A year ago media surveillance company Newswatch declared they were going to take the market of media surveillance in Denmark. With a mere 15 employees that plan sounded farfetched. Today, the company has grown to 58 persons, offices in five countries and a market share of three percent – and NewsWatch is far from done.…
Denmark, Singapore
Singapore Scientist Wins Prestigious Danish Award
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Guillaume Drillet works with copepods. He looks at them under his microscope, millions of little crustaceans, swimming around themselves and each other and he writes down what they do, how they look, how they looked yesterday, what happens to them when they are disturbed. He is an experimentalist so he spends time in lab, and…
Denmark, Thailand
Denmark Going After Social Security Cheats in Thailand
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Too many people spend their unemployment lazing away on Thailand’s beaches instead of staying home in Denmark and look for work, says the Chair of the Danish Social Affair’s Committee, Martin Henriksen. When recent statistics from the Danish Social Ministry showed that almost half the cases of fraud with social security money was Danes taking…
China, Finland
Richard Järvinen: Dialogue the Keyword
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Richard Järvinen places his mobile phone, a Nokia N900, on the table next to him. Two minutes later, a little tone indicates he has gotten a message. Soon after, he gets another. And then another. He looks at it briefly and scrolls over the touch screen. When Richard Järvinen joined Nokia China as…
China, Finland
Finland Wants Chamber of Commerce in China
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From 2010, Finland is very likely going to have an official Chamber of Commerce. The paperwork was submitted to the Chinese authorities in June 2009 by the already formed board of the Chamber and today, it is just a matter of time, before the Chamber is awarded official status in China. “More and more…
China, Norway
Norway: Put Nature into the City
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It smells like wood. And it looks a little like a forest, made from large pieces of pine tree and bamboo. Norway’s contribution to the World EXPO in Shanghai is a construction, shaped out of 13 architechtual trees, that serves as pillars in the massive wooden pavilion “Norway. Powered by Nature.” The message is as…
China, Denmark
Every City Needs a Little Bit of Fairytale
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Every city needs a bit of fairytales in it”, he says. Former Danish ambassador to China and current Commissioner General of Denmark, Christopher Bo Bramsen, leans forward. “It is not enough to have a good city, a fantastic city,” he says. He chuckles, and his diplomatic, cool image vanishes. A warm, jovial man reveals himself…
China, Finland, Home and Garden
Finnish Eco-Furniture
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At the Shanghai World EXPO 2010, one of the main messages from Finland comes in the form of six keywords: freedom, creativity, innovation, community spirit, health and nature. The main purpose of the Finnish pavilion, Kirnu, is to present a vision of “good life” and to show how this is obtainable in 2010. One of…
China
Buttercookies and Fairytales in Shanghai
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Hans Christian Andersen did not write stories for children. Sure, a few of his fairytales are sweet and innocent, but looking at the body of the man’s work, it is more blood, gore and punishment, than it is living happily ever after. Professor Svend Hakon Rossel pauses. He looks at the students in front of…
