Mekong Community TV

Nicholas Farrelly - 03 Sep, 2006

In a fascinating development for the regional television industry, a new initiative, called “Mekong Community TV”, has been launched. The idea is that Thai, Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodian channels from the “Mekong community” will join forces to provide coverage of “their neighbourhood”. The partner channels are TV 5 from Cambodia, LNTV from Laos, HTV from Vietnam and ITV from Thailand.

For more information, and some instructive Thai-language quote, see some recent reporting. I will try to watch the next edition of Mekong Community TV, and will post some updated reflections when I can. If anybody has seen its reports, please feel free to add a comment and give us some idea of what you think.

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Nicholas Farrelly
Dr Nicholas Farrelly is the co-founder of New Mandala. A graduate of the Australian National University and the University of Oxford, over the past 20 years he has undertaken research in Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh, China and India. Nicholas is Head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania and formerly the Associate Dean of the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University, where he also led the ANU Myanmar Research Centre from 2015 to 2017.
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