Cyclone Ditwa hit Sri Lanka in late 2025, killing 600+ and displacing 1.5 million. As India and Pakistan cooperated on relief, mass blood donations, community kitchens, and volunteer rescues revealed strong public solidarity.
Severe flooding in Perlis has exposed cracks in Malaysia’s climate defenses despite major mitigation spending. With economic losses rising, displaced families surviving in makeshift shelters underscore the widening gap between policy and lived reality.
The deadly 2025 Sumatra floods, which killed 914 people, were not just due to heavy rain but driven by deforestation and palm oil expansion. Despite government denial, affected areas remain cut off with little access to aid.
Hat Yai’s flood became a man-made disaster as ignored drainage warnings, weak leadership, and false “safety” alerts deepened the damage and broke public trust. Slow relief and the PM’s late admission underscore the need for urgent reform of Thailand’s disaster governance.
Dunia and Newstapa report that the Unification Church's Japan-built vote trading model was imported into the Yoon administration, tying church mobilization, campaign work and political protection, and likely shaping Korean politics far beyond what was known.
Abe’s 2022 assassination revived decades of ignored abuses tied to the Unification Church. In this Dunia investigation, we trace its political networks, massive fundraising system, and the path that led Japan to order the Church’s dissolution.
At the 2025 Global Investigative Journalism Conference, 1,500 reporters shared insights on climate, public health, and independent media. Dunia focused on environmental crime, carbon offsets, and cross-border collaboration shaping today’s investigative reporting.
The Unification Church’s resources became linked with Yoon Suk-yeol’s power, exposing unprecedented religion–state collusion in S.Korea. Newstapa and Dunia traced this model to the Church’s Japan influence network and its close ties to the Abe family
This report was jointly investigated and produced by Dunia (YouTube.com/@the_dunia_media) — a member newsroom of the Korea Independent News Network (KINN) — in collaboration with the Korea Center for Investigative Journalism – Newstapa. It was revealed that in March 2022, a senior executive of the Family Federation for World
South Korea is funding the expansion of Indonesia’s Suralaya coal plant despite severe local health and livelihood impacts. Critics say the project props up Korea’s struggling coal industry and risks becoming a stranded asset amid the global shift to renewables.
Cryptocurrency could be a powerful tool for tracking child sexual exploitation, but most cases go uninvestigated. As predators increasingly use Bitcoin to buy abuse materials, law enforcement lacks the training, resources, and urgency needed to follow the money.
South Korea’s public funds have financed palm-oil firms implicated in deforestation and rights violations. Growing public scrutiny is challenging these subsidies, demanding transparency and accountability for the environmental and social harm linked to the industry.
Young women in South Korea are rejecting makeup and cutting their hair short in the “Escape the Corset” movement, a protest against rigid beauty norms in a male-dominated society. Their pushback is reshaping public debate and forcing beauty brands to rethink long-standing standards.
Communities displaced from Cambodia’s Boeung Kak Lake have spent years seeking justice for forced evictions linked to a World Bank–funded project. Their struggle exposes how the Bank’s accountability systems fail to protect those most affected.
After Burhan Wani’s killing in 2016, Srinagar’s Lal Chowk fell silent as Kashmiris joined a long voluntary shutdown. Shops and mosques stayed closed, nighttime markets briefly revived, and the Hurriyat protest calendar became a symbol of renewed demands for self-determination.