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These inactive posts will be the death of us
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 19/07/2015
» There was a push last week for the death penalty for corrupt government officials — may I be the first to announce my opposition. The push is an amendment proposed by the National Anti-Corruption Commission, better known as the NACC, though perhaps FUTILE might be a better abbreviation for all that commission is up against.
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?
Tee-ing up for the draft
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 19/04/2015
» I haven’t seen Tee and his mother for more than three years, ever since Tee came begging for a loan to help with a down payment on a pickup truck.
Position vacant: job interviewer
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 15/03/2015
» Business is on the up so I am looking to hire a new receptionist. My HR lady says the position must be advertised as “In-house Public Relations Co-Ordinator”.
A boarder's insecurity
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 16/03/2014
» I am due to board a domestic flight from Don Mueang airport in an hour and as I arrive at the check-in counter I receive a phone call.
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.
Degrees of separation
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/12/2013
» I am typing this column in subzero temperatures on the other side of the world.
Let slip the dogs of more
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 01/12/2013
» I remember the time I was spending the weekend in an upcountry province when Virut got his money.
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.
Instant scents of suspicion
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 03/11/2013
» Last Sunday was the last day of National Book Fair at the Queen Sirikit convention centre, where your beloved correspondent had a booth.