One Region, Many Voices
IMAGING OUR MEKONG is annual fellowship programme for journalists who work in print media, photojournalism and television and are nationals of the Mekong countries. The programme, which began in 2002, is jointly implemented by two Southern-based media organisations -- Probe Media Foundation Inc and IPS Asia-Pacific Center Foundation Inc. It is supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, with partial support over the years from the Japan Foundation, Oxfam America (East Asia), the Open Society Institute (Zug) and UNICEF East Asia and the Pacific (Avian Flu Series of the Imaging Our Mekong programme, 2007-08 cycle).
Perspectives
by Lia Sciortino
Perspectives
Reading Media
Johanna Son
BANGKOK -- Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia. What images might these words conjure up in the minds of international consumers of news? Perhaps war, maybe the Khmer Rouge. Or they might say, ‘Oh, it’s that those countries that had that war some time ago. . . they’re near one another, and they’re all the same’.
China: Benign Bully of the Mekong?
Johanna Son
SYDNEY, Oct 3 (IPS Asia-Pacific) – Over the last decade or so, China’s deft use of soft power has seen South-east Asian neighbours’ view of it change from a looming threat to a largely friendly, if still imposing, giant to the north.
Top Stories
dummy
admin
B
Thai Tourism Survives Bird flu
By Liu Kunzhe
BANGKOK - The airlines and five-star hotels appear to be fully booked, the Grand Palace and the Temple of the Reclining Buddha are filled with visitors and the night market in the Patpong red-light district is crowded. These scenes here in the Thai capital convey the message that the worst fears that bird flu would seriously hurt tourist arrivals into the country did not really happen.
Cockfighting Continues, Legally or Otherwise
By Sroy Nika
KAMPONG CHAM, Cambodia - Roosters flapping their wings furiously, lunging at each other with the sharp spurs on their legs and feathers flying about, amid the backdrop of roaring crowds – this is a common scene in many a cockpit in Cambodia.
Avian Flu: Far Yet Near
By Wang Hui
Whether in Bangkok or in Beijing, many people in the Mekong region find avian flu something far removed from their everyday lives. Yet the signs are all around, as the disease, which affects animals and humans, continues to spread in the region.
Documentaries
test
asd asd sa ds
thumb :gb df gdsfg
Films and DVD
6th Mekong Book Now Off the Press
Whether it's a story about how rubber plantations are taking root at the China-Laos border, how Thai is having an impact on the Lao language, or the use of harmful fishing methods in Cambodia and Vietnam, all the features and photo essays in 'Changing Borders: Reportage from Our Mekong; follow the changes that have been taking place as countries in the Mekong Region deepen their cross-border links with one another.
Opening Borders: Reportage from Our Mekong (2007, 237 pp)
'Opening Borders: Reportage from Our Mekong' (237 pp, 2008), the fifth book in the Imaging Our Mekong series, is now off the press.
The phrase ‘Opening Borders’, which appears in this book’s title, also describes what the 21 journalists whose work appear here were doing while reporting on issues that link at least two countries in the Mekong Region.
This site is a joint project of:
 IPS Asia-Pacific
|
 |
 |
|
|
||
Mekong's Avian Flu
UID).jpg)
What's New
Coming in December! Mekong Media Forum
BANGKOK - How have economic integration and openness shaped the media environment in the Mekong region? What do audiences expect in the age of more openness? What changes in press laws and access to information have taken place in the last 15 years?
6th Mekong Book Now Off the Press
Whether it's a story about how rubber plantations are taking root at the China-Laos border, how Thai is having an impact on the Lao language, or the use of harmful fishing methods in Cambodia and Vietnam, all the features and photo essays in 'Changing Borders: Reportage from Our Mekong; follow the changes that have been taking place as countries in the Mekong Region deepen their cross-border links with one another.