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Noppadol Wanthaphirom, 31, was sentenced to 18 years in prison this week for the murder of computer games maker Einar Opsahl in Oslo’s Bislett district in June 2011, a Norwegian press …
Thai-born convict gets 18-year term in Norway Read MoreThe General Director of the Swedish Security Service Anders, Thornberg has disclosed that there are more than 15 countries spying in Sweden. The top three are Russia, Iran and China. …
China ‘top three’ spy in Sweden Read MoreIf you are from Taiwan and move to Norway you have to register as a citizen of the Peoples Republic of China. To the Taiwanese who have had their own …
Taiwanese in Norway forced to register under China Read MoreSwedish island Gotland, situated 90 kilometers from the coast of Sweden is working on an unusual relationship. The perhaps future partner is Chinese Island, Hainan. The two islands are worlds …
Swedish island Gotland nearing partnership with China Read More
National Tsing Hua University graduate student Lo Yu took two months to finish a 3,000-kilometer bike trip in Sweden to document stories of overseas Chinese. Lo described the trip as …
Taiwanese Student documents Chinese in Sweden Read MoreToday the court in Denmark ruled on whether five year old Fimm Na Thiban would be allowed to stay in Denmark, which has been his home since he was born, …
Court rules on deportation – Five year old Fimm stays in Denmark Read More
On Feb 3, the Norwegian Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics Company has presented 5 million baht to the budget to develop the good work done by the Ban Jing Jai Foundation. A …
Norwegian company donated 5 million THB to Ban Jing Jai Orphanage Read MoreSix months ago, when Hu Jintao visited Denmark, the official site of the Danish royal family has been available in Chinese. It was marketing bureau Schultz Knudsen who approached the Danish court …
Online interest in the Danish royal family from the Chinese Read More
On Jan 27, the Sweden-based Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI) of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law conducted the first of three workshops in Hanoi aimed at strengthening international Human Rights standards …
Swedish institute conducts human rights workshops in Hanoi Read MoreThe meeting hall inside the Danish Embassy in Ha Noi has turned into a display place for a selection of artwork by Vietnamese painters. Nguyen Thi Tu Quyen’s acrylic painting …
Vietnamese paintings displayed at Danish Embassy until June Read MorePattaya’s Tourist Police assisted a Finnish Tourist early on Monday Morning after the officers witnessed a gang of pickpockets at work on Walking Street in South Pattaya, the Pattaya One …
Pattaya pickpocket gang arrested for robbing Finnish tourist Read More
Two Finns along with other 10 foreigners were arrested on Jan 31 in Phuket for working illegally in the island’s tourism industry, a local newspaper reports. The two Finnish nationals …
2 Finns arrested in illegal foreigner crackdown Read More
Twenty-two firms operating in two tourism provinces – Prachuap Khiri Khan, where Huahin is located, and Chon Buri, where Pattaya is located – have been alleged to use nominees for …
22 firms found using nominee owners for foreigners Read MoreThe Thai Princess, Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, will soon experience an extreme change of climate. In March she is to visit the most northern part of Europe. Svalbard is a part of …
Thai Princess to visit Svalbard Read MoreLast year 42 year old Norwegian citizen John M. Johansen was released after serving more than three years in one of the toughest prisons in the world – Bombat in …
Thai State Attorney appeals pardon of Norwegian Read MoreOn February 7 to 17 inventors and innovators from all over the world will be gathering in Norway at the International Student Festival in Trondheim (ISFiT). ISFiT has different social …
Filipino inventor and former Norwegian minister exhibits light in a bottle Read MoreTomorrow in Denmark, a lot of people will be following a controversial trial that might rule to deport a five year old boy to Thailand. The trial has raised public protests …
Five year old is set to be deported to Thailand – court rules tomorrow Read MoreAt the moment so called “consultancy” firms are advertising nursing or healthcare jobs in Norway, claiming that there are many jobs in that sector to be found and that no …
Filipino nurses warned about jobs in Norway Read MoreA Norwegian tourist Jan Homeland was found dead in his bedroom on Chiangmai’s riverside on the eve of Jan 28. The 75-year-old’s wife who had been sleeping in another room, had called emergency …
Norwegian Tourist Found Dead in Chiangmai room Read More
Tributes were being laid in Patong over the weekend following the death of Phuket businessman, Swedish man Niklas “Nicke” Kring, 42, who died in a motorbike crash, reported The Phuket …
Patong mourns passing Swedish bar owner Read MoreAre you happy and what makes you happy? A hard question to answer, non the less measuring happiness has become fashionable among pollsters. Of the most detailed are the Legatum Prosperity …
Scandinavians among happiest in the world Read More
After two wins and one draw it was a proud Norwegian team that could be announced as winners of the Women’s Football Four-Nation Invitation Tournament hosted in Yongchuan, Chongqing on …
Norwegian women’s football team wins four-nation tournament in China Read More
For third year in a row Finland has been measured as the country that most respects media freedom. Norway, which last year shared the title with Finland falls back to …
Nordic countries tops press freedom index while South-east countries falls to the bottom Read MoreIntestinal infections and sexually transmitted diseases are the most common infectious diseases that travelers from Norway incurred abroad, a new report from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) revealed. According to …
