Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
Nokia expands network coverage for Thailand’s second largest mobile operator Total access Communication PLC (DTAC), as part of an existing exclusive frame agreement. Under the agreement, Nokia delivers a significant …
Nokia Expands DTAC Network in Thailand Read MoreSAS has decided to terminate all its commercial traffic to and from Singapore due to the substantial – yet unspecified – deficit that this route produces. Thus the Scandinavian airline …
SAS Closes Singapore Connection; Finnair Seeks To Expand Read MoreElectrowatt-Ekono, a subsidiary of the Finnish engineering and consulting company Jaakko Poyry Group Oy has announced they have been awarded a contract extention with Petro Vietnam. The contract includes project …
Finland’s Jaakko Poyry Group Wins Contract Extention In Vietnam Read MoreFinnish ambassador to Malaysia, Lauri Korpinen, last week announced that his government was eager to step up dealings with Malaysia. Right now the Finns are aiming for defence contracts and …
Finland Steps Up For Malaysian Defence Contracts Read More“The transaction strongly supports Wärtsilä’s strategy to expand our Ship Power and Service businesses by broadening our global service offering,” Ole Johansson Wärtsilä chief executive said in a statement. Under …
Finland’s Wärtsilä To Acquire Singapore’s Total Automation Read MoreFinland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs has told embassy staff to keep their guard up after the attack on the Danish embassy in Indonesia. Finland shares buildings with other Nordic countries …
Finland Tells Jakarta Embassy Staff To Be Cautious Read MoreSome time next week the world will see the largest freefall formation ever become a reality featuring no less than 400 skydivers freefalling to the ground below them in Thailand. …
45 Nordic Skydivers Join World Record Jump Attempt Over Thailand Read MoreSocial Democratic Party and Left Alliance candidate Tarja Halonen, Finland’s first female president, has been re-elected for a second six-year term as President of Finland. Moderate rightist opponent Sauli Niinistö …
Tarja Halonen Wins Second Term As Finnish President Read MoreMarita Liulia has taken the Tarot and made it into a vehicle for contemporary art through the use of digital technology. Now the Finnish artist will stage an exhibition featuring …
Finnish Artist To Stage Tarot Exhibition in Bangkok Read MoreElectrowatt-Ekono Philippines, Inc., which is part of the Finnish Jaakko Pöyry Group’s Energy business group, has been awarded an operation and maintenance (O&M) contract by CIPP II Power Corporation worth …
Jaakko Pöyry Awarded Two New Contracts In Philippines Read MoreRepresentatives of two Nordic IT companies and the Swedish Chamber of Commerce will go to Philippines next month to explore the country’s potential according to Mary Borromeo-Hedfors, Philippines trade representative …
Nordic Firms Considering Philippines for IT Potential Read MoreThe Aquaculture Research Institute of Vietnam plans to import more salmon eggs from Finland in order to expand a pilot salmon and sturgeon farming program in the northern mountains of …
Vietnam Plans to Import More Finnish Salmon Eggs Read MoreFinnish ambassador to the Philippines Riitta Resch and Swedish ambassador to the Philippines H.E. Annika Markovic, were among other EU envoys who recently visited Mindanao in the southern Philippines to …
Swedish, Finnish Ambassadors and EU Envoys Visit Mindanao Read MoreFinland’s Kuntarahoitus Municipality Finance (KMF) said it is planning an investor roadshow in Australia and Asia via Australia’s largest bank, National Australia Bank (NAB). The roadshow will be headed by …
Finland Firm Plans Investor Roadshow Read MoreThe Nordic Chambers has organised a panel discussion involving four international schools in Thailand on January 11, 2006 at the Conrad Hotel, Bangkok. The schools invited to participate were Bangkok …
Nordic Chamber Meet Discusses Education in Thailand Read MoreIndonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla will visit Finland soon to meet with exiled leaders of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and to discuss further steps for maintaining peace in Aceh. …
