Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
A group of popular artists from China visited Sweden on September 20 with performances to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. The event with the Embrace China Performances was organized by All-China Federation …
Stockholm celebrated Moon Festival with Embrace China Performances Read More
On September 5, Swedish Women’s Educational Association (SWEA) in Beijing gathered 17 of its members to walk the wild stretch of the wall between Lianhuachi and Mutianyu. With a clear sky …
SWEA’s members in Beijing walk on Great Wall of China Read More
On September 17, the Danish Minister for Science, Innovation and higher Education, Morten Østergaard, opened ”Denmark Day” event at Peking University in Beijing, helping Danish higher education institutions and companies …
Danish Minister for Higher Education opens “Denmark Day” in Beijing Read More
On September 11, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang met with Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen on the sidelines of the annual Summer Davos Forum in the northeast China city of Dalian. …
Chinese Premier meets Finland’s PM Read More
The Centre of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of the Embassy of Sweden in Beijing and Stated-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), in collaboration with the Swedish Institute and Centre …
CSR collaboration between Sweden and Chinese state-owned enterprises Read More
The Danish Ambassador to China, Mr. Friis Arne Petersen, visited Shijiazhuang the capital of Hebei province on September 11 with a Danish-Swedish business delegation. In Shijiazhuang, the Ambassador met Vice …
Danish ambassador visits Hebei with Danish-Swedish business delegation Read More
The Danish Minister for Business and Growth, Mr. Henrik Sass Larsen, visited China on September 5-10. The aim was to strengthen the economic ties between Denmark and China through a …
Danish Minister for Business and Growth visits China Read More
Swedish paper and hygiene product maker SCA Group Holding BV said it would buy the remaining shares in Hong Hong-listed tissue maker Vinda International Holdings for HK$8.65 billion (US$1.12 billion) …
Swedish firm SCA buys tissue-maker Vinda to expand in China Read More
Finnish elevator and escalator company Kone is supplying 37 elevators and 62 escalators to move people up, down and around in a new a commercial complex to be built in …
Kone will move people in Jinan City Read More
Finnish food company Raisio has launched its Benecol yogurt drinks in Hong Kong, as part of its efforts to enter new markets in Brazil, Russia, India and China. Benecol products are …
Raisio launches Benecol yogurt drinks in Hong Kong Read More
Rovio, the Finnish company known for its Angry Birds games, is now expanding its wings to education. The company is exporting Finnish educational expertise to the world, first to China. …
Rovio opens first Finnish Education Center in Shanghai Read More
Students from the School of Textiles Fashion Design under University College of Borås in Sweden will show their graduation collections in Shanghai this autumn. It is the first time that …
China Next Stop for Swedish Fashion Designers Read MoreSwedish executive Jonas Engwall has been named the new CEO of RTL CBS Asia Entertainment Network, the recently formed joint venture between CBS Studios International and pan-European broadcaster RTL targeting …
Swedish Jonas Engwall to launch RTL CBS in Asia Read More
China Operation Center, the Finnish co-operation organisation, has concluded a significant framework agreement with the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration (Shanghai FDA). The agreement will open up a direct sales …
New sales channel for Finnish food safety expertise in China Read More
A Taiwanese student in Norway has for more than a month tried to change his nationality on his Norwegian residency card, but without luck, Taipei Times reported. On Thursday 5 …
A Taiwanese is a Chinese in Norway Read More
Sweden’s SCA Group has decided to bid 8,6 billion Hong Kong dollars for the Chinese tissue company Vinda. The offer is made in effort to acquire all the shares on …
Swedish Tissue maker makes billion offer for Chinese Peer Read More
“China is so big, while Denmark is so small. But we face the same core challenge from the aging society. In Denmark we have had some experience dealing with the …
Denmark and China to share experiences on aging problem Read More
On Saturday the 8th of September the Royal Danish Embassy launched a new CSR network – Danish Footprint Network, the Embassy said on its Facebook-page. The event took place during …
Danish Embassy launched CSR network in China Read More
Raisio, a Finland-based food company, has unveiled its Benecol yogurt drinks in Hong Kong, as part of its efforts to expand its presence to the Brazil, Russia, India, China and …
Finnish firm Raisio unveils yogurt drinks in Hong Kong Read More
As people often confuse Sweden with Switzerland, the Consulate General of Sweden in Shanghai and Sweden’s official website – Sweden.cn have joined forces with the Consulate General of Switzerland in …
“Sweden-Switzerland” campaign launched in Shanghai Read More
The brand new established Swedish Beer club opened on Friday August 30 with more than 500 guests. Also Chinese press showed up to cover the event. The Swedish Beer Club …
Swedish Beer club opened in Shanghai Read More
The colorful plastic bricks produced by Danish toy maker Lego are so popular in Asia, that the company now plans to build a factory in China. The plan was revealed …
LEGO now to be “Made in China” Read More
Geely-owned car maker Volvo Cars expects to sell more than 50,000 cars in China this year, Chief Executive Hakan Samuelsson said on Wednesday, Reuters reported. Volvo, wholly owned by China’s Zhejiang …
Volvo Cars sees its China car sales above 50,000 this year Read More
Denmark’s Dairy Company Arla Foods is working on its first formal marketing programme in China, Campaign Asia-Pacific reported. The communication campaign is going to be run by Draftfcb, after the …
Arla Foods to start marketing program in China Read More
Finnish elevator and escalator company Kone has won an order for 108 elevators and 57 escalators at Dazhongli, a mixed-use development on Shanghai’s flourishing commercial street, West Nanjing Road, the …
