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Fading to black
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 06/12/2015
» This Father’s Day weekend brings to an end my role as a father after experimenting with the concept for nearly a year. I loved the experience; I just hated the ending, something I will explain in a few moments.
The village that swept away evil
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 04/10/2015
» There is no convenient way to get to the province of Phayao in the far North; the closest airport is Chiang Rai, two hours away by car and there is no train line.
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.
The number’s up for lottery’s middlemen
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 21/06/2015
» It’s been a long, hard slog, but the impossible was finally achieved this month when 80 baht lottery tickets went on sale for 80 baht. Is this the only country in the world where such a revelation would make the news?
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.
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?
Playing at the fringes
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 07/06/2015
» Last week I attended a stage play here in Bangkok that gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling.
Man of the cloth
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 08/03/2015
» What a coincidence. In the very same week the temple known as Wat Phra Dhammakaya was under scrutiny over its abbot’s behaviour, your columnist was himself experiencing his first full day of being frocked.
Bordering on insanity
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 01/03/2015
» On the road to Phnom Kulen I spot the sign; a turn-off to Preah Vihear. “Oh look,” I say out loud. “There’s the road to Khao Pra Viharn.” “That’s not the way you pronounce it,” says my guide. “It’s preah vi-here.”
The star of the Angkor Wat Marathon
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 21/12/2014
» Ten-year-old Gunsaray stepped on a mine earlier this year, blowing his left leg off. Such are the hazards of living in rural Cambodia, the most heavily mined country in the world.