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Nithin Coca

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Asia-focused (🇯🇵🇲🇾🇮🇩 & Tibet) award winning global journalist covering environment, climate, Human Rights & supply chains. DM for Signal 🔑 📍Japan, sometimes California or Indonesia Mastodon: https://social.coop/@ncoca Contact: nithincoca.com

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Nithin Coca @nithincoca.com · Nov 14

An intro post: I'm a Japan-based, Indian-American environment and human rights freelance journalist (for @vox.com @aljazeera.com @nikkei.com @mongabay.bsky.social @thenation.com and elsewhere).

Was quite active on Twitter & still active on Mastodon & looking forward to connecting with people here!

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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 9h

Thailand MP Rangsiman Rome questioned the motive for filing defamation charges: “Is this really about damage to reputation or is it an attempt to silence criticism and protect something bigger?”

Defamation charges filed against those who exposed the billion-dollar scam network in Thailand and Cambodia

Thailand MP Rangsiman Rome questioned the motive for filing defamation charges: “Is this really about damage to reputation or is it an attempt to silence criticism and protect something bigger?”

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Nithin Coca @nithincoca.com · 1d

An #India-#Japan alliance could prove monumental for the #solar industry. The International Solar Festival at the #OsakaExpo set an optimistic tone for future partnerships to both counter #China & the increasingly anti-solar #US

More in @japantimes.co.jp

www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/...

Amid fossil fuel shift in U.S., hope emerges for India and Japan tie-up on solar

As the Trump administration shifts back to gas and coal, solar power stakeholders in Japan and India are seeking new ways to collaborate.

www.japantimes.co.jp

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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 4d

In 2 Years of Gaza Genocide, Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC and CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest

In a microcosm of the U.S. coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, since Oct. 7, 2023, influential Sunday news shows have not seen fit to book any Palestinians.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11d

In one of her final interviews before she died, Jane Goodall emphasized that we know what’s killing the planet: industrial agriculture, including livestock, and burning fossil fuels.

She also reminded us that we don't have much time to save our planet.

Jane Goodall’s final, urgent, message

"Intelligent creatures don’t destroy their only home.”

www.motherjones.com

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Nithin Coca @nithincoca.com · 13d

What happens when stakeholders along the #supply chain join forces to eliminate #genderbased violence? Find out how investigations by @4workerrights.bsky.social led to a unique labor impact story in my latest feature for @triplepundit.bsky.social.

www.triplepundit.com/story/2025/g...

TriplePundit • Landmark Gender Justice Agreement for Indonesian Garment Workers Shows the Power of Research and Campaigning

Landmark Gender Justice Agreement for Indonesian Garment Workers Shows the Power of Research and Campaigning

www.triplepundit.com

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Pierre-Yves Baubry 博磊 @pybaubry.bsky.social · 13d

Jane Goodall visited Taiwan numerous times and was very well-known and respected here. Her last visit was in June of this year. Here are photos of a public dialogue with then-president Tsai back in 2016.

(Photo : Presidential Office)

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Nithin Coca @nithincoca.com · 13d

Jane Goodall was one of perhaps a handful of people I've ever heard speak, like the Dalai Lama, who you just feel their presence and aura as someone truly special.

Truly was glad I got to be around her in person, once - something I won't ever forget. 🙏

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Jane Goodall, primatologist who taught the world to hope, has died at 91

Jane Goodall, who revealed the intimate lives of chimpanzees and gave the modern world a language of hope, has died at the age of 91. When she stepped into the forests of Gombe, Tanzania, in 1960, she...

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Nithin Coca @nithincoca.com · 15d

I always get overwhelmed by the sheer number of cafes (5-10X as many cafes here compared to Tokyo or Osaka) in #Seoul #Korea.

It's so hard to tell which ones are good for #coffee & which ones aren't - most are mediocre but some are amazing.

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Turquoise Roof @handle.invalid · 16d

“ .. #Tibetans, #Uyghurs, and others who speak out for minority populations can expect even greater government repression.” @mayawang.bsky.social (HRW)

www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

China: Draft ‘Ethnic Unity’ Law Tightens Ideological Control

A newly proposed law in China would provide a broad legal framework to justify existing repression and force assimilation of minority populations throughout the country and abroad.

www.hrw.org

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Mong Palatino @mongpalatino.bsky.social · 21d

The trigger, context, meaning, and impact of the massive anti-corruption protests across the Philippines. We gathered 100,000 people in Manila on September 21. My latest piece for @thediplomat.com

thediplomat.com/2025/09/mass...

Massive Protests Condemn Corruption in the Philippines

The anti-corruption protests, which took place across Manila and other cities, are the largest to take place since the “Million People March” in 2013.

thediplomat.com

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Nithin Coca @nithincoca.com · 22d

As 🇯🇵 Japan's #LNG imports peak, #China 🇨🇳 now dominates #naturalgas imports ⛽.

This will have profound implications for #climate & the #energy transition for #Australia & countries in #SoutheastAsia 🌏

My latest for @japantimes.co.jp

www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/...

China is eroding Japan's LNG dominance. How does that affect Japanese buyers?

