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For years, American presidents have been telling us that the ‘Axis of Evil’ is spreading its evil wings across the globe, slowly suffocating us with, well, evil. North Korea has long been mentioned as one of these evil states. But as we push further into the 21st century, old certainties are eroding, and with Libya [...]
Marc Eberle’s documentary feature The Most Secret Place On Earth – The CIA’s Covert War in Laos had its successful premiere at the Leipzig Documentary Festival in October 2007. Screenplay by Marc Eberle & Tom Vater
In August 2007, Aroon Thaewchatturat‘s new photo book, Palace Hotels of Rajasthan, was published by Reise Know How Verlag in Germany. I wrote the text. The book covers all sorts of heritage hotels with royal connections around Rajasthan, from modest but attractive mansions to gigantic palaces, from pure, sumptuous Raj nostalgia to bottomless kitsch.
Tom Vater’s first novel, ‘The Devil’s Road To Kathmandu’, was published in Hong Kong with Dragon’s Mouth Press, an imprint of Orchid Press, in 2006. Peter Myers – Lifestyle + Travel Three friends, two cities, one bus and a seemingly endless supply of narcotics: a typical GAP year? Maybe not. It’s 1976, and the lads’ [...]
Thailand’s South with Bangkok, with Rainer Krack, 3rd Edition was published in April 2007.
Tom Vater’s first novel, ‘The Devil’s Road To Kathmandu’, was published in Hong Kong with Dragon’s Mouth Press, an imprint of Orchid Press in 2006. Don Messerschmidt – The Nepali Times Follow the drugs, the money, the past. An old hippie returns to Kathmandu after 25 years. The Devil’s Road by Tom Vater is a [...]
Tom Vater visits the spooky Bokor Palace Casino – Cambodia’s equivalent of the Overlook Hotel – and finds that the country’s crumbling colonial heritage is haunted by the ghosts of war.