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The killjoys are winning
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 29/11/2015
» While the world was in lockdown over the threat of global terrorism this past week, here in Thailand we were in lockdown too, but for different reasons. Our lives were not in danger from crazed AK-47-wielding suicide bombers. Our danger came in the form of banana leaves, joss sticks and a candle.
The watered-down version of corruption in schools
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 14/06/2015
» We begin our journey in a little village in the far northern province of Chiang Rai. We’re going to pop into a school called Bahn Daen Sala, a rural primary school run on a shoestring budget, where the education of its students rests more on the resourcefulness of its teachers than anything found in the curriculum.
Living in the land of the unknown
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 25/08/2013
» Ah, Thailand, the land of mystery.
Please fasten your seatbelts and tuck in your primates
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 16/09/2012
» You could hear the titters resounding around the globe this week after the latest scandal at Suvarnabhumi airport pushed us reluctantly into the international spotlight again.
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.
An olympic sized effort that fell on deaf ears
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 29/07/2012
» The government has announced it will pay one million baht to any Thai who brings home gold. Well, then, this week my column is not a column per se. It is an invoice. Bear with me and I will explain.
It was the breast of times ... sorry, Where was I?
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 24/06/2012
» Back when I was a kid there was a night-time soap opera in Australia called Number 96.
A bitter pill to swallow
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 01/04/2012
» Cold pills are about to be banned? What a sad day in my life. What a sad day for Thailand.