Burma – Page 4 – Tom Vater

Burmese Light featured at Rolf Potts’ Vagablogging

April 10, 2013April 10, 2013tomLeave a Comment

Writer Marco Ferrarese interviews photographer Hans Kemp, with whom I have just published Burmese Light, a new illustrated book on Burma. Read the full interview on Rolf Potts‘ celebrated blog Vagablogging here. Burmese Light: Impressions of the Golden Land is a photographic introduction to Myanmar, the country behind the Bamboo Curtain. Stunning images by award-winning […]

Burmese Light gets full page spread in The Bangkok Post

April 9, 2013April 9, 2013tomLeave a Comment

“A new book offers a visually stunning look at the cultural, geographic, archaeological and ethnic diversity and beauty of a country only now stepping out of the shadows.” writes Ezra Kyril Erker in a full page spread in this Sunday’s Bangkok Post. My new book, put together with photographer Hans Kemp is out now. Read […]

New Crime Wave Press Title: Gaijin Cowgirl by Jame DiBiasio Out Now!!!

March 10, 2013March 10, 2013tomLeave a Comment

After having one of our titles, Mindfulness and Murder in the Top 100 Crime novels on Amazon this week, Crime Wave Press introduces it’s latest thriller: Gaijin Cowgirl by Jame DiBiasio. Gaijin Cowgirl is a high octane adventure introducing Val Benson, flaky Tokyo hostess and utterly unreliable protagonist who stumbles across a map to one […]

Riding the Crime Wave – CWP in ASIA LIFE Magazine

November 19, 2012November 16, 2012tomLeave 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 […]

Burmese Fairy Tales

September 21, 2012September 21, 2012tomLeave a Comment

Long time collaborator Marc Eberle and his co-director Maung Maung Tha Myint have just released the trailer for their forth-coming documentary Burmese Fairy Tales, a small person’s journey into a mysterious world where spirituality and sex meet. Nono, a gay, cross-dressing dwarf visits the ancient Taungbyone spirit festival near Mandalay where psychics of the “third […]

Pictures of Sittwe – Home of the Rohingya

September 13, 2012September 13, 2012tomLeave a Comment

I was in Sittwe, Rakhine State in Burma recently, the site of serious communal riots between Rakhine people and Muslim Rohingya who have been living in the state for generations and are currently the victims of a hate campaign instigated by politicians, ordinary people, Buddhist monks and government officials. I spent three weeks in Burma […]

Burmese Days

September 1, 2012September 15, 2012tomLeave a Comment

Three weeks on the road in Burma, from north to south and back again. Early mornings and late nights, buses, boats, trishaws, motorbikes, bicycles and planes, virtually non-stop rain and lots of amazing conversations. Hardly a country but very much a state, the land between India and China is many things to different people – […]

Freiheit in Burma – Marc Eberles neuer Kurzfilm fuer die ARD

January 17, 2012tomLeave a Comment

Marc Eberle hat gerade einen neuen Kurzfilmbeitrag fuer die ARD in Rangoon gedreht. Vom 31. Dezember 2011 bis zum 4. Januar 2012 fand in der ehemaligen burmesischen Hauptstadt das erste Filmfest der Freiheit statt. Komiker Zaganar und Nobelpreisträgerin Aung Sang Suu Kyi haben diese erste von der burmesischen Regierung nicht zensierte Festival organisiert. Hier ist […]

Let’s Visit Burma – Tom Vater on the pros and cons of tourism in Burma

November 7, 2010September 15, 2012tomLeave a Comment

As the Burmese generals celebrate another well-deserved victory today – no, not the election results which are a foregone conclusion, but the staunch support the regime receives from China, India and Thailand, while European and American businesses are doing their best to get around sanctions so that, they say, Myanmar does not become a province […]