Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
Carlsberg may soon find its way back unto the beer shelves in Thailand. After last year’s legal agreement with multi-billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi from Thai Beverage, the Danish-owned beer giant considers …
Possible Comeback for Carlsberg in Thailand Read More“A 44-year-old Dane has been imprisoned in Southern-Thailand for 15 months charged with arson. The Dane, James Christensen, says he is innocent, but he is still waiting to go to …
Imprisoned Dane Waiting For Trial Read MoreYesterday Danish daily Jyllands-Posten ran a story explaining how Danida-councillors had brought spouses and children to a seminar on a five-star hotel in Vietnam on the Danish tax-payers expense. The …
Minister: No Families On Danida Seminars Read MoreThe Danes in the cold north seems to be unable to get enough of Thailand and this makes airlines and travel agencies set up extra flights for the Danes looking …
Danes Can’t Get Enough of Thailand Read MoreNormally chloramfenikol is used to treat various deceases in fish, but leftovers of the antibiotic seems to have found its way into a bag of pangasius fish with mushrooms and …
Medicine Leftovers Found in Danish Food from Vietnam Read MoreWhen you travel from Denmark to Thailand, Indonesia or any other long distance flight with SAS the drinks are free. After the 1st of October this will change, but only …
Drinks Are No Longer Free on Economy Class Read MoreSince Saturday hundreds of international relief workers and doctors from the Indonesian Red Cross have been working in the catastrophe area – but language problems makes the corporation difficult. Monday …
Danish Red Cross Sends Catastrophe Team To Indonesia Read MoreClean drinking water is in short supply in the southern areas of Vietnam, as salt water from the ocean is mixing with ground water in the low region – rendering …
Danish Technology Creates Drinking Water In Vietnam Read MoreDanish daily Jyllands-Posten today questioned the way Danida spends the tax-payer’s money.“More than a hundred persons with relations to Danida, including spouses, girl/boyfriends and children spend the 10 – 13 May …
Danida Accused of Excessive Luxury Spending Read MoreThe Vietnamese partner Bac Ninh Company makes handicrafts for foreign markets whereas the Danish partner company Prodex develops, manufactures and markets a range of garden products in Europe. The cooperation, …
Vietnamese Bamboo Fences To Enter Europe Read MoreFour Danish badminton players have arrived in Surabaya, Indonesia – about 300 kilometers from the earthquake-hit city of Yogykarta – to take part in this week’s Indonesian Open. The tournament …
Badminton Players Defy Unrest in Indonesia Read MoreFor the second consequetive time, Roskilde Thaiboxing Club will send a fighter to the World Cup in Thaiboxing. The defending Danish champion in the 67-kilo class, the only 18 year-old …
Danish Thaiboxer Ready for World Cup in Thailand Read MoreJust one year ago Danish travel agency C&C Travel happily announced that they had brought their very own cruise ship. The Coco Explorer 2 with room for 300 passengers. The …
C&C Travel Sells Cruise Ship Read MoreSmall and Medium Enterprises and 15 business associations in Vietnam have been mobilized to work with HIV/AIDS in the workplace by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), which …
Vietnamese Enterprises Mobilized To Fight HIV/AIDS Read MoreWhen Danish Marius Pedersen first started Scandinavian Woodworking Machinery, the company consisted of Marius and a few workers. Since then a lot of things have happened. The company has changed …
Out Of The Icebox Into the Future Read MoreOwned by Dane Klaus Krogh Christensen, the Storm P Bar & Restaurant, named after famous Danish cartoonist Robert Storm Petersen, is the only Danish restaurant in Vietnam. It is a …
Storm P, Ho Chi Minh’s Scandinavian Meeting Point Read MoreBorneo Child Aid Society runs education project for over 3000 underprivileged children in remote Areas of Sabah, Malaysia.Numerous children in the Malaysian state Sabah on Borneo live in plantations and …
Help For Malaysian Kids Goes Online Read MoreAs the Danish summer holidays are approaching the interest in going to Thailand is increasing.Danes are looking to fly to Bangkok in order to start off their holiday in the …
Danish Tour Operator Hires 747-400 To Meet Demand Read MoreThe Danish Development Minister, Ulla Tørnæs, applauded when the money from last year’s bottle refund collection from Roskilde Festival was donated to DanChurchAid partners in Cambodia, writes the online news-site …
Roskilde Festival Fights Modern Slavery in Cambodia Read MoreEarlier this week Carlsberg’s chief executive Nils Smedegaard Andersen asked that his employees should be willing to take more risks and declared himself ready to take an economical beating in …
Carlsberg Consider Vietnam Expansion Read MoreBang & Olufsen, the Danish company that designs high end audio products, television sets, and telephones, will celebrate its 80th Anniversary Exhibition during May 24 – June 4 at the …
B&O To Stage Exhibition, Launch Asian Tour In Bangkok Read MoreArne Christensen is an “old man” in Thailand, so to speak, as he has been in the country for 16 years now. Long ago he started his Thai career working …
Always Recommended To Leave Read MoreEuropean retailers are uniting to face down the threat of new EU taxes being imposed on children’s shoes. The Children’s Shoe Coalition, includes IBEC’s Retail Ireland and has members from Belgium, …
New Coalition To Fight EU Duty On Children’s Shoes Read MorePerhaps your next dinner could consist of Norwegian salmon with rice, broccoli and sour cream. And if so, now you can access the recipe on a new website www.Nordicplate.orgNordicplate is …
Norway Promotes Nordic Cuisine On the Web Read MoreSome hundred people showed up yesterday evening at the Admiral’s Pub to say an early goodbye to Danish ambassador Ulrik Helweg-Larsen and his wife Christina.The couple is leaving Thailand this …
