Tom Vater

You can now buy some of my book titles via a new Amazon feature on my website (www.tomvater.com).              There’s a new link to press, right at the top of the left sidebar, the so-called Amazon Store. Unfortunately, not all my titles can be found there, but it’s a start.

February 28th, 2010 | Tags: Amazon, Amazon Author Central, Amazon Book Store, Asia, book, books, books for sale, guidebook, non-fiction, online, online book sale, online store, South East Asia, Tom Vater, writer | Category: Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

Every year in March, thousands of Buddhist devotees gather at a temple an hour west of Bangkok to worship and celebrate one of Thailand’s strangest cults: At Wat Bang Phra, Buddhist monks use long needles to tattoo magic images and prayers on the believers’ skin. The tattoos are believed to give the wearer protection, especially [...]

February 27th, 2010 | Tags: belief, Beyond the Pancake Trench, Buddhism, Buddhism in Thailand, Buddhist monk, magic, monk, Nakhon Chaisi, possession, religion, tattoo festival, tattoos, Thailand, Thailand tattoo, Tom Vater, tradition, Trance, Wai Khru Day, Wat Bang Phra | Category: Thailand | Comments (3)

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February 23rd, 2010 | Tags: Air America, Alfred McCoy, Amerikas geheimer Krieg in Laos, Apocalypse Now, arte, CIA, documentary, drugs, Fernsehpremiere, Fred Branfman, heroin, Heroin and the CIA, Hmong, Long Cheng, Marc Eberle, opium, Premiere, Secret War, The Most Secret Place on Earth, Tom Vater, Tony Poe, USA, Vang Pao, Vietnam, Vietnam War | Category: Laos, USA | Leave a comment

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February 18th, 2010 | Tags: Air America, Alfred McCoy, American War, Amerikas geheimer Krieg in Laos, Apocalypse Now, arte, CIA, CIA drug deals, clandestine, die tageszeitung, documentary, drugs, Fernsehpremiere, Fred Branfman, heroin, Heroin and the CIA, Hmong, Laos, Lima Site, Long Cheng, Marc Eberle, opium, Premiere, secret, Secret War, state terrorism, taz, The Most Secret Place on Earth, Tom Vater, Tony Poe, US Secret Army, USA, USAID, Vang Pao, Vietnam, Vietnam War, war crime | Category: Laos | Leave a comment

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February 17th, 2010 | Tags: Air America, Alfred McCoy, Amerikas geheimer Krieg in Laos, Apocalypse Now, arte, CIA, documentary, drugs, Fernsehpremiere, Fred Branfman, heroin, Heroin and the CIA, Hmong, Long Cheng, Marc Eberle, opium, Premiere, Secret War, The Most Secret Place on Earth, Tom Vater, Tony Poe, USA, Vang Pao, Vietnam, Vietnam War | Category: Laos | Leave a comment

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February 11th, 2010 | Tags: Akha, Aktualisierung, Bergvolk, Büffel, Burma, guide book, Jack Sparrow, Lisu, Mae Salong, Mekong, Mönch, Nordthailand, Pirat, Rainer Krack, Reise Know How Verlag, Reise-Know-How, Reiseführer, Reisehandbuch, Reiseschriftsteller, Thailand, Theater, Tom Vater, tourism | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment

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February 7th, 2010 | Tags: Akha, Aroon Thaewchatturat, Asian Oasis, Bergvolk, Bergvölker Nordthailands, Das Leben der Anderen, Kulturschock - Thailands Bergvölker und Seenomaden, Lahu, Lisu, Lisu Lodge, Mae Taeng, MERIAN, MERIAN Magazin, MERIAN Thailand, Minorität, reportage, Spiegel Online, Thailand, Tom Vater | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment