Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
For the second day in a row the Indonesian island of Sumatra has been hit by a violent earthquake. According to Reuters the latest earthquake, which hit yesterday, measured 6.6 on the Richter scale. …
Scandinavians Unharmed after Earthquakes Read MoreA representative from the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) together with the Norwegian counterpart HSH will visit Indonesia during the period October 4-9. The Norwegian HSH already has ongoing cooperation …
Swedish, Norwegian Chambers Visit Indonesia Read MoreThe Nordic police in South East Asia cover crime areas such as drugs, financial crimes, human trafficking and sexual abuse against children. According to police officer Annethe, who deals a lot with …
Fighting Crime in South East Asia Read MoreThe body of the 65-year-old woman was found about 1pm at Ao Yon beach, a secluded strip of sand on Cape Panwa, on Phuket’s east coast, Phuket Wan reports on …
Norwegian Woman Mysteriously Dead in Phuket Read MoreShe is dressed like an attorney, her hair is short, and you would easily believe that she is a marathon runner or a similar athlete. Her movements all have a …
StatoilHydro’s Toughest FCO Read MoreTorvald Klaveness Group (TKG) expands its fleet on expectations that the world economy to recover. Hundreds of more Filipino seafarers will be needed, businessmirror.com.ph reports. Chairman Tom Erik Klaveness said …
Norwegian Shipping Firm Hires Hundreds of Filipino Seafarers Read MoreScandinavian tourists will return to Thailand in the coming high season as their currencies are getting stronger, says TUI Nordic, a tour operator in Scandinavia, according to bangkokpost.com. To accommodate …
Scandinavian Tourists Now Return to Thailand Read MoreScandinavian Airlines in Thailand has launched special prices of 49,000 baht for a roundtrip Economy Extra and 69,000 baht for Business Class to 36 northern European cities. The prices exclude …
SAS Launches Special Fares Today Read MoreJon Ansten and Christian Bjørtuft Ellingsen are lawyers and directors of Vogt & Wiig Singapore Branch. Together with a third Nowegian lawyer, Pia Grude, they run the Singaporean department of …
Meet Two Norwegian Lawyers in Singapore Read MoreJan Tommy Fosse has tried a lot of different things even before he decided to be a priest. He grew up in Østfold south east of Oslo. He was trained …
New Norwegian Priest in Singapore Read MoreNorway offers to sell four Hercules aircraft to RI, according to Rear Marshal Imam Wahyudi, logistics assistant to the air force chief of staff. He said the planes had been …
Norway Sells Military Planes to Indonesia Read MoreBy Kathrine Gravrok Butt Many women who come to Singapore with their spouses wish to find a job and continue their working career. However, finding suitable work is not always …
Finding a Career in Singapore Read MoreThe Scandinavian governments strongly condemn verdict on Burmese opposition leader. A Myanmar court on Tuesday sentenced pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, to an additional …
Reactions on New Aung San Suu Kyi Verdict Read MoreAn increase in surrounding temperatures result in increased greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, and more energy needed to cool homes and offices. But now the Norwegian-owned paint company Jotun has …
Norwegians Want to Introduce Climate Friendly Paint to Malaysia Read MoreThai Airways has recently offered 3.9 million air-miles to HRH, the late Princess Galyani Vadhana’s Tipitaka Endowment Project. The donated miles will be used to transport a 40-volume set of …
Thai Airways Donates Air-miles to Norwegian Buddhists Read MoreAfter four years of stagnation in negotiations the official Philippines again meet with Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New Peoples Army (NPA). This time …
Filipino Peace in Norwegian Hands Read MoreEight prominent business figures, among these Swedish CEO at DiGi Telecommunications, Johan Dennelind, concluded at a roundtable talk in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday that the Malaysian government should promote the use …
DiGi CEO, on Green Energy in Malaysia: Incentives Not Enough. Read MoreOn August the 5th the outgoing Norwegian Ambassador in Vietnam Kjell Magne Storløkken meet in Hanoi with Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. At the meeting they discussed the two countries bilateral …
Vietnam wants to boost ties with Norway Read MoreMr. Jan Olav Johannessen has been appointed as the new priest at The Norwegian Seamen’s Church in Pattatya. He is replacing the former priest Mr. Lars Haugen who has been …
Norwegian Seamen’s Church in Pattaya Gets New Priest Read MoreThe Cambodian government has intervened to prevent a “Miss Landmine” beauty pageant from being held in the country later this week, calling it an insult to the disabled. The Ministry …
Cambodia Bans Miss Landmine Contest – Norwegian Organizer Is Disappointed. Read MoreA Bangkok Airways flight with 68 passengers and 4 crew members travelling from Krabi to Koh Samui Airport skidded on Tuesday off the runway and crashed at landing. The plane …
No Scandinavians Injured in Samui Crash Read MoreJan Tommy Fosse – the new Norwegian Priest in Singapore, his wife Inger and their children Mathias, Daniel and Rebekka landed in Changi Airport in Singapore yesterday afternoon – and …
New Priest Came Straight from the Airport Read MoreFrom now to the end of 2009, Vietnam will release the Human Rights Magazine, a website on human rights and prepare to join the United Nations Convention against Torture, said …
Vietnam joins UN Convention against Torture after meetings with Norway Read MoreTo be eligible, the adults must sign up at the SAS booth at the Home, Health and Family show at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center 10am-9pm, Thursday 30 July-Sunday …
SAS Thailand: Free travel to Scandinavia for children Read MoreThe second annual Miss Landmine beauty pageant, a controversial event that debuted in Angola last year, will open in Cambodia next month, with organisers saying they hope the event will …
Norwegian organizes Cambodian Miss Landmine contest Read MoreThe Norway government has recently provided a grant aid worth about US$ 2,200,000 for the project to survey and clear the UXO in the southern province of Saravane, Laos. A …
