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Plastic addiction bags Pacific island
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 30/04/2017
» With a morning meeting scheduled, I pop down to my local supermarket the night before to purchase a few bakery items. I make a habit of arriving at the bakery counter at 8.01pm because all baked goods enjoy a 25% discount from 8 o'clock onwards.
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Pull up to the bumper
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 09/04/2017
» On busy Rama IV Road, my driver explodes in a mighty chortle. "Well, would you look at that," he says, pointing to the pickup truck in front of us. In the back seat I look up from my position, documents in my lap, crunching numbers. It's been a stressful morning, especially since the numbers in question are the latest lottery results, and my ticket has come nowhere near the 6 million baht first prize.
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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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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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Stuck in the middle with you
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 18/09/2016
» Something weird is happening on the streets of Bangkok.
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Response and responsibility
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 02/10/2016
» The older woman appears at the classroom door five minutes into the lesson, staring blankly at us all. Her hair is short and held back by a colourless hairband. Her faded clothes complement her displeasure, and there is a permanent downturn at both ends of her mouth. It is difficult to discern whether the blank look is one of disapproval or disinterest. We are about to find out.
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Conducting themselves with dignity
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 11/09/2016
» This week your favourite columnist met up with Somtow Sucharitkul, Thailand's famed composer, conductor and lapsed horror writer, at Emquartier for lunch and a chat.
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The changing face of education
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 07/08/2016
» Nong Max was born into a rural Thai family 15 years ago in the far northeastern province of Nakhon Phanom.
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When your number comes up
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 20/03/2016
» The worsening drought in Thailand has taken a toll on the Mekong River, where water levels have dropped drastically.
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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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