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Political ties
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 02/06/2019
» I remember my first few months in Thailand. Having fallen in love with the culture, I was determined to steep myself in it as much as I could. I learned to enjoy a hot panang curry over rice for breakfast -- what a jolt to the system after a lifetime of cornflakes and toast and, upon entering adulthood, black coffee and a cigarette.
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Failing to heed history
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 19/05/2019
» You've got to hand it to Ekachai Hongkangwan. Like him or not, the man keeps coming back for more.
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The more things change ...
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 07/04/2019
» My Thai experience is bookended with two memorable explanations of impolite English phrases. The first was 30 years ago; the second this week.
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The feel-good aura dims
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 22/07/2018
» The good times are over.
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'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.
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A skytrain to deafness and brain death
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 05/03/2017
» That unexpected fire at the Thai-Belgian flyover caused havoc with inner-city traffic on Wednesday. That was the evening of Sundowners, the monthly meeting of Austcham (the Australian Chamber of Commerce) at the Grand Hyatt Erawan. It was also the evening Austcham was having its presidential elections, but how to get there?
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Rappers drown out social justice warriors
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 09/10/2016
» The biggest worldwide viral sensation of late is a 51-second clip of a Japanese man rapping about a pen, an apple and a pineapple. Or rather, as he pronounces them, a "pear, a apple, a pie-apple" as he minces in his yellow polyester Elvis suit, leering like a sex tourist walking into Nana Plaza for the first time.
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The F word
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 26/06/2016
» Affable Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra eschews the "f" word. He's made it clear that from now on, he never wants to hear it again.
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Bordering on insanity
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 01/03/2015
» On the road to Phnom Kulen I spot the sign; a turn-off to Preah Vihear. “Oh look,” I say out loud. “There’s the road to Khao Pra Viharn.” “That’s not the way you pronounce it,” says my guide. “It’s preah vi-here.”
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Deck the malls with bounds of folly
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 09/11/2014
» I spotted it for the first time at exactly 9.47 pm last Monday, Nov 2, 2014, as I drove past the car park of Tesco Lotus on Rama IV Road.
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