Tom Vater

Just received author copies of Moon Angkor Wat. Hurray!!! Out now in all good book shops in North America. Photographs by Aroon Thaewchatturat.

February 1st, 2013 | Tags: 2013, Angkor Wat, Aroon Thaewchatturat, Cambodia, guide book, Khmer, Moon Angkor Wat, Moon Books, Moon Guides, Tom Vater, USA | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment

Excellent promo shot by Aroon Thaewchatturat!!! who also took the pictures in this guide to the Khmer ruins. Published in November 2012.

February 1st, 2013 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, book, Cambodia, CityTrip Angkor Wat, guide book, Kambodscha, Reise Know How Verlag, Reise-Know-How, Reiseführer, Reiseführer Kambodscha, South East Asia, Tom Vater | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment

This is a short teaser for the upcoming film ‘The Cause of Progress.’ The Cause of Progress tells the story of the lives of three Cambodians caught up in the country’s chaotic and often violent economic progress. This film focuses on the story of Srey Pov and the Boeung Kak community who have been forcibly [...]

January 22nd, 2013 | Tags: Boeung Kak, Chris Kelly, culture of impunity, documentary, evictions, fund raising, indiegogo, lawlessness, Phnom Penh, The Cause of Progress | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment

In the light of several recent horrific rapes in Cambodia and the deplorable human rights situation in the country in general, I am republishing a 2003 story on gang rape in Phnom Penh. Cambodian sex workers In the shadow of the Independence Monument in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh, young women sell themselves for 6$ a [...]

January 21st, 2013 | Tags: Bauk, Cambodia, crimes against women, culture of impunity, gang rape, Heng Peo, Hun Sen, Mu Sochua, Phnom Penh, plus, rape, Sam Rainsy, Tom Vater, women's rights Khmer | Category: Cambodia | Comments (1)

The first edition of new my English language guide to Angkor Wat (including Siem Reap and the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh) is hitting shelves this month. After Moon Cambodia and Spotlight Angkor, this is my third book for Moon Guides and Avalon Publishing. You can purchase the book on Amazon. Content: A group of young [...]

January 16th, 2013 | Tags: Angkor Wat, Angkor Wat guide book, Avalon Publishing, Cambodia, guide, guide book, Khmer Empire, Moon, Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh guide, Siem Reap, Tom Vater, tourism | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment

Andy Brouwer, acclaimed Cambodian blogger plugs The Cambodian Book of the Dead this week. Read his post here.

November 28th, 2012 | Tags: Andy Brouwer, Asian Noir, Blog, crime fiction, crime novel, Crime Wave Press, Exhibit A, Phnom Penh, plug, The Cambodian Book of the Dead, Tom Vater | Category: Cambodia, Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

My review of Andrew Nette‘s Cambodia-based Hardboiled thriller Ghost Money.

November 26th, 2012 | Tags: Andrew Nette, Cambodia, crime fiction, Ghost Money, hardbloiled, Max Quinlan, Private Eye, review, Tom Vater | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment

Everyone has a good book in them so they say, Asia’s first English-language crime publishing house looks set to put that adage to the test. Mark Bibby Jackson interviews me about all things Crime Wave Press in this month’s ASIA LIFE Magazine, both in the Thailand and Cambodia edition. I get to talk about crime [...]

November 19th, 2012 | Tags: Asian Noir, Cambodia, crime fiction, Crime Wave Press, Dead Sea, Exhibit A, Hans Kemp, Mindfulness and Murder, Nick Wilgus, Sam Lopez, Thailand, The Cambodian Book of the Dead, The Devil's Road to Kathmandu, Tom Vater | Category: Burma, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, North Korea, Thailand, The Philippines, Tibet, Vietnam, Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

Director Marc Eberle will shoot his next film Cambodia Rocks! for the BBC’s Storyville. Marc has been following Cambodian singer Srey Thy and her band The Cambodian Space Project from its inception three years ago in Phnom Penh. Since then, The Cambodian Space Project has launched numerous space music explorations around the world, most notably [...]

November 15th, 2012 | Tags: 1960s, Aung San Suu Kyi: The Choice, BBC, Cambodian music, feature documentary, Khmer, Marc Eberle, Rock and Roll, Srey Thy, Storyville, The Cambodian Space Project | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment