The Most Secret Place on Earth (The CIA Covert War in Laos) broadcast on Australia’s ABC1 Television on January 24th

The Most Secret Place on Earth premiered in Australia on ABC1 television on January 24th at 9.30pm. Ironically, The Most Secret Place on Earth competed with Generation Kill, showing on ABC2 at the same time, a seven-part war mini-series about a Rolling Stone reporter embedded with US troops in Iraq.  About the film: For a […]

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Pussy & The Learjets – A Short Documentary by Gerhard Joren

Swedish photographer Gerhard Joren has produced a short documentary on the birth of Bangkok-based band Pussy & The Learjets. The two and a half minute film documents the Rock’n’Roll band’s live debut at The Overstay on January 15th. The four piece, formed in late 2010, is currently playing dates around Bangkok, Thailand and will record […]

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Tom Vater reports for the SEA Globe – The Overstay – Bangkok’s Underground Music Venue

The Trash Palace The crowd surges forward. The singer, a skinny white guy, screams into the microphone, which has been taped to the top of a camera tripod. The room is so hot that water drips from the ceiling.  Strips of linoleum are coming off the floor in long torn rolls of dirty plastic. The […]

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Are You Mad Enough To Be A Travel Writer?

The website Tripbase offer information for would-be travel writers, on the whole very sensible and useful for prospective scribes. The introduction -The harsh realities laid bare- is both sobering and spot-on: Travel writing is a tough and competitive business, a trade for which one needs to have plenty of persistence and low financial expectations – […]

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Urlaub in Angkor? Tom Vaters neuer City Trip Reiseführer Angkor und Siem Reap erscheint am 4.1.2011Holidays in Cambodia? Tom Vater´s new German-language guide to Angkor published 4.1.2011

City Trip Angkor und Siem Reap erscheint am 4. Januar 2011 bei Reise Know How. Dieser kompakte Reiseführer zu den atemberaubenden Ruinen des Reiches der Khmer erläutert Geschichte, erklärt Architektur und Hintergründe und soll einen Aufenthalt in der Boomstadt Siem Reap, in der Nähe der sagenhaften Tempel (seit 1992 ein UNESCO Weltkulturerbe und derzeit eines […]

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