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Maersk Line expects container shipping to grow 7% to 8% globally this year, with trade within Asia outperforming that, in spite of soaring fuel costs and a slowing world economy. …
Maersk Introduce New China-Singapore Service Read MoreThe podium positions were decided yesterday on the final day of racing at the 2008 Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship in Århus, Denmark. Although narrowly missing out on the …
Singapore Awarded Swedish Sportsmanship Trophy In Denmark Read MoreRepresentatives of over 20 Danish enterprises will arrive in Vietnam for seeking investment opportunities. Meetings and seminars on printing and packaging and production of materials that helps protect environment and …
Danish Firms Seek Business Cooperation With Local Enterprises Read MoreViet Nam Fan Company has transferred 25 per cent of its stocks to Denmark’s Bankinvest. VinaCapital Managing Director Andy Ho said that the company had signed six contracts with domestic …
Denmark’s Bankinvest Get New Capital Read MoreThe number of Danes who want to go Bali is higher than previous years – therefore Singapore Airlines expects to serve the largest number of Danes to Bali this year, …
More Danes Go To Bali With Singapore Airlines Read MoreHanoi-Beer-Alcohol-Beverages Corp., a Vietnamese brewer partly owned by Carlsberg A/S, said pretax profit fell 9 percent in the first half because of a surge in the cost of malt used …
Habeco’s Profit Falls As Malt Import Costs Surge Read MoreMaersk Line, the world’s largest container shipping firm and a unit of Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk, said the global shipping industry is expected to grow 7 to …
Maersk Line: Asia More Shielded From A Downturn Read MoreConstruction has started on a Danish-funded project to upgrade the environmental conditions of a four-storey building for poor workers in northern mountainous Thai Nguyen province. The project is being carried …
Denmark Helps Upgrade Housing For Poor Workers Read MoreUnder an overcast sky, a maddening cacophony of birdcalls served as our alarm clock. We are bivouacked on the cold, wet sand of Tubbataha North Islet, a UNESCO World Heritage …
Tracking The Seabirds Of Tubbataha Led By Danish Ornithologist Read MoreThe Swedish Red Cross will deploy a mass water sanitation Emergency Response Unit (ERU) to Iloilo to help augment limited water supplies in the area after major pipelines were damaged …
Swedish Red Cross To Send Water Sanitation Unit For Iloilo Read MoreDuring his 4 ½ year term HE Borge Petersen has been visiting all states of Malaysia except two. He has met with all Danish companies in Malaysia. He has hosted …
A cheerful and sad goodbye Read MoreDanish watch company Skagen is celebrating success in the Singapore market after opening a new counter at Changi Airport in May 2008 and becoming a best-selling brand onboard the national …
Skagen Watches Fly High In Singapore And Beyond Read MoreA 42-year-old man from Vejle is arrested in absentia in a preliminary examination Wednesday afternoon July 9, 2008. He is charged with serious fraud and forgery after he, Friday …
The Dane Who Cashed A False Cheque Will Be Jailed When He Return To Denmark 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 MoreAbout 20 Danish businesses involved in printing and packing, and producing materials that help protect the environment and save energy, will arrive in Vietnam from 6-12 October to seek investment …
Danish Businesses Seek Opportunities In Vietnam Read MoreMany are blaming the recent increase in crimes against foreigners here in Pattaya, Thailand, on the sharp rise in the cost of living which is especially hurting the Thai population, …
Danish Man Victim in Necklace Snatch In Central Pattaya Read MoreThe Football School witch should have been held over two weeks in early July, with two courses in each of the weeks, ended up as something of an anticlimax. Where …
Danish Football School Forced To Cancel 75% Of Its Courses Read MoreSabah’s isolated orang utan population in lower Kinabatangan may become extinct in 50 years if no steps are taken urgently to set up wildlife corridor between fragmented forests, says a …
Orangutans To Be Extinct In 50 Years Read MoreThe Filipino community and friends of the Philippines in Norway and Denmark have donated a total of P565,840 to victims of Typhoon “Frank,” Malacañang said Monday. A Palace statement said …
Pinoys In Norway, Denmark, Give Aid To ‘Frank’ Victims Read MoreOne or more bankers in Vejle overlooked a false cheque, and were forced to wave goodbye to 5.6 million kroner. The 5.6 million is the figure at the check, a …
Cashed False Cheque – Went To Thailand With 5.6 million Kroner Read More“The Tiger Temple” in Thailand is a major tourist attraction, but the story behind the project are based on lies. The animals are imported to Thailand under the “highly dubious …
Danish Tour Operator Boycotts Well Known Thai Tourist Attraction Read MoreThai-Danish Club has a special ability. These guys can make people wake up at 5 in the morning to gather at 6.30 outside the main auditorium of Kasetsart University – …
Thai-Danish Club Did It Again! Read MoreThe Prime Minister on July 2 gave nod to a Danish funded project. Namely a sewage and liquid waste treatment system in the capital of the northern mountainous province of …
The Government In Vietnam Approves Danish-funded Project Read MoreThe festival arranged by the Royal Thai Embassy, and several thousand people took the opportunity to check up on Thailand in the past, present and future. And not to forget, …
Great Thai Festival In Copenhagen Read MoreSingapore shipyard operator SembCorp Marine Ltd. said on Tuesday its unit SMOE has won a $400-million contract from Maersk Olie og Gas AS, a unit of Danish shipping and oil …
