Asia News on July 13, 2019

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Water Train Set to Relieve Drought-hit Indian City

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Rattled by Sardine Stock Crash, India Begins Regulating its Fisheries

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Japan, South Korea Raise States in Dispute Over Forced Labor

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Crosspost: I Am VICE News Correspondent Isobel Yeung And I Went Undercover In Western China To Report On China’s Oppression Of The Muslim Uighurs. AMA.

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I Am VICE News Correspondent Isobel Yeung And I Went Undercover In Western China To Report On China’s Oppression Of The Muslim Uighurs. AMA.

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Hey Reddit, I’m VICE News Correspondent Isobel Yeung. Over the past two years, China has rounded up an estimated 1 million Muslim Uighurs and placed them in so-called "re-education camps". They've also transformed the Uighur homeland of China's northwestern Xinjiang region into the most sophisticated surveillance state in the world, meaning they can now spy on citizens' every move and every spoken word.

To prevent information from leaking out, the Chinese government have made it incredibly difficult to report from this highly secretive state. So we snuck in as tourists and filmed undercover. What we witnessed was a dystopian nightmare, where Uighurs of all stripes are racially profiled, men were led away by police in the middle of the night, and children separated from their families and placed in state-sanctions institutions - as if they are orphans.

I’m here to answer any of your questions on my reporting and the plight of the Uighers.

Watch our full report here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7AYyUqrMuQ

Check out more of my reporting here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw613M86o5o5x8GhDLwrblk-9vDfEXb1Z

Read our full report on what is happening to the Muslim Uighurs https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/7xgj5y/these-uighur-parents-say-china-is-ripping-their-children-away-and-brainwashing-them

Proof: https://twitter.com/vicenews/status/1148216860405575682

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Japan: Man Arrested For Modifying, Reselling Pokémon Games

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Amnesty International Is Calling for a U.N. Probe Into the Philippine Drug War: "Within marginalised communities, police continue to kill with total impunity, fueling a pervasive climate of fear in cities, towns and neighbourhoods," Amnesty said in its study.

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6.9-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Indonesia, Tsunami Warning Cancelled

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South Korea’s US-China dilemma deepens with support for America’s Indo-Pacific strategy

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Seized North Korean Ship Sought for American Student's Death

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Dozens of Protesters Arrested at Rallies on Kazakh Leader's Birthday

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Hong Kong Students Reject Closed-Door Talks with City Leader

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Japan: Suspected Knife Attack by 14-Year-Old Leaves Fellow Student, 13, Dead in Saitama

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What is it with the underwear?

This question came up when I was in Asia (Vietnam) for the first time and the cleaning service put by mistake a stranger's underwear in my clothes pack: Why is the underwear almost all over Asia made of some strange kind of plastic?

Yes, I see they write "100% cotton" on it, but it doesn't even remotely feel like European underwear.

And it's almost impossible to find the kind of underwear we wear in Europe.

Did anyone else ever experience the same? And maybe has an answer for Asia's plastic underwear?

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Tornado Hits Northeast China as More "Extreme" Weather Strikes