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What chance of draining this swamp?
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 23/06/2019
» My commiserations to that poor woman who fell into the sewer on her way to work last Tuesday.
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Full circle after 24 years
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 28/08/2016
» Greetings from Nakhon Pathom. This week your favourite columnist finds himself in a hotel room for five days in this little town just west of Bangkok. "Little town" is hardly a good description, though it was certainly that way when I first visited here a quarter of a century ago. Bangkok has since extended her tentacles, swallowing up the likes of Samut Prakan, Nonthaburi and Minburi.
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It's a small world in Thai politics
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/08/2010
» Oh God, not another one. On a ranking of things Thailand desperately needs right now, where would "an extra province" be? Surely somewhere down in the 900s, wedged between "pay rise for politicians" (#946) and "more Cambodian child beggars outside police booths" (#948).
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Failing to heed history
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 19/05/2019
» You've got to hand it to Ekachai Hongkangwan. Like him or not, the man keeps coming back for more.
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Putting 'fat' on the scales
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 23/09/2018
» I have the best neighbours on all four sides of my home in leafy Samut Prakan.
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The changing face of education
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 07/08/2016
» Nong Max was born into a rural Thai family 15 years ago in the far northeastern province of Nakhon Phanom.
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Playing at the fringes
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 07/06/2015
» Last week I attended a stage play here in Bangkok that gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling.
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Nothing to see here
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 25/05/2014
» The worst thing about living in a failed state under martial law is the avalanche of phone calls from overseas.
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Time the thaksin solution
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 10/11/2013
» OK, so I think we can agree the whole amnesty idea was a dud. It was probably one of those great ideas on paper when Thaksin Shinawatra and his closest allies fleshed it out in Dubai, or a casino in Cambodia or even, as some sources claim, in his home town of Chiang Mai.
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Politics goes gaga
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 17/11/2013
» Last Monday was a Perfect Storm of a day in Thailand.
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