Tom Vater

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January 17th, 2012 | Tags: ARD, Aung San Suu Kyi, Beitrag, Burma, Deutschland, Freedom Film Festival;, Kurzfilm, Marc Eberle, Myanmar, Tom Vater, Zaganar | Category: Burma | Leave a comment

William Young, the CIA agent who is credited with allegedly discovering Long Cheng in northern Laos, a remote valley which became a top secret CIA air base in 1965  - and soon after the busiest airport in the world - shot himself in Chiang Mai, Thailand a few days ago.
During the making of the feature [...]

April 5th, 2011 | Tags: Afghanistan, American War, assassin, Bill Young, Burma, Chiang Mai, Christianity and the CIA, CIA, Cold War, drugs and the CIA, Heroin and the CIA, hitman, killer, Lahu, Long Cheng, Missionaries and the CIA, missionary, Secret War, sex drugs and the CIA, suicide, Thailand, The Most Secret Place on Earth, Tom Vater, Tony Poe, US drug trade, Vietnam, Wa, William Young | Category: Laos, Thailand, USA, Vietnam | Comments (4)

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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

At the Three Pagodas Pass, in the wild and beautiful far west of Thailand, the orchid and furniture trade is booming, shoot-outs between Burmese rebels and Thai soldiers are rare and the area remains one of those beauty spots that have not yet succumbed to mass tourism.
Read Tom Vater’s feature story on Thailand’s Three Pagodas [...]

June 6th, 2009 | Tags: Burma, Burmese Inn, Burmese Junta, Kanchanaburi, Karen, Myanmar, Orchids, regime, repression, Sangkhlaburi, Thai-Burmese border, Thailand, The Death Railway, The Three Pagodas Pass | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment