • Why Coal Is a Double-Edged Sword for Pakistan • War in West Asia is Hurting the Fishing Communities in Pakistan’s Indus Delta • Silencing the Press: The Deadly Price of Reporting in Asia • The Iran War is Changing How Millions of People Cook — And What They Eat • AI Tools & Social Norms are Making the Internet Unsafer For Women • Smog Crisis worsens in Pakistan's cities amid climate change impacts on seasonal patterns • Transgender Bill Amendment Leaves Out Northeast • Marital Consent: Legal Blindspot or Intentional Oversight? • Petroleum Products Used to Burn Parliament, Supreme Court and Singha Durbar • Filipino Women rescued from Baby Trafficking Syndicate in Cambodia • India’s Govt Wants to Turn Trans Rights Law into Trans Persecution Law; Queer Groups Prepare to Fight Back • Justice Denied, Without Trial: How Draconian Laws in Asia Are Weaponised Against Free Speech • Section 377: A Colonial-Era Law That Still Governs Queer Lives in Asia • EXCLUSIVE: Who Is Aminul, the Controversial Ex-Founder of Malaysia's Top Labour Agency? • GITEX AI ASIA | Registration | 9–10 April 2026 | Singapore • Who Killed Swarna Das? A Teen’s Killing on Bangladesh-India Border Was Politicised and Denied Justice • 'Universities Closed, Fuel Prices Capped': Asian Nations Announce Energy-Saving Measures Amid West Asia Conflict • Asia’s Drug Wars Belie Superficial Solutions Over Accountability • Survey on AI-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence • Editor’s Note: Reinventing News at ‘Asian Dispatch’, One Story at a Time • Dynasties and Democracies: Unpacking Indonesia's Elections and the Future of Political Power in Asia • Nepal Election: Online Harassment Against Female Candidates on the Rise • Farmers First: Bold reforms that Bangladesh's interim leader Yunus must deliver • Apply for Associate Editor • Is Solar Energy the answer to the Power Shortage in Bihar, India? • Subscribe to Asian Cyber Resilience • Login to your Canva account • Subscribe to Asian Cyber Resilience Newsletter on LinkedIn • Our Website • How Prepared is South Asia for the Next Disaster? • Asia’s Political Nepobabies Are in the Spotlight Again as Indonesia Prepares for Local Elections • Political Parties Sideline Disability Rights in Nepal's Election • With ASEAN paralyzed, victims of Myanmar junta turn to the Philippines for justice • Cybersecurity: A core strategic concern for governments AI-led defence and collaboration: does that hold the key to cybersecurity? • Asian Dispatch | LinkedIn • What Election Manifestos Are Telling Voters in Bangladesh • Asian Dispatch | X • 1991 Elections: How the first Non-Party Govt Conducted the Fifth National Elections in Bangladesh • Asian Dispatch | Instagram • GITEX AI ASIA - Ecosystem Partner Registration • GITEX ASIA - Apply to Our Investor Program • GITEX AI ASIA 2026 I Registration • Volunteers are Battling Climate-Fuelled Diseases in Bangladesh • Why Are Children & Young Adults Across South Asia Relying on AI? • Nepal's Political Parties Systematically Flout Donation Disclosure Laws • Illegal Immigration to the United States Is Emptying Haryana • Documentary | Where Land Disappears | Sex Workers in Banishanta, Bangladesh, Face Twin Crisis • Women in Sri Lankan Politics Are Pushing Back Against Disinformation and Deepfakes • Protests Grip Dhaka Over Inqilab Mancha Leader Osman Hadi’s Death • Climate Change is Pushing Tigers, Elephants Closer to Humans in Terai Region • Impact of Sheikh Hasina’s Conviction on India-Bangladesh Ties • Empire of AI's Author Karen Hao on AI Regulations, Data Centers & More • Nepal’s Migrant Workers Face Chronic Kidney Disease as the World Warms Up • Sheikh Hasina Sentenced To Death For Crimes Against Humanity • What Does Sanae Takaichi’s Rise Mean for Asian Politics? • A trans person’s struggle for dignity doesn’t stop even when they die • More Work, Less Meaning: How AI Hype Deepens Labor Exploitation in the Name of ‘Efficiency’ • Panel Discussion: Rewiring Trust in Media - Journalism in the Digital Era - Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan | India • Where Land Disappears: Bangladesh’s Banishanta Sex Workers Confront Climate Change’s Mental Toll • Floods and Landslides Grip the World’s Third Tallest Mountain • Where is queer inclusion in corporate India going wrong? • When Schools Flood in Nepal, Children with Disabilities Pay the Highest Price • As Johor’s data centre hub grows, so do fears over water supply • Cultural Ties Suffer as Political Tensions Continue Between India and Bangladesh • Do U.S. Trade Tariffs Present an Opportunity for Asia to Emerge Stronger? • How a Floating Lab is Keeping Tabs on Environmental Shifts in the World’s Largest Mangrove • Wealth Inequality is at the Heart of ‘Gen Z’ Revolution Across Asia • The Borderlines of Hatred • How Climate Change Impacts Sri Lanka’s Dengue Disease Burden • Behind the Protests in Indonesia—A Long History of Corruption and Resentment • Why is Gen Z Up in Arms Against the Government? • Tionghoa-Indonesia di Bawah Bayang-bayang Genosida Pengetahuan • Chinese-Indonesians and the Enduring Legacy of Epistemicide • 404 Not Found: How Internet Shutdowns Impact South Asians • In The Shadows: The Shahtoosh Story • In the Indus Delta, Tides Reveal Precious Razor Clams and a Cycle of Ecological Poverty • Why Gender Neutrality Won’t Fix India’s Broken Rape Laws • Locals Live in Fear After India Incinerates 337 Tons of Toxic Waste from 1984 Industrial Disaster • Families Share Horror Stories of Indonesians Trapped in Pig Butchering Scheme on Myanmar’s Borders • Tens of thousands face drinking water crisis after flooding in Myanmar's Bago region • ‘Autocracy will return without profound reform’, says Bangladeshi interim Chief Advisor • زیر سایہ: شہتوش کی کہانی • They Survived Dehumanising Deportations by the US. Then Came the Mental Health Crisis. • Motherland | دھرتی ماں • As the Global Tea Demand Booms, South Asian Workers Fight Climate Change • Dalit Families in Nepal Await Disaster Aid That Never Came • No Protection for Journalists Reporting in the Line of Fire During India-Pakistan Conflict • How India – and South Asia – fails to count and tackle heat deaths • In Punjab: A Tale of Two Immigrants • From War to Weather: Tamil Women in Sri Lanka Confront a New Crisis • Divers, Fishers and Scientists in Malaysia are Mapping Sharks and Rays to Save Them • Where the Sharks Swim: Interactive Map by Macaranga • Sex Traffickers in Nepal are luring teenage girls through social media • Supporting Queer Teachers in India to be the teachers they needed • How Mental Health Stigma Shapes the Public – And Private – Lives of South Asia’s Film Stars • "My last wish is to die fair and pretty": These Hijra women think Glutathione will heal more than their skin