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Earning what you learn
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 02/12/2018
» I often tell the story of the young man who accosted me in the newspaper pictorial department many years ago.
Thai schools in race to the bottom
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 01/04/2018
» Congratulations to the little boy on page 2 of the Bangkok Post on Wednesday, throwing his hands up with joy at being selected to attend Chulalongkorn University Demonstration Elementary School.
Zen and the art of metropolis maintenance
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 14/02/2016
» One of my earliest observances of Bangkok life was made from the second floor of a Klong Toey guest house, from the window of a room festooned with linoleum and cockroaches.
Stealing our Songkran?
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 23/03/2014
» This Songkran there is no need to come to Thailand. Singapore is holding it instead.
Unholy high rollers inspire leap away from faith
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 30/06/2013
» Thailand is reeling with yet another monk in designer clothing scandal. A monk flew on a private jet to Europe for a shopping spree. Then he made a TV ad for an air purifier. Not bad for a guy who's taken a vow of poverty and whose wardrobe consists of three saffron robes; why go all the way to Paris to buy those?
Suvarnabhumi a photographer's delight? I shutter to think
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 06/01/2013
» We in the media world like to "beat up" stories or, as they say much better in Thai, "add an egg".
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.
Lost in the land of the autocue
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 29/04/2012
» The ad on page two of the Bangkok Post jumped right out at me on a Friday morning.