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Copywrong!
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 10/11/2019
» Here I am reporting to you live at night-time, somewhere along Sukhumvit Road in the heart of tourist territory.
Food for thought
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 11/11/2018
» This week I enjoyed a delicious lunch at Suan Dusit University, my host being none other than the dean of the Faculty of Education.
The colour of money
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/04/2018
» One morning this week, in the seaside town of Ban Chang, Rayong, two major life events occurred simultaneously at the local temple school. One was raucous, the other full of trepidation.
A bad case of Farrah Syndrome
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/10/2017
» Talk about bad timing. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's visit to the United States couldn't have come at a worse time. Watching the seven-minute hurried press conference wasn't just cringeworthy; in a weird way, I even felt sorry for our PM.
What's love got to do with it?
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 23/07/2017
» Guys, I have good news and bad news for you. The good news is this: Never before have Thai women been so keen as to want to hitch up with you. We foreign guys are red hot in Thailand. And the bad news? That's coming a little further down.
Where there's smoke
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 06/03/2016
» I have a staff member whose name is Jerd. Jerd is one of my information channels into the Thai working class. He used to raise his family on the minimum wage of 300 baht a day as a rubber plantation worker. Being a benevolent employee I naturally raised that figure substantially when I hired him, and these days he is earning that amount plus an extra four or five percent; the joys of a foreign employer.
In all fairness ...
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 22/06/2014
» One of the happiest countries on earth is Norway, the Scandinavian country to the west of Sweden that juts out, blissfully, into the Norwegian Sea.
Where there's smoke, There's ISE
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 07/07/2013
» Kew wants a new motorcycle. That explains his behaviour these past few weeks, constantly calling and asking how I am, telling me how he misses me, how I'm the most wonderful farang he knows. The fact I am the only farang he knows is something vanity allows me to overlook.
An olympic sized effort that fell on deaf ears
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 29/07/2012
» The government has announced it will pay one million baht to any Thai who brings home gold. Well, then, this week my column is not a column per se. It is an invoice. Bear with me and I will explain.
Has the whole world gone mad?
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 14/11/2010
» Until recently there was a big billboard on the side of the expressway going to Bang Na. ''Make your life better,'' it shouted out to motorists in stark Thai lettering. ''Buy our stainless steel products.''