Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
Under the strategy, known in the trade as the “Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions” (MICE) strategy, the Culture and Tourism Ministry’s secretary-general, Sapta Nirwandar, was on the road show to …
Indonesia Aims to Welcome More Tourists from Norway Read MoreSome seventy businessmen attended by the recently held seminar for foreign investors organized by the four Nordic chambers of commerce, Thai-Swedish Chamber of Commerce, Thai-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce, Thai-Finnish Chamber …
Nordic Investments Seminar Well Attended Read MoreNorwegian telecom operator Telenor will cut its stake in Malaysia’s DiGi.com to below 50% from 61% currently before the end of the year, a company spokesman said September 10, 2007. …
Norwegian Telenor To Cut Share In Malaysia’s DiGi To Below 50% Read MoreHoi An’s expanded water supply project in Vietnam worth US$6.5 million got off the ground on September 7, 2007, with the investment capital sourced from a grant of the Norwegian …
Norway Helps Bring Fresh Water to Vietnam Read MoreNorwegian white fish products, so far have felt no effect of the imports due to fact that the increase in pangasius (Vietnamese pangasius catfish) imports from Vietnam has coincided with the …
Norwegian Felt No Effect on Its White Fish Products As An Increase Imports From Vietnam Read MoreThe leading Norwegian provider of engineering and construction services, technology products and integrated solutions, Aker Kvaerner, has been awarded a five year contract by Cuu Long Joint Operating Company (CLJOC) …
Aker Kvaerner Wins Major Contract In Vietnam Read MoreSimon Neo, a broker with the Singapore unit of Norway-based Wilhelmsen Bunkers SA said, “Every new refinery wants to produce more gasoline and diesel and cut back fuel oil,” “And …
A Broker With the Singapore Unit of Norway-Based View On Fuel Oil Demand Read MoreNOS Clearing ASA, the Norwegian-based clearing house for freight derivatives, is opening an office in Singapore and is extending clearing to include more of Asian time zone trading hours. The company …
NOS Opens Office in Singapore Read MoreEOC Ltd., an 88 percent-owned subsidiary of Singapore-based Ezra Holdings Ltd., an integrated offshore support and marine services provider for oil and gas operators in Southeast Asia has been given …
Singaporian Marine Services Provider To List on Oslo Stock Exchange Read MoreThe Scandinavian Church in Bangkok was Tuesday morning 4 September invaded by 120 active and curious Grade 5 students from New International School of Thailand (NIST) interested in getting to …
NIST Students At Scandinavian Church Read MoreThe Scandinavian investment in the Thai real estate market has been plunging in the year 2007 due to its attempts to amend the Foreign Business Act, says Lars Lang, a …
Solution to The Scandinavian Investment in The Thai Real Estate Market Read MoreKeppel Offshore, a unit of Singapore’s Keppel Corp’s chairman and chief executive officer, Choo Chiau Beng, told an oil and offshore conference in the Norwegian capital on August 30, 2007 …
Keppel Offshore’s Chairman At Conference in Norwegian Capital Read MoreMyWorld phone, a new mobile phone service provided by Next Mobile, Inc. (NMI), the Philippines’ only provider of digital wireless two-way radio communication expanded its services in Scandinavian countries. NMI …
Next Mobile Expanded Its Services in Scandinavian Countries Read MoreVolvo will be at the 1st Phillippine International Motor Show, which to be held at the World Trade Center, Pasay City on August 9, 2007 until August 12, 2007.Scandinavian Motor Corporation …
Volvo at Philippine International Motor Show Read MoreSkanem is one of the largest suppliers of self-adhesive labels in Europe dating back to 1905. The company specializes in making all kind of labels serving large national and multinational …
Step-by-Step with Skanem in Thailand Read MoreNorway’s Government Pension Fund (US$300bil) apart from Government Investment Corp of Singapore (US$200bil), the China Investment Corp (US$200bil), and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (estimated US$500bil) are sovereign funds that have …
