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Foreign Minister of Norway, Espen Barth Eide, says that there is positive movement and dialogue at a great level between Norway and China. During a review of foreign policy in the …
Norwegian Foreign Minister: Progress with China Read More[wzslider autoplay=”true”] Almost 200 people joined the Thai-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce’s annual event, Seafood under the Stars on February 6. The good atmosphere in the Norwegian Ambassador’s garden, the excellent …
TNCC: Annual Seafood under the stars Read MoreToday, the trial against 50 year old Norwegian Stein Dokset begins in Thailand. He is accused of murdering his ex-wife Rungnapa “June” Ratchasombut who was found in the man’s dumpster last …
Norwegian faces death penalty in Thailand – wife found in dumpster Read MoreThursday, February 7, the Nordic-Chinese Chamber of Commerce (NCCC) celebrated Chinese New Year at the Mariott Hotel in Copenhagen. The turn up was big and drums, lion dance and speeches marked …
Nordic-Chinese Chamber of Commerce celebrates New Year in Copenhagen Read More
Applications have opened for the Ibsen Scholarships 2013. The Ibsen Scholarships award innovative projects in the field of drama and performing arts that act as incentives for critical discourse in …
Scholarships for thespians with society-related topics Read More
Police have not been able to find a will to substantiate rumors that a Norwegian man left a portion of his 100-million-baht estate to Phuket foundations for the elderly and …
Scepticism over Norwegian’s will for Phuket foundations Read MoreNorwegian Seamen’s Church in Pattaya will organise a screening of critical acclaimed film “Kon Tiki” on Wednesday, Feb 6, at 7 p.m. Kon-Tiki is a Norwegian biographical drama film from …
Seamen’s Church Pattaya to screen Oscar-nominated Kon Tiki Read More
A Norwegian who died of causes believe related to asthma on Saturday (Feb 9) left behind a will in which his assets worth more than 100 million baht are to …
Norwegian left 100 Mill. Baht in his will to Phuket eldery, children Read More
The first big Western oil company has made a move to bid for a license to explore for gas and oil in Myanmar’s coastal waters, the Irrawaddee reports. Norwegian government-linked …
Norway’s Statoil in talks to explore Myanmar Read More
Noppadol Wanthaphirom, 31, was sentenced to 18 years in prison this week for the murder of computer games maker Einar Opsahl in Oslo’s Bislett district in June 2011, a Norwegian press …
Thai-born convict gets 18-year term in Norway Read More
New Norwegian driving licence regulations, which went into effect on 19 January 2013 in step with the third EU Driving Licence Directive, now apply to some expats. Theforeigner.no has published …
Norway’s driving license rule change affect expatriates Read MoreIf you are from Taiwan and move to Norway you have to register as a citizen of the Peoples Republic of China. To the Taiwanese who have had their own …
Taiwanese in Norway forced to register under China Read More
On Feb 3, the Norwegian Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics Company has presented 5 million baht to the budget to develop the good work done by the Ban Jing Jai Foundation. A …
Norwegian company donated 5 million THB to Ban Jing Jai Orphanage Read More
Oslo now ranks the forth most expensive city to live in among all cities in the world, up 1 place compared with last year’s ranking, a survey conducted by The Economist …
Oslo 4th most expensive city to live in; Singapore ranked 6th Read MoreOne of the largest companies in Sweden that produce glass screens for touch screens used in tablets, smartphones and laptops will be setting up shop in Malmö. Zhonghuan Hi-Tech will act …
One of China’s largest companies has chosen Malmö as the location for its European headquarters. Read More
Myanmar government has lauded the decision made by Norway and other creditors to cancel or reissue billions of dollars of external debt. President U Thein Sein stated in a radio address …
Norway applauded for Myanmar’s debt cancellation Read MoreOn 31 January Scandinavian Women’s Association (SWA) in Singapore held their New Years Lunch. The event was held at Marche in VivoCity at noon and was fully booked with 22 …
New Years Luncheon in SWA Read MoreThe Thai Princess, Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, will soon experience an extreme change of climate. In March she is to visit the most northern part of Europe. Svalbard is a part of …
Thai Princess to visit Svalbard Read MoreLast year 42 year old Norwegian citizen John M. Johansen was released after serving more than three years in one of the toughest prisons in the world – Bombat in …
Thai State Attorney appeals pardon of Norwegian Read MoreOn February 7 to 17 inventors and innovators from all over the world will be gathering in Norway at the International Student Festival in Trondheim (ISFiT). ISFiT has different social …
Filipino inventor and former Norwegian minister exhibits light in a bottle Read MoreAt the moment so called “consultancy” firms are advertising nursing or healthcare jobs in Norway, claiming that there are many jobs in that sector to be found and that no …
Filipino nurses warned about jobs in Norway Read MoreA Norwegian tourist Jan Homeland was found dead in his bedroom on Chiangmai’s riverside on the eve of Jan 28. The 75-year-old’s wife who had been sleeping in another room, had called emergency …
Norwegian Tourist Found Dead in Chiangmai room Read More
IMG, a Norwegian-based furniture manufacture is looking for a Multimedia designer specialised in computer software and video processing to create interactive media presentations. The candidate will be responsible to integrate …
IMG seeks multimedia designer to work in Norway Read MoreEven though Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland are neighbours there is a big difference in management between the Nordic countries. Gillian Warner-Søderholm, who teaches at The Institute of Communications, Culture …
Scandinavian management – The four types of Viking bosses Read MoreOn Jan 22, the Beijing Symposium on Global Governance for Health was held at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Beijing. This symposium was organized by EPIIC (Education for Public Inquiry …
