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(NOT QUITE) NAKED AMBITION PAYS OFF
Andrew Biggs, Published on 11/02/2018
» The story so far: Your columnist has enrolled himself in Thai university to learn the language. Fatal mistake! Upon opening his first textbook, he is overcome with a sudden desire to jump off Baiyoke Tower.
Thai class flummoxes a university's pride and joy
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 04/02/2018
» I have a great story to tell you that will appeal to any non-Thai currently doing battle with learning the Thai language. My life turned a full circle this week as I began a teaching gig at Ramkhamhaeng University Demonstration School. A gaggle of my best teachers are there conducting an extended English camp, and on day one I went to the school to show my face and chat to the students.
Civil Service Shocker puts kids in danger
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 28/01/2018
» There is nothing particularly outstanding about the tiny rural school of Wat Ban Pathong Tha Noen Samakee, 360km northeast of Bangkok.
Driven to Drink
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 07/01/2018
» There are two categories where you can find Thailand sitting at the top of the world charts.
How I became a one-man reality show
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 26/11/2017
» If Hollywood sitcom writers ever feel hard up for new ideas, they may like to pop over to my house for inspiration. I am sharing my leafy mansion with my 20-year-old Thai niece. Let's call her Gift, since she would be mortified if I used her real name, though that would require her reading this column, something the average 20-year-old Thai apparently doesn't care to do on a Sunday.
Stateless Mong still forced to fly solo
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 17/09/2017
» It is hard to believe nine years have passed since Mong Thongdee hit the media spotlight. Little Mong was big news in September 2009, a few months before violent clashes between anti-government protesters and government troops.
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.
'Mr Condom' is still causing a stir
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 16/07/2017
» How comforting to see, in the pages of the Bangkok Post, young people using condoms with none of the hang-ups or bashfulness associated with that contraception. By using them, I don't mean "using" them. The kids were blowing up condoms like balloons and wearing gaily coloured hats made of condoms in a news story that certainly piqued my interest.
Dear diary, thanks for the wacky memories
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 09/07/2017
» What a jolt to my senses -- and mortality -- to learn that 20 years have passed since the tom yam kung economic crisis of Thailand. Man, that went quickly.
When the 'good people' cannot preach morality
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 21/05/2017
» Three new government campaigns have started over the past week. A police campaign demands motorists stop at zebra crossings in an effort to curb the rising road toll. The Transport Ministry has ordered public vans pick up no more than 13 passengers per trip. And the Social Development Ministry is cracking down on government officers, asking them to stop the practice of procuring underage prostitutes as gifts for their departmental heads.