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Is the customer always a 'customer'?
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 27/10/2019
» There is nothing wrong with the salesgirl. In fact she is cheery and accommodating.
Retro dreams
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 04/08/2019
» Regular readers may know that I have a Thai niece whom I have brought up since birth. She is now 22 years old in her final year at university. That in itself makes me feel old, but wait -- there is more that is about to poke sticks at my mortal coil.
Another one bites the dust
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 07/07/2019
» It is a rule of competitive businesses not to recognise the competitor, pretending it does not exist — a rule that is broken, naturally, when something terrible happens to the competitor.
Curtain call
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 30/12/2018
» The phone call came in the evening more than a month ago.
Cricket balls
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 09/12/2018
» Thursday was day one of the first test cricket match of the Australian summer.
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.
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.
No sex, please, we're skittish
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 04/03/2018
» I wonder how many of my Sunday readers could pinpoint the country of Gambia on a map.