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Bangkok taxi passengers being taken for a ride
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 30/06/2019
» The Department of Land Transport in Chatuchak was abuzz last Monday when 30 taxi drivers converged on the complex, holding placards protesting the impending legalisation of Grab taxi service.
No sex, please, we're skittish
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 04/03/2018
» I wonder how many of my Sunday readers could pinpoint the country of Gambia on a map.
The airport with the difficult approach path
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 30/08/2015
» Don Muang, Don Mueang. It used to be the former. Sometime in the last five years that extra “E” was added, but it didn’t help. Call it what you like; I prefer "Hellish Airport", which also contains a single letter E.
A place of snakes, squirrels and scapegoats
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 12/07/2015
» As the trial of the two Myanmar accused of murdering British tourists starts on Koh Tao, where do you think your favourite columnist is filing his story from this week?
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.
Assessing the assets
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 09/02/2014
» Thailand has this law where you must declare your assets before you assume a political position, then declare them again when you leave that position.
Digging into the real social network
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 22/09/2013
» Haggerstone Island is a tiny dot situated 100 nautical miles from the very tip of Australia, arguably one of the most remote areas of the world.
Undercover ride flushes cool cabbie
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/09/2013
» Thai taxi drivers have been getting a bad rap lately, especially the ones picking up tourists from Suvarnabhumi.
Suvarnabhumi a photographer's delight? I shutter to think
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 06/01/2013
» We in the media world like to "beat up" stories or, as they say much better in Thai, "add an egg".
Terminal love for the airport left behind
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 09/09/2012
» Ran into my old friend Don the other day. Good old Don. We used to see each other all the time back in the day. For a good 15 years or so there was hardly a week that went by where we didn't catch up.