Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
The Danish embassy on March 28 pledged to increase financial support to underwrite small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Vietnam with a focus on food safety and clean technologies. The …
Denmark increases support in food safety, clean tech Read More
PT Volvo Indonesia, the local unit of the Sweden-based truck maker Volvo, says it will boost the sales of its UD Trucks in areas outside the mining sector in a …
Volvo targets non-mining sectors for truck sales growth Read More
Norway welcomes the peace agreement signed Thursday by the Philippine Government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, says Foreign Minister Børge Brende (photo). The agreement brings an end to the …
Norway welcomes Philippine peace accord Read More
Tourism Malaysia director in Sweden, Azizul Raheem Awaluddin, and his wife Shalwati Norshal were sentenced on 29 March to jail and ordered to pay compensation to their children after they …
Swedish court sentences Malaysian couple to jail Read More
Danish labour market pension funds PKA and PBU are investing DKK75m (€10m) in a project to build a diesel engine catalyst factory in China. The plant is being built by …
Denmark’s pension funds invest in catalyst factory in China Read More
DTU Wind Energy and EMD International have been awarded Dkr7m to support a Danish-Chinese research and development effort focused on optimising projects in mountain landscapes. Copenhagen awarded funding under its …
Danish tech tames China’s mountains Read More
The Sweden-based communication technology and services provider, Ericsson, is expecting its business in Indonesia to see stable growth this year on the back of the country’s growing demand for high-speed …
Ericsson sees stable growth in Indonesia Read More
Swedish engineering group Sandvik’s China business contributed to more than 7 percent of its total revenue in 2012 and it will advance into the mid-range China market to tap the …
Sandvik to enter lucrative mid-range China market Read More
Paddy Power has opened up betting on which animal is likely to be killed next at Copenhagen Zoo, in what may just be the Irish bookmaker’s sickest bet yet. The …
Betting is on: which animal will be killed next at Copenhagen zoo? Read More
The value of Arla’s stock in China’s largest dairy, Mengniu, has risen 65 percent, making Arla’s investment of 1.8 billion kroner now worth just under 3 billion kroner. “We are …
Arla’s investment in Chinese dairy delivers huge gains Read More