Sobering and Grim Documentary Film on the US’s Secret War in Laos: The Players

Stumbled across this image of the three unusual suspects of The Most Secret Place on Earth on this Bangkok Expat blog. Taken at the packed FCCT (Foreign Correspondents Club Thailand) in November 2010 during our presentation and Q& A session of aforementioned documentary on the CIA’s covert war in Laos in the 1960s. From left […]

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Who Killed Chea Vichea? opens Chiang Mai Documentary Art Festival

Who Killed Chea Vichea? is the featured film on the opening night of the Chiang Mai Documentary Arts Festival, which runs February 24-26, 2012. WHO KILLED CHEA VICHEA? Friday, February 24th at 7:00 pm Documentary Arts Asia Center Gallery 12/7 Wualai Road Soi 3, Haiya District Muang, Chiang Mai, Thailand In 2004, Cambodian union president […]

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Tom Vater interviewed about Sacred Skin on Rolf Potts’ website

I have been interviewed by Marco Ferrarese about my book Sacred Skin on the website of travel writer Rolf Potts. Read the full interview here. In July 2010, Rolf Potts interviewed me about the craft of writing. I talk about how I managed to get into the writing business – read that full text here. […]

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Kampot Pepper in Geographical

Published in November’s issue of Geographical Magazine, magazine of the Royal Geographical Society, was Bangkok based photographer’s Luke Duggleby‘s feature  on the reviving of Cambodia’s pepper industry after it was destroyed by the Khmer Rouge. I traveled to Kampot with Luke to write the story. One of Cambodia’s best known exports prior to the Khmer […]

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