dinog

Kasikorn Bank have nice internet banking. You can receive fund from abroad by SWIFT and transfer money to abroad using internet banking too.

no Thai ATM card worked in Italy. I asked again to KSK bank they said ATM work but i think NO.

For about 6 month my new Truemove sim was charged for traffic i never did. I asked many time to True shop how was possible. I paid about 400 baht for month of traffic i never did. The shop said many time that they was alerted about a similar problem and was investigating. In the same time i paid any month. They said the problem was in Nokia mobile because was subjected to have virus but i said was impossible and to look inside their system. So at the end they found the problem into their system and fixed it. They said a service provider ( don't know the name) was doing this scam. They was kind and refund me a bit ( only 2 refill of 100 baht ) . Now the mobile look ok and if i not do call i not have charge.

I tried to find some common rules that maybe can help expatriate that want to start a new business. This is only a a draft i am still working on this rules. I think some one know maybe more traditional way to analyze the probability of success of a small business ( maybe some similar top the 4p rules in marketing )

I1 market demand inedex %

I2 Customer investment volume required index %

I3 Entrepreneur investment volume required index %

I4 Customer price for single buy index %

I5 Entrepreneur know how own index %

I6 Entrepreneur competitive advantage owned index %

I7 Market segment already developed and running index %

The indexes describe the entrepreneur's trust on single parameter to be at the optimal level ( from 100% to 0% ) . The global investment trust come : (I1xI2xI3xI4xI5xI6xI7)/7

please let me know some your comment

As i written some months ago I was planning my came back in Thailand after 2 year and half so aim a in BKK now .

Hi,

my CV is attached. Please contact me with job info. I live in Bangkok and have work permit. I was been in thailand 2+ years and can speak thai.

Interested in anything that matches my skills.

many thanks

Please PM me

CV___Dino___no_adress.doc.pdf

Hi all, let me say first i know not so many people never will read this my words, but is a way to reflect and understand for me too.

I read here in the forum a little more around this topic and i sawe many tread opened ( about the Thai woman the more) , many words written around but let me say that after i have read so many messages the problem is not so much clear then before for me.

I think Thai woman, sex, love, marriage are a part of the Thai culture but is not the all.

Can some Thai people please write here to clarify a little their think?

We all use words as computer, email, marketing, wife and so on but have the same meaning for a American from NY, a UK from London or a Thai ? How fast the Thai culture changed in the last 100 year? how is balanced between BKK and the deep province ?

When a country is evolving from a deep farming culture to a industrial culture of today that make a broken point of the culture ?

What is easy to see is that at now the Thai country want to be up to date about the technology, the economy, the industry but what about the sociology , the law system, the literature, the story ?

In few words : OK Thailand is the land of smile all seem to be very friendly and the lady are very pretty and kind. But all the Western lived in Thailand know how all that can became fake in range of few days. Husband can discover the the Thai wife can became very angry and aggressive, employers can see employees leave the job suddenly and and no have no sense about the damage can doing to the company no matter they was looking so happy and smiling for so many time. And if a day you western will become poor you will prove how is easy Thai change his feeling from treat you as a VIP to make you feeling the last of the beggars. And i think all of us can see some time western people to be real beggars around some MRT station. And what about so many Western businessman cheated from Thai partner ?

Well now you can ask me now if i think in this way why i am come back to Thailand again after about 2 years.

The answer is : simply i think all that cannot be true.

I think any culture have a way to feeling : friendship, true love, trust and so on. I think is matter to study and understand. Maybe can be difficult very difficult but i thin is very important to understand each others. Maybe the world could be very better with a better understanding.

