Nordic News and Business Promotion in Asia
Matti Nurmi is a Finnish electrician-engineer-turned-restaurant-and-kindergarten-owner who has lived in Vietnam for over 20 years. He is one of Vietnam’s first Finnish settlers. Maybe you know him as his name became pretty well-known in Hanoi back in the 90s when “waterfall” bangs, Hip-Hop, Nintendo Boys and horn-rimmed spectacles were hot. Back then …
Hanoi’s First Finnish Settler Read MoreAccording to new research from Center Against Human Trafficking in the Danish Service Agency (Servicestyrelsen) – Many of the Filipino au pairs who live and work in Danish families have …
Filipino Au Pairs in Denmark Are Forced to “Black Work” Read MoreThe Swedish Ambassador to Singapore and the Singaporean Ambassador to Sweden were both present at the inauguration event on the 12th of December along with prominent business leaders in the local …
The Swedish Trade Council Starts New Office in Singapore Read MoreLike so many other tourists visiting Phuket, Swede Gustav Karlsson, 31, and his brother-in-law John, thought it would be a fun experience to go on one of Thailand’s numerous elephant rides. …
Elephant Ride Gone Wrong Read MoreAt about 8 am Tuesday the 19th, Kathu Police were informed that a foreign tourist had fallen from his room on the eighth floor of the Phuket Palace Hotel, at …
Norwegian Survives Eighth-story Plunge Read MoreToday 7 months after the deadly incident in May 2009 investigators still haven’t found an explanation for what killed Karina Refseth’s friend Norwegian Julie Bergheim, 22, and fellow tourist Jill St. Onge, 27, …
Surviving Tourist Puts Pressure On Police Read More2009 was a good year for the second-hand shop “LUMI-genbrug” in Agerskov. Compared with last year the turnover in 2009 rose by 17,000 Danish krones increasing the 2009-turnover to 659,000 …
Danish Second-hand Shop Supports Cambodian Kids Read MoreEvery Wednesday at 20.00 the Danish TV channel TV2 will show the new television series “Guides in Paradise” (“Guider I Paradis”). On the show TV 2 follows five young and …
TV Show About Danish Phuket-Guides Read MoreAccording to Phuketwan the Swedish woman, aged in her 20s, said she and a group of her friends had been partying at a Nai harn bar near the beach until …
Young Swedish Woman Raped By Gang on Phuket Read MoreThe French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis has entered 2010 with a new and aggressive pricing strategy for a number of countries in Southeast Asia and Novo Nordisk will inevitably be affected …
Novo Nordisk Threatened in Southeast Asia Read More