Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
To avoid the increased US tariffs on goods from China, Volvo has withdrawn the production of the ‘XC60-SUV’ from China and started producing it in Sweden instead. The Swedish car …
Volvo moves part of its production away from China Read More
Numerous scandals in the Chinese food industry have created a market for safe and secure products. The Danish-Chinese Business Forum (DCBF) plans to use blockchain technology to create profit from …
DCBF and blockchain: Exporting Danish authenticity Read More
In early July Business Sweden organized two seminars, one in Malaysia (Johor Bahru) and one in Singapore, on the topic “Sweden – A partner in the journey towards Industry 4.0” …
Business Sweden hosted Industry 4.0 seminars Read More
China’s CGN has bought the majority of shares in a Swedish windfarm still under construction. When finished, it will be the largest onshore farm in Europe. In the northeast of …
Chinese nuclear company buys majority in Swedish wind farm Read More
Blockchain is one of the most hyped technology concepts of our time. The possible future of all technologies. The new internet. Still, many companies have very little understanding of how …
Alliance to standardize blockchain in the supply chain industry Read More
In June Business Sweden in Thailand launched the new report ‘Thailand: Business Climate Survey 2018’. Business Sweden, together with the Embassy of Sweden in Thailand and Thai-Swedish Chamber of Commerce, …
Swedish companies Thailand survey: Challenges and business forecast Read More
Grundfos and PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency on 10 July joied hands on a new collaboration agreement to jointly develop sustainable and efficient water technologies. The Memorandum of Understanding, signed …
Grundfos enters new Singapore water collaboration Read More
In late June Danish Foreign Minister, Anders Samuelsen visited china, including to China Zun Tower. “It will be the first time ever a delegation is allowed to visit this building”, …
Denmark’s Foreign Minister visited China Read More
Collectius Group from Sweden has announced that it acquires a 100 million USD non-performing loan (NPLs) portfolio in the Philippines. The transaction permits Collectius to support 170 000 debtors to …
Collectius acquires non-performing loan portfolio in Philippines Read More
In search for heavyweight start-ups with global potential Telenor-owned dtac in Thailand has announced the 11 startup finalists, selected out of 25 teams, to participate in the dtac accelerate batch …
Dtac accelerate announced Batch 6 finalists Read More
Startup Thailand’s 2018 main Bangkok event, held in May, saw presentations from highly interesting Finnish and Swedish start-ups as well as an introduction from Slush Singapore and Startup Commons, a …
Slush, Finnish and Swedish solutions, start-ups at Startup Thailand Read More
The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW) and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have just announced a big donation of 50 million Swedish krona (S$7.6 million) as endowed gift …
Wallenberg foundation donates big for NTU Singapore fellowship Read More
China and Norway joined hands in a financial cooperation seminar held in Shanghai. The cooperation between China and Norway has flourished in many areas, including political, cultural, environmental, educational, sport, science, …
China-Norway coop held in Shanghai Read More
On 26 June Swedish Ambassador Staffan Herrström paid courtesy calls to Thai ministers, also highlighting the 150 years Anniversary between Thailand and Sweden and some activities the Embassy is planning …
Swedish Ambassador met with Thai Ministers, highlighting 150 years Read More
Danske Bank together partner nHack kicked off the China Knights II with an event at Wework – a co-working space in the heart of Shanghai. At China Knights II demo …
Shanghai Knights 2018 included 11 Nordic start-ups Read More
Telenor’s Thailand telecommunications operator dtac (Total Access Communication Plc.) stated on 22 June 2018 a opening with the regulator NBTC. Lars Norling, Chief Executive Officer, dtac said: “While dtac awaits …
dtac in talks with regulator NBTC: potential 900MHz auction Read More
Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) newly opened its Asia office in Singapore, operated by the Dane Soeren Duvier and Jana Lee. With many global supply chain members its primary intent …
