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All's well that ends well
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 28/07/2019
» Greetings from Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok.
'Deaf' Western beggars deserve a right earful
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 10/12/2017
» There has been a commotion this past week in the media over the appearance of two attractive young Westerners begging for money at an intersection in Klong Toey in Bangkok. Just four days ago, the Bangkok Post published a photograph of one of them, a woman, clutching a bunch of Thai flags and trying to flog them off car window to car window. There was a man as well.
Dear diary, thanks for the wacky memories
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 09/07/2017
» What a jolt to my senses -- and mortality -- to learn that 20 years have passed since the tom yam kung economic crisis of Thailand. Man, that went quickly.
When you've passed your tipping point
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 27/01/2013
» Dateline Los Angeles. It is time for your favourite columnist to return to Thailand. I'm expecting a large contingent of waiters and valet parking attendants to be present at the departures gate at LAX. With the amount of money I have placed in their hands this past week, it's the least they can do.
Native tongue twisters
Andrew Biggs, Published on 02/05/2010
» All around my Los Angeles neighbourhood are hand-written signs tacked onto lofty palm trees: ``ACCENT ELIMINATION''. The two words are followed by a local telephone number, which to my surprise doesn't begin with 555. Accent Elimination _ how intriguing.