Cambodian wordsmiths to receive Mekong River Literature Awards

Two Cambodian wordsmiths – a short story writer and a poet – have been selected for honours at the 10th Mekong River Literature Awards in Myanmar. This year’s topic was Life and Mekong River Sustainability, and after a strict selection process, Dr Setharin Penn, a professor ...

Melodies by the Mekong

It was a significant Thursday night. An iconic Filipino choral group performed at Cambodia’s iconic Chaktomuk Theatre, symbolising the power of music in connecting two nations whose culture, history and language vary. Agnes Alpuerto and Som Kanika join the friendship concert by the Philippine Madrigal ...

Agnes Alpuerto and Som Kanika

Arts festival for Lancang-Mekong countries opens in southwest China

The annual culture and arts festival for countries along the Lancang-Mekong River opened Wednesday in southwest China’s Yunnan Province. More than 260 artists from countries including China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand attended the opening ceremony of the event, which is held in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous ...

Vietnamese wins ADB Instagram contest with Mekong Delta floating market photo

A Vietnamese national has won the top prize of a photo contest organized by the Asian Development Bank to showcase the development progress in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). Anh Dung Kieu bagged the US$500 prize for his photo depicting early morning trading at a ...

Son Luong

Photo contest celebrates the Mekong River as a shared resource

A selection of 30 winning photographs submitted to the Mekong River Commission as a part of their first photo contest are now online, depicting scenes from the mighty river and the communities that depend on it.The MRC is an international research body that periodically reports ...

Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon

Mekong Delta preserves water-related cultural values

The preservation and promotion of water cultural values in the Mekong Delta have become more urgent than ever before under the impacts of the fourth industrial revolution and international integration as well as the global climate change, heard a workshop in Can Tho city on ...

VNA Reporter

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