Blockchain in Transport Alliance starts Asia growth Read More
The writing was already on the wall for Thailand’s regulator National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC). In addition to another operator having already opted out Total Access Communication PCL, (Dtac), …
Telenor’s dtac gives Thailand’s spectrum auction thumbs down Read More
The leading heating company of Denmark, Danfoss, has begun operation of a new plant in Anshan city in northeast China’s Liaoning Province. Danfoss has recently begun operation of a new plant …
Danfoss to opens new heating plant in China Read More
Five Nordic companies within the health sector (two from Denmark, two from Finland and one from Sweden) will be represented at the 2018 edition of Thailand’s tech start-up event Techsauce …
Nordic health companies to attend Teachsauce Bangkok summit Read More
Cookly, the leading platform for cooking classes and culinary experiences around the world has announced a Pre-Series A funding round led by Zcoin founder Poramin Insom. Zcoin ranks among the …
dtac accelerate ‘batch 5’ start-up raises funding Read More
The Finnish Minister of Economic Affairs Mika Lintilä, is now set to visit Thailand in August 2018. Businesses are invited to join the Team Finland business delegation to Thailand where …
Postponed Finnish minister visit to Thailand set for August Read More
On 10-13 June the Danish Energy Business Delegation to China takes place, organised by The Confederation of Danish Industry, The Royal Danish Embassy in Beijing and Danish Board of District …
Danish Energy Business Delegation 2018 to China Read More
Wärtsilä, the Finnish smart technologies and complete marine and energy lifecycle solutions provider, collaborates with PIER71 in strengthening the maritime start-up ecosystem. PIER71 is an industry-wide acceleration programme setup by …
Wärtsilä Singapore, NUS to boost maritime, energy start-up ecosystem Read More
Collectius, a Swedish-Singaporean debt collection and receivables acquisition company with close to 20 years of experience in the South East Asian region, has announced the conglomerate Stena as its new …
Swedish Stena invests in debt collection company Collectius Read More
The 640-million strong ASEAN population has gained prominence in recent years as a promising consumer market, with a thriving young middle-class (median age of 29) becoming more urban. Nielsen has …
Danes see Malaysia gateway to thriving Asean consumer market Read More
During 23 – 26 May the Monitor ERP Southeast Asia team attended the Metaltech 2018 trade show in Kuala Lumpur, their biggest appearance yet in the region – as Gold …
Metaltech Malaysia: Monitor ERP System invited to Swedish ‘Fika’ Read More
Jakob Lykkegaard Pedersen, known from the gaming company Playlab, is clearly one of those uniquely talented entrepreneurs – and who is making it in Asia while having the whole world …
Augmented reality and machine learning next for games producer Jakob Lykkegaard Read More
I you have subscribed to any service hosted within the EU, you may have noticed the wave of “updated privacy policy” mails in your inbox the last week or so. …
DanCham Thailand warns of new EU data law: GDPR now into force Read More
If there’s one incontestable truth today in the global manufacturing ecosystem, is that it looks nothing like that of the past. It wasn’t long ago when manufacturers planned their production …
Sweden’s Monitor ERP System a proven key enabler for Southeast Asian manufacturers Read More
The European Chamber of Commerce, Singapore (EuroCham) and the Swedish Chamber of Commerce, Singapore (SwedCham) have announced the inaugural Schuman Business Talk, kicking off with one of the most prominent …
Marcus Wallenberg to hold business talk in Singapore Read More
A Danish delegation headed by The Danish Minister for Industry, Business and Financial Affairs, Brian Mikkelsen has visited the Philippines. Along the minister, the Confederation of Danish Industry, Healthcare Denmark, …
Danish business minister Brian Mikkelsen, delegation visited the Philippines Read More
The Finnish company Startup Commons, will run a workshop ‘Digital Side of Startup Ecosystem Development‘ on Friday, 18 May from 10.00 – 12.00 at Workshop Room 1 at the StartupThailand …
Startup Commons invites to Startup Thailand Read More
