Picture courtesy of กฤช ศิลปชัย - Krit Silapachai Facebook

 

In a coordinated effort, Rayong MP Krit Silpachai and provincial employment officers have dismantled a "zero-dollar" Chinese lobster factory allegedly depriving locals of jobs. The crackdown followed reports of unauthorised foreign employment within the operation.

 

Rayong MP Krit Silpachai, representing the People’s Party, teamed up with Sommat Anantharatrasub, Director of the Rayong Employment Office, to address these concerns. Social media highlighted the issue of a Chinese group subcontracting air conditioning installations in the Amata Pluak Daeng Industrial Estate, prompting Krit to collaborate with employment officials for a thorough investigation.

 

Inspection revealed that the business, named Chinese Lobster Branch Rayong, employed Chinese nationals on tourist visas and Myanmar workers without valid permits. During the raid, a Chinese national tried to negotiate over the phone, offering a monthly 'compensation' for compliance, but Krit humorously suggested discussing the matter at the police station.

 

The Rayong employment office has transferred the unauthorised workers to the Bo Win Police Station for legal proceedings. Krit Silpachai has committed to ensuring that those involved are prosecuted, deported, and blacklisted, reinforcing the importance of compliance with local employment laws and protecting job opportunities for local residents.

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from The Thaiger 2025-05-09

 

 

The Chinese are doing this all over the world so nothing new here, brown envelopes are their usual way of dealing with legal situations a lot like Thailand in that practice!!

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Picture courtesy of กฤช ศิลปชัย - Krit Silapachai Facebook

 

In a coordinated effort, Rayong MP Krit Silpachai and provincial employment officers have dismantled a "zero-dollar" Chinese lobster factory allegedly depriving locals of jobs. The crackdown followed reports of unauthorised foreign employment within the operation.

 

Rayong MP Krit Silpachai, representing the People’s Party, teamed up with Sommat Anantharatrasub, Director of the Rayong Employment Office, to address these concerns. Social media highlighted the issue of a Chinese group subcontracting air conditioning installations in the Amata Pluak Daeng Industrial Estate, prompting Krit to collaborate with employment officials for a thorough investigation.

 

Inspection revealed that the business, named Chinese Lobster Branch Rayong, employed Chinese nationals on tourist visas and Myanmar workers without valid permits. During the raid, a Chinese national tried to negotiate over the phone, offering a monthly 'compensation' for compliance, but Krit humorously suggested discussing the matter at the police station.

 

The Rayong employment office has transferred the unauthorised workers to the Bo Win Police Station for legal proceedings. Krit Silpachai has committed to ensuring that those involved are prosecuted, deported, and blacklisted, reinforcing the importance of compliance with local employment laws and protecting job opportunities for local residents.

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from The Thaiger 2025-05-09

 

 

Thank you RTP 👍

The " monthly compensation " was supposed to be negotiated before being caught 

20 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

officers have dismantled a "zero-dollar" Chinese lobster factory

 

20 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Social media highlighted the issue of a Chinese group subcontracting air conditioning installations

 

I'm not following this - was it a lobster company, or an air conditioning company? Or both? And in what sense is this "zero dollar" (a term used for cheap group tours)?

20 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Inspection revealed that the business, named Chinese Lobster Branch Rayong, employed Chinese nationals on tourist visas and Myanmar workers without valid permits. During the raid, a Chinese national tried to negotiate over the phone, offering a monthly 'compensation' for compliance, but Krit humorously suggested discussing the matter at the police station.

Chinese will be Chinese, it's inbred or forced by the CCP MO

2 hours ago, khunjeff said:

 

 

I'm not following this - was it a lobster company, or an air conditioning company? Or both? And in what sense is this "zero dollar" (a term used for cheap group tours)?

"the issue of a Chinese group subcontracting air conditioning installations in the Amata Pluak Daeng Industrial Estate," They were installing A/C as well as running a lobster factory.

Its becoming like Cambodia

On 5/9/2025 at 5:40 PM, snoop1130 said:

provincial employment officers have dismantled a "zero-dollar"

Haha, thought all that was gone. You can't keep a good Chinaman down.

Can’t see this has anything to do with zero dollar tours. Some Chinese seem to have set up a company to do a/c work and employed people who didn’t have work permits. Where does zero dollar come in?

1 hour ago, wensiensheng said:

Can’t see this has anything to do with zero dollar tours. Some Chinese seem to have set up a company to do a/c work and employed people who didn’t have work permits. Where does zero dollar come in?

Chinese company employing Chinese people and illegal foreign workers = zero dollars to Thai workers plus no financial benefit to the Thai economy.

 

Same issue as zero-dollar tourism where all the cash is recycled withn Chinese businesses.

Lock the Chinese up and make it headlines , or they will take over the country . Even in Paris France. There’s a saying here “ Chinese never die”.

When someone passes away , cremated and not signaled, , a new immigrant comes in and takes his place and documents. It’s maybe harder today to do, but 40/50 yrs ago it was common practice in Paris.  Then it leaked down to the South , Marseille , Nice.

Underground work shops were all over , and the poor people were exploited and treated like caged animals. I once went to a shoe factory in Paris in the 70s, and the workers looked pitiful, some had their kids with them , while the mothers were working the machines barefoot. Proper sweat shops.

All run by Chinese. By the way, they work closely with food imports from Thailand too. Fresh and frozen and dried. 

The libs in the USA are all up in arms over The Donald doing this same thing.  Amazing libs.

16 hours ago, Dave0206 said:

The " monthly compensation " was supposed to be negotiated before being caught 

He probably did not make his offer discreetly enough. Hence they had no choice but to refuse and arrest him to save face. 

15 hours ago, Kinnock said:

Chinese company employing Chinese people and illegal foreign workers = zero dollars to Thai workers plus no financial benefit to the Thai economy.

 

Same issue as zero-dollar tourism where all the cash is recycled withn Chinese businesses.

 

That isn't what the term "zero dollar" refers to - there are even zero dollar tours for Chinese people within China. Authorities in China and Hong Kong have been fighting these operations for years because they exploit and threaten tour participants - only in Thailand is the focus on loss of revenue to local businesses rather than on the safety of the tourists themselves. 

 

"As its name suggests, zero-dollar tourism refers to packaged tours which are much less expensive than independent travel with one catch: tourists are taken on many shopping trips and are often required to buy overpriced products. Tour guides and drivers get a kickback from these shopping excursions, offsetting the loss on the tour’s initial cost."

 

https://theaseanpost.com/article/made-china-zero-dollar-tourists