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Singapore bus company SBS Transit has put a new large order in 200 Swedish buses. Since 2007, the Singaporean customer has now bought nothing less than 1100 Swedish buses.Bus company …
200 Swedish Buses to Singapore Read MoreDespite the Influenza A scare and the economic slowdown, the number of tourists last month in Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia increased compared to last year. Danish tourists visit more and …
Tourism Boom Despite Financial Crisis 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 MoreThree students from Universiti Sains Malaysia have won a study trip to Helsinki. The trio are the recent winners of the National Inter-Varsity Security Tech Quiz Championship 08/09 held in …
Malaysian Students Win Computer Quiz Organized by Finnish F-Secure 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 MoreThe TV commercials for Malaysia as a tourism destination are familiar. Much less known is the ‘Malaysia My Second Home’ (MM2H) initiative, though that is about to change. The country’s …
Malaysia My Second Home Targeting Scandinavians Read MoreThe popular Danish dating game show Dagens Mand (Man Of The Day) on TV2 has now reached Indonesia as the first Asian country. The dating show with the original game …
Danish Dating Show in Indonesia Read MoreThe 24th of July the exhibition “Business As Usual” opened at Hanoi Future Art. The artists include three Danes, Anne Bennike, Søren Thilo Funder and Theis Wendt. The remaining three …
Three Danish Artists Displays Art at Hanoi Future Art 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 MoreFor some people is a big leap to move to a foreign country to pursue the carrier ambitions, but when globetrotting runs in the veins, a relocation on, give or …
Restlessness in the blood Read MoreThe Danish comapny FLSmidth has signed a contract worth approximately 55 million Euros with the Indonesian cement producer PT Semen Gresik for an 8,000 tonnes per day cement production line. …
FLSmidth wins large cement order in Indonesia 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 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 MorePhilippine Ambassador to Sweden Maria Zeneida Angara Collinson has hosted a cocktail reception for the 20 Filipino employees hired by Ericsson in its global headquarters in Stockholm at the Embassy …
Ericsson employs 20 Filipinos in Stockholm 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 European Union met with nations of the Asia-Pacific to discuss security policy in the region at the ASEAN regional forum on July 22-23 in Phuket, Thailand. On the agenda …
EU at ASEAN regional forum in Phuket 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 Malaysian unit of Danish brewer Carlsberg said on Tuesday it has offered to buy Carlsberg Singapore Pte Ltd for 370 million ringgit ($105.5 million) in cash. Carlsberg Malaysia expects …
Carlsberg Malaysia plans to buy Carlsberg Singapore 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 MoreFinland will provide €3 million in non-refundable aid for Vietnam to carry out a program that supports progress toward an industrialized, middle-income knowledge economy by 2020. Under a bilateral agreement …
Finland supports push for Vietnamese knowledge-based economy Read MoreAccording to DanChurchAid Domestic violence occurs frequently in Cambodia. And a combination of customs and culture continue to prolong violence against women. This is the conclusion in a new report …
DanChurchAid: Cambodian women trapped in violent marriages Read MoreAn exhibition about the ancient carved rock field in Sapa, the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai, Vietnam will take place at the Vasterrbotten Museum in Sweden from September 27 …
Sapa-rock goes to Sweden Read MoreArtworks by three Danish and three Vietnamese artists will be displayed at an exhibition entitled “Normal Trade”, which will open in Hanoi on July 24.Sponsored by the Cultural Development and …
Danish and Vietnamese artists share “Normal Trade” in Hanoi 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 MoreDarkness has descended over the tropical Sarawakian rainforest, and about 5000 pair of eyes seek the tall wooden stage between the aged trees, where four Scandinavian fiddlers have taking position …
When the Sound of Horse-Hairs Filled the Rainforest Read MoreTwo joint meetings between EU and ASEAN on the problems connected with fossil fuels are planned to take place in Bangkok and Hanoi in September. The foreseeable depletion of fossil …
EU-ASEAN Expert meeting on fossil fuel planned in Bangkok and Hanoi Read MoreWhat began as a two mouth internship for the Thai-Finnish Chamber of Commence has now turned into a permanent relocation to Bangkok, where she now has made successful modelling career …
Much more than a Barbie 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 MoreRotary Engineering Limited has signed two contracts totalling S$36 million with the Finnish company Neste Oil Singapore Pte Ltd to undertake works at Neste’s S$1.2 billion NExBTL Renewable Diesel Plant …
Rotary and Neste Oil, Singapore, signs $36 million contract 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 MoreThe small university in the third biggest city of Denmark is among the few European Universities, who now will receive EU-support on around three million Euros to their Erasmus Mundus …
Aalborg University joins Erasmus exchange program with Asia 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 More‘Take a break and spend quality time with your family on a bounty-island – without you children missing out on school’. This suggestion seems harder and harder to resist for …
Swedish Curriculum on a Bounty-Island 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 MoreMost countries in he European Union, Denmark, Sweden and Finland included, supports a termination of anti-dumping taxes on leather shoes from Vietnam and China. Reuters quoted an EU diplomat as …
Denmark, Sweden and Finland support terminating duties on Vietnam’s shoes Read MoreThe Danish newspaper Politiken has warned its readers to be wary of discarded cigarette ends at train-stations and airport tax-free shops in Thailand since officials are on the take and …
Danish newspaper warns: Beware of Thai extortionists Read MoreIn April 2009, Indonesians voted over 800 new representatives to the national, provincial and district parliament in Aceh. The Finnish Embassy, based in Jakarta, uses the ’local cooperation fund’ to …
Finland trains new-elected Acehnese Female Politicians Read MoreThe European Commission has allocated €3 million in humanitarian aid to assist the most vulnerable people affected by the conflict between the Philippines’ armed forces and the Moro Islamic Liberation …
European Commission provides €3 million in humanitarian aid in Mindanao 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 MoreLow costs, relaxed atmosphere and an incredible amount of sunny hours, to many people there are several good reasons to move to Hua Hin when retiring. But like most other …
A home away from Sweden Read MoreLast year Marianne and Robert Franson from Slangerup decided to realize their lifelong dream of showing the world to Cecilie and Julie, their daughters on eight and six respectively. The …
An experience of a lifetime Read More