Dina Zaman brings a lot from her past to Malayland, but she’s also firm in looking forward and seeking the humanness in Malaysia’s obsession for categories and othering. Read more: mekongreview.com/mal... Subscribe: mekongreview.com/sub...

We're turning 10 soon! To celebrate, we're sharing a discount code, valid until the end of November. If you want your subscription to start with the November 2025 issue (our 10th anniversary issue!), remember to subscribe by 10 October, before we compile our mailing list! mekongreview.com/sub...

Just read the very good article about scam compounds in Myanmar. Lots of interesting stuff in this edition.

Nepal’s prime minister has resigned, and the parliament building was set on fire amid anti-corruption protests www.bbc.com/news/live/c7...

“Even when there’s no reason to believe things will improve, we can’t help but cling to this diminishing hope" Poignant piece from @mono24.bsky.social in @mekongreview.com on Cambodia's golden age of journalism, feat. Mech Dara, Kann Vicheika and Phuong Vantha: mekongreview.com/memories-of-...

A rare comic on Mekong Review! This comic by Juliette Yu-Ming Lizeray was produced as part of our partnership with RMIT University's nonfiction/lab, responding to the prompt 'hope in the everyday'. Read it here: mekongreview.com/fli... Subscribe: mekongreview.com/sub...

Sad news 😔 www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

In the face of funding cuts and growing oppression, Cambodian reporters cling on to hope through memories of a golden age of journalism. Read more: mekongreview.com/mem... Subscribe: mekongreview.com/sub...

I love introducing people to Mekong Review and I especially love seeing people buy the magazine (or, even better, subscriptions) so drop by lyf Farrer Park today before 8pm if you’re in Singapore!

Here at lyf Farrer Park running a booth in support of the launch of Mynah Magazine’s latest issue! If you’re in Singapore, drop by before 8pm to pick up a copy of our magazine or get access to an event-exclusive discount for subscriptions!

The world may be falling apart but I just sat 50 feet from Yo-Yo Ma and Angelique Kidjo as they performed songs from all over the world including Once in a Lifetime by the Talking Heads 😍

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In a world that often overlooks the power of young people online, fan communities have emerged as an unseen engine of revolution in Myanmar. Read more: mekongreview.com/the... Subscribe: mekongreview.com/sub...

In a moment of inspiration I hauled out all the copies of @mekongreview.com at home and did a new inventory, which means our online store is now fully updated: ko-fi.com/mekongreview...

On: @mekongreview.com: This August will mark 70 years of VOA Khmer. But in March, the Service stopped its broadcast. The gutting of USAGM, which funds VOA, has brought many projects to a screeching halt.

Fascinating piece on K-Pop fans among resistance fighters in Myanmar from @mekongreview.com mekongreview.com/the-power-of...

“How does a communist guerilla in one of the Cold War’s forgotten battlefields regain his footing at the end of history?” Darren Wan reviews "Delicious Hunger" by Hai Fan and "State of Emergency" by Jeremy Tiang. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/emergency-unending/

"...the moment darker aspects of its past are discussed, Indonesia retreats like a wounded animal into a world of myopia and amnesia." Read more: mekongreview.com/in-... Subscribe: mekongreview.com/sub...

It’s August, which means a new issue of Mekong Review 🥳 In this issue: young K-pop stans in Myanmar join resistance efforts, the contestation of Indonesia’s history, an interview with Saigon Soul Revival… and more! Order online: ko-fi.com/s/a3e8a4c60d

Did the man who inspired a character in Joseph Conrad’s novels leave behind a fortune in a Swiss bank? Read more: mekongreview.com/str... Subscribe: mekongreview.com/sub...

Kornel Chang, a diasporic Korean historian and author, paints a picture of a post-Second World War Korea searching for a singular vision of what independence looks like. Read more: mekongreview.com/sha... Subscribe: mekongreview.com/sub...

Why is it “postcolonial” as one word but “anti-colonial” as a hyphenated word in the Oxford English Dictionary?

Proofreading @mekongreview.com’s August issue today before we go to print. It always takes way longer than I think it will and leads me down unexpected rabbit holes and fixations. Today’s is trying to figure out if BLACKPINK’s fans are “Blinks” or “BLINKs” or “BLINKS”…

You Must Take Part in Revolution combines powerful imagery with a compelling plot to convey the political turmoil we’ve experienced and might face in the near future. Read more: mekongreview.com/per... Subscribe: mekongreview.com/sub...

More exceptional China rock and roll writing by @davefrazier.bsky.social

Lovely to get a print copy of this issue — thanks @mekongreview.com My story inside is a profile of the short story writer, Andrew Lam whose family fled #Saigon, just over 50 years ago.

