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All's well that ends well
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 28/07/2019
» Greetings from Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok.
A portal into trouble
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 03/03/2019
» This story begins 12 months ago. I needed a new door for my bathroom, so I walked down to the end of my soi where there is a giant wood factory.
To the rescue
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/07/2018
» I will never forget the moment man first landed on the moon.
All change at Sukhumvit
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 24/12/2017
» An important high-level meeting this week resulted in my being driven down Sukhumvit Road from the Phloenchit intersection all the way to Asok. This was largely due to my driver taking a wrong turn.
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.
'Mr Condom' is still causing a stir
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 16/07/2017
» How comforting to see, in the pages of the Bangkok Post, young people using condoms with none of the hang-ups or bashfulness associated with that contraception. By using them, I don't mean "using" them. The kids were blowing up condoms like balloons and wearing gaily coloured hats made of condoms in a news story that certainly piqued my interest.
Era of the cowardly terrorist gains pace
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 28/05/2017
» Theresa May put it succinctly. The British prime minister called the bombers of our age "cowards". She's absolutely right.
Dinosaurs must confront reality
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 14/05/2017
» The whole country, from the prime minister down, has been talking education, bandying about two words in particular: "innovation" and "technology". This culminated in an education fair entitled EdTex, held at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, where the consensus was that for Thailand to survive, it needs an education system that is both innovative and technological.
A larger-than-life Aussie lit up Thailand
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 07/05/2017
» The annual Australian TV awards called The Logies were on last week. Having been away from Australia for nearly three decades I can't get too excited about them, primarily because most of the winners were born after I left. Watching excerpts of the shows up for awards does remind me that one cannot confine a discussion about bad TV to Thailand only.
Response and responsibility
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 02/10/2016
» The older woman appears at the classroom door five minutes into the lesson, staring blankly at us all. Her hair is short and held back by a colourless hairband. Her faded clothes complement her displeasure, and there is a permanent downturn at both ends of her mouth. It is difficult to discern whether the blank look is one of disapproval or disinterest. We are about to find out.