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TeliaSonera said it would buy a 51 percent stake in TeliaSonera Asia Holding BV from Kazakhstan’s Visor Group, which has an 80 percent stake in Nepalese operator Spice Nepal and …
TeliaSonera Buys Asian Operators For $488 Million Read MoreA new Danish grant of 3.6 million USD to MRC Fisheries Programme in 2009-2010 will enable the MRC to continue to facilitate sustainable development of fisheries in the Mekong River …
Danish Grant Keeps Mekong River Commission Afloat Read MoreCambodia‘s star landmine-detection dogs are in financial trouble and urgently need fresh recruits and donations to keep the programme running smoothly, a senior official said Monday.Khem Sophoan, the Cambodian Mine …
Cambodia’s “Swedish” Dog-tired Demining Mission Needs Fresh Recruits And Cash Read MoreThe family of former Phnom Penh police chief Heng Pov has asked the courts to unfreeze nearly US$1 million seized after their father’s arrest, saying that they have had to …
Heng Pov’s Family In Finland Asks To Unfreeze Funds Read MoreNew studies performed by Doctors from Denmark and Singapore in collaboration shows for the first time, that long term use of incense increases the risk of developing cancers of the …
Burning Incense Increases Risk of Respiratory Tract Cancers Read MoreIt’s getting tougher, and more expensive, to get a Norwegian passport. Starting September 1, 2008 persons applying for Norwegian citizenship will have to prove their proficiency in the Norwegian language. …
Norway Toughens Rules For Citizenship Read MoreFor the first time, Ericsson has combined a GSM base station and satellite transmission in a solar-powered site, enabling Cambodian mobile operator Star-Cell to expand its network coverage in remote …
Ericsson deploys rural, solar-powered site with satellite transmission in Cambodia Read MoreLundin Petroleum AB, Sweden‘s largest oil explorer, with new licenses in Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia plunged to a six-month low in Stockholm trading after second-quarter profit missed estimates and …
Lundin Petroleum Slumps To Six-Month Low Read MoreIf the oil price of oil stays where it is, Finns would no longer fly to Thailand or other Asian Countries for warmth during their holidays. People would not be …
Expensive Oil Could Stop Finns Going To Asia Read MoreThe travel agency Exotissimo Travel has made a group on Facebook. The purpose is to make a forum, where Exotissimo travelers can connect and exchange experiences. There will also be …
Exotissimo Travel on Facebook Read MoreIf you’re having children while studying abroad, you are still entitled to child allowance. The rule also applies to diplomats, state-employees and social security workers.This was decided by the High …
Swedish Expat Receives Retroactive Child Allowance after Verdict in High Court of Sweden Read MoreThe global container shipping traffic is expected to grow by five to six percent while the traffic between Asia and Europe is expected to grow by eight percent. Maersk …
Maersk Line Will Deploy Larger Vessels Read MoreDanish-foreign couples, who have received incorrect or unclear guidance on family reunification, could get compensation for the economic losses they have suffered following the wrong advice on EU laws. …
Family Reunification: Rejected Couples May Get Compensation Read MoreA Norwegian father wanted by Interpol over allegedly abducting his six-year-old Swedish daughter arrived Tuesday in Sweden after being deported from Cambodia, police and local media said to DPA. …
Father Who Allegedly Abducted Girl To Cambodia Is back In Sweden Read MoreThe Danish Immigration Service is trying to get an overview of the impact of an EU Court ruling this past Friday which might make it easier for families to seek reunification …
Danish Immigration Puts All Cases On Hold Read MoreA Norwegian man wanted by Interpol on charges of kidnapping his six-year-old daughter more than a year ago has been arrested in Cambodia, an interior ministry official said. Torgeir Nordbo …
Norwegian Held In Cambodia On Kidnap Charge Read MoreThe six year old girl who has been held away in Cambodia by her father landed in the morning at Arlanda airport. Along with her was her mother. “It …
