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Check Inn 99 checks out
Life, Published on 01/07/2016
» It has survived revolutions, waded through the Tom Yum Goong crisis, seen one owner murdered, while another went toe-toe with mobsters looking to shake her down.
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.
Runaway Bribes
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 20/10/2013
» I grew up in a state that was Australia's most corrupt, or at least the most blatantly corrupt. New South Wales may have approached its graft with stealth, but up in Queensland we were positively celebrating it.