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Eyes on the road, please
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 16/12/2018
» There is a new business that has opened up on my way to work.
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Within a whisker of success
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 13/05/2018
» The news about the burgeoning fake cosmetics industry -- and the celebrities risking arrest for being presenters -- reminds me of an incident last year in my own office.
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In the parking lot of luxury
Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 21/01/2018
» This week's tale of pretentiousness and warped social mores begins in the sleepy seaside town of Hua Hin.
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How I became a one-man reality show
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 26/11/2017
» If Hollywood sitcom writers ever feel hard up for new ideas, they may like to pop over to my house for inspiration. I am sharing my leafy mansion with my 20-year-old Thai niece. Let's call her Gift, since she would be mortified if I used her real name, though that would require her reading this column, something the average 20-year-old Thai apparently doesn't care to do on a Sunday.
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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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Hanging cheats out to dry
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 15/05/2016
» Thai students are ingenious in their quest to pass exams and why shouldn't they be? They come from a culture of enterprise and innovation that stretches back over a thousand years. It is in their genes -- and jeans, as you are about to learn.
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Where there's smoke
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 06/03/2016
» I have a staff member whose name is Jerd. Jerd is one of my information channels into the Thai working class. He used to raise his family on the minimum wage of 300 baht a day as a rubber plantation worker. Being a benevolent employee I naturally raised that figure substantially when I hired him, and these days he is earning that amount plus an extra four or five percent; the joys of a foreign employer.
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Man of the cloth
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/03/2015
» What a coincidence. In the very same week the temple known as Wat Phra Dhammakaya was under scrutiny over its abbot’s behaviour, your columnist was himself experiencing his first full day of being frocked.
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Freeze a jolly good fellow
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 24/08/2014
» No fan of crazes like Pet Rocks or the 'Macarena', this one sent a chill down my spine
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Easy? give it a pass
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 06/10/2013
» Life in Thailand is full of surprises, like last Saturday when I topped up my Easy Pass.
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