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Bangkok taxi passengers being taken for a ride
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 30/06/2019
» The Department of Land Transport in Chatuchak was abuzz last Monday when 30 taxi drivers converged on the complex, holding placards protesting the impending legalisation of Grab taxi service.
Has the Age of Aquarius arrived?
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 21/02/2016
» Back when I was a mere child there was a popular song heralding the Age of Aquarius. It came from the stage musical Hair, a product of the late 1960s calling itself a “Tribal Love-Rock Musical”.
The airport with the difficult approach path
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 30/08/2015
» Don Muang, Don Mueang. It used to be the former. Sometime in the last five years that extra “E” was added, but it didn’t help. Call it what you like; I prefer "Hellish Airport", which also contains a single letter E.
Bangkok has been ‘malled’
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 28/06/2015
» It has been a while since I donned designer clothes and made my presence apparent at an inner-city PurchaseSpace, but that is exactly what I did earlier this week when I met a close acquaintance for savoury delicacies and wistful repartee at EmQuartier.
Why Uber won't work here
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 07/12/2014
» How dare they. How … dare … they. Uber has set up shop in Bangkok and Phuket. Uber is the new app you can download onto your smartphone. You register yourself along with your credit card, then whenever you need to go somewhere you call it up and choose between a regular or a luxury car.
Between a Benz and a hard place
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 02/11/2014
» The Don Mueang car park is absolutely full but there is a tiny, tiny sliver of space right at the entrance — and the security guard has agreed to let me park there.
A boarder's insecurity
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 16/03/2014
» I am due to board a domestic flight from Don Mueang airport in an hour and as I arrive at the check-in counter I receive a phone call.
Blunders Covered: 10 mistakes foreigners make
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 05/05/2013
» Next week I embark on a trip to Australia to speak at a Thai roadshow. I am excited at the prospect of passing on my sporadically keen observances of the Thai way of life to innocent Australians.
Was it something they said?
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 24/02/2013
» I have a house guest this week in the form of Captain Pat, back in Thailand for a brief holiday after 10 years away.
Terminal love for the airport left behind
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 09/09/2012
» Ran into my old friend Don the other day. Good old Don. We used to see each other all the time back in the day. For a good 15 years or so there was hardly a week that went by where we didn't catch up.