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When they just opened there were immigration officers on the pier every morning, so all, well nearly all, diving instructors at that point in time were working legally, the rest was scared to death and sorted things out straight away. But the last 2 years nothing much has happened there. I never see somebody there, but I'm there before the official opening times.

So my guess is: only used for people coming in on boats at the moment.

Heaps of other cool stuff, check it out.

What else do they sell there, also good quality toys for example?

Yes, lots of bikeshops, but they're nearly all closed on Sundays.

I never heard of Chalong immigration office!!! Can you do 90 day reporting there?

No. The office is on the pier, and is hardly ever used. All reporting, application etc. has to be done in Phuket Town or Patong.

Never thought of that... I use Fire Fox as well... Aaah, just tried Explorer, see the problem now. Thanks ...

You're welcome. That's the difference between good browsers who correct small mistakes and Explorer.

Here everything fine using Firefox.

Missed the 4x100, and also the 8x100 does not sound very tempting to me.

Be aware that any such purchase of an active company requires extreme caution and diligence to be sure what you get is what you expected; and not loaded with debts.

Yes, of course you have to be careful. In general this is not a problem at all though, happens every year lots of times here in the area, there are always empty companies for sale by diving instructors.

My experience: only 13th, with the exception of Patong where it tends to start in the afternoon of the 12th and will continue a bit into the 14th.

Other places: only 13th.

Easiest way would be: come to Thailand on a visa exempt or tourist visa (since you have a 1-way ticket I would recommend tourist visa) and start/buy an existing company here. That should cost you around 60,000 Baht all in all.

You then employ yourself, go to a Thai embassy in a neighbouring country, apply for a Non immigrant B-visa, come back to Thailand and arrange a work permit. Nearly all instructors working here in the area do it that way, unless they have fixed employment with a diving centre and that diving centre provides them with the necessary paperwork to obtain the visa and work permit.

Agree with you to a certain extend. I do find it common courtesy though to first inform somebody of a mistake made, and if that does not help post it afterwards.

Both Nai Harn and Sai Yuan are Tambon Rawai, so Rawai does have a Bank of Ayudya.

Even at the bottom of the PG article it says: April Fool's day.

If the understanding is that the law is there to protect jobs for Thais, then as I am not being paid, would a Thai do the "job" I am doing for no reward ? Additionally, there is no job for a Thai to do. Either I do it for no reward or it does not get done.

Being paid or not really is not the issue. As already mentioned earlier in the thread, also for volunteer work a work permit is required, whether the job gets done without the volunteer is a different story, and not important at all with regards to the work permit issue.

Not paying maintenance fees for condos is normal practice for many Thais. I guess he has pissed some Thai guy off.

Yes, that happened for sure. And since he did give the guy an opening to get him, he is in deep shit now.

When did I ever say you were wrong?

in fact "all those knowledgeable" people you refer to should be able to tell you how wrong you are, TWICE

Otherwise, I'll assume my point is made, you are wrong, and you will now have nothing to say.

Here I have you saying, twice, that I was wrong.

Sorry, I didn't know I had draw diagrams to explain the English language to avoid unprovoked attacks.

LOL

"I'm more than happy to banter, even aggresively," Yes, you have made that quite clear.

Why don't you point out to me what is "bashing" of other members? And to which members. You certainly can't be referring to my pointing out that even a work permit to work for free is not free, in fact expensive. So what is it?

Otherwise, I'll assume my point is made, you are wrong, and you will now have nothing to say.

What point has been made?

I point out that also a volunteer, earning 0, can get a work permit. According to you I am wrong, fine, just check with some of the more knowledgeable people here on this forum, who have also indicated that also a volunteer can (and normally must) have a workpermit.

However, in order to obtain a work permit a person must be earning more than 60,000 baht a month (in Bangkok) and have registered capital of.....etc,etc

This is not correct. Also a volunteer, earning 0, can get a workpermit.

What is the fee for that work permit? I doubt that it is reciprocal.

If you have nothing serious to add except bashing other members, stay out of the discussion.

Even after stating "Never heard of Firefly" ??

I read his post: never heard of Firefly, found them online, and they offer the following trips Penang-Phuket:...

I had some guests fly with them, and they were happy. But since hardly anybody seems to know them, maybe the promotion of Firefly has not been very effective.

Which airline is FLYZ ??

I presume that would be Firefly, Phuket-Penang direct flights.

Just a few weeks ago Hans opened his small "Fruits of Trang" bakery on Viset Road, Rawai.

Where on Viset Road is that one?

Normally I buy my bread from Flintstones (flints one these days), but would not mind trying something else occasionally.

Songkran is still some weeks out so I don’t think so.

I know quite a few Thais who have left for home the last few days.

This morning, coming from Rawai to the circle in Chalong: could drive straight through, arrived at the circle with just 3 cars in front of me. At other times the traffic jam stared already at the school. So very quiet.

After that going from Rawai to Kata via the beach road: in between Iconic Bar and Kata encountered 4 minibuses, 7 motorbikes and 5 cars. That road is normally already not busy, but it was really quiet this morning.

However, in order to obtain a work permit a person must be earning more than 60,000 baht a month (in Bangkok) and have registered capital of.....etc,etc

This is not correct. Also a volunteer, earning 0, can get a workpermit.

Well between Thalang-Monument-Pa klok it was like busy peak season traffic this morning and the Police was out at the busiest u-turns already 0715.

That is probably traffic going out of Phuket for the Songkran holidays. Whereas the traffic in Patong and Chalong/Rawai is local or tourist traffic.

I should have thought, though, that the real prize for the authorities would be to find that he had been conducting a property rental business without the appropriate company structure, visa, WP's, tax payments, etc., etc. Lots of money to be made from that one I suspect, compared with finding him guilty of some unpaid voluntary work.

You may be on to something here, unless he does not rent the condo's out himself but has an agency take care of that.

Since it sounds like the owner/management company of the condos reported him to the police, I would presume that if he was renting the condos out without proper paperwork they would also know about that and report him for that as well, not just the work permit.

Also in the mornings in the Chalong/Rawai area far less traffic.