SwissThai Chamber of Commerce, Bangkok has started to operate at the beginning of 1998. It follows in the footsteps of the Swiss-Thai Business Association. The new status gives the SwissThai Chamber of Commerce the legal basis to qualify as a Member of the Board of Trade, and to deliberate with the Government and its Departments on behalf of our Members through the Joint Foreign Chambers of Commerce and Trade Organizations. We are a group of businessmen and businesswomen involved in Commerce between Switzerland and Thailand. Our Members represent over 140 Companies active in manufacturing, trading, insurance, banking, in services, such as hotel business, tourism, management and legal consulting, etc. Represented, as Individual Members, are additionally some 20 businessmen of high repute who are closely related to the Thai-Swiss economic scene. Our Members are friends of Thailand and have great respect for His Majesty the King, the Royal Family, the Thai Government Institutions and the Thai People.