Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
The Thai-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce 2006 Annual General Meeting was held 14 March at the Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit with Chamber Members gathering for a reception and networking event followed by …
Choakdee Dhamasaroj Re-elected President of TNCC Read MoreChamber members gathered at the Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit March 14 with a reception and networking event followed by the AGM. During the AGM the chamber elected two new board members …
Thai-Norwegian Chamber Re-elects President Read MoreThe Annual Meeting of the Scandinavian Church in Bangkok on the evening of Wednesday 15 March elected three new people to the Board of the Church: Marion Nygaard and Mia Hallenborg from …
Scandinavian Church in Bangkok: Annual Meeting Elects New Board Read MoreNorway’s largest telecoms group Telenor will not reduce its stake in subsidiary DiGi.Com Bhd, Malaysia’s mobile-phone company, despite the disappointment of failing to secure a government 3G license tender March …
Telenor: No Plans To Reduce Stake In DiGi Read MoreSAS and Volvo Car (Thailand) co-organized ‘The Perfect Drive – The Perfect Flight’ event late February at Wearnes Motors Hua Mark, an authorized Volvo Dealer in Bangkok. The event was to showcase the best …
Volvo, SAS Match Perfect Drive, Perfect Flight Read MoreThe nominees for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize have been announced and the prestigious Norwegian peace prize might be going to Indonesia, as President Yudhoyono and former Finnish President Martti …
Indonesian President Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize Read MoreNguyen Thi Hong Yen, Vice Head of the Budget Department under the Ministry of Finance said that seven international donors have pledged support worth US$140 million for the Vietnam National …
Norway Helps Boost Vietnamese Education Program Read MoreIn 1992, prompted by a need which they felt was not being adequately addressed, Dr. Vicharn and his wife Dr. Prakong Vithayasai established the Support the Children Foundation. The primary …
NGO’s Success Sees Children’s Lives Transformed Read MoreIn Bangplee, just a few minutes off the main Bangna-Trad highway and 5 meters from lake Taco, you will find a small facility with some forty people working quietly away. …
Surfing The Weaknesses To Catch the Strengths Read MoreScandinavian Airlines launched its new Business Class on February 17 at Siam Paragon, Bangkok, as part of its strategy to provide the convenience to passengers onboard to and from Bangkok …
SAS Launches New Business Class Read MoreThe scene was set. Blue skies, burning sun, green grass and a stadium in Singapore home for a day to one hundred and forty-three Norwegians and eighty-six Swedes. Once a …
Thor Brings Battle Of The Nords To An Early Close Read MoreLeading Norwegian companies within the maritime industry, services and equipment suppliers and manufacturers, have joined Vietship February 21-24 in Hanoi. In addition to the exhibition, there will be a seminar …
Norwegian Maritime Companies Join VietShip 2006 Read MoreSince retiring from a long and distinguished career in the oil industry, Norwegian Torkild Waagaard has dedicated his life to following his fascinating Viking ancestry as far back as to …
Norwegian Goes Back In Time To Enrich The Present Read MoreA 59-year-old Norwegian man, identified as Konrad Haugen, died on Tuesday night February 7 in a hotel in South Pattaya area, according to Pol Maj Chatchai Srisuwan of Tambon Pattaya …
Pattaya Sees Spate Of Nordic Suicides Read MoreThe property boom in Thailand is not going unnoticed; especially the Scandinavian one. The interest among Northerners to escape the cold winter periods and reside here is growing substantially. It is …
A Nordic Garden in the Thai Tropics Read MoreA workshop on post-tsunami aquaculture was held in Phuket, Thailand and attended by fishery experts from Norway, aqua culture networks in Thailand, Indonesia, USA, UK and non-governmental organizations. There were …
Thailand, Norway Help Tsunami Affected Fishermen Read MoreSome time next week the world will see the largest freefall formation ever become a reality featuring no less than 400 skydivers freefalling to the ground below them in Thailand. …
