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Conducting themselves with dignity
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 11/09/2016
» This week your favourite columnist met up with Somtow Sucharitkul, Thailand's famed composer, conductor and lapsed horror writer, at Emquartier for lunch and a chat.
Foxing clever
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/05/2016
» It's a shame Phra Prommangkalachan is a monk.
Farang behaving badly
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 28/02/2016
» There was a news story a month ago that made a splash in the Thai press but went under the radar here in the English-language news world. It happened at the Southern Bus Terminal in Taling Chan, and it involved two Australian tourists who were robbed at gunpoint of their belongings.
Highs, lows and screw-ups
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 03/01/2016
» It is a long-held tradition for this column, in its last week of each year, to present awards based on the year’s highs and lows. I understand such reflections can be found in another seven columns of the Bangkok Post today and over the past week.
A fine day to make friends
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 27/09/2015
» The letter arrived on a cloudy afternoon. By the time I’d read it, the skies had opened up and thunder crashed about my home. It was from the Pak Kret police station. I’d been clocked going over the speed limit.
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?
What’s in a name? too much, sometimes
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 15/02/2015
» Glad to see the police have tracked down the anti-monarchist group known as Banpodj and its leader, who goes by the same name. In a hastily-called press conference the police managed to answer all questions with the exception of the most pressing one of all in my opinion — why on earth is there a “J” at the end of “Banpodj”?
Here's a sobering thought, why not enforce the law?
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 14/12/2014
» If you had chanced to look up at the sky these past few weeks, you would have been surprised by what you may have seen.