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Of white teeth, black faces and a general lack of awareness
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 02/09/2018
» Greetings from Hat Yai, Songkhla, where your columnist is enjoying a foot massage at a place called "KKK Massage".
Entertained to death
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 16/04/2017
» As I write this column, a pickup truck travelling home to Hat Yai for Songkran has just crashed, killing two and seriously injuring another five of the same family. The pickup in question lost control and slammed into trees on the side of the road in the province of Prachuap Khiri Khan, just past Hua Hin. The driver was killed instantly.
Den of intrepidity
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 22/05/2016
» Den's name first appeared on a list of children whose parents had been killed in the 2004 tsunami.
The persistence of serenity
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 24/01/2016
» Last week your columnist reported from the safety of his luxurious room at the Avani Atrium Hotel on New Phetchaburi Road, Bangkok, where he lamented the decline of the area’s red-light district of a quarter of a century ago. Lamented? Hardly. But that is beside the point.
Keeping across the Miss Universe
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 27/12/2015
» Dateline: Overcast Monday morning, somewhere along the Southern Thailand highway.
Insuring a headache
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 11/10/2015
» For five frenetic days Sombat flew in and out of my life, turning it upside down like a hurricane, then leaving it as abruptly as he arrived. I returned from lunch one day to see him sitting in reception holding a bag with caramelised cashew nuts from Phitsanulok, Chinese sausage from Chiang Mai and Moji sponge cake from Nakhon Sawan.
Peachy keen to share the despair
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 11/05/2014
» Fern has a new high score on Cookie Run.
Digging into the real social network
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 22/09/2013
» Haggerstone Island is a tiny dot situated 100 nautical miles from the very tip of Australia, arguably one of the most remote areas of the world.
Slaughterhouse saviours with karma to burn
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 16/06/2013
» It was a fortuitous time for cows in Songkhla last Saturday when 10,000 of them were released from the steely jaws of a local slaughterhouse. That conjures up scenes of defiant bovines staging an uprising against their evil captors, not dissimilar to scenes from Ratchaprasong three years ago when the red shirts set fire to the city.
All over the map
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 03/03/2013
» The little province of Satun is situated way, way down at the bottom of the Thai map. It is as far south as you can go; the next stop is Malaysia, and indeed it was in that country that Satun first came to my attention more than 20 years ago.