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Thailand's new day same as the old
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 10/03/2019
» It is difficult to choose an honorific or position for Prayut Chan-o-cha these days. Is he the prime minister or a prime ministerial candidate? We could refer to him as prime minister/ministerial candidate but that is clunky and takes up way too much space.
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 Korean dream turns sour
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 17/12/2017
» Chai grew up on a small plot of farmland 30 kilometres outside the town of Kalasin. His childhood was that of waking up, planting rice and vegetables, going to school, coming home, planting rice and vegetables again. Rinse and repeat.
Killer sales pitch
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 11/06/2017
» The woman gyrates in front of the camera from the comfort of her little room in the Bangkok suburbs.
A lesson from the deep south
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 19/02/2017
» Anubal Narathiwat is one of the largest primary schools in the provincial capital of Narathiwat, the southernmost province of Thailand, right on the Malaysian border. Every morning at 8am assembly, the 1,437 children in Years 1 to 6 line up in front of the flagpole and sing the national anthem.
The F word
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 26/06/2016
» Affable Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra eschews the "f" word. He's made it clear that from now on, he never wants to hear it again.
The bald truth about Rajabhakti Park
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 20/12/2015
» With all the column inches dedicated to the Rajabhakti Park controversy over the past month, your columnist has been trying to devise ways of writing about what is fast becoming this government’s Achilles heel without incurring the wrath of the military.
All the fun of the fins
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 16/08/2015
» This week your columnist was interviewed by Fin magazine, a lifestyle mag that is produced and circulated in Rayong province.
Bordering on insanity
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 01/03/2015
» On the road to Phnom Kulen I spot the sign; a turn-off to Preah Vihear. “Oh look,” I say out loud. “There’s the road to Khao Pra Viharn.” “That’s not the way you pronounce it,” says my guide. “It’s preah vi-here.”
The kids are alright
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 17/08/2014
» I have just half an hour to bash out this column so I am going to be quick.