Danes abroad rejoice as a political majority now seems to be in place to permit them to hold dual  citizenship. A change in the law will make it possible for Danes outside of Denmark to adopt the nationality of their new home country without having to cancel their Danish citizenship. The political party “Venstre” announced on Saturday, that they were [...]

If you are Norwegian you have undoubtedly made plans for this Friday. The date is May 17, which marks the Norwegian Constitution Day and is celebrated not only in Norway but also by Norwegian expatriates. In Southeast Asia there will be celebrations in many forms. After Frederik VI in 1814 had given up Norway to the King of Sweden, the [...]

Norwegian seafood have many ambassadors who do their best to tell Asia about the wonders of the cold water fish. Not long ago, Norwegian Chef  Sven Erik Renaa was in Thailand to do a chef’s masterclass in Bangkok in order to promote Norwegian seafood. Shortly after it was Singapore’s turn to experience the Norwegian seafood as celebrity chef Eyvind Hellstrøm was in [...]

The Norwegian Embassy in Manila is working towards building and improving Philippine-Norwegian relations. The Embassy wants to get in touch with journalists who take an interest in covering and developing the Norway-Philippines relationship. The Embassy is currently planning an e-mail newsletter directed at journalists and others who are curious about what’s stirring in the Philippine-Norwegian world. In addition to this, [...]

The Norwegian Embassy in cooperation with the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) is sending a delegation of Filipino journalists to Oslo, Norway in September 2013. The visit will take place in the week leading up to the Norwegian parliamentary elections on Monday, September 9, giving participants the opportunity to experience first-hand how the Norwegian news media covers [...]

Norway, the third-party facilitator of the peace talks between the government and communist insurgents in the Phillipines, has agreed that formal negotiations will be terminated, presidential peace adviser Teresita Deles said Wednesday. Deles said Norway also acknowledged that the special track initiated by the communist group had already been “killed” by the National Democratic Front. “In our discussion with our [...]

The six-man crew of a Danish cargo ship held hostage for more than two years was finally released Tuesday. The crew was made up of two Danes and four Filipino men; Captain, Eddy López, is Chilean who later gained Danish citizenship. López was born in the coastal city of Valparaíso and moved to Denmark twelve years ago. Shortly after January [...]

The six-man crew of a Danish cargo ship held hostage for more than two years was finally released Tuesday. The crew was made up of two Danes and four Filipino men. It’s captain, Eddy López, is Chilean who later gained Danish citizenship. López was born in the coastal city of Valparaíso and moved to Denmark twelve years ago. Shortly after [...]

Summer in the Philippines has started to sizzle and the heat has become quite unbearable. But this did not prevent some members of the Scandinavian Society of the Philippines (SSP) to attend the April SSP Day Social on 17 April 2013 at Maria Lundberg’s residence in Ayala Alabang to learn more about the tropical country and its people. Mr. Lawrence [...]

On 23 April 2013, a television documentary on the exploitation of foreigners arriving in Norway on ‘au pair’ contacts was screened on NRK1 under its Brennpunkt program. The plight of several young women from the Philippines, who ended up as little more than domestic servants and even sex slaves, provoked calls for tougher government regulation. Before the documentary was screened on [...]