Now 2 words about the Thai girls that can give you love for few money in BKK. Please be kind with them. Yes i wrote love not sex as many of them really can give you the feeling to be in touch with a real girl with all his life, feeling body and soul. I think men paying for sex are very poor men and are following a no place way. But if you touch the hand of this girls staying with you some time you can feel rough skin on their hands as they have worked hard maybe in the farm or some seven eleven serving you the full day. One day i saw a girl to pray before to have a meeting. I asked why. She said was to ask to God to not see what she will do. OK is not always so, the bad can be really bad i know

Ob1kenobi

I invite the all people to collaborate to establish here few guidelines useful for expatriate people looking for new market opportunity and to supply continue monitoring on market trend. Here is a sample we can start to talk about :

(reported from /www.buyusa.gov

Best Prospects

* Automotive Parts and Service

* Broadcast Equipment

* Cosmetic Products Market

* Defense Equipment

* Education Services - Study Abroad

* Electrical Power Systems

* Food Processing and Packaging Equipment

* Healthcare and Medical Equipment

* Laboratory and Scientific Instruments (LAB)

* Safety and Security Equipment

* Telecommunication Equipment

* Water Pollution Control Equipment

Provided below is a compilation of leading industry sectors in Thailand. Features include: industry overview, trade show events. and current market trends.

* Aircraft & Parts Market

* Automotive Market

* Education Market

* Electric Power & Equipment Market

* Food Processing and Packaging Equipment Market

* Information and Communication Technology Market

* Medical Device Market

* Safety & Security Equipment Market

* Water Pollution Control Equipment Market

I think we can work on this information and develop some marketing ideas ( not in detail ) .

We can report here how the things are evolving right now and monitoring it (e.g. energy, inflation, food crisis, and so on )

I know in Thailand are many marketing mind better then me so i hope someone want to participate in this effort

Best Regards

Ob1kenobi

We'll have to see where this thread goes and it could be interesting. Most cultures have their 'roots' buried deep enough in the past that people don't know why things are the way they are. They are handed down from generation to generation and get mixed with other cultural concepts--they get diluted, transposed, die and then revived. One thing is for certain, they are not logical and they don't make sense.

If you look at Western Culture, just look at Christmas. It's such a mix of different concepts from all kinds of places, religious, secular and different ethnic groups and don't even get me started on the Easter Bunny and his colored eggs!

But best of luck to all who participate.

1 - Talking about love, sex and money concern let me begin to say that prostitution is everywhere in the world, but beyond that seem that Thai lady have special feeling for money. Maybe that come from the remote past where the Thai woman had few or no right and the must to feed and grow the kids. Maybe someone can have better explain better about-

2 - Some time i ask myself if Thai woman have the capability to have feeling and love ( i am sure yes). How is the love between the family ?

3 - I hate split the world in Thai and Farang. The Farang is a Thai imagination race. In real beyond Farang are Greech , English , Italian, Australian and so on all different with different feeling

4 - I found that western people often are not kind with Thais. Farang love to say that if a Farang not understand a Thai that mean the Thai is not so smart. I think viceversa that if a Farang not understand a Thai maybe he not do enough to be understood and to understood them.

5 - Thais maybe have a different ( not lower or higher but simply different ) way to think. In the work they prefer to think that the salary is the price they devote to stay at work. Farang tend to think salary is the price for the objective they reach.

6 - Thais not like to let Farang know too much about the Thai culture. The Thais think the Farangs corrupt the Thai culture.

7 - The last : I have found some information that the story of ancient Thai culture ( mathematic, philosophy, and so on ) was wrote in ancient Thai language that at now only few people can read. This ancient culture was talking also about a charming love way

I hope all that let we all Thais and Western to live better together

best regards

ob1kenobi

I Invite Thais and western people to meet here to talk about the Thai culture. I think that the respect of any opinion is requested and none have to be offended. I think too that many Farangs live with Thai spouse from years but maybe they some time have doub about the real meaning of some Thai custom. Let me say before that i love Thai country and Thai people and am about to come back im Thailand to stay.

Here are some topic we can discute:

1 Thai and Western Love love, sex , family

2 Money priority

3 Hygiene and medicine concept

4 Where is the story of Thai culture? ( ancient mathematics, physics, philosophy, etc )

I hope someone will welcome my invite and want analyze together this topics

Best Regards

ob1kenobi

hi

Maybe you can consider to use TURBOCASH an Open source software that have accounting, inventory , purchase order, sale order and more. I made consulting and support for a Thai import/export software. The software have localization in Thai, English and many other languages. The software is perfectly copatible with the Thai Tax system

best regards

Hi, all. Long-time reader, first-time poster.

