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Curtain call
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 30/12/2018
» The phone call came in the evening more than a month ago.
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A pain in the anal cavity
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 15/10/2017
» For the first time ever, in the nine years I have written this weekly column, I write to you with a temperature of 38.7 degrees. Apparently that's pretty high. I'm not an expert on body temperature, but it was high enough for me to end up in a special waiting room at my hospital, separated from the Samut Prakan masses, and not because I was a VIP.
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Full circle after 24 years
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 28/08/2016
» Greetings from Nakhon Pathom. This week your favourite columnist finds himself in a hotel room for five days in this little town just west of Bangkok. "Little town" is hardly a good description, though it was certainly that way when I first visited here a quarter of a century ago. Bangkok has since extended her tentacles, swallowing up the likes of Samut Prakan, Nonthaburi and Minburi.
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What's in a name change?
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 15/09/2019
» It's been an intense week for Thailand's deputy agriculture minister, whose dubious past as a drug runner has been revealed in an exposé in The Sydney Morning Herald, written by one Michael Ruffles.
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Suffocated by the synthetic
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 07/10/2018
» I am sitting in a diner in the southern town of Surat Thani, staring down at three toothpicks.
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The farthest fall
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 14/07/2019
» I once attended a birthday party at a house in Soi Ari where I was introduced to a middle-aged man with a rotating jaw.
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Scorned She-Devil takes a back seat
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 20/08/2017
» The phone number was not one I knew, but still I took the call. "This is immigration police … we'd like to make a time to see you." Would such a phone call initially have given you a chill down your spine as it did with me? I may live a life as chaste as Mother Teresa but I still feel a sudden surge of guilt.
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Durian kicks up a stink on singing contest
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 02/04/2017
» I happened to be in front of the television, that ancient device we used to watch before YouTube, two Thursday nights ago when a calamity befell the nation.
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Three twerks in time save nine
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 18/06/2017
» Back in January 1956, a young unknown American singer named Elvis Presley released his first single called Heartbreak Hotel.
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Mum is not always right
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 16/10/2016
» What a difference a week makes. Seven days out of Thailand and on my return the entire country -- well, the staff at my school at least -- is in the grip of a moral dilemma.
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