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Expats who made an impact
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 15/03/2015
» The best bits of Americans in Thailand are up the back. And starting there isn’t as dumb as it sounds: There will be people out there picking it up at Asia...
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Back to the future
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 01/02/2015
» Nostalgia apparently is what it used to be. With new Star Wars and Mad Max films coming, AC/DC and Giorgio Moroder releasing albums, and K-pop hairstyles that...
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Mind over manners
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 23/11/2014
» From time to time, the Land of Smiles seems like it's anything but. It becomes the land of smirks when you're waiting for change and the motorcycle taxi rider...
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Hating Thailand ... and loving it
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 07/12/2014
» We've all been there. You come to Thailand, get your bag/passport/shirt stolen and you are left wandering the streets shouting at policemen, throwing rocks at...
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The faceless pop star
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 29/06/2014
» She pumped out Rihanna’s hit Diamonds in less than 20 minutes, and when the Barbadian megastar copied her demo inflection for inflection she thought it was...
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Behind the news
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 25/05/2014
» One of the curses, or blessings, of being a journalist is that everyone else’s story seems more interesting than your own. It’s great to meet the famous and...
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The zombie Nazis of North Asia
Spectrum, Michael Ruffles, Published on 02/03/2014
» Two impressive and creepy railway carriages stand entombed inside an Aladdin’s cave of goodies donated by dictators and despots in a museum nestled in Mount...
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The canvas is his world
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 23/03/2014
» His mouth is a river of phrases and run-on sentences flowing over tongue and teeth. His eyes, below straggly brown curls, bristle with energy and ideas. For Henri...
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Aussies in thick of it give protest a whirl
News, Michael Ruffles, Published on 14/01/2014
» Foreigners largely heeded the advice of embassies and the government by avoiding mass rallies yesterday, but Australians Steve Abbott and Paul Williamson couldn't...
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Send in the clones
Spectrum, Michael Ruffles, Published on 29/12/2013
» There may be no sweeter revenge for receiving a terrible school report than winning a Nobel Prize, even if it does come more than six decades later. But the most...