casey1

Sheltered life possibly, it is in every country

I would like to know if as a single foreign dad having a dependent Thai child 3.5 yrs will qualify for requiring only two Thai employees for non imm b instead of 4Thai employees

I (NZ passport) have no problems leaving and entering Thailand with my Thai born son (travelling on Thai passport) without his Thai mum. I have never been asked to show proof of paternity or asked for a letter from his mum or any other document. Having said that I always have a copy of his birth certificate and when travelling to NZ, I do need to show his NZ passport at check-in to prove eligibility to enter NZ or Australia. But no dramas or documents have ever been requested and regular international travel is occurring. His mum and I are divorced.

I am curious to know if anybody may be interested. I have a business importing supermarket products; mid to upper end products It has been a lifestyle business whilst not making me rich, I have enjoyed simple things. It has been a small family business (4 employees)., which has undertaken everything in house, sourcing, importing, clearing, licensing with FDA, and distribution to clients These include; TOPS, Gourmet Market, Villa Market, Rimping, Foodlands and now Lotus. We also supply speciality stores, sales through social media, and have sales direct to consumer Unfortunately and my bad, I placed complete trust in my now ex wife and never had a check and balance in place. I concentrated on sourcing and logistics inbound and domestic, and my ex wife looked after administration and accounts.. She is a problem gambler and managed to hide it for the 6 years we were together. At her level it is a disease and not an addiction. Just to be clear, she is very well university educated and extremely intelligent, and if you have ever had experience with Gambling as a disease, you will know it is quite something else and no cure. She put us as close to bankruptcy as it is as possible to get. I have managed to stay afloat until this point in time. However I am faced with closing the doors if I cannot find a way forward I have missed many sales opportunities and find myself in a predicament of suddenly being asked to substantially increase supplies to existing customers and have had new ones come and and want our products as supermarkets increase trade post covid... I am cash flow poor to the point of being hog tied. This business has substantial experience in negotiating and meeting the requirements of Thai regulations for FMCG, and we are now diversifying to make this an alternative income stream. Even Thai companies and people have used us to help negotiate Thai systems as they cannot understand their own country's systems. This is our fundamental asset; we can do everything from ex-warehosue of supplier to purchase by the end consumer. As a small business with no appreciable collateral assets: (we lease our office and warehouse and have office equipment, a car and a van), we are not seen in a favourable light by lending institutions. Which is ridiculous as if there is one trade that needs to keep accounts paid it is supermarkets and they are always reliable, people need to eat. Thai banks all promise no collateral borrowing but that's nonsense and are not business expansion friendly. Suppliers tend to be risk averse about international supermarket trade, which again is ridiculous as they face similar trading terms in their own countries, and the catch cry of global trade is simply empty nonsense. Normal supermarket trade here relies on credit terms of 60 -90 days., which if you are importing and having to pre-purchase makes for long time for money to come back. So how to do? And how to do now? As a way of thinking outside the square, I have come here to see if there people whom may be interested in a version of crowdfunding done directly between me and them I am looking at 20,000THB lots on a 90 day return with 10% return. I would like to achieve a target of 1 million THB but can be staggered over next two to three months. If there is interest, I am happy to go into in depth detail and I am happy to be as open and transparent as required to satisfy any questions or queries people may have. I will invite you to our premises and sit down with interested people to work through how we can all be satisfied and understand and accept the risk. Example; I am happy to share purchase orders from our customers and our orders to suppliers. We can offset any funding against specific purchase orders if desired I have tried to keep this short but with enough information for people to understand and decide if they want to know more Thank you for your time to read this and happy to see any comments and interest come or not...

have no problem with reform but this statement scares me "using outside help, from the top rated nations in the world for education." I fear that is out of the frying pan into the fire..... When I look at fess charged by outside education providers here by "top" rated schools.... its obvious its a cash cow not an education system....

This resonates not just Thailand thinking... .....Head of Air New Zealand made similar comments regarding future tourism for New Zealand earlier this year...lets not waste the perfect opportunity given by covid to be more discerning about whom comes... we want only the very wealthy.... that way we can meet our climate change goals and targets and and have fewer flights but bringing big spenders...we don't want the back packers or cheap tourists lowering the standard of New Zealand as he sat in his glass tower office with his 6 figure salary and perks....and Government in NZ gave some backing to this....