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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.
Steppingoutof line
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 17/06/2018
» It's not often that your correspondent crosses a road on foot.
Trapped on the horns of a moral dilemma
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 01/10/2017
» Jackie is the grown-up daughter of my dear friend Kelly. Now she's 21 and wants to take a year off university and travel around Southeast Asia. This is the email I received from her: "Hi! This is Jackie! I don't know whether Mom told you, but me and my boyfriend are going backpacking around Asia and want to include Thailand! We were wondering if we could stay with you for a week or so when we get to Bangkok! We'll arrive in December! Is that all right? Does that put you out?"
What's love got to do with it?
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 23/07/2017
» Guys, I have good news and bad news for you. The good news is this: Never before have Thai women been so keen as to want to hitch up with you. We foreign guys are red hot in Thailand. And the bad news? That's coming a little further down.
A strange tale of crabs, birds, elephants, buffalo and a lamented sea turtle
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 26/03/2017
» Recently I found myself in Surat Thani at the early-morning wet market. "Let's buy some crabs," my school director had said the night before. "We can release them into the river to make merit." My school director is regular in her efforts to tam boon or "make merit" as the vague English translation happens to be.
The animal instinct of insults
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 25/09/2016
» Last week saw the rounding up and hauling away of unsavoury animals from the middle of Bangkok and no, that doesn't mean a coup nor a police raid on Nana Plaza. Lizards, dear reader … lizards.
Wheels start turning on revolution
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/02/2015
» Vive la revolution! Last Monday there was a gathering of 25 kindred spirits at Berk Prai restaurant in Bang Na that went well into the evening. They were celebrating a victory.
Pregnant pauses without much thought
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 24/11/2013
» Annie is pregnant. My old friend is into her third trimester and hating it.
Instant scents of suspicion
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 03/11/2013
» Last Sunday was the last day of National Book Fair at the Queen Sirikit convention centre, where your beloved correspondent had a booth.
Monitor lizard slight on a whole different scale
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 09/06/2013
» Picture the scenario: You are standing on stage at a political rally in front of a sea of supporters, and you want to curse your opponents in the worst possible way.