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Christmas Day saw the first performance by the Cambodian Space Project in Bangkok, Thailand.
Founded a year ago by Khmer singer Srey Thy and Australian artist/musician Julien Poulson, the band are based in Phnom Penh and have played some 200 shows in the past twelve months, in Hong Kong, France and Cambodia. They have just released [...]
Here’s a 2008 review of The Most Secret Place on Earth (The CIA Covert War in Laos) by Allan Myers in Direct Action.
Here’s a non-trivial question for trivia night organisers: In the late 1960s, what was the world’s busiest airport? Stumped? Here’s a hint: What was the most bombed country, per capita, in the history [...]
Veteran Bangkok journalist Jim Pollard reviews The Most Secret Place on Earth - The CIA´s Covert War in Laos in The Nation newspaper, following the film´s second screening at the Foreign Corespondents Club in Bangkok in November. In his review he lauds the film as one of the best documentaries in recent years and remarks [...]
The updated and revamped 15th edition of the long-running Thailand Handbuch published by Reise Know How Verlag in Germany is out now. For all German readers and Thailand travelers out there, the new edition offers 900 pages of up to date info on the kingdom, with extended coverage of the islands, new travel tips in [...]
The Cambodian Space Project, a rock band cum music-collective based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, are preparing their multicultural act for export.
The band, founded a year ago by Australian guitar player and musical director Julian Poulson and Khmer chanteuse Srey Thy, have played a couple of hundred shows around Cambodia, recorded an album, toured Hong Kong [...]
After showing at numerous international film festivals and several broadcasts on terrestrial European television, Marc Eberle’s The Most Secret Place on Earth (The CIA Covert War in Laos), co-written by Tom Vater, was screened a second time at the Foreign Correspondents Club Thailand in Bangkok on November 22nd, 2010.
Director Marc Eberle, screen writer Tom Vater [...]
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After showing at numerous international film festivals and several broadcasts on terrestrial European television, Marc Eberle’s The Most Secret Place on Earth (The CIA Covert War in Laos), co-written by Tom Vater, will be screened a second time at the Foreign Correspondents Club Thailand in Bangkok on November 22nd, 2010.
Director Marc Eberle, screen writer Tom [...]
Just came across an excellent Indian website called I Paid a Bribe.
Operated by an Indian NGO based in Bangalore, this site enables visitors to register their stories of bribery and thievery by Indian officials. Irate citizens can report on the nature, number, pattern, types, location, frequency and values of actual corrupt acts. The [...]