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The more things change ...
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 07/04/2019
» My Thai experience is bookended with two memorable explanations of impolite English phrases. The first was 30 years ago; the second this week.
Thailand's new day same as the old
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 10/03/2019
» It is difficult to choose an honorific or position for Prayut Chan-o-cha these days. Is he the prime minister or a prime ministerial candidate? We could refer to him as prime minister/ministerial candidate but that is clunky and takes up way too much space.
Time is on my side
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 21/10/2018
» On my recent trip home to Australia, my mother took me aside on the last day.
Set the wheelchairs of change in motion
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 18/03/2018
» Anybody doing business in Thailand has horror stories about red tape. Not a day goes by where I am not responsible for felling at least one tree from somewhere deep within a national park. Page after page, I sign the bottom of these utterly useless photocopied pages, in triplicate, one after the other, all the time either contemplating life or how to end it all and put myself out of this bureaucratic misery.
When your number comes up
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 20/03/2016
» The worsening drought in Thailand has taken a toll on the Mekong River, where water levels have dropped drastically.
No resolution in the briefest end
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 13/09/2015
» The man next door to the studio hanged himself last Wednesday. He did it while we were recording a radio show. It caused a commotion in the soi and resulted in a very healthy display of what the Thais call Thai moong, which is a group of locals standing rigid, faces not unlike extras from the Walking Dead, staring at the accident or, in this case, the dead body dangling from the second floor.
They took my breath away
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 26/07/2015
» Late Saturday night something happened to me that has never occurred before in the quarter-century I have spent here in Thailand. I was breathalysed. It was an experience that filled me with a number of emotions.
One for the (comic) books
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 26/04/2015
» My friend Stuart is in charge of the upcoming Bangkok Comic Con, a four-day exhibition starting this Thursday at Bitec.
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.
Children suffer amid madness
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 02/03/2014
» It’s hard for me to find the words to describe the grief, the anger and the helplessness at watching a man bury his two gorgeous little kids, whose only crime was they chose KFC at Big C Ratchaprasong to have dinner last Sunday evening.