45 Nordic Skydivers Join World Record Jump Attempt Over Thailand Read MoreWilhelmsen Maritime Services is a global company delivering state of the art maritime services, including ship management, crewing, port and logistics services through a global network of local offices. …
“Wilhelmsen Maritime Services – Barwil (Thailand) Ltd. Will be the shaper of the maritime service industry” Read MoreTelenor President and Chief Executive Officer Jon Fredrik Baksaas, speaking in Kuala Lumpur has announced the establishment of a Research and Innovation Center for Asia Pacific in Cyberjaya, Malaysia. The …
Telenor to Open Research And Innovation Center in Malaysia Read MoreThe Norwegian travel trade has honored Thailand as the World’s Best Tourist Country 2005. This is the second consecutive year that Thailand has won the Grand Travel Award. The January …
Norwegian Travel Trade Votes Thailand Number One Read MoreNorway and Indonesia have agreed to intensify cooperation in the fishery and marine sectors, mainly to develop Indonesian fishermen’s capability of supporting sustainable human resource development. According to ANTARA, the …
Norway and Indonesia Agree Greater Marine Cooperation Read MoreNot long after take-off in Arlanda airport in Stockholm, a heavily intoxicated Swedish man created chaos in the air by hitting and kicking everyone around him. Eye-witnesses report that the …
Drunken Swede went Berserk on Flight to Thailand Read MoreDr. Thanong Bidaya, Thailand’s Finance Minister said January 18 he had met with Telenor group president and chief executive Jon Fredrik Baksaas and that the Telenor group is interested to …
DTAC Interested In Listing On Thai SET Read MoreRepresentatives of two Nordic IT companies and the Swedish Chamber of Commerce will go to Philippines next month to explore the country’s potential according to Mary Borromeo-Hedfors, Philippines trade representative …
Nordic Firms Considering Philippines for IT Potential Read MoreTelenor group’s president and chief executive Jon Fredrik Baksaas said January 17 that Total Access Communication (DTAC) is ready to compete with Advanced Info Service Plc (AIS). Advanced Info Service …
DTAC is Ready to Compete with AIS Read MoreTechnics Offshore Engineering Pte Ltd (TOEPL), a subsidiary company of Technics Oil & Gas Limited, has secured a S$13.8 million contract from Norwegian company, Prosafe for the supply of gas …
Technics Oil & Gas Secures S$13.8 Million Contract from Norway’s Prosafe Read MoreThe Nordic Chambers has organised a panel discussion involving four international schools in Thailand on January 11, 2006 at the Conrad Hotel, Bangkok. The schools invited to participate were Bangkok …
Nordic Chamber Meet Discusses Education in Thailand Read MoreNordic Institute for Contemporary Art (NIFCA) launched an Artist-in-Residence Exchange program. The program aims to negotiate cultural differences, explore the potential to engage in inter and cross cultural activities, as …
Nordic countries and Singapore join hands in Artist Exchange Program Read MoreNorske Skog by the end of 2005 purchased Pan Asia Paper Company, previously owned by Canada’s Abitibi Consolidated, and is now the world’s largest producer of newsprint. Norske Skog completed the …
PanAsia Becomes 100 pct Subsidiary of Norske Skog Read MoreNorwegian gas company Golar LNG Ltd. has signed a contract with Keppel Shipyard Ltd. of Singapore for the first ever conversion of an existing Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) carrier into …
Norwegian Golar LNG Gets Contract from Keppel Shipyard of Singapore Read MoreDr. Alongkorn Chutinan, the brain surgeon in charge of treating the Danish patient Jan Johansen in Bangkok Pattaya Hospital, suggests that a Medical Insurance should be a precondition for tourists …
Medical Insurance Condition for Visa? Read MoreThe Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) of Singapore tested imported Norwegian salmon for heavy metals and assured the public that it is safe to eat. Some 197 tons of salmon …