Indonesian Vice President to Meet Aceh Exiles Read MoreFinnish meteorological and aerospace instrument maker Vaisala is to outsource some of the company’s measurement systems division production functions to Malaysia, the company said January 12. Vaisala is to start …
Finland’s Vaisala to Outsource in Malaysia Read MoreAccording to the calculations made by the polling stations themselves, the number of Finns who came to vote at the Finnish embassies, consulates and other polling facilities abroad was well …
More Than 29,000 Finns Voted Abroad in the First Round of Presidential Elections Read MoreAn exhibition of the famous Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto will take place in Museum Nasional, Jakarta from January 13 to February 06, 2006. The exhibition Alvar Aalto Houses …
Alvar Aalto’s Exhibition in Jakarta – Museum Nasional Read MoreNordic Institute for Contemporary Art (NIFCA) launched an Artist-in-Residence Exchange program. The program aims to negotiate cultural differences, explore the potential to engage in inter and cross cultural activities, as …
Nordic countries and Singapore join hands in Artist Exchange Program Read MoreThe Government of Finland will provide a $4.7 million grant for the Sustaining Livelihoods Project in the Tonle Sap in Cambodia. The project will help improve livelihoods and reduce poverty …
Finland Grants Cambodia’s Sustaining Livelihoods Project Read MoreDr. Alongkorn Chutinan, the brain surgeon in charge of treating the Danish patient Jan Johansen in Bangkok Pattaya Hospital, suggests that a Medical Insurance should be a precondition for tourists …
Medical Insurance Condition for Visa? Read MoreIn Finland, the round in the Presidential Election is held on 15 January 2006 and the possible second round on 29 January 2006. Meanwhile, Finnish Expatriates can vote for their …
Advance Voting Abroad of Finnish Presidential Elections 2006 Read MoreA consortium of Finnish research institutes and companies presented its study and recommendations on a tsunami and disaster Early Warning System to members of the Thai government, authorities and research …
Finland Presents Its Tsunami Early Warning System to Thai Read MoreThailand tested its Tsunami Warning System on Friday 16 December. The training aims to ensure that people are well trained to handle the possible incident. The test covered 6 …
Thailand’s Training on Tsunami Warning System Read MoreNokia and Advanced Info Service Plc (AIS), one of Thailand’s leading mobile phone service operators, have signed a deal worth over USD 55 million to expand Thailand’s AIS GSM network …
Nokia Wins USD 55 Million Network Expansion Deal in Thailand Read MoreNordic Investment Bank (NIB) held a seminar on providing credits to Vietnamese businesses in Quy Nhon city in the central Binh Dinh province on 23 November, 2005. NIB vice president …
Nordic Bank Continues Lending to Vietnamese Businesses Read MoreNorway is the most expensive country in the world according to a survey brought in the Danish newspaper, Jyllandsposten. The annual survey done by the analysis company ECA International shows …
Expensive Scandinavia Read MoreThree Tsunami sirenes have already been set up at Patong Beach, and the entire island of Phuket will have 18 sirenes installed in tall towers along the coast. The local …
Tsunami Sirenes Ready for New Tourist Season Read MoreThe Nordic countries had submitted 21 entries out of a total 679 to the official Thailand tsunami memorial design contest when the deadline for proposals was crossed 15 November. Finland …
Finland leads Nordic entries to tsunami memorial design competition Read MoreThe Royal Danish Embassy in Singapore will handle all the Schengen Visa applications on behalf of other Nordic countries due to the coming pilot project during 7 November 2005 – …
Nordic Embassies Singapore to Join Nordic Visa Co-operation Read MoreAll people injured and relatives of the diseased, who want to take part in the the Boxing Day memorial, can apply the Thai government to have the trip to Thailand …
Finns turn down Tsunami memorial Read MoreThe glittering spectacle of Viking helmets and Scandinavian flags greeted the European Young Professionals on Wednesday as they descended on Stable Lodge on Sukhumvit Soi 8 in downtown Bangkok for …
