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The airline Finnair started a voluntary weighing policy at departure gates Monday the 5 February 2024. At Helsinki Airport passengers were asked if they would like to get weighed before …
Finnair experiments with weighing passengers Read More
The 2024 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, nicknamed The Nobel Prize of Engineering, was awarded to Danish Henrik Stiesdal. He was given this award due to his significant contributions to …
‘Nobelprize of Engineering’ given to Dane Read More
Vantaa, Helsinki and Tampere all celebrated the Chinese Lunar New Year at the same time. The celebrations were kicked off in Helsinki Airport in Vantaa with performances of Chinese folk …
Chinese New Year in three Finnish cities Read More
Foreign Visa requests from Filipinos to among others Denmark and Finland increased by 48% last year. This was announced yesterday by the VFS council. This is even higher than the …
Boom in visa applicants from the Philippines Read More
A new international airport opened in northern Laos on 5 February 2024. The newly built airport is situated in the Bokeo province and is expected to have around two million …
New international airport in northern Laos Read More
Save the Children Denmark is alarmed about statistics from the Philippine authorities which show that residents in Denmark are responsible for a large number of remote assaults towards children. This …
Alarming amount of Danish perpetrators of remote sexual assault Read More
All foreigners will have to pay a tourism tax of 150.000 rupiah ($12.80), when they visit Bali in Indonesia from the 14 February 2024 and onwards. This includes both mainland …
New tourism tax in Bali Read More
A 60 year old Swedish swim coach fell from the 3’rd floor at approximately 2 am. on 4 February 2024. The police were contacted immediately by 26 year old security …
Swedish man dies from fall at Pattaya hotel Read More
A TUI plane from Landvetter in Sweden was supposed to fly to Phuket on the 2 February 2024. Instead the plane flew for eight hours before landing in Arlanda, which …
Phuket flight forced to return to Sweden Read More
A new map produced by researchers at the Ulster Institute shows the world’s most intelligent nations based on IQ scores. Intelligence quote scores aren’t the only metric used, however, with …
Nations with low average IQ also have low GDP per capita Read More