Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
According to a new Danish law, a website can be blocked for Danish users if “It on numerous occasions has sold or administered sales of products that are recognized as …
New Danish law blocks Chinese “Banggood” site from Danish internet users Read More
It is basically like a Lego block, the plastic bricks that the Finnish company “Block Solutions” produces. But the “Eco-Blocks” as the building material is called could be the solution …
Finnish building invention rebuilds earthquake-devastated schools in Indonesia Read More
Luc Tan Le was a child when he and his sibling fled communistic Vietnam in 1979. His escape from Vietnam landed him in Denmark where he has lived ever since. …
Vietnamese refugee Luc is running for municipal election in Denmark Read More
64-year-old Michael Falch has made a big name for himself on the Danish music scene since he started his career with the Danish rock band “Malurt” in 1977. Since then, …
Danish musician Michael Falch writes love album for his new Thai girlfriend Read More
Ten-year-old Wasuthon Nielsen also called “Guide” came to Denmark from Thailand three years ago after his adoptive mother brought him with her to her Danish hometown of Taulov, where she …
Wasuthon is being deported back to Thailand by Danish authorities Read More
An international team of researchers from Finland, Myanmar, and France has studied a timber elephant population in Myanmar and discovered that Asian elephants perform better at a task when …
Researchers from Finland, Myanmar, and France study Asian elephants performance level Read More
Chinese-Swedish fashion designer Louise Xin dedicated her first digital fashion show to the Uyghur community to raise awareness about the genocidal policies targeting the Muslim minority group in northwestern China’s …
Chinese-Swedish designer Louise Xin dedicates digital fashion show to the Uyghur community Read More
Danes with Asian genes report racism as a result of the covid-19 pandemic. “Wuhan loser”, “Chinese” and “Go back to where you come from” are among some of the derogatory …
Danes with Asian genes report racism as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic Read More
Former Finnish president and Nobels prize recipient Martti Ahtisaari – who is known for his role as peace negotiator in the conflict between the Indonesian Government and the Free Aceh …
Finnish Free Aceh Conflict negotiator Martti Ahtisaari withdraws from public activities due to dementia Read More
Danish media TV2’s new Asia correspondent has arrived in Shanghai and been through a tough three-week mandatory quarantine. In a recent article, Christina Boutrup shares her story of how China’s …
Danish correspondent: This is how China’s extreme quarantine system works Read More
The launch of a new freight train route links the Chinese city of Chengdu to Norways’ capital of Oslo. Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan Province in Southwest China and …
Launch of new freight train route links China to Norway Read More
Production of electronics has for many years moved to countries such as China, India and Vietnam but some Danish companies still manage to keep production locally and now the company …
Danish company buys competitor – We must pull production home from China Read More
Figures from Statistic Finland show that the pandemic did not affect international adoption in Finland in 2020 and 82 children born abroad were adopted last year which is an increase …
Report: Thailand remains a popular choice for Finnish families looking to adopt Read More
New VAT rules on packages from non-EU countries have created problems for Denmark’s postal service PostNord because errors in their payment system mean that customers can not pay customs duties …
New VAT rules create problems for Danes ordering goods from outside the EU and from Asia Read More
A replica of the historic three-masted wooden ship “Götheborg” is once again ready to conquer the seas after the original sank in 1745. Götheborg is the world’s largest operational wooden …
Swedish galleon sets sail for China Read More
A substance banned by Norway and EU called ethylene oxide – which is linked to causing cancer – has been found in an instant noodle product from the Thien Huong …
Norway recalls Vietnamese noodle brand from stores Read More
Finland will need thousands of new nurses to meet statutory staffing requirements coming into force in 2023 and the country has therefore started recruiting nurses from the Philippines to tackle …
Finland’s Nurses’ union Super criticize the move to recruit nurses from the Philippines Read More
Illegal toilet cleaning detergent from China is reportedly flowing into Denmark these months and the customs officers at the Danish borders have during the summer detained a record amount of …
Danish customs officers seize 500 kilos of illegal toilet cleaners from China Read More
Denmark’s leading tour operator TUI has decided to expand their Thailand program with three direct winter flights from Billund, Denmark’s second business airport, JydskeVestkysten writes. Although Thailand is currently orange in …
TUI to expand Thailand program with three direct winter flights from Denmark Read More
From 1 September, Johnson & Johnson’s covid-19 vaccine will be released for private directing in Denmark and offered for a fee amongst other things as an offer for foreign seafarers …
Johnson and Johnson to be offered for a fee to foreign seafarers and Danes abroad Read More
To make it during difficult and demanding times requires innovative ideas and for Norwegian Jens Iver Wålen, it was the import of AntiBac Hand Sanitizer Dispensers from China that last …
Importing AntiBac dispensers from China to Norway turned out to be a profitable idea Read More
In 2020, the Danish Customs collected a total of DKK 3.1 billion in customs. A new release shows that custom duties on Chinese goods accounted for more than half of customs revenues. …
Custom duties on Chinese goods accounted for 62 percent of all customs revenue in Denmark last year Read More
China is the world’s largest producer of pork and after the country in the fall of 2018 was hit hard by African swine fever, Danish agriculture overall benefited greatly from …
Analyst: Danish farmers need to adjust if China is back as critical player in pork production Read More
According to a new survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the capital of Copenhagen in Denmark is the world’s safest city while Singapore occupies third place. The Economist Intelligence …
New survey: Copenhagen and Singapore are some of the safest cities in the world Read More
Tsinghua University in eastern China and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark are the two highest-ranked Asian and Nordic universities listed on the 2021 global Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), …
