Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
The Embassy of Sweden in Bangkok this month committed SEK 7 million for a second phase of the Southeast Asia Press Alliance (SEAPA), with the grant cycle from 2013-2016. It …
Sweden commits SEK 7 Million to SE Asia press freedom Read More
Finnish corporation, Wartsila has won an order to supply equipment to the 184 MW Arun gas power plant in Indonesia. Wijaya Karya (Persero) awarded the contract to supply engineering and …
Finnish Wartsila secures gas-fired power project in Indonesia Read More
Everyone born in the years 1995–1998 from anywhere in the world may apply for the 2014 Millennium Youth Camp through online service. The application process is two-phased. Application for the …
Application for Finland’s 2014 Millennium Youth Camp is open! Read More
Nido Petroleum and Lundin Petroleum will in November 2013 start a highly anticipated two well drilling program in Indonesia targeting multi-million barrels of oil. Swedish listed Lundin, a A$7 billion …
Nido Petroleum, Lundin Petroleum to drill multi-million barrel oil targets offshore Indonesia Read More
On Friday 11 October 2013 Ambassador Ewa Polano hosted a very special gathering with members of Alumni Swedia and Swedish Business Community in Indonesia, the Embassy said on its Facebook-page. …
Swedish Ambassador in Jakarta hosted education representatives Read More
A set of twins separated at birth in Indonesia when they were put up for adoption and who found each other this year in Sweden have discovered they have another …
Indonesian twins in Sweden find new siblings Read More
Swedish budget fashion retailer H&M opened its first store in Indonesia at Gandaria City mall in South Jakarta on Saturday 5 October. H&M’s new store at Gandaria City offers a …
First H&M Opens in Jakarta Read More
Air France and KLM’s new Commercial Director, Mr. Matthieu Tetaud, has recently moved to Singapore. He shares with ScandAsia the airline’s vision and talks about its expansion in Scandinavia. AIR …
Air France and KLM’s new Commercial Director – Aiming for the best Read More
The Swedish Government will introduce the Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) in Jakarta. That was the message from the Swedish Ambassador to Indonesia spoke at the JakartaCity Hall on Friday 13 …
Swedish government to help Jakarta solving traffic problems Read MoreSwedish executive Jonas Engwall has been named the new CEO of RTL CBS Asia Entertainment Network, the recently formed joint venture between CBS Studios International and pan-European broadcaster RTL targeting …
Swedish Jonas Engwall to launch RTL CBS in Asia Read More
The Swedish municipality Huddinge will share its experiences from waste management with an area in Indonesia that is in need after tsunami. Representatives from the Swedish Municipality Huddinge are going …
Tsunami hit area in Indonesia to learn from Swedish waste management Read More
Annually The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies invites applications for the Snorry Sturluson Icelandic Fellowships. The Fellowships are granted to writers, translators and scholars (not to university students) in …
Apply for the Snorri Sturluson Icelandic Fellowships now Read More
The Swedish company Clean Motion behind the Zbee electric 3-wheeler has established a local manufacturing partnership with PT Lundin Industry in Indonesia With the locally made electric vehicle the company …
Swedish Clean Motion to produce electric 3-wheelers in Indonesia Read More
Danish film production company Final Cut For Real ApS is supporting free distribution of the genocide documentary The Act of Killing in Indonesia. In a partnership between Drafthouse Films, global …
Act of Killing to be distributed free in Indonesia Read More
Finland’s Minister of Education and Science has been sharply followed by officials and journalists on her trip around South East Asia. Minister of Education in Finland Krista Kiuru went to …
Finnish Minister on well-documented give and take trip in South East Asia Read More
The Finnish school system has earned acknowledgment worldwide because of high test scores. Finland’s Minister of Education now visits three Asian countries with a hope of making an export product …
Finland’s Minister of Education to visit Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia Read More
On a scale from 1 to 30 – who are the most rude people in the world? Skyscanner, an international travel site, ranks French, Rusians and British people as the top …
Danes are more polite than Norwegians Read More
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) of Sweden will start exploring a new area offshore north eastern Indonesia. The new area has been awarded Lunding because another area, it had originally …
Lundin Petroleum to explore new area in Indonesia Read More
The Danish Government has requested Danes Worldwide – the association of Danes living abroad – to comment on a planned new law on citizenship. In the draft of the new …
Danes Worldwide comments on new citizen law Read More
Sweden’s Lundin Petroleum has agreed on a new production sharing contract off Indonesia to replace existing acreage that has been declared a protected area. The company said on July 30 …
Swedish Lundin Petroleum in Indonesian block swap Read More
Nokia Indonesia unveiled on Friday its new low-cost phone variant the Asha 210 that bridges the feature phone and the smart phone. The dual-SIM phone would be available in August …
Indonesia gets new Nokia Asha 210 Read MoreNorway has established a US$7 million Norwegian ASEAN Regional Initiatives Fund (NARIF) to boost its engagement with the 10-member regional grouping, the ASEAN Secretariat announced on Friday. According to Norwegian …
Norway establishes fund for ASEAN Read MoreOn Wednesday, Indonesian and Norway foreign ministers signed a MoU on the Establishment of Joint Commission for Bilateral Cooperation that facilitates intensification of bilateral cooperation between the two countries …
Indonesia and Norway sign agreement on bilateral cooperation Read MoreNorway signed an amity and cooperation treaty with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Monday, vowing to further develop ties with the 10-member regional bloc. Norwegian Foreign Minister …
Norway signs amity treaty with ASEAN Read More
Indonesian TV-channel MNCTV followed Norwegian Top Chef Adrian Løvold in his preparations for a Norwegian Seafood Dinner hosted by Ambassador Stig Traavik. Originally from Trondheim, Norwegian-born Chef Adrian Løvold was lured into …