Finland’s elevator company Kone wins Shanghai order Read More
Eighteen leading Danish and Denmark-based international companies jointly launched a talent-hunting alliance, the Consortium for Global Talent, earlier this week to attract and retain more skilled foreign professionals into Denmark. …
Attracting Chinese talents is top priority for Danish CEO Read More
Nokia has sold its handset division to Microsoft for USD 5,6 billion. That is already old news, but what happened to the Finnish mobile phone maker that dominated the market …
Nokia ends an era after a particularly brutal fall in Asia Read More
The Norwegian government has committed up to NOK14.3m (US$2.3m) in funding to improve conditions for textile workers in China, Vietnam, India and Bangladesh, the Norway Post reported. The money will …
Norway to improve conditions for textile workers in Asian countries Read More
Denmark’s Minister for Health, Astrid Krag visited Beijing in China from 28 – 30 August. The Minister for Health in Denmark, Astrid Krag visited Beijing in the end of August. …
Danish Minister of Health visited China Read More
Finnish Dibitassut, the children’s TV series based on animation characters created by children, has gained over 30 million viewers in China and elsewhere in Asia. The same animation characters will …
Finnish kids TV series watched by over 30 million in China and Asia Read More
Vidar Andersen has been appointed as the new Head of Asia in the Norwegian DNB Bank with base in Singapore effective from Monday September 2. Vidar Andersen previously held the …
New Head of Asia to Norway’s DNB Bank as Erik Borgen quits Read More
Annually The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies invites applications for the Snorry Sturluson Icelandic Fellowships. The Fellowships are granted to writers, translators and scholars (not to university students) in …
Apply for the Snorri Sturluson Icelandic Fellowships now Read More
On Monday 2 September the Swedish city Västerås, 100 km West of Stockholm, is visited by a delegation from the Chinese city Jinan, in the partnership region Shandong. The delegation …
Chinese delegations visits Swedish city Västerås Read More
The Swedish Chamber of Commerce and Swedish Club in Shanghai are throwing a traditionally crayfish party later in September. With three weeks to the party it is nearly sold out …
Crayfish party in Shanghai almost sold out Read More
Swedish Chamber of Commerce in China is looking for a new person to teach in Swedish in the autumn. Since spring 2011 the Swedish Chamber of Commerce has offered several …
New Swedish language teacher in Beijing – is that you? Read More
Sweden-based home furnishing giant IKEA Group opened its first wholly owned manufacturing facility in China on Wednesday 28 August through subsidiary IKEA Industry Group, ChinaDaily USA reported. The factory is …
IKEA opened manufacturing facility in China Read More
In August 1988 Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) was the first airline to open a route from Scandinavia to China with the Copenhagen-Beijing connection. Today SAS has another route going directly to …
SAS celebrates 25 years anniversary with China Read More
The longer fresh fish is placed in stock the lower the quality gets. That should be easy to understand to most people, but in China the Norwegian salmon is often …
Norwegian salmon held back in Chinese supermarkets Read More
The auto maker Volvo, which is the Swedish subsidiary of Chinese-based Geely Group, has received permission to build a second and third plant in China. During the autumn of this …
Green light for Volvo to build two new plants in China Read More
The Danish Ambassador in China Arne Friis Petersen gave a long video interview to People’s Daily Online in China. Denmark is the best destination for Chinese investors. That was how …
Danish ambassador visited People’s Daily in China Read More
Three years of a diplomatic freeze between the top level contact in China and Norway seems to be phasing out, Norwegian news desk reports. The new government in China can …
Norway and China want conflict behind them Read More
Nokia 106 and Nokia 107 Dual SIM are the latest addition to the gallery of the Finnish multi-national corporation Nokia. Both the phones support quad band GSM networks with Nokia …
Nokia unveils two new handsets in China Read More
August 13 was a very special day for the Danish Boarding School Stenhus Kostskole in Holbæk. 30 Chinese students and the Chinese cultural attaché visited the school in a cultural …
Chinese students visited Danish school in cultural meeting Read More
The Chinese competition authorities (MOFCOM) have approved the closing of the transaction whereby Hydro and Orkla will have 50/50 ownership of the planned Sapa joint venture, reports Norwegian Hydro in …
Chinese competition authorities have approved Sapa joint venture in aluminium solutions Read More
In attempt to build a brand in the growing Chinese vodka market, the Swedish brand Absolut has focused on educating the consumers on how to mix and consume vodka, the …
Swedish brand Absolut teaches Chinese how to drink vodka Read More
The City hall of Aarhus was last week visited by representatives from the Chinese school Nanjing Qinhuai High School. The aim was to start a partnership with Aarhus’ Katedralskole, that …
New Danish-Chinese school partnership to start in Aarhus Read MoreFrom 92 percent in 2012 to 29 percent in the first half of 2013. Officials believes the Nobel Peace Prize reward from 2010 is the main reason why China is …
Norway’s salmon export to China drops dramatically Read More
Yesterday Nokia unveiled its Lumia 1020 in Nanjing in China in cooperation with Suning, China Unicom and Microsoft. The mobile phone features a 41-megapixel camera sensor that is higher than …
Nokia launches Lumia 1020 in China Read More
The Chinese sculpture and painting artist Yue Minjun has been awarded with the main prize of the upcoming H. C. Andersen Festival in Odense in Denmark for his creation of …
Chinese artist awarded with H.C. Andersen Festival Prize Read More
The wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has booked an order from Chinese gas group Hanas New Energy. Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas will be supplying a Chinese regional gas supplier …
Vestas to supply Chinese gas supplier for the fifth time Read More