The Mekong Press Foundation was set up in 2006 to establish a new imprint, Mekong Press, which will concentrate on publishing work by local writers. The aim is initially to offer broad encouragement and support to the work of writers and book publishers in Laos, Cambodia, Việt Nam, Thailand and Yunnan Province in China through writing and book publishing-related seminars. Subsequently, Mekong Press will work through building a network of book publishers. The Press is in the process of being registered as a non-governmental organisation, with its office in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Mekong Press is an initiative of its publisher, Trasvin Jittidecharak, who is also Publisher and Director of Silkworm Books in Thailand; it is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.