Global Governance for Health symposium held in Beijing Read More
After two wins and one draw it was a proud Norwegian team that could be announced as winners of the Women’s Football Four-Nation Invitation Tournament hosted in Yongchuan, Chongqing on …
Norwegian women’s football team wins four-nation tournament in China Read More
A policy forum on land issues in ethnic minority areas was held on Jan 25 in Hanoi. The aim was to bring together different stakeholders to discuss the current situation …
Ethnic Minority’s land issues forum held in Hanoi Read More
Norway has decided to cancel the whole of Myanmar’s debt to Norway – a total worth of NOK 3.2 billion. “This is historic, not only for Myanmar, but also for …
Norway cancels NOK3.2 billion Myanmar’s debt Read More
For third year in a row Finland has been measured as the country that most respects media freedom. Norway, which last year shared the title with Finland falls back to …
Nordic countries tops press freedom index while South-east countries falls to the bottom Read MoreIntestinal infections and sexually transmitted diseases are the most common infectious diseases that travelers from Norway incurred abroad, a new report from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) revealed. According to …
Diseases Norwegian tourists bring back from vacation Read MoreThe Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) will continue clearing bombs and mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) left from the war in Thua Thien-Hue province. Jonathan Guthrie, NPA Country Director for Vietnam, made …
Norwegian agency continues with mine clearance in Vietnam Read More
A Myanmar sculptor and a female artist from Norway collaborated on an art project on Jan 25, by simultaneously sculpting portraits of one another at Art Plus Art Gallery in …
Myanmar and Danish artists sculpt one another’s face Read More
Myanmar President U Thein Sein is expected to travel to Norway in late February, with cooperation on Inle Lake conservation one of the major topics to be discussed, Norway’s charge …
Thein Sein to discuss Inle in Norway Read More
A Norwegian man was shot in the neck while fighting with his ex-wife’s new husband in Khamphaeng Phet in Nakhon Sawan province, reports Pattaya Daily. According to the news media, …
Norwegian shot by ex-Wife’s new husband Read More
Norway-based Nordic American Tankers appears to have cashed in on Unipec’s insatiable appetite for tonnage, a Trade Wind News report said. Brokers claim the Chinese trading giant has paid $3.3m to …
Chinese Unipec turns to Nordic Read MoreNorwegian bioplastics maker BioBag International AS and Thailand’s Thantawan Industry Public Co. Ltd. are setting up a partnership to manufacture BioBag products in Thailand, which will be the Scandinavian company’s …
Norway’s bioplastic maker partners with Thai company Read MoreThe Burmese government on Jan 15 has issued a call for Expressions Of Interest (EOI) in the tender for two nationwide telecommunications services licences. A total of four telecoms licences …
Telenor could earn license in Myanmar Read More
A spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday called on Norway to take concrete steps to create conditions for improving bilateral ties, saying mending relations is up to Norway. Foreign …
China calls on Norway to improve ties Read More
A sudden sunlight on the winter afternoon brought hope for success of the sixth pillar of the One UN Reform in Vietnam. The Green One UN House will assist the …
Norwegian ambassador break ground for the One UN House Read More
Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barthe Eide said on Monday that Norway will support China’s application for the status of a permanent observer to the Arctic Council, a Chinese press Xinhua …
Norway supports China’s Arctic Council observer status bid Read More
Scandinavian airline SAS on Jan 14 sought a deal with the last union opposing its plans for severe cost cuts aimed at avoiding bankruptcy and securing the airline’s long-term future. …
SAS eyes final union deal for survival Read More
Chef Chua Guo Sen and his assistant Lee Fu Seng from Sky on 57 emerged as champions in the 4th Otto Weibel & Norwegian Seafood Scholarship Competition held on January …
Young chefs won Otto Weibel & Norwegian Seafood Scholarship Read More
An international environmental group Monday voiced concerns over the impact in which the expanded hydropower dam project in central Laos may generate to the livelihoods of people living in the …
Norwegian-supported hydropower dam’s expansion upsets NGO Read More
ISDA – the Inle Special Development Association will grow fruit and vegetables with reduced use of chemicals, mainly for foreign consumers. According to the Myanmar Times, the Inle-based organization will …
Norwegian-funded project helps Myanmar grow produce Read More
The Scandinavian Siam Society (SSS) website was hacked again yesterday for the third time in a month, said the association’s chairman Robert Kronberg. Kronberg said he is perplexed by the …
SSS website is hacked ‘for the third time’ Read More
Monday the 7 January was the inauguration for the new location at Alma Link building of the VFS visa application centre in Bangkok issuing visas for Sweden, Denmark and Norway. …
New Visa-centre for Sweden, Denmark and Norway inaugurated Read MoreThe Nordic Chambers in Singapore invited Christian Clausen, President of the European Banking Federation and CEO of Nordea Bank for a Luncheon seminar at the Cricket Club on 7th January …
Well-attended Nordic Luncheon Read More
Oslo City Court believes it was Noppadol Wanthaphirom, 31, who shot Einar Opsahl, 35, in the head at close range at a taxi stand in Bislett, Norway, in 2011. He …
Norway’s dilemma on an immigrated convict Read More
Three Nordic films have made nominated for the prestigious 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood. Vying for Best Foreign Language Film are the Danish historical drama A Royal Affair and Norwegian …
3 Nordic films nominated for the Oscars Read More
The broadly-based European Social Survey indicates that the Finns, and people in the other Nordic countries, have a more positive attitude in general toward immigration and immigrants than in most …
Survey indicates Nordic countries more open to immigration Read More