Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
Norway’s massive sovereign wealth fund is continuing to invest in coal companies that are destroying forests in Indonesia despite divesting from forestry and plantation companies with poor environmental track records, …
Norway’s pension fund not weaned off coal investment Read More
Jakarta Provincial Government learns the lesson after buying rusty buses made in China. Now, as an effort to expand public transportation in the capital city, city government will opt for …
Disappointed by made-in-China buses, city opts for Scania Read More
With support from Sweden, SEI will be funding events focused on sustainable development, gender equality and poverty reduction; organizations across Asia are invited to submit concept notes. The Regional Asia …
Sida-SEI call for sustainable development proposals Read More
The Danish government on 5 March 2014 released a new strategy on aquaculture. The aim is to make the industry more sustainable by using green technologies and increase export of …
Danida promotes aquaculture tech in Indonesia Read More
Swedish commercial vehicle (CV) maker Volvo is looking at assembling Eicher-branded CVs at its factories in South Africa and Indonesia to boost volumes. The company has an equal venture in …
Volvo to assemble Eicher trucks in Indonesia, S Africa Read More
This week, the cities of Borås in Sweden and Pontianak, Indonesia, with support from the Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD), are scoping areas for collaboration in the area …
Swedish-Indonesian waste and water collaboration Read More
Three Danish Universities – Copenhagen Business School, Technical University of Denmark and Aarhus University – have opened up for application to their summer university programs. Summer University at Copenhagen Business …
Time to apply for a Danish Summer University Read More
The Swedish oil and gas exploration company, Lundin Petroleum AB, announced in a press release on March 4, that the exploration drilling of the Balqis prospect in the Baronang PSC, …
Lundin Petroleum completes exploration in Indonesia Read More
This weekend, two Swedish bands have played at the 10th annual Java Jazz Festival, Asia’s biggest jazz festival. Magnus Lindgren, an Indonesia regular, performed for the the second consecutive year …
Swedish bands at Java Jazz Festival Read More
The Calendar of events on ScandAsia crashed on Sunday 02 March 2014 after an advised update from the plugin developer Time.ly. The update reset all calendar entries to 1 January …
ScandAsia Calendar crashed Read More