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The persistence of serenity
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 24/01/2016
» Last week your columnist reported from the safety of his luxurious room at the Avani Atrium Hotel on New Phetchaburi Road, Bangkok, where he lamented the decline of the area’s red-light district of a quarter of a century ago. Lamented? Hardly. But that is beside the point.
What’s in a name? too much, sometimes
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 15/02/2015
» Glad to see the police have tracked down the anti-monarchist group known as Banpodj and its leader, who goes by the same name. In a hastily-called press conference the police managed to answer all questions with the exception of the most pressing one of all in my opinion — why on earth is there a “J” at the end of “Banpodj”?
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.
Chance encounter with a girl named Arena
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 18/08/2013
» Her name is Arena and she accosts me on the front lawn of the Songkhla resort where I am staying.
A nickname that makes no sense? Priceless
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 26/05/2013
» Greetings from Priceless Sydney, in the glorious island nation of Australia. That's right, dear reader. None of the parochial cheap digs at Thai culture that normally pepper this column, as your correspondent writes from his salubrious hotel room in the heart of Priceless Sydney.
Please fasten your seatbelts and tuck in your primates
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 16/09/2012
» You could hear the titters resounding around the globe this week after the latest scandal at Suvarnabhumi airport pushed us reluctantly into the international spotlight again.
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.