Showing 1-10 of 26 results
-
Thailand's new day same as the old
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 10/03/2019
» It is difficult to choose an honorific or position for Prayut Chan-o-cha these days. Is he the prime minister or a prime ministerial candidate? We could refer to him as prime minister/ministerial candidate but that is clunky and takes up way too much space.
-
The big picture
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 24/02/2019
» Every day as I leave my home in Samut Prakan, I am greeted by the smiling face of Dr Natthaphong Robkob at the end of my soi.
-
A very touchy subject
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 29/04/2018
» This week our prime minister came face to face with the hottest musical group in Thailand.
-
The colour of money
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/04/2018
» One morning this week, in the seaside town of Ban Chang, Rayong, two major life events occurred simultaneously at the local temple school. One was raucous, the other full of trepidation.
-
When chickens smash eggs
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 11/03/2018
» You may have noticed it's been difficult to get your Thai friends to go out on a Wednesday or Thursday night.
-
Suppress the insurrection
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 25/02/2018
» This is the story of a Hermes handbag, an ageing academic and an overzealous police force. It is a story that one hopes will end in common sense, but then again I hope to win the lottery on the first of next month.
-
'Deaf' Western beggars deserve a right earful
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 10/12/2017
» There has been a commotion this past week in the media over the appearance of two attractive young Westerners begging for money at an intersection in Klong Toey in Bangkok. Just four days ago, the Bangkok Post published a photograph of one of them, a woman, clutching a bunch of Thai flags and trying to flog them off car window to car window. There was a man as well.
-
One banana, two banana, three banana, four ...
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 05/02/2017
» It was a perfect storm of diseased relatives and lovers. The first phone call came at 5.30am, so early that my consciousness was battling the effects of sleep and three quick Chardonnays prior to bedtime.
-
Suffer the little children
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 15/01/2017
» It's the morning after Children's Day. It is testament to how deeply I am entrenched in Thai culture that I hardly bat an eyelid when Children's Day comes around. There was a time when on hearing of an impending Children's Day I would throw up my exasperated hands and exclaim: "We have a Children's Day in this country? Whatever for?"
-
How I lost my past but found nirvana
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 25/12/2016
» Dateline Brisbane, Australia: A reunion of cadet reporters is under way at the iconic Breakfast Creek Hotel. It is a feel-good gathering; each of my three friends produces old photographs and paraphernalia harking back to the alleged good old days of 35 years ago when we had our whole lives ahead of us. We gasp and scream and realise that despite what we thought, we really have changed physically over 35 years.
Your recent history
-
Recently searched
-
Recently viewed links