Showing 21 - 30 of 33
Unholy high rollers inspire leap away from faith
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 30/06/2013
» Thailand is reeling with yet another monk in designer clothing scandal. A monk flew on a private jet to Europe for a shopping spree. Then he made a TV ad for an air purifier. Not bad for a guy who's taken a vow of poverty and whose wardrobe consists of three saffron robes; why go all the way to Paris to buy those?
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.
Battling schools where violence is the vocation
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 10/03/2013
» Samut Prakan is an eastern province adjoining Bangkok. There is no giant "Welcome To Samut Prakan" sign as you enter, since the province is practically invisible.
All over the map
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 03/03/2013
» The little province of Satun is situated way, way down at the bottom of the Thai map. It is as far south as you can go; the next stop is Malaysia, and indeed it was in that country that Satun first came to my attention more than 20 years ago.
Bridal tidal wave strikes the south
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 10/02/2013
» This week I am blessed to be writing this column from the town of Hat Yai, Songkhla, in the far South.
Islamic college has lessons for the troubled south
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 25/11/2012
» Thung Khru is a part of Bangkok not usually found on the tourist map, and why should it be?
Playing the odds in VEGAS
Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 27/06/2010
» There's barely a week to go before returning to Thailand, and I'm pulling out all stops to cram in as much as I can into my time left here in the United States. One of those activities includes a whirlwind trip to Las Vegas.
Dog days on a Greyhound
Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 20/06/2010
» I am not a bus person. I do trains, planes, and people movers with ease and enthusiasm, but buses arouse the dark silhouette of despair that sleeps fitfully in my stomach, waking to attention the moment my backside hits the bus seat. I don't go around advertising this fact; the last time I casually mentioned it was in Sydney trying to find a way to get from Bondi to the casino.
Losing weight & Being lost for words
Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 13/06/2010
» Los Angeles International Airport. That's where your weekly correspondent is seated at present, at Gate 46A, waiting amid the myriad Americans for my flight to Washington DC. And I am thinking about weight loss.
Who knows what the future brings?
Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 16/05/2010
» I was interested to read the news of well known fortune teller Mor Krit's sentencing to six months in prison for making a very, very wrong prediction. It's a story far bigger in the Thai press than in the English one.