Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
Wallenius Wilhelmsen ASA, the world’s largest provider of vehicle and ro-ro (roll-on, roll-off cargo) transportation services, expects a 10-20 percent rise in cargo moved through Singapore this year from the …
Wallenius Wilhelmsen expects 10-20% rise in cargo moved through S’pore Read MoreNorske Skogindustrier ASA’s half-owned joint venture in Singapore, Pan Asia Paper Co. Pte Ltd., announced on September 10 the creation of a 65-35 per cent joint venture with Hebei Longteng …
Pan Asia Paper to form joint venture in China Read MoreTelenor’s mobile-phone operation in Thailand, DTAC, is confident that the company can keep its premium customers when mobile number portability (MNP) is launched in Thailand. MNP, which gives the possibility …
DTAC getting ready for mobile number portability Read MoreThailand is one of the most competitive countries in the world for mobile phone operators. There are not many places in the world, where you have five operators of whom …
Norwegian CEO in Thai mobile phone battle Read MoreNorway’s state-owned power company Statkraft confirmed on September 10 that a Laotian partnership in which it has a one-fifth stake is eyeing assets held by Electricite de France (EdF) in …
Statkraft’s Laotian partnership eyes major stake in Indochina’s biggest dam project Read MoreThe Swedish IT company Vision House Co., Ltd. recently won the contract to be webmaster of www.norcham.or.th – the website of the Thai-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce. Vision House won the …
New webmaster for www.norcham.or.th Read MoreMunching away on morning rolls and sipping coffee or tea, about eighteen members of the Thai-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce Tuesday 9 September listened to a presentation by Niels-Gunnar Hjellegjerde about …
First Thai-Norwegian Breakfast Read MoreThe new Norwegian priest in Thailand will be Mrs. Hilde Sirnes from Lista near Farsund in Norway. She replaces Mrs. Gro Haaversen Barth, who left for Norway by the end …
New Norwegian Priest in Thailand Read MoreThe Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) to Laos on 20 August signed a memorandum of understanding with Borkeo province’s Committee for Planing and Cooperation to continue phase 3 of the Rural …
Norwegian Church Aid continues rural development support in Laos Read MoreNorway’s longest and most expensive court case ever finally came to an end late August, when Esso Norge AS agreed to accept compensation for a faulty production vessel. The five-year …
Smedvig ordered to pay NOK 509 million on Balder dispute Read MoreThe Royal Norwegian Embassy and the Norwegian Business Association Singapore are jointly organizing the annual dinner cruise on The Imperial Cheng Ho Friday 5 September. Every first Friday of the …
Norwegian Dinner Cruise in Singapore Read MoreThe government of Norway has pledged more than US$2.18 million to help Vietnam’s Nha Trang College of Fisheries improve its training and research capacity. The agreement was signed in Hanoi …
Vietnam’s fisheries school gets Norwegian assistance Read MoreWith a financial backing from Norway and a technical support from UNESCO, Cua Van Floating Cultural Centre will soon be added to the attractions of UNESCO World Heritage Site Ha …
Ha Long Bay Eco-museum backed by Norway Read MorePhilippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources-National Integrated Fisheries Technology and Development Center (BFAR-NIFTDC) is pinning its hope on the Norwegian government’s assistance in preventing fish kills that destroy millions …
Norwegian technology expected to prevent fish kills in Philippines Read MoreDiGi.Com Berhad (DiGi), Telenor ASA’s mobile operation in Malaysia, on July 22 announced higher revenue of MYR 793.0 million for the first half year ended 30 June 2003, an impressive …
Telenor’s DiGi sees 33% revenue growth in H1 Read MoreThe governments of Norway and Sweden have set up a joint USD 3.6 million Poverty and Environment Fund to be administered by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the bank announced …
Norway and Sweden set up poverty and environment fund Read MoreThe largest Nordic travel insurance company, SOS International a/s warns of a dramatic increase in Nordic tourists injured in motorcycle accidents when on vacation in South East Asia. For Thailand, …
Don’t rent a motorcycle! Read MorePhilippine House Speaker Jose de Venecia said July 19 that the peace talks with the communist National Democratic Front (NDF) will definitely resume at the end of August in Norway …
Philippines’ peace talks with NDF to resume in August instead Read MoreNorway’s trade of traditional commodities (all commodities excluding ships and oil platforms, for exports also excluding crude oil, natural gas and condensates) with Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia slipped in …
Norway’s half-year trade with major ASEAN countries slipped Read MoreThe spectacular and beautiful shores of Flekke Fjord in Norway may seem light years away from the bustle of Bangkoks’ busy streets. But for one bright Thai student they will …
Slum Child wins Norway Scholarship Read MoreNorwegian Agency for International Development (NORAD), in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), supported a four-day training course under the theme “Gender Role and Mass Media” in Vientiane …
Laos’ media training on gender role supported by NORAD Read MoreNorway and Britain early May in Hanoi entered into an agreement with Vietnamese government to provide a financial support of over US$25 million for Vietnam to fight against HIV/AIDS – …
NORAD supports Vietnam in fight against HIV/AIDS Read MoreNorway and Sweden have, among other donors, provided financial aid for Vietnamese government to launch US$243.8-million Primary Education for Disadvantaged Children project aimed at helping underprivileged children in Vietnam complete …
Norway, Sweden help launch Vietnam’s primary education scheme Read MorePeace talks between the Philippine government and the National Democratic Front (NDF), the underground political umbrella of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), will resume by the end of …
Norway bringing next hope for peace to Philippines Read MoreBangkok Vikings, the football team of Scandinavian expatriates in Bangkok, will the end of August play against the national football team of Laos. The match will take place in afternoon …