Malaysian Reported Norway’s Fund Read MorePolice Lieutenant Colonel Grit from Pattaya Police Station was called to a house in Soi Bongkot, Central Pattaya, Thailand just after daybreak on the morning of August 23, 2007 after …
Norwegian-Owned House Has Been Ransacked Read MoreAban Offshore’ Singapore subsidiary after acquired Norway-based Sinvest last year, enable it to have 20 offshore assets by the year 2010 which is the biggest beneficiary of the current deficit …
Aban Offshore’ Singapore Subsidiary Acquired Norway-Based Sinvest Read MoreNorwegian Awilco Offshore through Premium Drilling has entered into a 6 months contract with Premier Oil Vietnam Offshore BV, value approximately USD 40 million, initiate during the first quarter 2008 …
Norwegian Awilco Offshore Contract With Premier Oil Vietnam Offshore BV Read MoreStar Cruises, founded as an associate of the Genting Group of Malaysia, is using funds obtained from the recent sale of a 50percent stake in its North American arm, Norwegian …
Star Cruises With Profitable Norwegian Cruise Line’s Operations Read MoreTour operators in Vietnam has been organizing high-power motorbike tours which attract tourists from Norway and Denmark, preferring to hit the road on their own terms, exploring Vietnam’s must-see sights …
Trans-Viet Motorbike Tours Turn on Norwegian and Danish Travellers Read MoreOn 11 August 2007, media company Singapore Press Holdings announced that SPH Search, a joint venture with Norwegian media group Schibsted ASA, has started crawling and indexing websites for a …
SPH and Schibsted to Launch Singapore’s Premier Local Search Engine Read MoreWith the more charter flights from Scandinavian countries, the tourism in Phuket enjoys strong tourist ‘low-season’ and has been gradually improving since the tsunami, and will be even better in …
Phuket’s Charter Flights From Scandinavia Read MoreThailand is one of the markets with highest growth in the month of July in terms of its export of seafood from Norway, reported by The Norway Post on 14 August, …
Norway Exports Seafood To Thailand Read MoreOver 1.5 million tourists flocked to the Philippines’ tourist spots in the first six months of this year, official figures from the Philippine Department of Tourism has revealed.Scandinavian and Nordic …
Scandinavian Tourism Continues to Increase in Philippines Read MoreNorway has become the first major donor with a donation of about $3.5 million to the joint initiative of $44-million programme that has been launched by UNFPA, the United Nations …
Norway, First Major Donor to Joint Initiative, Including Indonesia and Malaysia Read MoreThe biggest growth markets in July were those of Portugal, the Netherlands and Thailand. In Portugal, the biggest growth was in salted fish and clipfish, while in the Netherlands growth …
Record Summer for Exports of Norwegian Seafood Read MoreAs Norway’s result of banning 924 products from China including unsafe lighters and wobby strollers in the month July besides Iceland, Liechtenstein, and EU, Indonesia’s ban on the import of …
Like Norway vs. Others, Indonesia Ban Products Read MoreNorway has funded a 5 M USD poverty reduction project which has benefited seven disadvantaged villages in the coastal district of Trieu Phong, central Quang Tri province, Vietnam, reported on …
Norway Funded Project Benefits Vietnam Read MoreIn the Norwegian Grand Travel Awards 2007 held in Oslo, the capital city of Norway, on 8 January, 2007, Thailand was voted by more than 300 traveling companies as “The …
Norwegian Magazine Awards Thailand Read MoreTo help manage Thailand’s international reserves, like Norway, Thailand should form and independent unit, investing in private equity that provides high returns in the long term, which may entail hiring …
Thailand Like Norway Should Form an Independent Unit Read MoreChildren of Norwegian fathers and Thai mothers in Thailand often end up as social losers. In many cases the Norwegian father is 30 or 40 years older than the mother. …
Norwegian Children in Thailand Become Social Losers Read MoreTom Olafsen, a 47 years old man, who was staying at Thianthong Condominium on Jomthien Soi 7 in Chon Buri’s Bang Lamung district, Pattaya, Thailand, collapsed and died early on …
Norwegian Tourist Collapses and Dies in Pattaya Read MoreThe St. Regis Hotel, Singapore, which will open in December, now has its full management team in place, headed by the experienced Norwegian hotelier Yngvar Stray.Designed by internationally acclaimed architects …
