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In all fairness ...
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 22/06/2014
» One of the happiest countries on earth is Norway, the Scandinavian country to the west of Sweden that juts out, blissfully, into the Norwegian Sea.
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Sinister Railways of Thailand
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 13/07/2014
» Two years ago I caught a train from Bangkok to Chiang Mai.
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Lowering the bar
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 31/08/2014
» This column is dedicated to an attractive young lady in a tight-fitting white Leo beer shirt who, five years ago, raced over to my table as I sat down in a beer bar on Khon Kaen's Khao Nieo Road.
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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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Sometimes telling the truth can be painful
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 24/05/2015
» One of the most vilified, hated journalists in Thailand today is a woman who works on the nightly news programme on Channel 3 called Sam Miti, or Three Dimensions.
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The watered-down version of corruption in schools
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 14/06/2015
» We begin our journey in a little village in the far northern province of Chiang Rai. We’re going to pop into a school called Bahn Daen Sala, a rural primary school run on a shoestring budget, where the education of its students rests more on the resourcefulness of its teachers than anything found in the curriculum.
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Tolerant Thais don't need rainbows
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 05/07/2015
» What a surprise in the United States last week when the Supreme Court gave the green light to gay marriage; who would have thought? With a Bible belt thicker than anything seen on a disco jumpsuit, I figured the US was going to be the last country on earth to make such a decision.
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They took my breath away
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 26/07/2015
» Late Saturday night something happened to me that has never occurred before in the quarter-century I have spent here in Thailand. I was breathalysed. It was an experience that filled me with a number of emotions.
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Censors and sensibilities
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 25/10/2015
» Back when I was working at Channel 3, one of Thailand’s two major free-to-air commercial TV stations, there was a unique department consisting of three very refined, elegant ladies.
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On the road to nowhere
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 10/01/2016
» It was like a celebration of sorts; the kind befitting New Year. Did you see the faces of the young men who went to retrieve their motorbikes? They were all over the Thai media last Tuesday, the first day they could get their vehicles after being nabbed for drink driving over the holiday break.
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