Hong Kongers from the Indian subcontinent, the Philippines and Indonesia have lived in the city for a long time. Yet Asian minority Hong Kongers often end up segregated from ethnic Chinese children in the education system. Read Divya Vaze's piece here: mekongreview.com/tongue-tied/

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With little transparency, top-down literary censorship in Vietnam is complex, capricious and contingent upon those implementing the ‘rules’. Read more: mekongreview.com/literary-censo… (Photo: freepik)

The Thai king has signed same-sex marriage into law. This milestone is the culmination of years of activism and advocacy for LGBTQ+ equality in Thailand. In August 2023, we ran a piece on an archive of LGBTQ+ history in Thailand: mekongreview.com/building-an-ar…

When rising sea levels threaten to submerge the gravesite of his father, a young man is forced to return to his hometown and confront the dilemma between honouring his father’s dying wishes or to give in to nature. Read more: mekongreview.com/the-sea-within/

When we talk about ‘the environment’, what do we mean? This month, we reflect on how notions of ‘the environment’ draw attention to both global relations and intricate connections between humans and nature. Look out for upcoming article spotlights and join in the discussion!

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

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/fleeing-the-dr…

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/bringing-back-…

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

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/detoxification/

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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-search-of-k… Subscribe: mekongreview.com/subscribe/

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/foreign-influe… Subscribe: mekongreview.com/subscribe/

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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/personal-polit… Subscribe: mekongreview.com/subscribe/

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/shades-of-the-… Subscribe: mekongreview.com/subscribe/

Did the man who inspired a character in Joseph Conrad’s novels leave behind a fortune in a Swiss bank? Read more: mekongreview.com/stranger-than-… Subscribe: mekongreview.com/subscribe/

"...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-the-company… Subscribe: mekongreview.com/subscribe/