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'Mr Condom' is still causing a stir
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 16/07/2017
» How comforting to see, in the pages of the Bangkok Post, young people using condoms with none of the hang-ups or bashfulness associated with that contraception. By using them, I don't mean "using" them. The kids were blowing up condoms like balloons and wearing gaily coloured hats made of condoms in a news story that certainly piqued my interest.
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A strange tale of crabs, birds, elephants, buffalo and a lamented sea turtle
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 26/03/2017
» Recently I found myself in Surat Thani at the early-morning wet market. "Let's buy some crabs," my school director had said the night before. "We can release them into the river to make merit." My school director is regular in her efforts to tam boon or "make merit" as the vague English translation happens to be.
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Buddhist signs point wrong way
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 12/02/2017
» The billboard rises, like a Buddhist temple, up ahead on the right-hand side of the airport highway. "BUDDHA IS NOT FOR DECORATION," it shouts at me alongside a decoration of a Buddha's head with an ugly red cross on top of it. Why desecrate a Buddha's head with an ugly red cross on a billboard that tells us not to desecrate Buddhas?
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A lesson from the deep south
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 19/02/2017
» Anubal Narathiwat is one of the largest primary schools in the provincial capital of Narathiwat, the southernmost province of Thailand, right on the Malaysian border. Every morning at 8am assembly, the 1,437 children in Years 1 to 6 line up in front of the flagpole and sing the national anthem.
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Taking us all for a ride
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 29/05/2016
» Here in Thailand we like hubs. I'm not talking about bicycle hubs, though we like those too. I'm talking about world hubs, and while we are yet to be the hub of anything really constructive, it hasn't stopped successive governments from trying.
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Farang behaving badly
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 28/02/2016
» There was a news story a month ago that made a splash in the Thai press but went under the radar here in the English-language news world. It happened at the Southern Bus Terminal in Taling Chan, and it involved two Australian tourists who were robbed at gunpoint of their belongings.
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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.
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All rivers lead to closed doors
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/11/2015
» The prime minister’s threat to close the country sent all sorts of strange ripples throughout Thailand. This column begins with the ardent hope that you already know this news, because if so I am saved a needless 100 words explaining its background, thus allowing me to extrapolate my watertight theories and opinions on the topic for an extra 100 words.
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A broken spiritual heart
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 23/08/2015
» The simple act of bringing our palms together in order to ask for something good, which we call prayer, is an act that is as universal as it is inherent in the human psyche.
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A place of snakes, squirrels and scapegoats
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 12/07/2015
» As the trial of the two Myanmar accused of murdering British tourists starts on Koh Tao, where do you think your favourite columnist is filing his story from this week?
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