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More subversive than an ikea ad
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 24/07/2016
» On a recent trip to Mega Bangna, I had a brochure thrust into my hand.
Songkran set to dry
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 10/04/2016
» If you're one of the expected half a million foreign tourists arriving in Thailand this week, then here is a column especially for you.
Putting a diplomatic foot in it
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 13/12/2015
» There is a Thai idiom that translated into English means “foot-stirring”. This is the act of deliberately provoking in an obnoxious manner. The Thai word is guan-teen but don’t go throwing that word around the beer bar just yet, dear reader.
All rivers lead to closed doors
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/11/2015
» The prime minister’s threat to close the country sent all sorts of strange ripples throughout Thailand. This column begins with the ardent hope that you already know this news, because if so I am saved a needless 100 words explaining its background, thus allowing me to extrapolate my watertight theories and opinions on the topic for an extra 100 words.
The number’s up for lottery’s middlemen
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 21/06/2015
» It’s been a long, hard slog, but the impossible was finally achieved this month when 80 baht lottery tickets went on sale for 80 baht. Is this the only country in the world where such a revelation would make the news?
Tee-ing up for the draft
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 19/04/2015
» I haven’t seen Tee and his mother for more than three years, ever since Tee came begging for a loan to help with a down payment on a pickup truck.
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”?
Ignorance is not bliss
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 23/11/2014
» What a coincidence. The Prime Minister appealed for cooperation from the media on the very same day the media demonstrated why non-cooperation was so important to the good health of Thai society.
Deck the malls with bounds of folly
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 09/11/2014
» I spotted it for the first time at exactly 9.47 pm last Monday, Nov 2, 2014, as I drove past the car park of Tesco Lotus on Rama IV Road.
Stuck in the straddle
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 26/01/2014
» So which side are you on, dear reader?