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“Beat Fest” will this weekend play host The Whitest Boy Alive, whose debut album Dreams contains 10 of the smoothest, up-tempo, minimal indie tunes around. The band kicked off in …
Norwegian Take Part In Jakarta Festival Read MoreThe Vietnamese Government has again strongly demonstrated its resolve to combat corruption and ensure transparency by a variety of means through its organisation of the fourth anti-corruption dialogue with donors …
Swedish Help To Figth Corruption Read MoreOverseas Vietnamese singers are not only popular in Vietnamese communities but also with native Europeans. Vietnamese Swedish singer Alice Svensson has also caught the attention of local audiences when she …
Vietnamese Swedish Singer Caught The Attention Read MoreAccording to the Danish Embassy in Vietnam, around 60% of Vietnamese people depend on underground water resources. Due to overexploitation, the underground water level is decreasing and threatening the stability …
Danish Embassy: Vietnam Facing Water Shortage Read MoreAll Finnair flights to Bangkok are cancelled today. Finnair is cancelling the flight which was postponed until today from yesterday evening, this evening’s both flights and tomorrow evening flight scheduled …
Finnair Cancels Four Bangkok Flights Read MoreThe turbulence at Bangkok International airport has caused problems for many Swedish tourists in Thailand. When several thousand protesters started an occupation of the airport in the capital of Thailand …
Hundreds Of Swedes Stranded In Thailand Read MoreOn Thursday Afternoon, Khun Mongkol, the Chief of Banglamung District chaired an emergency meeting to discuss the currently situation in Bangkok and the affect on Tourists residing here in Pattaya …
Pattaya: Stranded International Tourists Can Call 1337 Read MoreThe epic tale of “The Descendant of Mon Man” (The Descendant of the Fairy and the Dragon), a cultural cooperation project between Finland and Vietnam, debuted in Hanoi on Nov. …
Finnish Vietnamese Epic Debuts In Hanoi Read MoreNext Wednesday, governments will sign the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) in Oslo, Norway and the Philippine government, thru the Department of Foreign Affairs, signified its intent to sign the …
Philippines To Sign Cluster Bomb Treaty Read MoreFinnair is cancelling this evening’s flight, the AY089 from Helsinki to Bangkok, as well as the corresponding return flight. The flight was scheduled to depart from Helsinki at 20.15. According …
Finnair Cancels Evening Bangkok Flight Read MoreA more aggressive military approach is the only answer to an escalation of piracy off Somalia, the world’s biggest oil tanker company said Friday. “I think that’s the only …
Frontline: Military “Only Solution” To Piracy Read MoreThe Swedish foreign ministry estimates that a few hundred Swedes are caught up in the unrest, but the exact number remains unclear. “They can’t get out of there, either …
Swedes Caught Up In Thai Unrest Read MoreArrival of Danish Foreign Minister Dr Per Stig Moller has been postponed until Thursday. The Danish minister was scheduled to arrive in the capital for a three-day goodwill visit with …
Danish Minister’s Arrival Postponed For Thursday Read MoreThe popular seafront promenade certainly was an impressive backdrop for some 200 Finnish tourists who spent an evening enjoying the wonderful dinner hosted by Tourism Malaysia at Fort Cornwallis. The …
Finns Get A Taste Of Penang Read MoreAfter two years of success by Team Asia, the Internationals are fired-up to win the year-ending USLPGA Lexus Cup this week and give Annika Sorenstam a fitting send-off into retirement. …
Annika Says Good Bye At Lexus Cup Read More“Inspiration from Bronze Drum” is the name of an exhibition taking place from November 27-30 by Vietnamese Swedish painter Van Duong Thanh in Hanoi. The exhibition features 20 large-sized paintings, …
Swedish Van Duong Thanh’s Open Exhibition Read MoreLate Wednesday night, one of Asia’s busiest airports remained under siege, sealed off by several thousand anti-government protesters. The protesters, clad in yellow – the color of the king – …
Tourists “Just Wanna Go Home” Read MoreAs many as six Indonesian sailors, along with seven others of other nationalities, were saved when their Bahama-flagged ship sank in Osloj`rd waters, Norway, recently, according to an Indonesian embassy …
Six Indonesian Sailors Survive Shipwreck In Norway Read MoreCarlsberg has launched a new print campaign “Carlsberg Story” in Malaysia, which is aimed at building awareness of Carlsberg’s brand attributes and specific heritage in the country. The new campaign, …
Carlsberg Launches New Campaign Read MoreA drilling and wellservice seminar was organized in Bandung 10 – 12 November, as a joint effort by the Indonesian and Norwegian governments. The 3 day seminar was attended by …
Drilling And Well Seminar Held In Bandung Read MoreThe Tuoi Tre Youth Theatre will hold 100 free performances for 80,000 children between now and the end of this year. “Children’s Voice” is a joint project between the Youth …
Education Through Theatre Read MoreSingapore’s very own search engine, is collaborating with renowned American stock-image supplier Getty Images to boost its collection of Singapore-themed images. Rednano.sg is the world’s first search engine that specialises …
800,000 More Photos With Rednano/Getty Tie-up Read MoreCelenia Software, a Danish company offering partner services and add-on products to independent software vendors and resellers in Microsoft Dynamics, has opened a new development centre in Ho Chi Minh …
New Celenia Development Centre In Vietnam Read MoreBy Per StangegaardIf it was hangovers from last week-end, or the fact that we had twotournaments in a row, or were part of a larger tournament? I dontknow, but it …
Poor Showing At Villamor Read MoreHuhtamaki, the Finnish consumer packaging specialist with worldwide operations, has today inaugurated a second state-of-the art flexible packaging plant in Samutsakorn, Thailand. The new plant is uniquely positioned and …
