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Speak no evil
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 24/11/2019
» I was once screwed over massively by a competitor who won a contract via nefarious means.
All's well that ends well
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 28/07/2019
» Greetings from Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok.
One more for the road
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 25/11/2018
» Yesterday, the Ploenchit Fair completed a full circle. The quintessential British event returned to its mother's breast, the British embassy, as a swansong for the grounds themselves. There are not that many annual events on the expat calendar that have stood the test of time. There are the various embassy balls, of course, and this year Fight Night made a successful return after its alleged demise in 2016.
Food for thought
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 11/11/2018
» This week I enjoyed a delicious lunch at Suan Dusit University, my host being none other than the dean of the Faculty of Education.
Buddhist signs point wrong way
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 12/02/2017
» The billboard rises, like a Buddhist temple, up ahead on the right-hand side of the airport highway. "BUDDHA IS NOT FOR DECORATION," it shouts at me alongside a decoration of a Buddha's head with an ugly red cross on top of it. Why desecrate a Buddha's head with an ugly red cross on a billboard that tells us not to desecrate Buddhas?
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.
A crash course in pop
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 15/11/2015
» In an effort to remain up with the times, I asked my staff last week to send me a selection of recent Thai pop songs.
Don’t mention the ‘R’ word
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 31/05/2015
» Dear Myanmar Delegation, Welcome to Thailand!
Man of the cloth
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/03/2015
» What a coincidence. In the very same week the temple known as Wat Phra Dhammakaya was under scrutiny over its abbot’s behaviour, your columnist was himself experiencing his first full day of being frocked.
Here's a sobering thought, why not enforce the law?
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 14/12/2014
» If you had chanced to look up at the sky these past few weeks, you would have been surprised by what you may have seen.