We're getting the August–October 2025 issue of Mekong Review ready for you! Subscribe before 11 July 2025 to make sure that your subscription starts in August; subscriptions that come in after 11 July will only start in November. Subscribe here now: mekongreview.com/sub...

While the voices and expressions in Chinese rock have come from Chinese musicians, outsiders have consistently injected know-how and resources into the country’s marginalised underground musical movements. Read more: mekongreview.com/for... Subscribe: mekongreview.com/sub...

Khieu Ponnary, once called the “mother” of the Khmer Rouge, had seemingly vanished from history while the regime was at its height. Read more: mekongreview.com/in-... Subscribe: mekongreview.com/sub...

VALE: "For Anthony Reid, truth-telling about the past was not a threat to the nation but the foundation of its maturity. In this spirit, he remains a guiding light for scholars committed to writing Southeast Asia from within." www.newmandala.org/remembering-...

Looking for back issues of Mekong Review? Don't worry, we've got you: mekongreview.com/mek...

I hadn’t planned on reviewing these two books together, but I was reading them around the same time and it struck me that, despite being very different, they both demonstrated the power of voice and expression.

A review of two books on finding—or perhaps ‘freeing’ is a better word—one’s voice through acts of creation, whether it’s prose, poetry, painting, drawing or cooking. Read more: mekongreview.com/det...

Dorothy Wai Sim Lau undertakes a nuanced interrogation of how fame, altruism and regional identity intersect in Asia’s transnational mediascape. 📖: mekongreview.com/sta...

Everyone's celebrating RM and V's military discharge today and by complete coincidence this week's featured piece from the @mekongreview.com archives is this review of a book on celebrity philanthropy and activism, and the potential/limits of star power: mekongreview.com/star-power/

When families affected by extrajudicial killings in the Philippines speak and shed tears of sorrow and anger in front of legislators and flashing cameras, they’re finally able to transform shame into outrage. 📖: mekongreview.com/bri...

Young people from Myanmar are being forced to choose between survival and service in a conflict they had no say in and strongly object to. 📖: mekongreview.com/fle...

This is me, on my couch, reading the new wonderful @mekongreview.com where the centerfold is my exhibition review of "Shifting Horizons: The Generation of Emancipatory Architecture in Taiwan" at JUT museum Aug 2024 - Jan 2025 📸 @panthealee.bsky.social #Exhibition #Review #Architecture #Criticism

Look forward to listening to this tonight — I interviewed Andrew in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) a couple of months ago, and read a whole bunch of his stories for an essay in the latest @mekongreview.com. He's a very witty and insightful speaker and his latest collection of stories is his best yet.

Forty years after the world’s worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, activists and survivors are still struggling for justice and accountability. 📖: mekongreview.com/bho...

Our May – July 2025 issue is now up on our website! Read it on mekongreview.com or use this as a digital contents page: preview.mailerlite.i...

For subscribers of @mekongreview.com — the May - August issue is out. Look for my short profile of Andrew Lam, a fantastic (and IMO underrated) writer of short stories and personal essays. His new collection ‘Stories from the Edge of the Sea’ has just been published. mekongreview.com/far-and-away/

Thank you so much to @mekongreview.com and C. J. Anderson-Wu for the thoughtful review of YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION. @badiucao.bsky.social and I are so glad you noticed the details — the nod to Apple Daily, to Operation Yellow Bird (黃雀行動), and more. 🔗 bit.ly/mekong-revol...

Inspiring: how a woman born on a small island south of #PhnomPenh started her own #publishing house and helped plant the seeds of a #reading craze in #Cambodia. My first piece in the @mekongreview.com, with thanks to @kirstenhan.com:) mekongreview.com/growing-read... #SoutheastAsia #literature

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I’ve done it. It’s 12:05am but I’ve proofread 35,000+ words for @mekongreview.com’s May issue today 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

We're working hard on the May issue of our magazine! If you'd like a subscription that begins with this upcoming issue, make sure you subscribe before this Friday (11 April) to get on the mailing list in time: mekongreview.com/sub...

We're back with another partnership with RMIT's nonfiction/lab. This time we're looking for pitches around the theme of "hope in the everyday". More information here: mekongreview.com/mekong-revie...

My @mekongreview.com editor privilege is that I'm the first person to see our beautiful covers every issue and then I get to make them my phone wallpaper

We're partnering with RMIT's nonfiction/lab for another year! This year, we're looking for pitches around the theme of "hope in the everyday". For more information and how to send in your pitch, check out this page: mekongreview.com/mek...