I have a software company in Thailand, and so I regularly submit my documents to the revenue department (por gnor dor 1, por gnor dor 53, por por 30, etc.)

Doing this manually is no good: it is tedious and error-prone. So, I am considering writing a simple software package that will keep track of the necessary data (tax IDs, salaries, receivables, expenses) and generate the appropriate documents automatically. For my own reasons, this would be free software (open source).

My question is, would this be useful to anybody else in Thailand? I'd like to make operating in Thailand (slightly) easier for everybody, but if there is insufficient interest from the business community, I'll spend my time pursuing other things. So I'm using you all as a sounding board, if that's okay.

If free software for managing government forms (like for the revenue department) sounds interesting to you, please speak up. I am especially interested in what specific features the Thai business community needs. What operational problems do you all have that can be addressed with software?

Thanks very much!

Hi, i was in Thailand from 2005 to 2007 starting my marketing company. I made market analysis with special reference at Restaurant, Hotel and other accommodation industries. I made special studies on restaurants marketing in Bangkok , how to develope this business choosing price, menu, market segment advertising and more. I have ready to use a marketing plan for a small investment. I am thinking that is possible to start a franchising company too.

I will be back in BKK in October 2008 but i want start my business contact form now

Ciao

Sunbelt Asia has a bakery for sale in BKK in this week's newsletter (Ref (BKK13313)) with owner finance available. The advert does not say where. Might save a bit of hassle if it is what you want.

thanks! ive requested for more details.hopefully will hear from em soon!

I am of Italian nationality, born in Tripoli (Libya), where I lived up to 18 years then I went in Italy working for over 15 years as a surveyor. From 1973 until now I worked as Information Technology consultant for large customers (major Information Technology Company, telecommunications and utility company, banks, etc.).

From 2005 to 2007 I was in Thailand, where was Managing Director for a marketing Thai company.

My mother tongue is Italian I speak fluently English and French and Basic Thai

Close to relocate permanently in Thailand I would be interested to find collaboration agreements as a person of trust as business manager or product manager or marketing manager.

My experience in a nutshell:

I am of Italian nationality but I was born abroad, where I lived up to 18 years. I returned to Italy and I worked for over 15 years as a designer for building, structural designer , plant designer and surveyor.

I worked as Information Technology consultant for over 30 years with large customers (major Information technology company, telecommunications, banks, etc.) and presently I am still working in the same way.

From 2005 to 2007 I was in Thailand, where I worked as Managing Director in a THAI marketing company and where I was able to achieve depth knowledge of Thai market and Southeast Asia. In the same time I reached good knowledge of the culture of Southeast Asia .

I speak fluently English, French and more Thai basic as required to o handle the thai workers.

Thank you

Sincerely

Hi all,

I'm currently researching the viability of starting up an office/registering a Thai company to resource project tasks sent over from our established IT company in the UK. Initially would be looking to employ 2-3 persons with myself heading up and running the office in Thailand. I would like to do this in Phuket as I like to surf in my spare time and would like to stay close by the beach! I've got 3-4 years experience of living in Thailand and understand a bit about the culture and language.

So far I've got all the figures and general information for the set-up and paper running costs of the business, from Sunbelt.

I would welcome any information from people who have experience of setting up a similar business scenario, as outlined above... or just general business information and links that people think may be useful.

The biggest question really is... 'Is it viable?' .. so far from what research I've done I would say the answer is yes.

Thanks & Regards,

Bob

Hi,

I was in Thailand for 2 year from 2005 to 2007 to make marketing analisys about to start a new activity in Thailand and i plan to come back at the end of 2008.

I am a IT consultant for Oracle and Unix and more

I started the thai company already and i own my company at now

maybe can be interesting talk more about it

Best regards

Dino

As many here, I´m also trying to get some of my funds from Paypal into THB the cheapest and easiest way possible.

I´ve seen Western Union signs here in BKK, and I don´t think it would be too hard to transfer some of my money, to myself in cash. I´ve read many reports on ebay scammers or even thai girls who get paid by their Farang sponsors by just sending them a number and she will get the money once they pay (or the opposite!). Can I pay myself?