Singapore Clears Norwegian Salmon Read MoreThis Christmas, many Norwegians returned to South East Asia to join in the memorial ceremony of the Tsunami disaster. Altogether 84 Norwegians died in the floodwaters which hit the beaches …
Norway Joins Memorial of Tsunami Disaster Read MoreThailand tested its Tsunami Warning System on Friday 16 December. The training aims to ensure that people are well trained to handle the possible incident. The test covered 6 …
Thailand’s Training on Tsunami Warning System Read MoreNorwegian former Foreign Minister Jan Petersen on behalf of Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre was at time of press scheduled to attend the ceremony to mark the one year …
Norwegian Delegates Attend Tsunami Memorial Read MoreSAS is working overtime these days in an effort to sell off their maintenance company, SAS Component Group, to Singapore Technology. This has been confirmed by Mr. Bertil Ternert, who …
SAS Ready to Sell Sub-Company to Singapore Read MoreNorwegian ambassador to Vietnam HE Mr. Kjell Storløkken together with ambassadors from Canadian, New Zealand, and Switzerland pledged to continue a support on Vietnam’s poverty reduction efforts and will strengthen …
Norway Pledge to Improve Vietnam’s Poverty Read MoreSuccessful businessman in Cambodia: to most people that sentence would be a contradiction of terms as Cambodia has just been voted one of the worst countries to do business in, …
Beating the odds in Cambodia Read MoreNorway’s new Ambassador to Vietnam H.E. Mr. Kjell Storløkken went on a field trip to visit the Central Highland provinces of Vietnam from 4 – 6 November together with his …
Ambassdor Storløkken on Central Highlands Field Trip Read MoreThe Red Cross of Norway has successfully raised a total of VND 1.286 billion in 2005 to assist the Vietnamese Red Cross working in central Binh Dinh province. The aid …
Norway Grants Aid to Vietnamese Red Cross Read MoreNordic Investment Bank (NIB) held a seminar on providing credits to Vietnamese businesses in Quy Nhon city in the central Binh Dinh province on 23 November, 2005. NIB vice president …
Nordic Bank Continues Lending to Vietnamese Businesses Read MoreNorway is the most expensive country in the world according to a survey brought in the Danish newspaper, Jyllandsposten. The annual survey done by the analysis company ECA International shows …
Expensive Scandinavia Read MoreSmedvig, Norwegian offshore oil driller, has been awarded two rig contracts by Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) in Malaysia on 17 November 2005. This transaction is worth US$74 million. In a …
Norway’s Smedvig Awarded Rig Contracts from Petronas Read MoreThree Tsunami sirenes have already been set up at Patong Beach, and the entire island of Phuket will have 18 sirenes installed in tall towers along the coast. The local …
Tsunami Sirenes Ready for New Tourist Season Read MoreEuro-Vietnam Jazz Festival 2005 will take place from 30 November to 10 December, 2005 in Hanoi and HCM City. There will be nine European jazz bands and solo artists from …
5th EU Jazz Festival in Vietnam Read MoreThe Royal Danish Embassy in Singapore will handle all the Schengen Visa applications on behalf of other Nordic countries due to the coming pilot project during 7 November 2005 – …
Nordic Embassies Singapore to Join Nordic Visa Co-operation Read MoreMore than 90 Norwegian businessmen and embassy officials attended the 8th Norway-Asia Conference 2005 November 10-11, at the Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore prompting the organizers to qualify the meet as “a …
8th Norway-Asia Conference An Impressive Success Read MoreAll people injured and relatives of the diseased, who want to take part in the the Boxing Day memorial, can apply the Thai government to have the trip to Thailand …
Norwegians turn down Tsunami memorial Read MoreThe glittering spectacle of Viking helmets and Scandinavian flags greeted the European Young Professionals on Wednesday as they descended on Stable Lodge on Sukhumvit Soi 8 in downtown Bangkok for …
Vikings In Style Read MoreFinland has submitted seven entries, most of all Nordic countries, to the official Thai tsunami memorial design competition. Sweden comes second with three entries followed by two from Denmark. Norway …
Twelve Nordic entries to tsunami memorial competition Read More