Bring a unique piece of Mekong Review history home with you this year! There's still time to support us by purchasing an original watercolour painting of one of our print issue covers by Erica Eng : ko-fi.com/mekongrevi.... A heartfelt thanks from us to you, this holiday season.

Looking for a special gift for a loved one--or yourself--this holiday season? How about choosing one of Erica Eng's beautiful watercolour paintings on our online shop: ko-fi.com/mekongrevi.... Purchasine each art piece is also a meaningful contribution to Mekong Review's year-end push!

Playing with nationalism is to take part in a risky game. A reflection by Peixuan Xie, prompted by Thai–Cambodian tensions earlier this year, before conflict flared up again. Read here: mekongreview.com/del... Subscribe: mekongreview.com/sub...

Last few days to access this discount subscription to the excellent @mekongreview.com

@mekongreview.com 's tenth anniversary issue just dropped, including my interview with @trinhhuulong.bsky.social on how he built a library-in-exile of Vietnam's banned books. Read it now! And if you don't have a subscription to Mekong Review--I highly recommend it! mekongreview.com/the-libraria...

Celebrate 10 years of inspirational Asian literature by supporting us with an annual subscription! The code MR10 is valid until November 30 so act fast. mekongreview.com/sub...

It has long been a dream of mine to write something for @mekongreview.com, one of my favorite magazines. So I'm proud to announce that my interview with the brilliant Vietnamese journalist @trinhhuulong.bsky.social will be coming out very soon in Mekong Review's upcoming issue! mekongreview.com

I absolutely love our tenth anniversary cover, beautifully illustrated by @badiucao.bsky.social, paying homage to the Gen Z protesters across Asia and the way they’ve embraced One Piece as a symbol of their determination for freedom and resistance 💪🏼

Really looking forward to everyone reading our tenth anniversary edition! It’ll be with our stockists in November, and is already at the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival bookstore 🤩🤩🤩

Thanks to Pandan Weekly for publishing this ‘Writer’s Cut’ version of an essay that first appeared in @mekongreview.com For me, this is a story that will never get old. In these past couple of years, as bombs have rained down on Gaza and Ukraine, I have, alas, often thought of the Peace Plane.

Please run, don’t walk! mekongreview.com/subscribe

We're compiling our mailing list for the next issue on 13 October—if you'd like your subscription to start with the November 2025 issue, remember to subscribe to Mekong Review before this weekend! (And remember our discount code!) mekongreview.com/sub...

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