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With a shortage of healthcare professionals amid an aging population, Finland is open to having Filipinos fill the gap, the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs said Friday May, 2 2008.Philippine …
Philippine Ambassador: Finland Open To Filipino Nurses Read MoreThis report was by mistake re-published in 2011 on this page.For latest reports on the Thai property market, follow this link:http://www.colliers.co.th/market-reports/index.asp?cat_id=21
Scandinavian Investment in Thailand’s Property Remains Strong Read MoreScandinavian Society Siam on April 29 elected Bente Sustmann as the new Chairman for 2008-2009 succeeding outgoing Chairman Gregers Møller. Also an entirely new Board was elected with only one …
New Chairman and Board of Scandinavian Society Siam Read MoreGlobal warming and economic exploitation destabilise key lake’s ecosystem. The Great Lake of Tonle Sap has always been Cambodia’s spring of life. Abundant fish stock and seasonal flooding to fertilise …
Thai And Finnish Scientists Will Soon Begin Examine Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake Read MoreThe Finnish government reject to grant more visas to seasonal berry-pickers from Thailand despite an increased demand for their labour. The newspaper Kaleva reports that 1,900 visas are being granted to …
No Increase In Thai Berry-Picker Visas Read MoreAn exhibition of unique work by Finnish world renowned architect and designer Alvar Aalto was opened 23. April 2008 in Hanoi. The show, titled ‘Alvar Aalto Houses – Timeless Expressions’, …
Alvar Aalto’s Works Displayed In Hanoi Read MoreAbout 138.332 Finnish tourists arrived in Thailand last year. And in the first quarter of this year, the number increased 24 %. Finland delivers the second biggest group of Scandinavian …
Finnish Tourist To Thailand Up 24 % Read More60 Acehnese power women, supported by a delegation of their “sisters” from Finland, took part in a seminar on political participation of women in Banda Aceh recently. The project funded …
UNIFEM Finland Supporting The Political Participation Of Women In Aceh Read MoreIn the Philippines they are highly regarded nurses, but in Finland, they are just unskilled workers. Marla Takama started the hard way, once again from zero, and went trough the …
Filipino Nurse Started From Zero In Finland Read MoreAlleged killer, Finn Paul Nicklos Bernhard Gagneur, who was picked up by the police in a park in HCMC, is already deported back to Finland. Interpol Vietnam Monday arrested a Finnish …
Globally Hunted Finnish Wife-killer Nabbed In Vietnam Read More