Diseases Norwegian tourists bring back from vacation Read MoreThe Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) will continue clearing bombs and mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) left from the war in Thua Thien-Hue province. Jonathan Guthrie, NPA Country Director for Vietnam, made …
Norwegian agency continues with mine clearance in Vietnam Read MoreNational Gallery in Bangkok presents Danish art, design and architecture with the opening of “Crossing Over” on January 29th, – all from the hands of one person, artist and architect …
Danish artist and architect Crossing Over in Bangkok Read MoreAmbassador Klas Molin on Jan 19 attended the ‘Thai Tap Junior Water Prize 2013’ at the Royal Exhibition Centre BITEC Bangna. Together with management from the Institute for Promotion of …
Swedish Ambassador greets Thai Tap Water Prize winners Read More
A Myanmar sculptor and a female artist from Norway collaborated on an art project on Jan 25, by simultaneously sculpting portraits of one another at Art Plus Art Gallery in …
Myanmar and Danish artists sculpt one another’s face Read More
Non-governmental organisation in Finland are calling for more long-term projects aimed at promoting the integration of Thai women in the country. Several years ago NGOs proposed new methods for supporting …
NGOs urge integration programmes for Thai women in Finland Read More
One of Taiwan’s richest men on Jan 28 launched what has been widely touted as the Asian equivalent of the Nobel Prize, and it is even more lucrative than the …
Taiwanese billionaire launches Asian ‘Nobel Prize’ Read More
A 23 year old Swede died Saturday morning when he fell from the balcony of his room at fourth floor of Khaosan Park Resort, Khaosan Road, Bangkok. The young Swede …
Young Swede dies in hotel fall Read More
A Norwegian man was shot in the neck while fighting with his ex-wife’s new husband in Khamphaeng Phet in Nakhon Sawan province, reports Pattaya Daily. According to the news media, …
Norwegian shot by ex-Wife’s new husband Read More
IKEA Thailand has apologized to Thai Transgender Alliance for ‘the unintended offense’ caused by an advert featuring a transgender person. According to Gay Star News, the advert, shown on Bangkok’s …
IKEA Thailand apologizes over ‘transgender-offended’ TV ad Read More
Sweden on Jan 26 won the 42nd King’s Cup after beating Scandinavian rivals Finland 3-0 in the final at Chiang Mai’s 700th Anniversary Stadium, reported the Bangkok Post. The Saturday …
Sweden beat Finland in King’s Cup final Read More
“The Seducer’s Diary,” a famous philosophical work adapted to stage, is set in a decadent 1930s Shanghai cabaret and explores choices between hedonism and ethics, self-indulgence and responsibility. The play …
Danish drama group to stage adapted play in Shanghai Read More
Kirsten Andersen and Lena Pedersen, both members of Inner Wheel Denmark accompanied by their spouses will travel to Thailand to hand over a donation of 800,000 baht, recieved from the …
Four Danes to hand B800,000 donation to Prostheses Foundation Read More
Thai Transgender Alliance have sent an open letter to IKEA to complain about a ‘negative and stereotypical’ advert, Gaystarnews reported. The offending advert, called Luem Aeb (meaning ‘forget to deceive’), …
Ikea ad upsets Thai Trans group Read MoreThe coach of Finland football team was in confident moods yesterday ahead of today’s clash between Finland and Thailand at the King’s Cup in Chiang Mai. The four-team tournament kicks …
Finnish coach readies for King’s Cup in Chiangmai Read MoreMr. Yagn Zehngraff, 57, from Denmark was arrested after trying to drive through a police checkpoint near Pratumnak Hill. The drunk Dane was fleeing from an accident in Jomtien. Police …
Police shoot at Drunk Dane’s truck; bullet hit officer Read More
Swedish manufacturer, Volvo Trucks, has partnered with the Innovation Agency of Malaysia to find innovation solutions to make Malaysian roads safer for both motorcycles and trucks, a Malaysian press reported. …
Volvo, Malaysian agency team up for road safety innovation Read More18-year-old Morten Budtz Berthelsen who was found guilty of falsely reporting a gang attack on Phuket’s Kamala Beach on New Year’s Eve has been fined 500 baht and handed down …
Dubious Dane fined, sentenced for reporting false claims Read More
Police have issued an arrest warrant for the man believed to have drugged a Karon hotel receptionist on Monday and made off with B3 million worth of belongings from security …
Dane wanted for Phuket hotel robbery Read More
The Scandinavian Siam Society (SSS) website was hacked again yesterday for the third time in a month, said the association’s chairman Robert Kronberg. Kronberg said he is perplexed by the …
SSS website is hacked ‘for the third time’ Read More
Monday the 7 January was the inauguration for the new location at Alma Link building of the VFS visa application centre in Bangkok issuing visas for Sweden, Denmark and Norway. …
New Visa-centre for Sweden, Denmark and Norway inaugurated Read More
A Swede accused of a 25 million SEK (115 million baht) fraud and tax evasion and a Frenchman wanted for rape have been arrested Thursday on Phuket on international warrants, …
Swede napped for 115 million baht fraud Read More
A Danish national was killed in a hit-and-run accident last Saturday in La Union, police said Monday. Police Officer Eric Boac identified the victim as Helge Jensen, 50, who was …
Danish national killed in La Union road accident, the Philippines Read MoreDavid Roegen, 22, died Monday morning in Pattaya, Thailand when he fell from a balcony on the 23rd floor at Jomtien Condominium. “We can confirm that a Dane has died …
Young Dane plunged to death in Pattaya Read More
Oslo City Court believes it was Noppadol Wanthaphirom, 31, who shot Einar Opsahl, 35, in the head at close range at a taxi stand in Bislett, Norway, in 2011. He …
Norway’s dilemma on an immigrated convict Read More