Huhtamaki Inaugurates Plant In Thailand Read MoreDanish Novo and other foreign drug companies can quit Indonesia if they do not like new rules requiring them to have local production facilities, Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said …
Getting Tough On Danish Novo And Other Drug Firms Read MoreThree documentary films about Long Bien Bridge, shot by Vietnamese and Danish film-makers, will be presented to Hanoian audiences at the National Cinema Centre on November 30. The event is …
Films About Long Bien Bridge Introduced Read MoreNorwegian group Roxar and the Hanoi Mining and Geology University has signed an agreement on oil exploitation technology transfer and human resource training for the oil and gas industry. Under …
Norwegian´s Train Oil And Gas Personnel Read MoreChristmas is approaching and in Ho Chi Minh City the Nordic Community is looking forward to the annual Christmas Party, which is organized by Nordcham, the Nordic Chamber of Commerce. …
Nordic Christmas Party In HCMC Read MoreBorder checks at Finland’s internal borders will be reinstated owing to the security measures during the OSCE meetings to be held in Helsinki 4–5 December. Under Article 2.2 of …
Finland: Checks At Internal Borders To Be Reinstated Read MoreChanges in individual perception towards their rights and increasing accessibility to legal aid for the poor and the vulnerable groups in Vietnam are among the findings during a field trip …
Focus Has Shifted Away From The Poor Read MoreThe International Financial Corporation (IFC), a part of the World Bank, has disbursed loans worth US$20 million to a local coffee company, Indo Cafco for the setting up a number …
Better Training To Starbuck Farmers Read MoreA baby girl was born on a Finnair flight from Bangkok to Helsinki above Kazakhstan in the altitude of 11.000 km on November 20. The baby’s Swedish mother was returning …
Birth On Flight From Bangkok To Helsinki Read MoreNYX Interactive have taken further steps in the international expansion they are aiming for as well as increasing knowledge and capacity within product development and operations. NYX Interactive AB is …
Swedish NYX Interactive Gaming East Read MoreA man from Stockholm, 42, was found drowned in the waters off the popular tourist resort Koh Chang South East of Bangkok. It happened Wednesday November 19, 2008. Until now, …
Swedish Man Found Drowned In Thailand Read MoreEvery single year between 10- and 15 Norwegian men get infected with HIV in the holiday paradise < ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Thailand by unprotected sex. The public health department …
15 Norwegians Infected With HIV In Thailand Read MoreThe month-long campaign includes banners along main streets in Hanoi, demonstrations by bicyclists, and documentary films on television. The program is being implemented under the Sea Turtle Protection project …
Sea-turtle Awareness Campaign Take Off Read MoreNorway’s Frontline – one of the world’s biggest oil tanker owners, is “definitely considering” instructing its fleet to avoid the Gulf of Aden and the Suez Canal because of piracy, …
Frontline considering avoiding Suez Read MoreNorwegian oil and gas group StatoilHydro said on Thursday that it would scale down its oil product trading activity in Singapore due to slowing trade activity and the global financial …
StatoilHydro To Scale Down In Singapore Read MoreSingapore Telecommunications (SingTel) has signed a multi-million dollar deal to install a ground satellite communications system for Danish shipping line Torm Shipping. The Global Maritime Very Small Aperture Terminal …
Inks Satellite Deal With Danish Torm Read MoreNew cases of pimping under investigation in Lahti and Turku. The situation with Finland’s Thai masseuses has not really changed over the past year, wrtes the Finnish newspaper Sanomat. …
Spending 1.5 Million Euros On Thai Women Read MoreVolvo Car Thailand will give away ten thousand (10,000) Volvo cars. In collaboration with Viking Toys Ltd, a leading Swedish toy manufacturer of global note, Volvo Car Thailand announces a …
Gives Away 10,000 Volvo Cars Read MoreThe Philippine government will call for a halt to recent attacks by communist rebels that have killed more than 100 civilians and soldiers during a proposed resumption of Norwegian-brokered peace …
Philippines To Raise Attacks In Norway Talks Read MoreGunnar Bergstrom accepted a rare invitation to tour Cambodia in 1978 “We thought that the movement, the revolution here, was an example to the third world,” he says now. …
Gunnar Bergstrom: I Was Crazy Read MorePolice in Sundsvall have issued a nationwide alert for a 16-year-old Indonesian girl who has been missing since Saturday afternoon. The girl, referred to by police only as Regina, came …
Indonesian Girl, 16, Missing In Sweden Read MoreBy Per Stangegaard The President’s Cup at Calatagan and Coral Beach was, as usual, fullof surprises, and this year President Hans Haase really surpassedhimself. Once again, Hans invited for a …
What A Golf Party Read MoreDTAC and its Norwegian telecom strategic partner Telenor have signed Thailand’s largest ever office lease at Chamchuri Square owned by Chulalongkorn University. The company signed a lease for 61,000 square …
DTAC Telenor Sign Thailand’s Largest Office Lease Read MoreThe Anti-Corruption Dialogue will be held at the Horison Hotel in Hanoi on 28 November, 2008 from 8.00 to 12.30. The dialogue will hear the update of results and challenges …
Sweden To Co-chair Anti-Corruption Dialogue Read MoreDiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd (“DiGi”) mobilised almost 1,000 of its employees to the streets in the Klang Valley with a mission to switch as many people as possible to DiGi. …
Johan Dennelind: Ultimate Freedom Of Choise Read MoreAnnika Sorenstam has named Americans Nicole Castrale and Natalie Gulbis as her two captain’s picks for the international team ahead of next week’s Lexus Cup in Singapore. The Swede, who …
Lexus Cup: Sorenstam Elects Her Team Read More