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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.
Return of the loving dead: Mae Nak mania strikes again
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 07/04/2013
» Good morning first-time visitors to Bangkok. Please excuse the traffic jams of the past week in the City of Angels and, anyway, what are you doing holidaying here at the hottest time of the year?
Terminal love for the airport left behind
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 09/09/2012
» Ran into my old friend Don the other day. Good old Don. We used to see each other all the time back in the day. For a good 15 years or so there was hardly a week that went by where we didn't catch up.
Degrees in destruction at schools of hard knocks
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 26/02/2012
» I was witness to a seething mass of white shirts while sitting in Ekamai traffic this week.
Hey you, Farang! Accuse me
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 26/09/2010
» 'Hey you. You." The voice comes from behind, and I turn around to see a young man leaning lackadaisically against his taxi. "Where you go? I take you!" he adds, and he now breaks into a grin, revealing an even shade of yellow on his nicotine-stained teeth.
And the winners are...
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 29/08/2010
» If you're on your way to make your first alcohol purchase of the day, alas, it's another dry day in the City of Angels. That's because there's an election today for the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, or city council. In order to elect the highest calibre of politician, as usual there is an alcohol ban and if sobriety is indeed the reason we have these elected MPs, then I say let the Chang flow from my kitchen taps immediately.
Beauties and the Beast
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 22/08/2010
» Look at the picture I had taken this week! That's right, dear reader, far from rubbing shoulders with fellow Samut Prakanians in Foodland Srinakharin, your correspondent was up close and personal with the Miss Thailand World gang.
Losing weight & Being lost for words
Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 13/06/2010
» Los Angeles International Airport. That's where your weekly correspondent is seated at present, at Gate 46A, waiting amid the myriad Americans for my flight to Washington DC. And I am thinking about weight loss.
Breaking News!
Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 23/05/2010
» Back in 1989 I was a journalist working for a daily newspaper in Australia, and one of the very last assignments I had before embarking on my trip to Thailand was one of the toughest. Through a few contacts, and my reputation for being a fair journalist (this was a long time ago, remember), I interviewed a group of paedophiles who met once a week in an anonymous suburban house.
Who knows what the future brings?
Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 16/05/2010
» I was interested to read the news of well known fortune teller Mor Krit's sentencing to six months in prison for making a very, very wrong prediction. It's a story far bigger in the Thai press than in the English one.