Anup Kaphle
@anup.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief, Rest of World. Alum of The Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, Roads & Kingdoms, and The Kathmandu Post. Eater of goats.🇳🇵
The surprise winner in the U.S.-China tech war? Vietnam’s chip industry restofworld.org/2025/vietnam... Reporting by @lamle52.bsky.social from Ho Chi Minh City —
The surprise winner in the U.S.-China tech war? Vietnam’s chip industry
Vietnamese chip component suppliers are responding to growing market demands for products with no Chinese link.
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Why Big Tech is threatened by a global push for data sovereignty By @tarykuh.bsky.social restofworld.org/2025/big-tec...
Why Big Tech is threatened by a global push for data sovereignty
Countries are forcing tech giants to store citizen data locally, challenging the standard business model of harvesting data abroad while keeping profits at home.
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The rush for EVs has brought a surge of Chinese investment into Zimbabwe's lithium mines. But many locals say it has also brought danger and doom. Our latest feature is from Bikita, home to the largest lithium deposit in Zimbabwe. restofworld.org/2025/zimbabw...
Dangerous mines: A death at the bottom of the EV supply chain
In Zimbabwe, the EV rush has brought a surge of Chinese investment into lithium mines. But many locals feel left out — and some have turned to stealing.
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Students in China are using AI tools to outsmart the tests meant to detect AI-generated content restofworld.org/2025/ai-dete...
Chinese students are using AI to beat AI detectors
As Chinese universities crack down on AI use, some students report false positives — and a booming industry of work-around tools is emerging.
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Despite the billions in investment, and the thousands of satellites zipping around, it is still hard to really picture the satellite internet industry. @khadijaalam.bsky.social gathered data to help visualize this rapidly growing business for @restofworld.org. restofworld.org/2025/satelli...
Out of space: Picturing the big, crowded business of satellite internet
Space-based internet is remaking Earth’s orbit — and fueling a gold rush.
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The people who clean up your TikTok feed are starting to fight back Reporting by @kayagenc.bsky.social from Istanbul — restofworld.org/2025/tiktok-...
The people who clean up your TikTok feed are starting to fight back
Content moderators say they’re exposed to graphic violence, psychological trauma, and union-busting tactics, and now a larger movement is brewing.
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Despite tensions with China, India is avoiding U.S.-style restrictions on Chinese EV technology, hoping for a bridge to domestic innovation restofworld.org/2025/india-e...
India wants its own EV market, but needs China to get there
Despite tensions with China, India is avoiding U.S.-style restrictions, hoping for a bridge to domestic innovation.
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Judge Hannah Dugan, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Rep. LaMonica McIver, Sen. Alex Padilla, and now Brad Lander. The Trump administration keeps detaining and prosecuting elected officials who get in its way. This is the timeline of authoritarianism.
The Trump admin keeps detaining and prosecuting elected officials who get in his way
A timeline of authoritarianism.
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Scarred by long hours, low pay, and a hostile work culture, many chip workers for Samsung are leaving for competitors, including American companies. Michelle Kim's reporting from Seoul for @restofworld.org restofworld.org/2025/samsung...
Samsung is desperate to compete on chips. Workers say it comes at a cost.
Scarred by long hours, low pay, and a hostile work culture, many chip workers are leaving for competitors, including American companies.
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Rain didn’t stop thousands of protesters from coming out in New York’s midtown Manhattan. Demonstrators held American flags and signs that said “No Kings” and “I Prefer My Ice Crushed.” https://on.wsj.com/4jQQpaK
Protesters Take Over New York’s Fifth Avenue
Rain didn’t stop thousands of protesters from coming out in New York’s midtown Manhattan. Demonstrators held American flags and signs that said “No Kings” and “I Prefer My Ice Crushed.” Police said they closed about a mile of Fifth Avenue to traffic for the protest. The owner of a store selling umb
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Employees of Voice of America’s Persian-language service who were sidelined by the Trump administration have been hastily called back to duty as Iran and Israel exchange missile strikes in a high-stakes Middle East conflict. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
US scrambles to bring back VOA’s Persian service amid Iran-Israel conflict
President Donald Trump ordered the service to shut down in March.
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We just launched a chart archive at @restofworld.org . Every chart we’ve published now has its own page, making the data easier to find, share, and reuse. A small project with a big footprint. restofworld.org/inside/chart...
Charted Territory
This is a soft launch. Actually, it’s a silent one, until now. This week, we quietly rolled out individual pages for every one of the hundreds of charts we’ve published over the last five years.
