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In the parking lot of luxury
Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 21/01/2018
» This week's tale of pretentiousness and warped social mores begins in the sleepy seaside town of Hua Hin.
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Entertained to death
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 16/04/2017
» As I write this column, a pickup truck travelling home to Hat Yai for Songkran has just crashed, killing two and seriously injuring another five of the same family. The pickup in question lost control and slammed into trees on the side of the road in the province of Prachuap Khiri Khan, just past Hua Hin. The driver was killed instantly.
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All in the family
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 05/05/2019
» At my office, we are gearing up for a major new business venture starting May 20.
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When the 'good people' cannot preach morality
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 21/05/2017
» Three new government campaigns have started over the past week. A police campaign demands motorists stop at zebra crossings in an effort to curb the rising road toll. The Transport Ministry has ordered public vans pick up no more than 13 passengers per trip. And the Social Development Ministry is cracking down on government officers, asking them to stop the practice of procuring underage prostitutes as gifts for their departmental heads.
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A strange tale of crabs, birds, elephants, buffalo and a lamented sea turtle
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 26/03/2017
» Recently I found myself in Surat Thani at the early-morning wet market. "Let's buy some crabs," my school director had said the night before. "We can release them into the river to make merit." My school director is regular in her efforts to tam boon or "make merit" as the vague English translation happens to be.
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Foxing clever
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/05/2016
» It's a shame Phra Prommangkalachan is a monk.
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The bald truth about Rajabhakti Park
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 20/12/2015
» With all the column inches dedicated to the Rajabhakti Park controversy over the past month, your columnist has been trying to devise ways of writing about what is fast becoming this government’s Achilles heel without incurring the wrath of the military.
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Slaughterhouse saviours with karma to burn
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 16/06/2013
» It was a fortuitous time for cows in Songkhla last Saturday when 10,000 of them were released from the steely jaws of a local slaughterhouse. That conjures up scenes of defiant bovines staging an uprising against their evil captors, not dissimilar to scenes from Ratchaprasong three years ago when the red shirts set fire to the city.
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Dropping the crystal ball
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/01/2012
» Once upon a time there was a little boy who lived in the eastern province of Chanthaburi. His nickname was Pla Bu, or ''Goby Fish'' in English, and at the age of five years and eight months he approached his father.
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