By Lynette Lee Corporal

CHIANG MAI, Thailand, Dec 12 (TerraViva) — The new media has created a space for citizens in the Mekong region yearning to give free rein to their desire for expression, bringing about a force never before seen or heard in the wide, wide virtual world and elsewhere.

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CHIANG MAI, Dec 11  (TerraViva) – Efforts to get more Mekong authors published are being complicated by the downturn in the publishing industry, still-young publishing cultures, readers’ tastes and the challenges of working in English. Continue Reading

By Nguyen Kim Ngan

This question dawned on me when I took a boat along the Mekong River, one of the biggest rivers in Asia that is shared by six countries, namely China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Continue Reading

Coping with a wide variety of limitations has become a way of life for Mekong journalists, who have developed ways of coping with them in a host of pragmatic ways.

These limitations include challenges from government and business institutions running media entities, and commercialisation. Continue Reading

Media coverage of pandemics across the Mekong region has been a learning curve for journalists, as they struggle to understand hitherto unknown viruses, keep their audiences abreast of the latest public health emergencies and give them correct and preventive information. Continue Reading

By Tess Bacalla

‘Gender’ may not exist in all of Asia’s lexicons, but the concept is not necessarily alien to the region. Continue Reading

By Stanislaus Jude Chan

Like many of her fellow villagers, 22-year-old Khampheng Manivone first heard about  community radio when letters were sent to different villages in Khoun – one of the poorest districts in Laos – asking for volunteers to be part of the Khoun Community Radio Development (KCRD) project. Continue Reading

How can journalists make a story gender-fair? What makes for effective media training programmes? How have new media made a difference? These were the key questions that the third day of the Mekong Media Forum focused on. Continue Reading

Lynette Lee Corporal talks to Nguyen Ngoc Tran, a professor at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, about his take on the Mekong Media Forum. Continue Reading

CHIANG MAI, Dec 11 – Coping with a wide variety of limitations has become a way of life for Mekong journalists, who have developed ways of coping with them in a host of pragmatic ways.

These limitations include challenges from government and business institutions running media entities, and commercialisation. Continue Reading