Norway supports UXO activities in Saravane Read MoreThe European Union congratulated Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on his re-election Saturday. “In peaceful elections, the people of Indonesia have testified to their commitment to democracy and have entrusted …
EU congratulates Indonesian president on re-election Read MoreDiplomats from the embassies of Norway, Britain, France, Germany and Italy have been permitted to attend the hearing of Aung San Suu Kyi although most of the trial has been …
Norwegian diplomats to attend Suu Kyi trail Read MoreOriginally Vibeke Eidsaae Corneliussen had intended to spend her time with her five-year-old twin sons, when the family decided to move to Bangkok, where her husband Snorre’s dream-job at Telenor …
New Executive Director Thai Norwegian Chamber of Commerce Read MoreTwo soldiers and a village official were slain by communist insurgents in the southern Philippines Wednesday, the military said, just as the rebels prepared to resume peace talks with the …
New killings in Compostela just before Norwegian peace talk Read MoreThe Burmese migrants in Thailand livelihood is hopefully about to improve. The NGO ADRA has launched a project focusing on civil rights for the Burmese minority in Thailand. The project, …
ADRA Norway funds Burmese migrants in Thailand Read MoreNorwegian telecommunications group Telenor, which has operations in both Thailand and Malaysia, reported Thursday that its second quarter net profit halved from last year’s levels, as it said the global …
Telenor’s profits halve in second quarter Read MoreThe tragic bomb attacks that took place on 17 July 2009 have undeniably shocked Jakarta and the entire country. However, the latest UNWTO mission, carried out by Xu Jing, Regional …
UN: Jakarta will recover fast Read MoreThree Filipino youth won the Norwegian-sponsored World Bank’s 2009 International Essay Competition with their essay, video and photograph entries, besting more than 2,000 submissions from over 150 countries, 90 percent …
Filipinos win Norwegian-sponsored essay contest Read MoreA 51-year-old Norwegian national died early Monday after he was stabbed by one of four persons who claimed they were taken hostage by the foreigner inside the latter’s house in …
Norwegian stabbed dead by in Cebu town Read MoreAccording to Phillippine authorities Norway has declared itself open to Filipino professionals from the fields of engineering and information technology seeking to land a job there, Department of Labor and …
Norway opens for skilled Filipino workers Read MoreThe Scandinavian embassies in Indonesia, which were closed due to the terrorist attack on Marriot Hotel and Hotel Ritz-Carlton, will reopen on Tuesday, as Monday is an official Indonesian holiday. The …
Scandinavian Embassies in Jakarta to Reopen Tuesday Read MoreSingapore and Norway has signed a pact to facilitate the process of secondary listing of companies on each other’s exchange. The Memorandum of Understanding is signed by the Singapore Exchange …
Singapore Exchange Limited and Oslo Bors signs pact for capital market dual listings Read MoreThere are currently no definitive informations if there were any Scandinavian casualties in the huge terror bomb explosion in Jakarta this morning, Friday 17 July 2009. Indonesian police officials have told Reuter that …
Three Scandinavian Embassies Evacuated After Bombs In Jakarta Read MoreAccording to several online music magazines, the Norwegian heavy metal band ‘The Allseeing I’ have inked a deal with Singapore’s Martyrdoom Records for the release of their debut album, “Holodemiurgia” …
Norwegian metal band lands Singaporean record deal Read MoreAlong with Norway Indonesia encourages disarmament efforts in the Asian region, the director of international security and disarmament of the ministry of foreign affairs, Desra Percaya, said at the Berlin …
Indonesia, Laos and Norway plan Asian meeting on cluster munitions Read MorePhilippine mango rum and the “kornik” corn snack were recently introducedto in Norway at a reception celebrating the Philippine Independence Day in Norway when the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) …
Philippine Mango Rum Enters the Norwegian Market Read MoreHumanitarian design organization TYIN Tegnestue from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology conceived the project in response to a need for more dormitories for Karen refugee children in the …
Norwegian University designs houses for the Karen-people Read MorePattaya City Council and tourism-related business in the city are now making all out efforts to woo tourists back to the resort-city in time for this year’s high season, following …
Pattaya launches ambitious tourist campaign Read MoreUNHCR spokesperson William Spindler has said that resettlement in a third country had become the only viable option for Burmese refugees in Thailand’s camps, given problems settling permanently in Thailand …
Finland, Sweden and Norway offer asylum for Burmese refugees Read MoreIndonesian Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono has stated that Scandinavian countries were in a better position to lead world bodies like the United Nations, because they were small, rich, independent and good at …
Indonesia: Scandinavia should lead the UN Read MoreThe provision of inaccurate information has psychologically affected consumers from importing countries as well as Vietnamese businesses’ export-import activities. They says, that the export of Vietnamese Tra and Basa catfish …
Vietnamese seafood sector accuses Norway for smear campaign Read MoreWhat was intended a holiday in paradise after a semester in Australia turned fatal for twenty-two year old Drammen-native Julie Michelle Bergheim. Along with fellow tourist Jill St. Onge …
Mystery surrounds Julie’s death Read MoreNorwegian paint company Jotun Sdn Bhd recently introduced a new line of paint called Jotashield Extreme in Kuala Lumpur. Lee launched the paint with Peder Bohlin, the regional director of …
Jotun launches new paint in Kuala Lumpur Read MoreA twenty-one-year old Philippine woman, who worked as an au pair for a Norwegian family has been found drowned in a swimming pool at a villa near Chateauneuf in southern …
Philippine au-pair drowned in her Norwegian employer’s pool Read More