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Transsion built a smartphone empire in Africa. Now it wants to do the same with EVs. Read @tarykuh.bsky.social's reporting from Lagos for @restofworld.org — restofworld.org/2025/transsi...
Transsion wheels into Africa’s EV market with same playbook that conquered mobile phones
The Chinese company behind 50% of Africa’s smartphone sales now wants to dominate its roads.
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Big news at Rest of World today. We're seeking a new publisher — a rare opportunity for someone with the vision to take the reins of an international newsroom and help reshape it for its next phase of growth. Here's a note from Sophie and a link to the new role: restofworld.org/inside/we-ar...
A record number of people are leaving the Philippines to work in Taiwanese semiconductor factories, where they face long shifts, low pay, unequal treatment and the threat of deportation, report Hsiuwen Liu and @michaelbeltran.bsky.social for @restofworld.org restofworld.org/2025/filipin...
Workers describe abusive treatment in Taiwan’s semiconductor factories
A record number of people are leaving the Philippines to work in Taiwanese factories, where they face long shifts, low pay, and unequal treatment.
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Trade negotiator He Lifeng, Beijing’s economic gatekeeper, has a clear mandate from Xi Jinping: China won’t be catering to the U.S.
China’s New Trade Negotiator Is Ready to Play Hardball
He Lifeng, Beijing’s economic gatekeeper, has a clear mandate from Xi Jinping: China won’t be catering to the U.S.
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Chinese companies are gaining ground in the global race to develop the next generation of AI — not just chatbots, but autonomous agents designed to handle complex tasks with minimal human input. Read today's new story from @kinlinglo.bsky.social: restofworld.org/2025/china-a...
China is gaining ground in the global race to develop AI agents
A new wave of startups promise to automate everyday tasks — from app development to travel planning — better than chatbots.
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I do feel like "is what's on the computer actually real life" is quickly becoming the organizing question of our time www.semafor.com/article/06/0...
Business Insider recommended nonexistent books to staff as it leans into AI
Some titles on the list included books with extremely garbled titles and fake authors.
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Homicide rates: NY 4.5, FL 7.2 Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1 Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Bessent: "We want the US to be more like Florida and less like New York"
Good morning, NYC. We have some very exciting news to share.
Migrant workers provide much of the labor for Taiwan’s AI-fueled chip boom. For these workers who work long hours in tough conditions, brokers control everything from paychecks to meals to dorm beds. @michaelbeltran.bsky.social and Hsiuwen Liu report @restofworld.org restofworld.org/2025/taiwan-...
Taiwan’s chip plants run on migrant workers. Job brokers run their lives
In Taiwan’s AI-fueled chip boom, brokers control everything from paychecks to dorm beds, leaving workers feeling trapped and exploited.
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Nepal says it will offer free visas to foreign students for higher education and grant parents or guardians multiple-entry visas kathmandupost.com/national/202...
Nepal to offer free visas to attract foreign students
New umbrella law to regulate higher education, ensure quality and uniformity.
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"Even if China doesn’t do anything, it would make their image, their reputation, their soft-power initiatives, more appealing." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
‘They Make People Too Scared’: Chinese Students Reckon With U.S. Visa Bans
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Mariam Mohammed says her younger son died when she could not get treatment for him at a U.S.-funded clinic that had temporarily closed. Researchers say that are many thousands of cases like his.
Marco Rubio said no one has died due to U.S. aid cuts. This mom disagrees
Mariam Mohammed says her younger son died when she could not get treatment for him at a U.S.-funded clinic that had temporarily closed. Researchers say that are many thousands of cases like his.
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How Noor Abdalla, the wife of Mahmoud Khalil, has navigated becoming a new mother while fighting for her husband’s freedom.
The Radical Courage of Noor Abdalla
How the wife of Mahmoud Khalil has navigated becoming a new mother while fighting for her husband’s freedom.
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Before she left, Lily wrote this reflection on her time at @restofworld.org - what she built, and what she learned. restofworld.org/inside/three...
Three Years in Product: What I Built
I joined Rest of World in 2022 as one of the two front-end developers. Three years, one redesign, and many rounds of confetti later, I’m wrapping up—and reflecting on the projects I’m most proud of.
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BYJU’s was one of the world’s top ed-tech companies — until it was rocked by staggering allegations of fraud. Can its enigmatic founder rebuild his empire? Read our latest feature, by @yudhijit.bsky.social — restofworld.org/2025/byjus-o...
The math tutor and the missing $533 million
From Dubai, the enigmatic founder of Byju’s recounts how he made his empire — and vows to rebuild it.
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