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Where there's smoke
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 06/03/2016
» I have a staff member whose name is Jerd. Jerd is one of my information channels into the Thai working class. He used to raise his family on the minimum wage of 300 baht a day as a rubber plantation worker. Being a benevolent employee I naturally raised that figure substantially when I hired him, and these days he is earning that amount plus an extra four or five percent; the joys of a foreign employer.
Absolut-ly dolled up
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 31/01/2016
» The only thing more intense than the cold snap last week was the latest fad to sweep this country — the Angel Dolls. Thailand has gone crazy over these dolls that have alleged mystical powers to bring good luck.
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 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?
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?
The cycle of life is not a motorcycle
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 20/04/2014
» It was late one night this week and the local motorcycle gangs were out in force along Srinakarin Road.
He who nose best
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 09/03/2014
» With so much work to be done on a major video project I am heading, all my staff are working overtime.
Time the thaksin solution
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 10/11/2013
» OK, so I think we can agree the whole amnesty idea was a dud. It was probably one of those great ideas on paper when Thaksin Shinawatra and his closest allies fleshed it out in Dubai, or a casino in Cambodia or even, as some sources claim, in his home town of Chiang Mai.
Pefot? ... Lmao! it's so lame (IMHO)
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 11/08/2013
» They've got to be kidding ... right?