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In Highly Literate Myanmar, Local Storybooks are Missing from Shelves
By Wendy RockettAs we contemplate the triumphs and remaining challenges in improving literacy this International Literacy Day, consider the fascinating case of Myanmar. The country is one of the...
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Myanmar’s Libraries: A Potential Catalyst for Community Development
By Kim N. B. NinhDespite five decades of near-isolation, the culture and appetite for education and reading is still very much alive for the people of Myanmar. The country maintains one of the highest...
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Picturing: The Promise of Libraries in Myanmar
By Wendy Rockett and Wine Wai Wai Win Libraries and reading have a special place in Myanmar society. Yangon, the country’s largest city, is teeming with book vendors and libraries. The American Center...
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Photo Blog: Improving Access to Information on Waste Management in Mongolia
By Tserenkhand Choijinnyam, Hannah Bateman, and Tirza TheunissenMore than half of the 1.2 million residents of Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar, live in the city’s sprawling ger areas, and the majority...
View ArticleThailand’s Parliamentary Digital Library Leads in Open Government
By Gennie GebhartSince its launch in 2012, the Legislative Institutional Repository of Thailand (LIRT), the online library of the Thai Parliament, has stood out as an example of the open government...
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Conversation with Burmese Publisher, Library Advocate U Thant Thaw Kaung
Publisher U Thant Thaw Kaung, head of the Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation and the mobile library project under the Daw Khin Kyi Foundation, recently visited The Asia Foundation’s...
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Providing Children’s Books to A Stable but Fragile Tacloban
By Anna Bantug-HerreraLast week, Typhoon Rammasun (Glenda in the Philippines) swept through the Philippines, killing nearly 100 people and continued on its deadly path battering China and northern...
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A Village of E-books
By Kyle BarkerThe village of Tanou lies in a quiet corner of Cambodia, about 13 kilometers down a dusty road off National Highway 1 as you head towards the Mekong Delta from Phnom Penh. Trees provide a...
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Photo Blog: Building Digital Libraries in Mongolia
By Kyle BarkerSince the end of the socialist regime in the early 1990s, urban migration in Mongolia has continued to play an outsized role in the country’s evolving economic and social identity. With...
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The Dawn of a New Day for Reading in Cambodia
By Siv Hong LimCambodia marked its first National Reading Day on March 11 – a public event that calls on Cambodians to embrace a love of reading. The event was one of the many recent steps taken by the...
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