Japanese companies have long held the leading position in the buying and trading of one of the world's key energy sources, but that era of hegemony has come to an end.

www.japantimes.co.jp

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Yenni Kwok @yennikwok.bsky.social · 25d

This week, some Indonesian media outlets picked up an article published by an Indian newspaper pushing a conspiracy theory that Nepal's Gen Z protests were funded by the US. It is the same old tune deployed to delegitimize pro-democracy movements. The article was also picked up by Iran's state media

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Progressive Voice @pvamplify.bsky.social · 29d

China has no genuine interest in peace or stability in #Myanmar & its interests come at a devastating cost. Any tie with the illegal junta undermines & blocks Myanmar’s people efforts to a democratic future.🚨

Stop prioritizing money over people’s lives.

progressivevoicemyanmar.org/2025/09/16/c...

China’s Bloody Red Carpet for the Bloodthirsty Junta - Progressive Voice

China is playing with the lives of the people of Myanmar, further propping up the Myanmar military junta by rolling out the red carpet for war criminals while bullying and pressuring resistance forces...

progressivevoicemyanmar.org

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Nithin Coca @nithincoca.com · 29d

Hi JJWalsh - Would be happy to join the podcast - can you email me at [email protected] to discuss further?

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Turquoise Roof @handle.invalid · Sep 15

At 15, Namkyi protested Chinese rule in Ngaba. She was tortured, imprisoned, then kept under #surveillance even after release. In 2023 she escaped Tibet on foot, reaching India where she finally met the Dalai Lama. Now she speaks out for #Tibetan rights.

mainichi.jp/english/arti...

Tibetan refugee in India recalls Chinese brutality - The Mainichi

DHARAMSALA, India (Kyodo) -- When Namkyi was 15 years old, she and her sister Tenzin Dolma dressed in traditional Tibetan attire and began a protest

mainichi.jp

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Nithin Coca @nithincoca.com · Sep 15

I like over there a lot better than here. social.coop is a great instance (democratically run and user-friendly) in case you want to give it a try.

Nithin Coca @nithincoca.com · Sep 12

yep.

Nithin Coca @nithincoca.com · Sep 12

That's not Poland's Prime Minister....

Nithin Coca @nithincoca.com · Sep 11

Won't get as much attention as the murder of someone I'd never heard of in #Utah, but the suspicious killing of Vian Ruma, a young #environmental activist in #Indonesia deserves more global attention.

We're losing too many of our future in #Asia

@mongabay.com

news.mongabay.com/2025/09/deat...

Death of activist critical of geothermal project raises alarm in Indonesia

JAKARTA — The mysterious death of Vian Ruma, a 30-year-old activist opposing a geothermal project on Flores Island, has intensified calls for stronger protection of environmental defenders in Indonesi...

news.mongabay.com

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Nithin Coca @nithincoca.com · Sep 11

#Japan is on the front page of the @newyorktimes and of course, it's a story about convenience stores 😤

It keeps referring to "high quality fresh food"...what exactly? The bananas? They can't talking about the highly-processed, preservative laden, unhealthy, overpriced #food they sell, can they?

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Sep 10

After anti-corruption Gen Z protests and a deadly uprising forced the prime minister and government to resign, #Nepal searches for a new politics that can jettison its failed establishment. Himal editor @romangtm.bsky.social writes from #Kathmandu
#GenZprotestnepal
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Nepal’s horrific reckoning with its failed political class

Nepalis don’t often pay attention to the politics of their Southasian neighbours beyond India. But when Sri Lankans rose up in 2022 to boot out the Rajapaksa re

www.himalmag.com

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · Sep 9

NEW: Climate change has a profound impact on the ecology surrounding Dal Lake in Kashmir, threatening the lake’s water resources, biodiversity, and the livelihoods of those who rely on it. In response, women are taking up embroidery to gain more control over their income.

Meet the Women Stitching a Resilient Future on Dal Lake

In Srinagar’s famous Dal Lake area, climate change is changing the lifestyles of subsistence farmers and fishers, causing women who rely on these resources to pick up needlework to generate income.

www.thexylom.com

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Nithin Coca @nithincoca.com · Sep 9

It's sad how often I find articles that do this.

This supposedly "in-depth" piece includes not a single quote from anyone in #Papua, or even #Indonesia. Strangely, quotes one Malaysian, and otherwise, all westerners.

e360.yale.edu/features/ind...

In Indonesia’s Rainforest, a Mega-Farm Project Is Plowing Ahead

The Indonesian government is fast-tracking a massive agricultural project that is turning 7 million acres of tropical forest into rice and sugarcane farms. Critics say it is the world’s largest defore...

e360.yale.edu

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Nithin Coca @nithincoca.com · Sep 9

It's so ignorant, it's kinda hard to believe that's real, yet, I know it probably is

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · Sep 8

This morning the criminal court convicted Netta Chonticha (peoples party MP) of lese majeste over a facebook post & denied her bail. If appeals court denies bail she loses her seat as MP & will be jailed

continued targeting of pro-democracy folks in Thailand by lese majeste law really messed up

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