Danish Ambassador To Thailand Bids An Informal Farewell Read MoreHercules Crane, a Danish hydraulic company in Thailand, has opened a new factory in South Malaysia near Johor Baharu where the company is to produce offshore cranes. The company aims to …
Danish Crane Company Opens New Factory In Malaysia Read MoreA photo campaign organized by the Thai government and held to mark the 60th anniversary of Thai King Bhumibol’s accession to the throne, asked people to select the six best …
Danish Royalty Featured In Best Shots Of Thai King Read MoreOn May 17 the Aalborg Industries Vietnam opened its new plant in Haiphong, one of the main centres for the Vietnamese shipbuilding industry.What the joint venture hopes to achieve with …
Aalborg Industries Opens Vietnam Factory Read MoreTwo companies – the Vietnamese DTT and the Danish Globeteam – have joined forces to create a strong team in the area of software development and services. DTT has experience within software …
Vietnam: The Next IT Outsourcing Capital? Read MoreWith technical assistance from the Danish-funded Organic Agriculture Project 17 farmers in the northern province of Vinh Phuc have conducted an experiment in organic farming.The Vietnamese farmers tried producing squash …
Vietnamese Farmers Go Organic With Danish Help Read MoreAt the beginning of April noted Danish writer Hanne-Vibeke Holst arrived in Singapore with the purpose of enjoying a holiday in private. But while there, the writer and her family …
Hanne-Vibeke Holst Visits Church In Singapore Read More“Large demonstrations and other action are planned Tuesday, May 16, to respond to major attacks on ethnic minorities in eastern Myanmar,” said a press release issued last Saturday by the …
Denmark, Norway To Protest Myanmar Minority Attacks Read MoreTyphoon Chanchu killed at least 35 and made almost 50,000 people homeless as it laid havoc to the Philippines. The capital Manila, eastern and central provinces were hit hardest. In …
At Least 35 Dead After Typhoon Hits Philippines Read MoreThe book ranks 61 national and regional economies according to 312 criteria that measure how the nations create and maintain conditions favourable to business.In order for Denmark to climb higher …
Singapore Beats Out Denmark In Country Competitiveness Read MoreThomas Raldorf, editor of the Scandinavian Bulletin for a number of years was elected new Chairman of the Scandinavian Society Siam on May 10 2006. Other members elected to the …
Scandinavian Society Siam Appoints Thomas Raldorf Chairman Read MoreThree companies – namely the Vietnamese Mediplantex and the two Danish companies Dansk Famaceutisk Industri and Eurocare Danmark – have joined forces to improve and increase the production of the …
Danish-Vietnam JV To Produce Malaria Treatment Read MoreCarlsberg’s growing sales in Asia has contributed to the Danish beer giant’s global sales increase, according to the company’s newly published sales figures for the first quarter of the current …
Asia, Eastern Europe Boost Carlsberg Q1 Sales Read MoreThis week the political party Venstre – the party of Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen – will announce its suggestions for the future distribution of Danish financial aid to the …
Incumbent Danish Party Reportedly Wants End To Vietnam Aid Read MoreLate last week Hoang Thach Cement Co., under Vietnam Cement Corp., signed a contract with Danish contractor FL Smidth to install its third production line worth 52.9 million euro and …
FL Smidth Lands Big Contract in Vietnam Read MoreFollowing a heated debate in the media about environmental and health problems caused by open landfills near drinking water reservoirs, the Malaysian government has decided to immediately shut down and seal …
Waste Handling Opportunities Increase In Malaysia Read MoreThe Supreme Court of Victoria in Australia has sentenced the 35 year-old Singaporean Wee Quay Tan to 24 years in prison after he pleaded guilty over playing a significant role …
Singaporean Heroin Smuggler Gets 24 Years for Drug Run Read MoreFrom May 10 to May 28 cinema fans in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are again to be charmed by the films of the 5th European Film Festival. Among …
Danish Film Shown at Vietnam’s European Film festival Read MoreViking Veterans won the Veteran’s Cup in Bangkok for the third time in a row at Patana on May 7.They beat the Winking Frogs team in the final 3-0, making them the first team …
Viking Veterans Win Third Championship In a Row Read MoreSeven months into the current fiscal year, the Danish firm Lodam Electronics is able to present increasing profits and an almost doubled periodical turn-over. Although the company’s business headquarters is …
Placing Production in Thailand Boosts Danish Business Read MoreWhen Vietnam experienced yet another outbreak of the so-called avian flu in 2005, few national aid donors were able to act as swiftly as Denmark. The Danish support was given …
Danish Bird Flu Support Praised in Vietnam Read MoreIn cooperation with the Dansk e-Learning Center, Denmark’s Ministry of Refugees, Immigration and Integration Affairs has developed and launched a comprehensive online Danish course at http://www.danskabc.dk.DanskABC is an online language …
Learning Danish Online Read MoreBADMINTON – Denmark got off to the best possible start in the Thomas Cup semi-final against Malaysia, when Danish star player Peter Gade defeated the world’s 2nd ranked Lee Chong Wei …
Denmark’s Gade Wins First Match Against Malaysia Read MoreIn dramatic fashion Denmark managed to beat Malaysia in Friday’s last semi-final at the prestigious Thomas Cup tournament in Japan. The victory was secured after five intense matches – three …
Denmark Faces China In Thomas Cup Final Read MoreThe new ambassador appointment comes hard on the heels of news that current ambassador Ulrik Helweg-Larsen is about to end his term in Bangkok. Ulrik Helweg-Larsen will move to become ambassador to Romania, …
New Danish Ambassador To Thailand Appointed Read MoreA large-scale effort to win over the Chinese market has been launched by Arla Foods, and according to the Scandinavian dairy company – which is owned by Danish and Swedish …
Arla Foods Prepares to Move Into Vietnam Read More