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Falling for his charms
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 05/06/2016
» Those ardent followers of the abbot of Wat Dhammakaya remind me of a story that occurred 30 years ago with an equally ardent group known as the Friends of Finch.
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A larger-than-life Aussie lit up Thailand
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 07/05/2017
» The annual Australian TV awards called The Logies were on last week. Having been away from Australia for nearly three decades I can't get too excited about them, primarily because most of the winners were born after I left. Watching excerpts of the shows up for awards does remind me that one cannot confine a discussion about bad TV to Thailand only.
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Out for the count
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 29/01/2017
» I met Owen on my recent trip to Nakhon Phanom, a border province way, way up in the far Northeast. Owen is eight years old. He's in Grade 4 at the local primary school. Owen sat with his mother and when the novelty of having a farang in the house started to wear off and conversation waned, I turned to Nong Owen and asked in Thai:
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Novice monks get dose of reality
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 01/07/2018
» I once was a special guest on a kids TV show where my task was to explain the story of Father Christmas.
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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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We have lost our ray of sunshine
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 23/10/2016
» My life has been split evenly between two well-known and long-reigning monarchs; the first half under Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the second under King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand.
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Small talk at the car wash, yeah
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 12/04/2015
» I’ve just had my car cleaned at my local car wash. I am a man who believes in cleanliness, and that extends to my car. Getting a car wash is a task I perform at the beginning of every single month that begins with the letter A. This frequency brings me in contact with an ever-changing gaggle of Lao youth who spray, scrub, shine and sometimes even scratch my car before I steer it into the giant rollers and, ultimately, the middle-aged cashier with the weather-beaten face.
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Phrase at the edges
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 18/05/2014
» I was Sunday brunching with two friends, one of whom was married, the other a confirmed bachelor, on the deck of the Shangri-La Hotel overlooking the Chao Phraya River.
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Undercover ride flushes cool cabbie
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/09/2013
» Thai taxi drivers have been getting a bad rap lately, especially the ones picking up tourists from Suvarnabhumi.
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Digging into the real social network
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 22/09/2013
» Haggerstone Island is a tiny dot situated 100 nautical miles from the very tip of Australia, arguably one of the most remote areas of the world.
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