St. Regis Hotel in Singapore to be Managed by a Norwegian Hotelier Read MoreIndonesian boat reconstruction projects in Probolinggo, which are under development and replica of a 1901 Norwegian lifeboat are a 12-meter twin-screw sport fishing which is also known as service vessel, …
Indonesian Projects Replicate 1901 Norwegian Lifeboat Read MoreThe Bangkok Flying Farangs Ice Hockey Club will be hosting its 4th annual charity golf tournament on Saturday, August 25th, 2007 at the Phoenix Golf & Country Club in Pattaya. …
The 4rd Annual Flying Farangs Open Charity Golf Tournament Read MoreThe Legal Empowerment and Assistance for the Disadvantaged (LEAD) program, focused on West Kalimantan, Maluku, North Maluku, Central Sulawesi and Southeast Sulawesi, to improve legal literacy levels and provide free …
Norway and Sweden Help Finance Indonesia’s LEAD Program Read MoreWritten by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, Enemy of the People will be staged from August 4-12 at Pentas 2, Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPac) in Jalan Stratchan during the Black …
Norwegian Play Will Be Shown in Malaysia During the Black Box Festival Read MoreKusmayanto Kadiman, Indonesia’s State Minister for Research and Technology has cited Norway as a good example for Indonesia to follow when it comes to allocation of funds for Research & …
Indonesia to Boost R&D Spending Like Norway Read MoreNorwegian telecommunications company Telenor on July 24, 2007 reported higher net profit for second quarter 2007, and an increase in turnover. Net profit for Telenor was 3.25 billion kroner (568 million dollars), …
Telenor Gained Higher Second-Quarter Net Profit Read MoreNorwegian Transport company, Harald Grieg Ltd., is investing 594.720 US dollars in the Vietnamese company Ha Tien Transport JSC, Hanoi. Ha Tien Transport plans in the third quarter to issue more …
Norwegian Transport Company Invests in Vietnam Read MoreTANDBERG, a global leader in visual communications with headquarter in Norway, will be conducting TANDBERG NOW Visual Communication Seminar in Singapore on August 22 and in Malaysia on September 18, …
TANBERG to Hold Seminars Promoting Video-Conferencing Read MoreNorway’s pension fund, which has a stated policy of ethical investments, is now under criticism due to its USD 145 million share in a Canadian mining company, Barrick Gold, that …
Norway’s Pension Fund Investment Under Criticisms Read MoreDiGi will be participating in the Edge-Bursa Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur Rat Race in the year 2007. Stefen Carlsson, the CFO said DiGi decided to have just the finance department …
DiGi Participates in Kuala Lumpur Rat Race 2007 Read MoreIn a newly developed ranking system, PriceWaterHouseCoopers rates Vietnam as the World’s currently most attractive investment country for manufacturing businesses, surpassing China, Poland, Chile and Malaysia. The report suggests that …
Vietnam is a Hot Piece of Cake for Investment Read MoreTelenor ASA’s Malaysian unit, DiGi, announced on July 20, 2007 that its second-quarter pretax profits came in at 344.52 million ringgit, up from 280.61 million the year before.DiGi said sales came in …
Telenor’s DiGi is Doing Well in Malaysia Read MoreThe summer of 2007 marks the halfway point between the Millennium Development Goals’ (MDGs’) creation in 2000 and the deadlines in 2015. This survey was part of an awareness campaign …
Vietnamese More Aware on Survey about Poverty than Nordics Read MoreLate last year, Norconsult, a Norwegian consulting firm, won a US$1.5 million contract to supervise construction work of the Xeset 2 dam in the south of Laos. Norconsult won the …
Norwegian Aid Helps Dam the Xeset River Read MoreEffective 1 July 2007, the Norwegian embassy in the Philippines will not accept cash for visa fee payment. Only MANAGER’S CHECKS payable to “The Royal Norwegian Embassy” shall be accepted. It …
New Mode of Payment for Visa Applications of Norwegian Embassy in The Philippines Read MoreThe Norwegian government launches a plan to cut down greenhouse gas emissions both in Norway and abroad.The government’s white paper, presented in June 2007, includes the world’s most ambitious climate …
Norwegian Government Takes Actions to Reduce Gas Emissions Read More