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Hanging cheats out to dry
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 15/05/2016
» Thai students are ingenious in their quest to pass exams and why shouldn't they be? They come from a culture of enterprise and innovation that stretches back over a thousand years. It is in their genes -- and jeans, as you are about to learn.
Grow beard, lose face
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 24/04/2016
» 'Oh my god Khun Andrew … what is this?"
A score to settle
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 27/03/2016
» The nation’s Year 12 examination results are out. In short … the nation failed. Again.
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.
The bald truth about Rajabhakti Park
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 20/12/2015
» With all the column inches dedicated to the Rajabhakti Park controversy over the past month, your columnist has been trying to devise ways of writing about what is fast becoming this government’s Achilles heel without incurring the wrath of the military.
Putting a diplomatic foot in it
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 13/12/2015
» There is a Thai idiom that translated into English means “foot-stirring”. This is the act of deliberately provoking in an obnoxious manner. The Thai word is guan-teen but don’t go throwing that word around the beer bar just yet, dear reader.
Growing up in a difficult environment
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 22/11/2015
» What a difficult soul-searching week it has been, as we come to grips with this new era of violence and upheaval. I have read 100 different theories as to how we have ended up here, and why sick militants shoot AK-47 rifles into crowds in the name of an abstract notion of a supreme being.
A crash course in pop
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 15/11/2015
» In an effort to remain up with the times, I asked my staff last week to send me a selection of recent Thai pop songs.
The village that swept away evil
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 04/10/2015
» There is no convenient way to get to the province of Phayao in the far North; the closest airport is Chiang Rai, two hours away by car and there is no train line.
The ABC of HBD
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 20/09/2015
» HBD. Those three letters coursed relentlessly across my smartphone screen last weekend. The message came from students, friends and acquaintances.