Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
Long established as a major Pattaya property developer catering mostly to Scandinavians and other Europeans, the New Nordic Group is looking to expand its customer base by targeting more Thai …
New Nordic Group eyes Thai buyers to expand customer base Read More
The Norwegian Nobel committee paid tribute on Friday to Nelson Mandela, calling him “one of the greatest names in the long history of the Nobel Peace Prize”. Mandela, who died …
Mandela: ‘one of the greatest names’ in Nobel history, Committee Read More
Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf said he valued Sino-Sweden relations highly, and would keep supporting bilateral cooperation when he accepted on Thursday credentials from the new Chinese Ambassador to Sweden. …
Swedish king lauds Sino-Swedish ties Read More
The Indonesian-Swedish Initiative for Sustainable Energy Solutions (INSISTS) will be working to assist the Indonesian government in developing its renewable energy policy, including reducing the damage to tropical forests caused …
Sweden, Indonesia to develop renewable energy solutions Read More
The 17 Group of Norway, an association of maritime suppliers, expects a 40 percent rise in combined sales in China next year with more high-end ship types being built here. …
Norway’s marine suppliers bullish on China market Read More
Whilst Denmark isn’t exactly at the top of the list for would-be migrants, it seems to have similar problems about attracting the right type of expat as many other first …
Danish ex-justice minister calls for grading of immigrants Read More
After 31 December 2013, you will no longer be able to pay with the older versions of the 50-krona and 1,000-krona banknotes that do not have foil strips. The reason …
Old Swedish banknotes not valid in 2014 Read More
Swedish company Midroc Automation has been requested to deliver a fully automated system to manage the World’s largest gold mine in Papua, Indonesia. The client is the American mining company …
Swedish Midroc gets 800 Mil. SEK order in Indonesia Read More
Norwegian pianist, singer and entertainer Ingrid Bjørnov visits Singapore in March next year and will give a concert at the Tanglin Club on 6 March 2014. The concert is a …
Ingrid Bjørnov to Singapore Read MoreGlobalskolen reminds that the deadline for the next semester is 30 January 2014, but early registration simplifies the planning of a new semester. Globalskolen is a tutorial program in Norwegian, …
Sign up for online school for Norwegian children abroad Read More
Maersk Line and the intra-Asia container shipping specialist, MCC Transport, celebrated their 20 years of business co-operation in Cambodia with a major celebration in Phnom Penh attended by Public Works …
Maersk Celebrates 20 years in Cambodia Read MoreCargotec has established Sinotruk (Shandong) Hiab Equipment Company a joint venture with the China National Heavy Duty Truck Company (CNHTC). The Finnish manufacturer’s stake in the JV is 50 percent …
Finland’s Cargotec in Chinese truck crane joint venture Read More
A new collaboration which may be a sign of things to come sees a project incorporating innovative European design skills alongside the physical and mechanical attributes of Chinese ship building …
Danish-designed, Chinese-built ships in the offing Read MoreThe Norwegian government contributes almost USD 279 million to international organization Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The three-year NOK 1.7 billion allocation to the international organization between …
Norway’s global anti-infectious disease funding reaches US$279 million Read MoreTiny, programmed drug-delivery vehicles called nanorobots have the potential to bring about more targeted treatments with fewer side effects. And a research team from Denmark has built the beginnings of …
Danish nanorobots offer hot, cold delivery to ailing organs Read MoreYes. All. The. Books. In Norwegian, at least. Hundreds of thousands of them. Every book in the library’s holdings. By law, “all published content, in all media, [must] be deposited …
Norway to digitize all native language books Read MoreThe Rembrandt Hotel proudly welcomes Chef Jens Jensen, the head Chef at Møllegården, Alrø in Denmark to be the guest chef for the Modern Danish Christmas Gastronomy Festival, which is …
Modern Danish Christmas Gastronomy Festival starts at Rembrandt Hotel today Read MoreThe Consulate General of Denmark in Guangzhou organised an exquisite Hi-Fi event for a very select group of people at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Guangzhou the 30th of November. …
Consul General in Guangzhou hosts Hi-Fi event Read MoreSocial workers in a wealthy Copenhagen neighbourhood have begun making house calls to wake up students with high rates of absenteeism, sparking accusations that Denmark’s welfare state has become too …
Has nanny-state Denmark gone too far? Read MoreNorway’s OBX index could be hampered in the near term by developments hitting the fish production and processing sector, according to comments from politicians and market analysts. The problem is …
Norwegian salmon’s China market share dwindles Read More[wzslider] On Friday November 29 Thai-Danish Chamber of Commerce held the annual Christmas Lunch, which they in their invite had called “the biggest and most-anticipated event of the year”. That …
DanCham held cheerful Christmas lunch with Ambassador’s performance Read MoreOn Saturday November 30 Swea Bangkok held its annual Christmas Party at Rembrandt Hotel. It was a traditional Swedish Christmas party with all what it takes to get in the …
Swea Bangkok held well-attended Christmas party Read MoreOn 6 November, the Nordic Golf Tournament took place at the newly refurbished Jurong Country Club in Singapore, SBAS (the Swedish Business Association Singapore) said on their website. The Golf …
Nordic Golf Torunament held at refurbished club in Singapore Read MoreHydropower dams are poised to exacerbate and even outstrip the impact of climate change, according to a report by Finland’s Aalto University and NGO Southeast Asia START. “Within the next …
Dam, climate: a bad mix, says Finnish report Read MoreForeign businesses, including those from Finland, will enjoy a number of preferential treatments when they invest in the Mekong delta city of Can Tho. Profitable investors in the field of …
