Boonsithi Chokwatana is chairman of Saha Group, Thailand's leading consumer products conglomerate. This is part 2 of a 30-part series.
The Chokwatana family's history in Thailand began when my grandfather, Li Fook Ho, the eldest son of a farmer in China's Guangdong Province, moved to Bangkok with his family around 1900. He was one of many overseas Chinese who scattered throughout Asia to escape poverty.