Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
Finnish and Scandinavian design is widely on display in Singapore. Style:Nordic is a design store that specializes in Finnish, Swedish and Danish design. The design store’s range consists, among others, …
Finnish and Scandinavian Design on Display in Singapore Read MoreSwiss oil trader Projector SA will likely sell its half stake in shipping firm FR8 to co-owner D/S Torm, in a deal that will allow the Danish shipper full control …
Rumours Rife About Torm Takeover Of FR8 Read MoreNorway and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) will fund US$5.2 million to help Vietnam accelerate business administration reform, according to the Norwegian Embassy in Vietnam. Under an agreement …
Norway Funding Vietnam’s Business Registration Reform Read MoreShip Finance International Limited has employed Peter Lund as Commercial Director. He is expected to take up his position with Ship Finance in September 2008, and will be based in …
Ship Finance Has Employed Peter Lund As Commercial Director Read MoreThe EU is a massive importer of illegally logged wood from Indonesia and other exporters of illegal wood. Is there the political will to move beyond a voluntary approach and …
Skanska: Logged Wood Can Be “Bought Off The Shelf” Read MoreDanish Software Company manages the production of giant cranes for the offshore industry in Kristiansand (Norway), Singapore, China and Malaysia. Hans Tørsleff management systems has developed a solution that manages …
New Danish Software For Giant Cranes In The Offshore Industry Read MoreIf you’re having children while studying abroad, you are still entitled to child allowance. The rule also applies to diplomats, state-employees and social security workers.This was decided by the High …
Swedish Expat Receives Retroactive Child Allowance after Verdict in High Court of Sweden Read MoreGold may just be another colour for most of us but for Carlsberg Malaysia, it is a name they have chosen for their new permanent product, Carlsberg Gold. The new …
Carlsberg Introduce New Brew In Malaysia Read MoreThailand Elite, a subsidiary of Tourism Authority of Thailand. Specially designed for friends of Thailand, the members can enjoy unprecedented access to benefits including expedited immigration, privilege on Visa (life …
Invitation To Join Thailand Elite Read MoreThe Head of the Development Cooperation Section at the Embassy of Sweden in Hanoi, Minister Lennart Nordström was thanked for his contributions over the past years to the development cooperation …
Medals Presented To Minister Lennart Nordström Read MoreIn an organizational restructuring of its top management, Saxo Bank has appointed Eric Rylberg and Karsten Poulsen to two new positions as Chief Executive Director and Deputy Chief Executive Director. …
Saxo Bank Announces New Top Leadership Team Read MoreDuring this summer Sweden has completed some changes in their representation in South East Asia. This means changes of the staff at the Embassy in Thailand as well. Since the …
New Staff at the Swedish Embassy in Thailand Read MoreThe Swedish Trade Council will move into their office at Anthenee Tower at Wireless Road on 1 September 2008. It will be a light beginning with only two staff members, …
The Swedish Trade Council Is Soon to Move into Their Office in Bangkok Read MoreSandy Nicholas Stuvik Norway/ Thailand wins the 4th round and qualifies for World Championship. Yes. It was all to go for this weekend as Sandy again was very fast in …
Norwegian Sandy Nicholas Stuvik Qualifies For World Championship Read MoreFinnish telecoms infrastructure company Nokia Siemens Networks, owned by the Finnish telecoms solutions provider Nokia and the German electrical engineering and electronics company Siemens, said on Monday (4 August) the …
Indosat To Deploy Nokia Siemens Networks’ Mobile Softswitch Solution Read MoreMajuikan Sdn Bhd, which is wholly owned by Lembaga Kemajuan Ikan Malaysia (LKIM), has established a RM10mil eco-friendly farm to produce fish fry. The project is 100% Malaysian-owned but operated …
Fish Farm With Norwegian Technology Set Up In Malaysia Read MoreCosco expects to deliver its first Sevan 650 drilling unit for Norwegian Sevan Marine this December, Li said today at the sidelines of a financial results briefing in Singapore. Sevan …