Finnish firms urged to invest in Vietnam Read More
Volvo just unveiled plans for the world’s first large-scale trial of self-driving cars. The ‘Drive Me’ project will see 100 autonomous vehicles take to the streets of Gothenburg, Sweden in …
Volvo: self-driving cars to hit Sweden’s roads in 2017 Read MoreA SWEDISH man jumped from the elevated highway close to Pudong International Airport’s Terminal 2 at 9am on 2 December. He was declared dead on the way to hospital. The …
Swede leaps to death at China airport Read MoreDenmark and New Zealand were the nations seen as most free of corruption and Somalia was ranked last, according to this year’s Corruption Perceptions Index. The report, released today by …
Denmark ranked cleanest in global corruption index Read More
Much of Tacloban city in the central Philippines is still littered with debris, weeks after a super typhoon. A welcome addition to the clearing effort is this unmanned aerial vehicle, …
Danish firm launches ‘good drones’ in Philippines typhoon cleanup Read More
The Sports Authority of Thailand and the organisers of the 2013 Race Of Champions have announced that the event cannot take place as planned on December 14-15 due to the …
Race of Champions cancelled due to Bangkok unrest Read More
Bjørn Kjos and his low-cost carrier Norwegian Airlines now have a total of 55 routes from Copenhagen Airport. Latest they opened one to Fort Lauerdale in Florida. In an interview …
Bjørn Kjos and Norwegian aim at Asia in the future Read MoreTwo-way trade value between Vietnam and Finland totalled US$304 million in 2012 and both countries aim to raise the amount to US$1 billion in the coming years. The figures were …
Finland, Vietnam target US$1 billion in trade Read MoreA “vertical cemetery”, in which the dead are buried in a modular high-rise tower, has been commended as “a highly original contribution” at an Oslo conference for Nordic cemeteries and …
Norway’s vertical cemetery wins praise for originality Read MoreChairman of Hanoi’ s Peoples Committee Mr. Nguyen The Thao and Danish Ambassador John Nielsen met to discuss cooperation between the Municipality of Copenhagen and Hanoi. They agreed to promote …
Copenhagen, Hanoi to cooperate on urban development Read MoreSWEDISH ENGINEERING group Sandvik recently inked a deal with Inframachineries, a leading Filipino provider of construction tools and equipment. The brand will be the exclusive distributor of Sandvik’s mobile crushers. …
Sweden’s Sandvik enters Philippines market Read More
It’s the brainchild of two women in Sweden and their creation that has been nicknamed the “invisible bicycle helmet” is going viral. Their concept took the internet by storm after …
Swedish women design ‘invisible’ bike helmet Read MoreChina’s Haiyan and Denmark’s Sonderborg became sister cities after they reached a consensus on building ecological and low-carbon cities. The two cities vowed to deepen cooperation in machine manufacturing, electronics …
Denmark’s Sonderborg, China’s Haiyan now sister cities Read MoreABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has appointed Chunyuan Gu as head of its business in China and the North Asia region as of Jan. 1, 2014. Gu, …
Chinese robotics expert leads ABB China operations Read MoreMost striking workers have returned to work at the Nokia factory in the southern Chinese city of Dongguan after their recent industrial action, but experts have warned that the strike …
Nokia strike, lesson for transnational mergers Read More
National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB has started the production of the Saab 9-3 Aero Sedan with a petrol powerhouse. The first car will roll out of the assembly lines in …
Saab cars to roll out of reopened plant in Sweden Read More
After five days in a boat house you are ensured recharged batteries and scores of stunning views on the inner memory board. To wake up on the lake, go to …
Float away in the magic of silence Read MoreNorway’s REC is supplying the solar panels for two utility-scale solar energy projects for self consumption to go ahead in Singapore this year and early 2014. Developed and operated by …
REC panels in Singapore’s largest solar project Read More
Swedish fashion giant H&M said on Wednesday it would stop making clothing containing angora hair after an animal rights group released video showing fur being plucked from live rabbits on …
H&M halts angora products after rabbit torture video Read MoreChinese officials continue to give Norway the cold shoulder for awarding the Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo some three years after the fact. Consignments of semen from mixed-race breed the …
China still taking no bull about Nobel Read More
PHUKET: Big Phuket waves at Karon Beach claimed another tourist’s life Wednesday afternoon November 27. Swedish national Ann Gorli Teres Fjellner, 59, was knocked over and dragged out by heavy …
Swedish tourist drowns at popular Phuket beach Read More
Danish Police Force West accused the kingpins in a comprehensive case about pot growing in Denmark. 23 persons have already been sentenced in the case. Seven Vietnamese, one Dutch and …
Seven Vietnamese accused in huge pot and drug case in Denmark Read More
As always was the annual Christmas bazaar in the Norwegian Church in Singapore a popular event. This year, it was held on November 9-10 and around 660 people visited the …
Magical Christmas Bazaar in the Norwegian Church Read More
Gymnastics athletes from Denmark visit Asia next year to share the concept of living an active and healthy life. Ahead of the tour the list of things to be planned …
National Danish Performance Team hits Asia on world tour 2014 Read MoreSTOCKHOLM, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) — Chinese scientist Dr. Qin Dahe was awarded here the 2013 Volvo Environment Prize Tuesday night for his outstanding scientific contribution in the field of climate …
Chinese scientists awarded Volvo environmental prize Read MoreJanitor gifts fortune to ‘coloured kids in need’ Despite their meagre salaries, a janitor and his wife, who worked in a Swedish school kitchen, left 2.5 million kronor ($380,000) in …
Swedish janitor gifts fortune to ‘coloured kids in need’ Read More