Vikings In Style Read MoreFinland has submitted seven entries, most of all Nordic countries, to the official Thai tsunami memorial design competition. Sweden comes second with three entries followed by two from Denmark. Norway …
Twelve Nordic entries to tsunami memorial competition Read MoreThe Finnish airline Air Finland is launching low-cost flights to Bangkok, Thailand every Monday during the winter season. Earlier, Air Finland arranged charter flights to Bangkok.It will be on a …
Air Finland to Fly to Bangkok Read MoreSanta Claus takes flight on the flanks of Finland’s national airline Finnair’s long-haul boeing MD-11 fleet. A happily waving Seven-meter high Santa will be attached onto all Finair long-haul aircraft …
Santa Claus Takes Flight Read MoreA signing ceremony on the extension of VIE 02/001 project for the period 2005-2010 was held in Hanoi on 17 October, the International Day for Poverty Reduction and Hunger Eradication. …
UNDP Funds Extension of Poverty Reduction Project in Vietnam Read MoreFinland is interested to assemble armoured vehicles in Malaysia, said Mari Kiviniemi, the Foreign Trade and Development Minister. For the primary stage, they want to export this technology into Malaysia …
Finland Keen to Assemble Armoured Vehicles in Malaysia Read MoreDiving is a passion for Mikko and for many years Koh Samui was his favourite diving destination. One day a Norwegian friend who managed a hotel on Samui asked him …
Where Dining Is a Symphony Read MoreForeigners who wish to apply for the free visit to Thailand to participate in the Tsunami Commemorative Ceremony on 26 December 2005 must provide a number of traumatic evidence to …
Traumatic Application for Tsunami Commemorative Ceremony Read MoreFinnish engineering group Wärtsilä said in a Helsinki stock exchange statement Thursday 6 October that they had received orders worth more than EUR 50 million for 32 engines from Singapore’s …
Wärtsilä Get EUR 50 Million Order by Singapore’s Keppel FELS Read MoreFinland’s Comptel Corporation will deliver mediation and provisioning solutions to Shin Satellite in Thailand. The agreement to deliver Comptel EventLink® mediation solution and Comptel InstantLink® provisioning solution for operators’ IP-based …
Finland to Deliver Solution for Thai’ Shin Satellite Read MoreDeputy Foreign Minister of Laos Phongsavath Boupha visits Finland on 10-11 October. The visit aims to focus on bilateral relations of the two countries as well as development issues. During …
Deputy FM of Laos Visits Finland Read MoreThailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and Foreign Minister Dr. Kantathi Suphamongkhon will pay an official visit to Finland at the end of next week. The Prime Minister leaves Bangkok Sunday …
Thai PM visits Finland Read MoreMint of Finland, the Finnish coin production company signed contract with the Thai Treasury Department to produce and deliver 670 million pieces of one (1) Baht coins to Thailand. The …
Thai Coins to be Minted in Finland Read MoreTechnopolis has signed a broad cooperation agreement with Ascendas, the parent company of Singapore Science Park, reported on 26 September. Both organizations are world-class providers of environments for high-tech companies, …
Finnish Technopolis and Singapore Science Park Sign Cooperation Agreement Read MoreA Finnish consortium offers a tsunami warning system cost EUR 8-10 million to Thailand, reported on 6 October. The consortium estimated that the warning system would be ready within one …
Finland Offer Tsunami Warning System to Thai Read MoreWärtsilä Corporation will deliver totally eight gas-fuelled generating sets with a combined output of 48 MWe to Batam and South Sumatra. Two Wärtsilä 18V34SG sets were contracted by the Indonesian …
Wärtsilä gas power for Indonesia Read MoreFilms from Denmark, Sweden and Finland will this year join the 15th European Union Film Festival in Singapore. The event will be run between 7 – 16 October at the …
Nordic Films in Singapore Read MoreFor almost 30 years the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in Aceh province has been waging a guerilla war against the regime of the Indonesian government. The separatist war started in …
Success of Finnish Mediator: Aceh Peace Talk Read More