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Living outside the comfort zone
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 13/01/2019
» It was Eleanor Roosevelt, sage diplomat and America's longest-running first lady, who uttered the famous quote: "Do one thing every day that scares you."
Earning what you learn
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 02/12/2018
» I often tell the story of the young man who accosted me in the newspaper pictorial department many years ago.
Never say never
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 20/11/2016
» Being a company owner I am seldom wrong. Ask my staff -- when am I ever wrong? "Never," they will answer, with a stress on the "v" consonant, since I assume the role of a broken record for anyone who dares to drop a "naire-wer" in my vicinity. My staff will then give you an all-knowing glance when I am looking in the other direction, revealing crossed fingers from behind their backs.
The changing face of education
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 07/08/2016
» Nong Max was born into a rural Thai family 15 years ago in the far northeastern province of Nakhon Phanom.
Battling schools where violence is the vocation
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 10/03/2013
» Samut Prakan is an eastern province adjoining Bangkok. There is no giant "Welcome To Samut Prakan" sign as you enter, since the province is practically invisible.
Degrees in destruction at schools of hard knocks
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 26/02/2012
» I was witness to a seething mass of white shirts while sitting in Ekamai traffic this week.