Vikings to fight the National Team of Laos Read MoreJotun Paints Vietnam has over its first five years in Vietnam achieved the leading positions in the marine and industrial paint sectors. The Norwegian company continues its rapid and ambitious …
Jotun Paints Vietnam celebrated 5th Anniversary Read MoreNorges Fiskerihogskole (Norwegian College of Fishery Science), University of Tromso and Tropical Marine Science Institute at National University of Singapore early in June entered into a memorandum of understanding opening …
Norway–Singapore aquaculture cooperation expanding Read MoreAn honest Bangkok taxi driver was on May 24 given more than Bt10,000 cash as a reward for returning a forgotten handbag with cash equaling over Bt300,000 to the owner …
Thai taxi driver rewarded by Norwegian Read MoreSiem Reap is truly the most unlikely place on earth to find a Norwegian managed guesthouse. But when you walk in the front door at Earthwalkers’ in the northern Cambodian …
Impossible Norwegian dream in Siem Reap Read MoreGro Haaversen Barth, the Norwegian priest at the Scandinavian Church in Bangkok, in early June visited Vietnam for the last time before leaving her job to go back to Norway …
Norwegian priest’s farewell to Vietnam Read MoreGro Haaversen Barth, the Norwegian priest at the Scandinavian Church in Bangkok, on Tuesday 17 June donated 10,000 Baht to help HIV infected Thai people under the care of the …
Gro Haaversen Barth supports HIV victims Read MoreNorwegian global provider of engineering and construction services, Aker Kvaerner, recently through its Canada-based subsidiary Chemetics entered into two new contracts for equipment supply and engineering services for two integrated …
Aker Kvaerner wins USD30-million contract in Indonesia Read MoreThe Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) will provide NOK 15 million to the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Bangkok as its assistance in human resources development for the …
NORAD to give AIT 15 million NOK for human resources development Read MoreNearly half the international patients of Bangkok Hospital are Scandinavians. Some are residents of Thailand while others are Scandinavians living in countries around the region. For about one year, …
Bangkok Hospital expanding in the Scandinavian market Read MoreDiGi Telecommunications company on 27 May signed a strategic agreement with Siemens Malaysia to spend between 100 and 200 million ringgit on boosting its technological capabilities amid stiffer competition. …
DiGi in strategic partnership with Siemens Read MoreNeraTel, Singapore in April signed three new contracts worth a total of 62 Mill NOK. Two of the orders worth 44 Mill NOK were with two mobile telecom operators in …
NeraTel signs orders worth 62 Mill. NOK Read MoreThe World Health Organization (WHO) has already removed Singapore from the list of areas with recent local transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and no longer recommends exit screening …
Singapore removed from WHO’s list of SARS-hit areas Read MoreThe Thai-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce in May re-launched its magazine under the new name “Thai-Norwegian Business Review”. The new quarterly magazine came with visually attractive design and new concept for …
TNCC re-launches quarterly magazine in Thailand Read MoreStein Vangen, the Norwegian pastor at the Norwegian Seamen’s Mission in Singapore since October 2002, will this autumn start in a full time job visiting the Norwegian communities in South …
Norwegian Priest in Singapore appointed new regional duties Read MoreThailand’s second-largest mobile phone operator Total Access Communication Plc. (TAC) has reported 19% year-on-year growth in net new subscribers to its DTAC service in April. TAC, 30% owned by Norway’s …
DTAC subscribers rise 19% in April Read MoreMore than 200 Norwegians and Thais celebrated the National Day of Norway in Thailand on 17 May 2003 in the usual grand style with hoisting of the flag, parade, speeches …
Great 17 May celebrations in Thailand Read MoreFinland’s national carrier Finnair will in June cancel three weekly flights from Helsinki to Bangkok and onwards to Singapore and Hong Kong due to weak seasonal demand, but repeated its …
Finnair to cut flights to South East Asia due slow season Read MoreIn 2004, Scandinavian Airlines plans to become the first airline to offer Internet connection on board intercontinental flights. “Our home market is the world’s most IT-dense region, so it …
Internet on SAS flight Read MoreTelenor ASA’s Thai partner Total Access Communica-tion (DTAC) on May 21 launched its rebranded prepaid mobile phone service “Happy Dprompt” as part of its effort to gain a greater share …
Telenor re-brands prepaid mobile phone service in Thailand Read MoreViking Cup, the annual encounter of all Viking football teams from Asia, has been postponed this year to 25-28 September 2003 due to the uncertainties surrounding the SARS virus. …
Viking Cup moved to September due to SARS Read MoreThe Indonesian Norwegian Business Council (INBC), in co-operation with the Norwegian Embassy in Jakarta, organized an evening celebration “Snowflakes Over Java” on May 17 at Jakarta Hilton International to mark …
Norwegian Independence Day in Indonesia Read MoreMr. Sim Boon Kiat, President of ABB Industry Pte Ltd., has since March 1 assumed Mr. Charles Sher’s responsibilities as Head of Low Voltage Products of the company. Mr. Sher …
ABB’s new head of low voltage products in Singapore Read MoreTwenty young professionals within environmental journalism, fishfarming and seismic studies from nine Asian countries – including Vietnam, Cambodia and Lao PDR – participated in an introductory course in Bangkok to …
Fredskorpset kickstarts first south–south exchange programme Read MoreNorwegian owned paint producer Jotun Paints Vietnam plans to invest additional US$5 million this year to expand its production facility and subsequently, its capacity to produce 10 million liters annually, …
Jotun ready to pour more investment in Vietnam Read MoreThe Norwegian Church in Singapore has put all activities for children on hold to help curb the spread of SARS. But the Church has at the same time felt it …
Singapore Church in times of SARS Read More