Anna Ratala, Head of Slush Singapore (Finnish start-up conference) is invited as keynote speaker at the 2018 Bangkok edition of Startup Thailand. On Saturday, 19 May from 10.00 – 10.40 …
Slush’s Singapore head invited speaker at Startup Thailand Read More
When Telenor’s Thai mobile operator dtac arranged a talk (arranged on 21 March) around the data science breakthroughs with artificial intelligence and machine learning, two prominent speakers represented Norway. Andrew …
Norwegians presented breakthroughs at dtac’s AI, machine learning seminar Read More
Southeast Asia is constantly increasing the amount of money spend on military expenditure, arming up like the rest of the world and signalling that maybe the peaceful times are soon …
SE Asia is arming up – and so is the world Read More
Building on the success of the Nordic Innovation Houses in Silicon Valley and New York government agencies from four Nordic countries have joined forces to open soft landing incubators in …
Nordic Innovation funds Hong Kong incubator Read More
Global Technology Collaboration Conference was arranged in April to explore and maximise opportunities in the Greater Bay Area (expected to be the fastest growing region in the world). City of …
Helsinki co-hosted Global Technology Collaboration Conference Hong Kong Read More
The seventh edition of the Norway-Asia Business Summit took place in Singapore this year. ScandAsia met Mr. Magnus Grimeland, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Antler Innovation and one of …
Norway-Asia Business Summit – Digitalisation, world changing businesses Read More
Burda International Asia, a subsidiary of Hubert Burda Media, has announced new, far-reaching changes that “will place the company at the forefront of the region’s publishing industry.” The international technology …
Lifestyle Asia Swedes in new, pivotal Burda Digital role Read More The Norwegian company Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS has landed a large deal with the Royal Malaysian Navy to deliver Naval Strike Missiles (NSM) with a worth of $153 million, …
Norwegian company to supply Malaysia with Naval Strike Missiles Read More
China and Finland has signed an agreement to enhance and coorporate on Arctic research. The countries will establish a joint research center for Arctic space observation and data sharing services, …
China and Finland to increase Arctic research coorporation Read More
On 9 April Nokia strengthened their cloud and data center services with the official launch of the first Nokia Cloud Collaboration Hub in Asia. Based in Singapore, the hub is …
Nokia launched Singapore Cloud Collaboration Hub Read More
As the flagship knowledge-sharing network EGN (Executive’s Global Network) keeps expanding in Southeast Asia Mr Nick Jonsson, who built up its presence also in Vietnam, is now the Managing Director …
Nick Jonsson spearheads knowledge-sharing network EGN’s Singapore expansion Read More
The Norwegian Business Association in Singapore presents the seventh edition of the Norway-Asia Business Summit (NABS), taking place 16-18 April in Singapore. The summit will explore how to navigate the …
Norway-Asia Business Summit 2018 details Read More The telecompany Global Telecom of the Philippines has tasked the Swedish data centre manufacturer Flexenclosure to deploy a prefabricated data center on the southern island of Mindanao. And apparently such …
Swedish company to build data center in the Philippines Read More
For sure, all the digital disruption and changes of all business models and the way we will go about our lives in the future is putting pressure and new expectations …
A revolutionary Finnish model to create school of the future Read More
Year 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Malaysia and Norway. What began as a partnership between two oil and gas (O&G) producing country peers has now been …
Norwegian investors continue to put faith in Greater KL Read More
The ‘dtac loop: The Shapes of Data’ event underscored how machine learning, connected devices and big data can empower society. On 21 March mobile service provider dtac held a talk …
Dtac held big data, AI, machine-learning talk Read More
Nordea Bank’s General Managers in China and Singapore talk to ScandAsia about how they navigate the many regulatory challenges and the importance of being on top of things to serve …
Nordea Bank navigates the highly regulated markets, the do’s, don’ts in Asia Read More