Lan Kham (Golden Zone or Goldleaf) is a new quarterly magazine published privately in Laos by Dokked Publishing. The text is entirely in Lao. It is aimed at a family audience, with content designed to appeal to all ages.
[UPDATE 7 May 2008: The publishers of Lan Kham would like to clarify the meaning of the title. They have notified BookZone that Lan Kham does not mean Golden Zone or Goldleaf as indicated above. In fact it means either "Word Zone" (lan=zone; kham=word) or "The Golden Palm Leaf" (lan/bai lan=palm leaf; kham=gold).]
[This post is provided by the National Library of Australia as part of our Book Zone feature. For further information on the featured publications contact Saowapha Viravong at sviravong@nla.gov.au]
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1 Bret Johnston // Apr 15, 2008 at 6:28 am
It’s nice to see that Douangdeuane has got Dokked up and running at this level. I had the pleasure of meeting her at the Lao studies conference in 2005, where I found out that she is an old friend of my wife’s aunt. It is a small world indeed.
In my experience private media producers in Laos truly have their work cut out for them in carving a path independent of the Ministry of Information and Culture. Even when one is producing non-controversial media forms, one’s right to exist is usually predicated on the maintenance of dense ties with key figures in the MoIC.
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