I am planning to retire in Laos. How ever, There isn't any Retirement Visa! I thinking,maybe an investment visa or business visa would be ok. I still have to continue making some income,because I don't know when I going to be gone. it's better start a business while I am there and keep my mind from getting insane. or any of you have any better idea? Welcome your suggestion. 

I have no relatives that I can't trust to set-up Business in their name. Please don't suggest that!

I hear as about 50000 retiree is coming to live in Laos soon. I am sure that is an opportunity there to make some money out of them. I sure that will also bring lot of work for Laotian. these people going to eat and place to stay at least that is on going.

talking about business. what are the high-qualified jobs available in vientiane? i am in the software engineering field.

as i have seen from my travel last year i had the feeling that there is no need yet for software as only few people have a computer at home/business.

what else is needed? is there a job market like monster.com for laos?
i am asking because i was thinking about living and working in laos for a couple of years. so i can learn more about the country/culture.


 

Laoshu, I'm not familiar with high-qualified jobs in Laos. You should get in touch with a company that requires a software engineer. All I know about is selling fruits and veggies on the streets for $5 a day, and foreigners like you are obviously not interested in.  

Tee, you are right about the post office in Laos. It is too slow and unreliable for an eBay-style internet business because people expect to receive their orders quickly.

Sometimes I just send a letter overseas and it takes over a month until the recipient receives it. And when people send their mail to Laos there's no guarantee that we will receive it, believe it or not.

http://www.laogirls.com/what-jobs-can-foreigners-do-in-laos.html

Adm i have read the article you mentioned
http://www.laogirls.com/what-jobs-can-foreigners-do-in-laos.html

it is an interesting one. in the article foreign companies are mentioned. do you know how one can find out which foreign companies are operating in laos?

I have a huge problem getting my tourist visa. Have a friend that got a investor visas and it was really quick , but a tourist visa omg it is a nightmare.

laoshu wrote on 3^rd Jan, 2010 at 11:01am:


There's already jobstoday.la, which is actually a pretty well designed site. I think I like it more than monster.com actually, it's not as cluttered. You could maybe see if they need web developers if that's in your skillset (I realize SE is not quite the same).