China and Denmark ranked highest on 2021 Shanghai Ranking amongst Nordic and Asian universities Read More
The Danish transport company Kurt Beier Transport A/S was on 25 August cleared of harsh accusations of exploiting Asian drivers and instead ordered to pay a fine, media TV2 reports. The company and …
Danish transport company cleared of accusations of exploiting Asian drivers Read More
Danish Kristian Sidelmann and Rasmus Fiil Svarrer have used their own children as test bunnies so to speak and now their Danish design you can play with have become a …
Danish design you can play with produced in Vietnam via Danida project Read More
Swedish Andreas Birnik, who was an adjunct professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) recently took to his LinkedIn page to express his dissatisfaction and disappointment with Singapore’s reopening plan, media The …
Swedish national in Singapore criticize the city-states reopening plan Read More
The Swedish freelance journalist and author Kurdo Baksi is in an email from the Chinese Embassy in Stockholm accused of spreading lies and “contributing to crime”, Swedish media SVT Nyheter reports. The …
Chinese Embassy accuses Swedish freelance journalist and author of lies Read More
In a recent article published by media CPH Post Online, Chinese Ambassador in Denmark Feng Tie addresses the ongoing debate regarding the origin-tracking of Covid-19 as well as the recent statements …
Chinese Ambassador in Denmark addresses the ongoing debate on covid-19 origin-tracking Read More
A new study led by a team of investigators from Nanjing Medical University in China and Aarhus University in Denmark finds that mothers who have diabetes before or during their …
Danish – Chinese study shows pregnant diabetic mothers can risk their children’s eyesight Read More
On 19 August, The European Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong sent an open letter to several Chief Executive in Hong Kong expressing the international community’s great concern regarding the …
Eurocham HK express concerns over changes in quarantine rules in open letter to the Government Read More
Since the beginning of the month, over 200 berry pickers from Thailand have been diagnosed with Covid-19 while working in Finland and now Thailand has asked Finnish authorities for an …
Thailand wants answers over berry pickers’ Covid-19 outbreaks in Finland Read More
The early human race, Denisovan, has so far been associated with a lot of mystique. Since there have only been one finding of Denisovan fossils ever, in form of five …
Swedish-Filipino study makes new discovery on mysterious early human race Read More
The National Danish Performance Team is a Danish team of top skilled gymnasts who go around the world to spread the message of healthy living and community building through gymnastics. …
Danish National Gymnastics Performance Team plans to visit East Asia Read More
Norwegian- Vietnamese Veronica Ngo is almost unknown in Norway, but in Vietnam, she is a well-known model, singer, and actor under the name Ngô Thanh Vân. In recent years, the …
Norwegian-Vietnamese Veronica Ngo is Norway’s “secret” Hollywood star Read More
The international non-profit and non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Chinese-born Swedish book publisher and writer Gui Minhai and two other foreign journalists, Cheng Lei and …
RSF calls for release of Swedish journalist in China accused of espionage Read More
As the debate regarding how and where covid-19 originated from continues these days, China Daily writes in a recent article that Finland understands China’s concerns over the Covid-19 origin-tracing issue …
Finland understands China’s concerns over Covid-19 origin-tracing issue Read More
The international discussion about the “laboratory theory” has flared up, following TV 2’s publication of an interview with the Danish researcher Peter Embarak but China rejects the need for further …
Following interview with Danish researcher – China rejects the need for further research Read More
A group of over 40 global and Myanmar human rights, media, and other organizations has in a letter to the Chair of the Board of Telenor Group, Gunn Wærsted urged …
Experts urge Telenor to stop sale of Myanmar business Read More
The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has finished its preliminary investigation into the national stockpile agency and their two failed medical face mask procurements. The two orders made by …
Two Finns suspected in scandal regarding imported face masks from China Read More
After researching the origin of covid-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) described in a report that the theory of a laboratory discharge was “extremely unlikely” but now Danish chief investigator …
Danish WHO researcher: Employee in laboratory may have been patient zero Read More
Earlier in the summer, it was revealed that China seems to be implementing a sharp increase in its nuclear weapons program with the building of up to 230 silos for …
Norwegian researcher believes new Chinese rocket silos make the world “a little scarier” Read More
The Olympics are in the books and with 38 gold medals, 32 silver medals, and 18 bronze medals, China is the second most successful nation at the Tokyo Olympics this …
China and Norway tops in overall Olympic medal totals of Asian and Nordic countries Read More
Several countries are currently discussing the need for a third covid-19 booster shot predominantly due to the delta variant, including countries across the Nordic Region and Asia. According to WKZO news, European …
Nordic and Asian countries discuss covid-19 booster shots Read More
Last week an outbreak of covid-19 was discovered amongst 44 berry pickers from Thailand working at a plant in Kainuu region of Finland and this week another 40 Thai berry …
Dozens of covid-19 infections found amongst berry pickers from Thailand working in Lapland Read More
A Danish tourist who arrived in Phuket under the Sandbox scheme at the end of July was seemingly unfamiliar with jungle conditions and got lost in the woods in Thalang …
Danish tourist lost in Phuket forest found after a search Read More
Myanmar is currently heavily affected by covid-19 and according to aid groups, more than 60 percent of the country’s total deaths from covid-19 happened last month with the per capita …
Myanmar director for the Norwegian Refugee Council: I’m writing a condolence message daily Read More
According to an announcement from the Finnish government on 5 August, travelers from six third countries including Singapore will no longer be eligible to enter Finland if they have not …
Finland reintroduce entry ban on non-vaccinated travelers from Singapore Read More
The skyrocketing infection numbers in Thailand are forcing its authorities to convert trains into makeshift hospital beds in order to alleviate the already maxed out hospitals. Norwegian volunteers are reporting …
The Corona pandemic is ravaging Thailand Read More