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A nickname that makes no sense? Priceless
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 26/05/2013
» Greetings from Priceless Sydney, in the glorious island nation of Australia. That's right, dear reader. None of the parochial cheap digs at Thai culture that normally pepper this column, as your correspondent writes from his salubrious hotel room in the heart of Priceless Sydney.
Squatters' Rights: We refuse to sit down on this issue
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 02/06/2013
» The sit has hit the fan. The Thai government is seeking to change the country's toilet habits with one simple press of a button. In its quest to be a little more modern and trendy, the government has protruded its proboscis into the estimated 10 million bathrooms around the country and does not like what it sees.
Was it something they said?
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 24/02/2013
» I have a house guest this week in the form of Captain Pat, back in Thailand for a brief holiday after 10 years away.
Return of the loving dead: Mae Nak mania strikes again
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 07/04/2013
» Good morning first-time visitors to Bangkok. Please excuse the traffic jams of the past week in the City of Angels and, anyway, what are you doing holidaying here at the hottest time of the year?
Suvarnabhumi a photographer's delight? I shutter to think
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 06/01/2013
» We in the media world like to "beat up" stories or, as they say much better in Thai, "add an egg".
Falling through the O-Net
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 17/02/2013
» Those who came up with some of the questions for the test that decides the fate of the nation's university applicants should have the following query put to them: What were you thinking?
Believe it or rot
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 04/11/2012
» Last Tuesday night, as the sun went down over the Mekong River in the Northeast, a miracle occurred.
Saddle up for the latest dance sensation
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 23/09/2012
» Horse riding is as alien to the Thai culture as temperance is to Australians, but for now the whole country is dancing like they're in the Kentucky Derby.
Does sobriety sting?
Life, Andrew Biggs, Published on 21/10/2012
» 'Take the antibiotics until they run out," my doctor is telling me, head down, writing the prescription.
Fishing out the good bits in thailand's alphabet soup
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 19/08/2012
» This week I completed a circle that has taken me 23 years. I returned to my roots. I returned to GOR GAI.