Doing Business in Thailand

They are more than a few Tom, Dick and Harry that come to do business in Thailand armed with a “colonial” false sense of superiority. This is a mistake, even if Thailand did not yet achieve European, Japanese or US standards in all matters do not be mistaken about it. Thailand is a developed country. At least economically, politically that is a story for another day.

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Originally posted 2009-11-03 08:15:01.

Our  American cousins have what they call the American Dream” “first expressed by James Truslow Adams in 1931, citizens of every rank feel that they can achieve a “better, richer, and happier life” (Source Wikipedia) meaning that anyone has a chance to become one day another Bill Gate. In Thailand we have another dream, far more modest; it is called the “Bar Owner” dream or the Bar Owner illusion to be more accurate.

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Originally posted 2009-11-06 05:07:54.

In this post I just want to remind you of the obligation made to foreigner to report every 90 days to the immigration office. Indeed, this is a requirement of Thai immigration law that we often forget.

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For those which companies in Thailand close their accounts at the end of the year we remind you that you will have to close the accounts of your company and prepare and file audited accounts within five months of year end. Also we remind you that the audited account of the company must be submitted for the approval of the Annual Shareholders Meeting of the company within 4 four months of year end.

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This post is a continuation of our series Thailand Visas: Setting the Record Straight. I wrote this series with a “back-to-basics” kind of approach because I don’t believe that it is possible to understand Thai immigration regulations without having first an understanding of basic terms such as visa, visa class, visa exemption, passport stamp, entry visa, departure visa, multi or single entry and so on…

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Originally posted 2009-10-26 09:27:19.

Introduction to the Non Immigrant Visa O Family

What is the Family Visa?

The family Non Immigrant Visa O is for foreigners who have Thai family in Thailand and who wish to stay in Thailand to take care of their family. Family means a Thai relative whether a parent, spouse, children, adopted children or spouse children.

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Originally posted 2009-07-30 12:06:22.

As you know a “witch hunt is a search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, often involving moral panic, mass hysteria and lynching, but in historical instances also legally sanctioned and involving official witchcraft trials. The term “witch-hunt” is often used by analogy to refer to panic-induced searches for perceived wrong-doers other than witches.” Now Thailand has been since 2006 affected by a serious political crisis and the successive governments since the beginning of this crisis have been under a lot of pressure.

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Originally posted 2009-10-28 04:23:27.

As I was saying in my previous post, it is a simple statistical matter that some of my readers will run into trouble of one sort or another when in Thailand. So can you count on your Embassy to help you if you are in deep trouble?

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Originally posted 2009-12-04 03:13:01.

Hi have just seen an interesting poll in today Bangkok Post. The Bangkok Post is asking to its readers whether Thailand is becoming a better or worse place to live in. Now the results are quite surprising as you will discover in the rest of this post.

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According to the Bangkok Post, Assumption University and the Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission have jointly polled 2,129 people on the issue of corruption in Thai society.Hopefully, the entire results of this survey will be published soon, but some interesting elements of the survey have already been revealed by the Bangkok Post.

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Originally posted 2009-11-20 10:24:24.