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Resigning is for quitters
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 18/02/2018
» The truth and the military make strange bedfellows. This is not, necessarily, a savage indictment on Thailand's current military regime. It's true of any military. When ranked from most important to least, qualities such as courage, fortitude, strategy, strength and unity are considered characteristics way, way more important to the military than trifling, annoying tenets such as truth and honesty and, let's be frank, democracy.
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Suppress the insurrection
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 25/02/2018
» This is the story of a Hermes handbag, an ageing academic and an overzealous police force. It is a story that one hopes will end in common sense, but then again I hope to win the lottery on the first of next month.
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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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One for the (comic) books
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 26/04/2015
» My friend Stuart is in charge of the upcoming Bangkok Comic Con, a four-day exhibition starting this Thursday at Bitec.
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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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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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March to a different beat
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 13/04/2014
» Dear students of the Satriwitthaya 2 School marching band,
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Polling day's purple patch
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 15/12/2013
» Every single problem that arises in the administration of the Kingdom of Thailand can be traced back to this simple situationWell I'm back from the States ... anything happen in the two weeks I was away?
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Chance encounter with a girl named Arena
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 18/08/2013
» Her name is Arena and she accosts me on the front lawn of the Songkhla resort where I am staying.
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Slaughterhouse saviours with karma to burn
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 16/06/2013
» It was a fortuitous time for cows in Songkhla last Saturday when 10,000 of them were released from the steely jaws of a local slaughterhouse. That conjures up scenes of defiant bovines staging an uprising against their evil captors, not dissimilar to scenes from Ratchaprasong three years ago when the red shirts set fire to the city.
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