Norwegian Top Chef Adrian Løvold on Indonesian TV Read More
Finnish Ambassador to Indonesia Kai Sauer has encouraged Central Kalimantan to develop and use renewable energy because the province has abundant natural resources. “We are committed to helping Indonesia, particularly …
Finland encourages Central Kalimantan to use bio energy Read More
The Indonesian Agency of Geology and their Danish counterpart, the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, have recently signed a cooperation agreement in order to strengthen their future cooperation in …
Cooperation in Geology between Indonesia and Denmark Read MoreThe Danish documentary ”The Act of Killing” continues to impress and and Joshua Oppenheimer now receives award in Myanmar. The critically acclaimed documentary tells the story of the 1965 purges …
Aung San Suu Kyi delivers award to Danish documentary Read More
On Thursday 20 June 2013 at 1pm, the Pullutant Standards Index (PSI) in Singapore reached a record high of 371, indicating the hazardous level of the air pollution in city. …
Smoke haze from forest fires in Sumatra hits Singapore Read MoreSwedish clothing retailer Hennes & Mauritz is set to open its first Indonesian store in Gandaria City in September, as well as two other outlets soon afterward. Hindo Indonesia, …
H&M Gears Up for 3 Indonesian Stores as Retail Sales Growth Climbs Read MoreA Swedish security solution and cash handling firm is looking to offer its cash handling solution in Indonesia during the third quarter in an attempt to tap growing cash …
Swedish security solution boosts presence in Indonesia Read MoreEconomic cooperation between Indonesia and Sweden has shown remarkable improvement in recent years as indicated not only in the increase in the number of visits between the countries’ senior officials …
Swedish companies aiming for Indonesia Read MoreLast week the Indonesia Open in badminton was played and while Scandinavia is always well represented by the talented Danes, this tournament was a near disaster, with one exception. …
Silver medal at Indonesia Open for Danish shuttlers Read MoreThree duels – that was all the Danish badminton comet Viktor Axelsen had in him when he faced the 8th seeded Boonsak Ponsana from Thailand at Indonesia Open in Jakarta. …
Danish badminton comet withdraws from Indonesia Open because of sickness Read MoreThe Danish government along with the liberal parties has decided to invest DKK 70 million in promoting export to 10 carefully selected high growth countries. Among them are China, Indonesia …
Denmark to promote export to Vietnam, China and Indonesia Read MoreEight companies from Sweden have expressed interest in investing up to $500 million in total in Indonesia, Industry Minister M.S. Hidayat said on Sunday. The minister, who is part of …
Swedish Firms May Invest Up to $500m in Indonesia Read MorePresident Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono met with Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf and Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt during the President’s “historic” state visit to Stockholm, on Tuesday, strengthening the relationship …
Indonesian President met with Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf Read MorePresident Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, First Lady Ani Yudhoyono and delegation departed from Halim Perdanakusuma Airport in East Jakarta for a six-day state visit to Stockholm, Sweden. After flying for …
Indonesian President visits Sweden Read MoreInterest in the Scandinavian state has been growing among Indonesians, with Norwegians reciprocating that interest, says a Norwegian diplomat. More and more Indonesians are eating Norwegian salmon in restaurants and …
Ties between Norway and Indonesia grow stronger Read MoreThe Indonesian Swedish Alumni Forum is now officially established, as per May 4th, 2013. Alumni Swedia as a group was established as early as 2007. When it was first …
Forum Alumni Swedia in Indonesia is officially established Read MoreThis week a delegation of five Indonesian companies will visit Denmark to explore the opportunities of establishing partnerships with Danish companies The delegation is part of Danida Business Partnerships …
Indonesian companies visit Denmark to develop partnerships Read MoreWARNING: Fraud by travel agent The Swedish Embassy in Norway has sent out the following warning on their website and through Facebook. WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! PLEASE READ A scam has …
Embassy of Sweden in Indonesia warns against travel fraud Read MoreFormer Olympics champion Poul-Erik Hoyer has pledged to improve the image of badminton after winning the presidency of the sport’s world governing body. The Dane polled 145 votes Saturday to …
Dane becomes new president of Badminton World Federation in front of Indonesian Read MoreFinnish Ambassador to Indonesia Kai Sauer honored on Friday two Indonesians with first class medals for their meritorious service to the Finnish government. “Our government decided to award the Medal …
Finland honors two Indonesians with medals Read More
Danes abroad rejoice as a political majority now seems to be in place to permit them to hold dual citizenship. A change in the law will make it possible for …
Danish parliament ready to support double citizenship Read MoreIndonesia has extended a logging ban aimed at protecting rainforest despite fierce industry pressure, the government said Wednesday, although green groups say the move still does not go far enough. …
Indonesia extends rainforest conservation deal with Norway Read MoreIn an unusual bid to stop a series of dams that will flood their rainforest home, a group of tribesmen in Borneo are urging King Harald V of Norway to …
Borneo tribe writes Norwegian King to stop dam project Read MoreIf you are Norwegian you have undoubtedly made plans for this Friday. The date is May 17, which marks the Norwegian Constitution Day and is celebrated not only in …
Norwegian Constitution Day to be celebrated all over Southeast Asia Read More
The Ambassador of Sweden to Indonesia HE Mrs Ewa Polano is visiting Surabaya on May 10-11, 2013. During her visit, Ambassador Polano on Friday presented the exclusive Royal Decoration – …
Swedish Consul Villy Nielsen receives Royal Knight Order Read MoreDanish brewer Carlsberg’s first-quarter operating profit and revenue beat forecasts on Tuesday, as strong beer sales in Asia cushioned sluggish mature European markets and a decline in its former …
Strong Asia growth improves Carlsberg’s first quarter Read More