Kidnapped Girl Back In Sweden With Her Mother Read More“Our cooperation with ECPAT means in particular that we inform and educate our staff in how to deal if the problem occurs. And our hotel contacts’ has a clause that …
Spies Join New Campaign Against Child Sex Tourism Read MoreThe Cambodian governments hopes 10 snuffling pups will become the nation’s next generation of heroes, sniffing out TNT and exposing lethal buried land mines, writes Chronicle Foreign Service. “Of all …
Norway Help Cambodia Train Mine Detecting Dogs Read MoreThe Ministry for Foreign Affairs wants to enhance its consular services in order to be able to assist Finns travelling or residing abroad as efficiently as possible. If you have …
Client Inquiry About Finnish Consular Services Read MorePlagued by long delays and corruption allegations, the special court prosecuting Cambodia‘s former Khmer Rouge leaders on genocide charges is running short of money months before its first trial is …
Cambodia Genocide Tribunal Running Out Of Money Read MoreThe Danish UEFA football school coach Peter Rasmussen will head the coming course in football in Bangkok. Peter Rasmussen, 42, is one of the most recognized Internationals in his trade. …
Danish Super Coach Holding Football School In Bangkok Read MoreNorwegian consultancy Norconsult in 2007 produced an Initial Environmental Examinations (IEEs) for the Nam Kong 1 and Sekong 4 hydropower projects for the Lao government. The report for Sekong 4 …
Norconsult Environmental Report Criticized Read MoreYour national team doesn’t have to be sponsored by Carlsberg to fail to qualify for the Euro 2008 championship, but it helps. Four of the countries whose shirts bear the …
Why Carlsberg In Asia Is Hoping It Will Be The Best Tournament Yet Read MoreResearchers know global temperatures are rising. Now scientists from as far away as Finland are studying what that means for the 1 million floating residents of the Tonle Sap Lake. …
Finnish climate-change Research In Cambodia Read MoreThe Cambodian government launched its project here Friday aiming at integrating chemicals management into the country’s development planning process, said a press release from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). …
Cambodia Launches Chemicals Management Initiative Supported By Sweden Read MoreSyntensia AB has secured financing of $3.5 million with an option for an additional $4 million through a share issue directed to InnovationsKapital, a Nordic venture capital firm, and a …
Swedish Syntensia Expand In Cambodia And The Philippines Read MoreAP7, the Swedish state pension fund, said it will sell all its holdings in munitions companies that make cluster-bombs or nuclear weapons, joining a growing trend among European investment funds …
Cluster-bombs: Swedish AP7 Offload Stakes In Singapore Technologies Engineering Read MoreBy: Brodie GovanRecently confirmed as Asia’s number one brand ahead of Coca Cola and Sony, Finnish giants Nokia believe Asia holds the key to the global market. The year ahead …
Ringing in the Changes Read MoreHave you ever been searching for someone without finding them or wondering where they are? And would you like to get notified in case your car gets stolen and be …
A Finnish invention hits Asia: Keep track of your loved ones Read MoreCambodia is facing a natural resource boom, prompting donors and non-government organisations (NGOs) to warn that without measures to improve financial transparency, promote better governance and curb corruption, the potential …
Norwegian Diplomat: Cambodia Faces A Challenging Task Read More“Immigration to Finland could be made more efficient if all immigration services were centralised and housed under one roof”, says Ole Norrback, an ambassador and politician who has studied how …
Call To Create A Supra-Immigration Service In Finland Read MoreUS authorities on Thursday arrested a 58-year-old man accused of sexually abusing young Asian boys, ending a two-day global manhunt sparked by a rare public appeal from Interpol. Wayne Nelson …
US Nabs Pedophile Suspect, Ending Global Manhunt Read MoreA database of more than 520,000 images, some of unspeakable crimes: Interpol’s vast collection of photos of child sex abuse and its victims has played an important role in an …
