Asia Clothing & Fashion Business

You are interested in Asia & ASEAN fashion. On this website find information about Asia Fashion Trade Shows, ASEAN Fashion Schools & Asia Professionals, Asian Designers & Fashion Brands

• www.asiafashionclothing.com

Links to our Fashion Blog & Forum. Please visit our Asia & ASEAN Clothing & Fashion Forum and our Blog which cover both Asia and worldwide news about brands, catwalk and designers

• http://asiafashionclothing.com/blog
• http://asiafashionclothing.com/forum

Entrepreneurship & Asian Entrepreneurs

Please visit our new website here

• www.entrepreneur-sme.asia

You may find our blog here

• http://entrepreneur-sme.asia/blog

And a new discussion forum here

• http://entrepreneur-sme.asia/forum

Teaching Young Thai People to be Ready for Work in Thailand

Learn to Work

These learning programmes are designed to provide a platform of employee awareness on subjects of major topical interest to employers

They can be free-standing in their own right, eg as an induction programme with verifiable outcomes

Some employers will use them as a base on which they then build additional knowledge and skills, more specific to their needs, with follow-on training and / or coaching in the workplace

• Ready to learn
• Be enterprising
• Data protection at work
• Drugs and alcohol at work
• Health & safety at work
• Making email work for you
• Managing stress at work
• Showing respect at work
• The responsible employee
• Thriving in diversity
• Working with the internet

ASTD Study Shows Social Media has High Value for Learning and Development

A new research report, The Rise of Social Media: Enhancing Collaboration and Productivity across Generations finds that regardless of generation, workers in the United States believe that social media tools have an important role to play in workplace learning and development

The study also finds that most companies have a long way to go when it comes to implementing social media tools for the learning function. While the vast majority of respondents used social media in their personal lives, only 24 percent said their informal learning at work included social media.

However, more than 80 percent of survey respondents said social media tools would become an important part of the learning function within the next three years

Online Entrepreneur. Sell Ladies Bags on the Internet Buying Designer Handbags from Thailand is easy. Try out the many wholesale markets in Bangkok or maybe contact the hundreds of Thai firms that manufacture ladies purses and bags

It is not so easy to find the information online, but we have made it easier for you, because we have found some leather handbags wholesale contacts  for you, to make it much easier to get new and reliable business contact for your online shop and internet business

Selling online or opening an e-shop to market Women Fashionable Leather Handbags and other ladies bags and purses is very good for a new internet entrepreneur, maybe you should consider it? Good luck with your own ideas too

Asian Wedding Tour & Honeymoon Destination. Discover the many great places of Asia and make your honeymoon for you and your spouse an Asian event. Why not make you honeymoon a special time by choosing one of the many fun countries of Asia as your honeymoon destination?

If you are looking for unique destinations that are inexpensive but are equal to and certainly a very different experience than the adventure of a European & an American honeymoon then why not take a look at what Asian Wedding & Honeymoon Travel destinations has to offer?

Some websites promoting Thailand Medical – Health and Wellness Tourism argue that it had 750,000 American medical tourists in 2009 and Thailand will have 6 million medical tourists in 2010

There are significant doubts surrounding these claims by those who argue that hospitals counting visits rather than actual patients, and other distorting factors, artificially inflate the figures. Either way, these are not official figures, just widely used estimates

Many countries actually have two separate figures, one for medical tourism, and one for health and wellness tourism. Including the latter is a nightmare for statisticians: do you count a tourist who goes to a spa-hotel as a medical tourist or a holidaymaker?

The End of Brand Thailand How mismanagement and mistakes turned a high-growth democratic paradise into a violent mess

Investors and tourists bought into the image of a tranquil kingdom of lush beaches and mountains, welcoming people, and stable politics—a “land of smiles” so alluring, it drew more than 13 million tourists per year. Thanks in part to the “Amazing Thailand” ad campaign—featuring glittering temples and stunning women—Bangkok ranked No. 1 in readers’ polls of the best cities in Asia by Travel + Leisure and Condé Nast Traveler magazines

However, things went wrong

One misstep was a failure of long-term thinking. During the good years, neither Abhisit’s Democrat Party nor Thaksin’s Thai Rak Thai Party, which first took power in 2001, invested enough in overhauling an archaic education system, which emphasizes basic literacy and rote memorization. Taiwan, Singapore, China, and India invested in university education, English-language instruction, and higher-value skills, and as a result managed to build innovative companies with a global outlook, and sizable English-language outsourcing industries. But Thailand’s government and its major business groups remained wedded to lower-value manufacturing for foreign companies

Unlike China or Singapore, the government failed to create effective incentives to help Thai companies improve their workforces and expand globally. Large Thai conglomerates, historically protected by tight ties to government leaders, moved slowly to embrace real international competition, even as Thailand inked free-trade deals with China and other Southeast Asian states

Source: Newsweek

Read Full Article Here The End of Brand Thailand

Buy and Sell Gems & Jewelry Online – Trade network. The online directory gives members the opportunity to identify trading opportunities faster and hence allow transactions to be completed that much quicker

This trade network is the brainchild of a team of dedicated professionals who bring forth profound experience in the Gem and Jewelry trade industry coupled with expertise in the B2B (Business to Business) e-commerce model

Gemtradenet was founded in 2006 and is based in Bangkok , Thailand . The marketing, technical and support activities are all managed from the main office in Bangkok

The website is widely regarded as a prime B2B trading destination for the International Gems & Jewelry trading community.

Shopping online in Thai web shops and SME e-marketplaces The present economic situation is a major driver of e-commerce growth in Thailand, because more local SME businesses are looking to market products via efficient channels on small budgets

Mr. Pawoot Pongvitayapanu, vice president of the Thai e-Commerce Association, cited a National Statistical Office forecast that the value of the country’s e-commerce market this year would surge about 40 per cent from last year’s Bt400 billion

Some of the major players in the Thai e-market place are

Pantavanij The main B2B online-auction service provider in Thailand is  uniting over 12,000 vendors and purchasers in more than 3,400 product categories

Tarad (Thai-language only) About 150,000 online merchants offering more than 1 million items altogether can be found here. The site recorded about 240,000 product-purchase transactions in the first half of this year, up from 190,000 transactions in the same period last year. The top three products are fashion items, mobile phones and cars

Taradb2b (English and other languages) World & Thailand Business to Business E-Marketplace. Taradb2b is under the umbrella of the Tarad Group which is the leader in Thailand E-Commerce Business as Tarad.com and Thaisecondhand (Thai-language only)

Tohome (English & Thai language) There are two business models at Tohome: selling its own items and acting as an e-market place for businesses to set up their online shops. The top sales items are mobile phones, health and beauty products and home furniture