Singapore’s SembCorp Marine Unit Wins $400 Million Contract From Maersk Read MoreIn Vietnam, performance art is gaining favor as a way to push boundaries while evading censorship. In the last couple of years, performance artists have tried to move out of …
The Arts Used To Get Around Censorship Read MoreDanish group BankInvest signed a partnership agreement with the International Consumer Products (ICP) Company in Ho Chi Minh City Friday. The asset managing group will invest US$9.6 million in the …
Danish Group Backs Local Firm In Vietnam Read MoreThe Indonesia Children’s Choir (PSAI) Cordana has invited PSAI to represent Indonesia invited by the committee for the 8th World Symposium on Choral Music in Denmark has invited PSAI to …
Danish Invitation To Indonesian Choir Read MoreExecutive search firms in India now traverse the map to identify and hire expat talent from Vietnam, Malaysia, Finland, and other contries, to take the country into the next level …
Vietnam And Malysia Can Loose Expats To India Inc. Read MoreIn 2005, SAS divested 67 % of its share in SAS Component, now renamed to STAerospace Solutions (Europe) A/S, to Singapore Technologies Aerospace Ltd (STAerospace), the aerospace arm of Singapore …
Singapore Technologies Engineering Purchase Remaining Shares In SAS Component Read MoreMaria Sten-Knudsen is one of the 80 out of the world’s most beautiful women in the 57. Miss Universe competition, which is held in this year in Vietnam. Definitely an …
Danish Miss Universe Candidate Already In Vietnam Read More99 % of the beers sold in Laos are the good old Beer Lao. What ever beer trying to brake into the Laos market, face a tough time. The reason …
Difficult To sell Carlsberg Beers In Laos Read MoreCarlsberg’s new Laos brewery close to the Thai border, which cost 25 million to construct, has since the start of the production in March 2008, only bottled beers three days …
Carlsbergs New Brewery In Laos Hit By Postponement Of Free Trade Read MoreThai Airways International (THAI) has bowed to the inevitable again and is passing on higher costs to travellers in a new round of fuel-surcharge increases. The increases, effective on June …
THAI Announces Substantial Increases In Fuel Surcharges Read MoreDuck, roast pork, sweet potatoes with sauce – and of course ris a’la mande for dessert. Yep, 25 Danes celebrated half way to Christmas with style on Tuesday the 24th …
Merry Half X-mas In Bangkok Read MoreThai women occur in thousands of sex for money adds, but none of them want or are ready to speak with the press, writes the Danish Newspaper Nordjyske. Two …
Thai Prostitution In Denmark: A Tight-lipped Society Read MoreIf inflation is bad, consider a ‘worst-case scenario’ of Singapore sliding into stagflation, said Lim Swee, secretary-general of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) in Singapore. Mr Lim, secretary-general …
Labour Chief: Don’t Follow The Danish Example Read MoreThe world’s largest containership made her maiden call in Asia at PSA’s Pasir Panjang Terminal in Singapore yesterday, sailing on Maersk Line’s Europe-Far East service. Other Asian calls will include …
World’s Largest Containership From Denmark To Singapore Read MoreThe local authorities in Singapore and PSA have honoured group boss Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller by naming a specially selected orchid in honour of his late wife Emma. The move …
Peacemaking: Singapore Orchid Named Emma Read MoreHenrik Yde and his partner Leertchai Treetawatchaivong have with in a few years created a tiny Thai food empire in Copenhagen. The two owners both gets involved in the main …
Thai-Danish Couple Create Great Success In Copenhagen Read MoreThe June networking event in the Danish Thai Chamber of Commerce was attended by almost 50 members and guests although less members were expected due to the summertime. The informal …
Many for DTCC Summer Networking Read MoreSingapore Vikings have shown themselves very aggressive in the hunt for silverware next season. Minutes after the much anticipated transfer window opened, they captured their fist signing. The new player …
Vikings Sign Japanese Winger On A Free Transfer Read MoreA student of the University of St. La Salle Integrated School (USLS-IS)-Bacolod City was chosen as the lone Philippine representative to the Camp Rising Sun training from June 26- August …
Young Filipino Gets Scholarship Grant In Denmark Read MoreIn celebration of 150th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between the Kingdom of Denmark and the Kingdom of Thailand, the Royal Thai Embassy and others in will organize “Thai Festival”, a …
Thai Festival In Copenhagen Read MoreMaersk Contractors, a unit of Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk, said it was considering more deepwater semi-submersibles, after ordering three of the offshore rigs from Singapore’s Keppel Corp. …
Maersk Contractors Considers More Deepwater Rigs Read MoreThe quality of the machines produced in Rayong is the same as in Sweden. And it should be. Unlike many other “backyard production”, the products are for the whole world. …
High Quality Is The Key At Electrolux Professional In Rayong 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 MoreNormally, any woman would bluster and fume if she was called elephant woman. But if you just try that with Lia de Sain and Shanaya Lundorff from the south eastern …
Two Good Hearted Danish Women Looking Forward To the Elephant Dung Read MoreA new national competition sponsored by the Cultural Development and Exchange Fund (CDEF) of the Danish Embassy in Viet Nam is encouraging young performance artists. “We hope our competition can …
Danish Support: Performance Artists Get Chance To Shine At New Competition Read MoreInternational donors last week appreciated the Vietnamese government’s measures to ensure macroeconomic stability and pledged to continue supporting the country. However, donors said the government should take more specific actions …
Danish Ambassador: Vietnam should act quickly on monetary matters Read More