Swedish Police Officer: Small Details Can End The Abuse Of A Child Read MoreINTERPOL is requesting the public’s assistance to identify this man, assumed to be a Scandinavian, pictured in a series of child sexual abuse images posted on the Internet. The man …
Help find this man in child sex abuse images Read MoreGlobal warming and economic exploitation destabilise key lake’s ecosystem. The Great Lake of Tonle Sap has always been Cambodia’s spring of life. Abundant fish stock and seasonal flooding to fertilise …
Thai And Finnish Scientists Will Soon Begin Examine Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake Read MoreA Danish documentary, “And the U.N. Came,” blames U.N. troops for creating the AIDS crisis in Cambodia. The film documents how U.N. soldiers spread the disease by having sex with …
A Danish Documentary Blames U.N. Troops For The AIDS Crisis In Cambodia. Read MoreThe Danish woman, Axelexen Johanne Vinther, who got arrested for an attempt to smuggle more than 10000 headache pills tablets out of Cambodia, is now held in police custody. And …
Danish Woman In Custody Risk Up To 10 Years in Cambodian Prison Read MoreMiss Landmine parades beautiful female amputee landmine victims on the catwalk as they compete to win prosthetic limbs. Miss Landmine Angola 2008 was crowned the event’s inaugural winner this month, …
Cambodia Will Play Host To Miss Landmine 2009 Read MoreSomaly Mam of Cambodia, who has campaigned against trafficking and child prostitution was Wednesday named winner of the World’s Children’s Prize. Queen Silvia of Sweden, one of the patrons of …
Cambodian Campaigner Get World’s Children’s Prize In Stockholm Read MoreA 45-year old Danish woman has been arrested in Cambodia for attempting to smuggle narcotics. According to local Camboadian media reports quoted by Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet on Friday, she …
Danish Woman Arrested in Cambodia Read MoreOil could turn Cambodia into Asia’s Norway. That was the word in a UN-sponsored conference to discuss strategies to deal with the country’s expected offshore petroleum reserves held this Wednesday.Bangkok-based Norwegian …
Combodia as Asia’s Norway? Read MoreNorway has agreed to contribute NOK60 million for 2007-2009 to two special funds set up under the Asan Development Bank, headquartered in Manila, Philippines. One trust fund finances water projects …
Norway Gives 60 Million NOK to Asian Development Bank Projects Read MoreOfficial from the Danish representation in Phnom Penh, Tom Barthel Hansen, expresses concern regarding Cambodian genocide tribunal’s wish to triple it’s budget to 170 million dollars from the original 56,3 …
Danish Official Questions the Cambodian Tribunal’s New Budget Read MoreTwenty eight new primary school buildings in the six districts of Pursat province were officially inaugurated on Dec. 17, with the total cost of more than 400,000 U.S. dollars funded …
Save the Children Norway-Cambodia to Build More Schools in Pursat District Read MoreThe road to the CC2 prison out side is bumpy and narrow. The wheels of the car whirl dust on the front window. On the open truck bed of the …
Children in Prison – No Place To Grow Up. Read MoreGrowing up in a diplomatic family, politics was always part of the dinner table conversation at home for Lennart Linnér, the new Swedish Ambassador to Thailand, Burma, Cambodia and Laos. …
New Swedish Ambassador to Thailand Read MoreIf Danes who are living abroad were entitled to vote at the national election the Conservative Party would be much more powerful. This is the obvious conclusion when comparing the …
Danes Abroad are More Conservative Read MoreThe Finnish government plans to fund a total of 2 million euros (US$2.87 million) over four years to help develop a hydropower programme in the Mekong River Basin which will …
Finland Funds Mekong Hydropower Projects Read MoreA head of the up coming election in Denmark on November 13th, Danes World Wide has held an unofficial election to see how the political picture would appear in Denmark …
Result of Unofficial Election by Danes Abroad Read More