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Great balls of fire
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 20/10/2019
» Last Sunday I was determined to witness an annual event that has confounded me for more than a decade.
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Steppingoutof line
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 17/06/2018
» It's not often that your correspondent crosses a road on foot.
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Set the wheelchairs of change in motion
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 18/03/2018
» Anybody doing business in Thailand has horror stories about red tape. Not a day goes by where I am not responsible for felling at least one tree from somewhere deep within a national park. Page after page, I sign the bottom of these utterly useless photocopied pages, in triplicate, one after the other, all the time either contemplating life or how to end it all and put myself out of this bureaucratic misery.
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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.
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Trapped on the horns of a moral dilemma
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 01/10/2017
» Jackie is the grown-up daughter of my dear friend Kelly. Now she's 21 and wants to take a year off university and travel around Southeast Asia. This is the email I received from her: "Hi! This is Jackie! I don't know whether Mom told you, but me and my boyfriend are going backpacking around Asia and want to include Thailand! We were wondering if we could stay with you for a week or so when we get to Bangkok! We'll arrive in December! Is that all right? Does that put you out?"
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Lady parking: the work of the devil
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 27/08/2017
» UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is toying with the idea of women-only train carriages. The idea is to stem the rising tide of female harassment in public places after British Transport Police reported a rise in sexual assaults on trains.
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Never say never
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 20/11/2016
» Being a company owner I am seldom wrong. Ask my staff -- when am I ever wrong? "Never," they will answer, with a stress on the "v" consonant, since I assume the role of a broken record for anyone who dares to drop a "naire-wer" in my vicinity. My staff will then give you an all-knowing glance when I am looking in the other direction, revealing crossed fingers from behind their backs.
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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.
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Le Tour de Death
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 10/05/2015
» Bangkok is a great city for anybody with a death wish. If you want to overdose on heroin, come on over. Try crossing the street on a zebra crossing. Just choosing the wrong song in a karaoke bar can get you killed.
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Ignorance is not bliss
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 23/11/2014
» What a coincidence. The Prime Minister appealed for cooperation from the media on the very same day the media demonstrated why non-cooperation was so important to the good health of Thai society.
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