Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
A.P. Moller-Maersk (APM) may be poised to buy shares of ‘strategic’ harbours in Southeast Asia, according to Reuters news agency.Maersk director Thomas Oerting Jorgensen reportedly told the agency that the Danish giant is considering …
Maersk Eyes Harbour Stakes In Indonesia and Vietnam Read MoreIndonesian newspaper Jakarta Post has shed more light on the case where floor manufacturers from Europe including Junckers A/S from Denmark, are being accused of selling wood which has been cut down illegally. The …
Junckers Takes More Heat Over Indonesian Wood Read MoreThe Viet Nam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) is to launch a 53,000 tonne-capacity vessel, the largest ever built in Viet Nam, in northern coastal Quang Ninh province April 6.The ship, christened ‘Florence’ is the …
Vietnam Launches Largest Ever Locally-Built Ship Read MoreThe service began with M.V. ASTOR’s maiden voyage from Laem Chabang April 3.The new service provides direct services between Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan and will be part of the Maersk …
Maersk Connects Thailand And Japan Read MoreDanish-Armenian Elizabeth Romhild who has spent the last two decades in Thailand will present ten of her most recent oil canvases to be displayed in a solo exhibition in June in Denmark. …
Danish Artist Previews Work In Bangkok Read MoreThe smell of burned glue, rubber and leather still hung in the air above Ecco’s Ayutthaya factory facilities Sunday evening, after a fire broke out early Saturday destroying a store and nearly 400,000 pairs of shoes. The …
Thai Fire Puts Ecco Staff Worldwide On Overtime Read MoreThe Danish Embassy in Hanoi has announced that a decision has been made to postpone the visit to Vietnam by Danish Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Bendt Bendtsen, scheduled to take place later this …
Danish Minister’s Vietnam Visit Postponed Read MoreOne of Ecco’s five factories in Thailand was levelled by fire Saturday but none of the approximately 30 employees on duty at the time of the fire were hurt. An estimated 400,000 pairs of …
Fire Destroys Ecco Factory in Thailand: No Casualties Read MoreOccupying most of two floors in the KPN building on Rama 9 at the heart of Bangkok, LV Technology is a company whose purpose is to assist clients in the cement and …
LV Technology Gearing Up For Further Expansion Read MoreThe European Commission has adopted proposals by the European Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson to impose a provisional anti-dumping duty on leather shoes from China and Vietnam.The anti-dumping tax was adopted after a …
EU To Tax Chinese, Vietnamese Leather Shoes Read More