Has anyone done that?Any inputs?

Cheers,

V

Yes you can withdraw money from Paypal to a Thai bank account. I mean that you need to have a Paypal account with Thai address and a account in a thai bank,

You can use too a Thai bank account ( i used Kasikorn bank ) to make interbank fund transfer using a Internet bank account. This way is very cheap as Paypal can be very expensive to move money from different country.

dino

Date of birth: 12/07/1947

Place of birth: Tripoli (Libia)

School: Diploma Technical Institute for Geometricians Guglielmo Marconi

Italian language: Good

English language: Good

Thai language: speaking and understanding basic.

Skill

- UNIX system administration

- Database

- Software Analysis, design and developing.

- Mobile computing

- Automatic systems monitoring

- Middlware

Professional experiences:

- Compagnia General Trattori Spa (Caterpillar)

- CNR (National Research Centre)

- Zivago ( Electronic commerce company owned from Feltrinelli - La Repubblica )

- Telecom Italia ( Istitutional Telephone Italian Company )

- Enel ( Public Energy Italian Company )

- Unilever

- Olio S. Giorgio

- Sagit

- BPD Difesa e Spazio ( devloper of Ariane engine components )

- Italian University (many)

- Italian Engineering Company (many)

- Agip

- Alenia Spazio

- Esa

- Sarin

- Sole24ore

- ASLVerona

Recent skills:

Monitoring of systems

- Big Brother : System Unix, Database, middlware automatic monitoring.

- Tibco : middleware messaging corporate systems.

- Oracle 9 and Oracle 10 Grid

- MQ Series

- Veritas Cluster Server

- Windows XP.

- UNIX - IBM AIX, SUN, HP-UX, LiNUX

- Database: Sybase, ORACLE, IBM UDB,Informix

- Websphere, Netscape, Apache, BEA Weblogic

- Programming : Languages: C, C++, Pascal, MS Visual Basic, MS Visual Script, HTML, DHTML, Java, Javascript, UML.

- Analysis: UML diagramming,Obeject Oriented Analysis, Object Oriented Design, Component Based Development

Tools

- Rational Roses for analysis

- Rational Roses for development

- Computer Associates Cool Joe (UML + component based development )

- IBM VisualAge

- SUN Netbean

- Delphi

- ERWin

- SYBASE Power Designer

- IBM WSAD - Websphere Study Application Developer

- IBM Websphere MQ

- Warehouses

- Invoicing

- customer Orders

- supplier Orders

Prodution

- MRPI

- MRPII

hello,

i am using a Garmin GPSMAP60 CS with Thailand maps. I bought it in BKK.

I am happy to can share with you some esperience about.

I find it work fine

sawasdee krup

I am not sure where to post this (so I'll try to cc to General). Anyway, I just received a brochure for a GPS car navigation system that is made by Garmin, a well known name in the GPS business. It operates in Thai or English...the street names and the voice directions. It retails for 48,000 baht. I have used one in America and it works beautifully. Though I usually drive a set number of places in BKK and up-country it would be nice to have this helper when I have to sail in uncharted waters.

Anyone familiar with this car navigation system....or any other one for Thailand?

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Thanks for these replies, guys, and as I kind of expected a mix of encouraging and not-quite-so-encouraging responses!

I'm leaning towards the idea of giving it a go. The worst case scenario is that I can't find any work and I have to return to England with my tail between my legs... at least I'll have spent a few months in Thailand and I've still got the safety net of England to come back to.

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of course, give it a go..and be a persistent bugger..something will surely eventuate. And if you can't get a job, then be entreprenurial and make a job!

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Hi all,

I am a italian guy of 57 years. I am a It consultant with many years of experience in differerent sector as Oracle DBA, Unix systemist, many programming language and so on. I am about to decide to expatriate there in few weeks. For what i known in Thayland is not possible to a alien to get a job out that start a business. So i am thinking to start a little company and supply IT services by internet or designe and manifacture and export small computer device. I will be happy to hear what you all think about.