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From the Archives: Seven Years out of Tibet – The Reappearance of an Old Feature

April 14, 2011May 15, 2011tomLeave a Comment

I just found a seven year old feature of mine called Seven Years out of Tibet, the story of Tibetan refugees stranded in Nepal, published by Asiatimes Online in January 2004. For this story, we visited the Tibetan Buddhist shrine at Bodhnath and interviewed monks who had walked from Tibet to Nepal to find themselves […]

Killing Time in Kathmandu – A Meeting with Charles Sobhraj, in Penthouse Australia

February 12, 2004May 31, 2022tom3 Comments

Charles Sobhraj, one of the world’s most notorious serial killer celebrities, also known as the “Bikini Killer’ and the ‘Serpent’ was convicted for murder in 2004 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Prior to his conviction I spoke with one of the allegedly scariest men alive, as well as his captor, police officer Ganesh K.C. who had no […]