Cosco Mulls Norwegian Turnkey Rig Building Project Read MoreThe Overseas Vietnamese Association in Finland in co-ordination with the Vietnamese Embassy has held a 2008 summer camp in Tampere city for members of Vietnamese families living and studying in …
Summer Camp For Overseas Vietnamese Held In Finland Read MoreOn Friday August 1, 2008 a young Finnish man was being held at the Tourist Police station on Pratumnak Road since he had no money and no recollection of his …
Young Finn Tourist Mystery In Pattaya Read MoreDanske Bank is hosting a seminar about Vietnam at the Copenhagen Admiral Hotel on 7 October 2008. The purpose is to give an insight in the Vietnamese market to companies …
Danske Bank Hosts Seminar about Vietnam Read MoreIn the link below you will find the programme and the registration sheet along with other information for the official Danish business delegation to Bangkok headed by Their Royal Highnesses …
Invitation To Official Danish Export promotion In Thailand Read MoreThe Singapore Symphony Orchestra will perform Carl Nielsen’s most popular symphony in Esplanade Theatres on 30 August 2008. “Music is life, and like life, inextinguishable”. The famous Danish composer Carl …
Carl Nielsen´s ”The Inextinguishable” To Be Performed In Singapore Read MoreBI Norwegian School of Management is launching a new Executive MBA in Shipping, Offshore and Finance. Former President of both the International Institute for Management in Switzerland and BI Norwegian …
Executive MBA Programme In Shipping, Offshore And Finance Read MoreWhen Micks Guesthouse on Friday 1 August opened in Cha Am, many friends and colleagues from other guesthouses and bars dropped by to enjoy the buffet, play pool and congratulate …
Danish Guesthouse Opened in Cha Am Read MoreDeavy lift specialist Dockwise says logistical flexibility were the keywords in the recent delivery of flexible flowline and umbilical reels to Technip’s/Subsea 7’s offshore construction vessel CSO Venturer. Six 300 …
Dockwise Delivers Danish Flowlines And umbilicals To Technip Read MoreThe Ha Long Shipbuilding Company launched a 53,000-tonne ship in northern Quang Ninh province on July 30. The ship, called AP-DRZIC-HL05, is one of a series of 53,000-tonne ships that …
Vietnam’s Ha Long Shipbuilding Launches New Danish Designed Vessel Read MoreSwedish Peder Gustafsson has a passion. He loves radio and is very good at it. So good, that he took care of the development of all programmes in the Swedish …
Local Radio In Asia For And With The People Read MoreSwedish telecoms solutions provider Ericsson has signed a two-year contract with Telekom Malaysia Berhad, Malaysia, for the nationwide expansion of TM’s optical network infrastructure and associated network management. The …
Ericsson To Expand Optical Network Infrastructure In Malaysia Read MoreThe global container shipping traffic is expected to grow by five to six percent while the traffic between Asia and Europe is expected to grow by eight percent. Maersk …
Maersk Line Will Deploy Larger Vessels Read MoreDanish-foreign couples, who have received incorrect or unclear guidance on family reunification, could get compensation for the economic losses they have suffered following the wrong advice on EU laws. …
Family Reunification: Rejected Couples May Get Compensation Read MoreNordic Semiconductor in Trondheim Norway intents to set-up a regional supply chain headquarters in Manila, the Philippines. This will later be expanded to include a regional RF test-engineering group to …
Nordic Semiconductor To Relocate Supply Chain Headquarters To The Philippines Read MoreA Norwegian father wanted by Interpol over allegedly abducting his six-year-old Swedish daughter arrived Tuesday in Sweden after being deported from Cambodia, police and local media said to DPA. …
Father Who Allegedly Abducted Girl To Cambodia Is back In Sweden Read MoreA Soviet-trained female brewmaster is trying to turn an obscure Laotian lager, owned by Danish Carlsberg, into the world’s next great cult beer, largely by tapping into the buzz about …
Carlsberg´s Beer Lao In The Footsteps Of Mexico’s Corona Extra Read MoreThirty Internet cafe owners in Cagayan de Oro signed over the weekend a code of conduct, vowing to filter known pornographic sites in their respective establishments. The code of conduct …
Swedish Ecpat Promote Code Of Conduct Read More“Gate Gourmet told us the taste of our bread is good, the texture is right and overall quality is up to the high European standards,” said Odd Gunnar Engebretsen, the …
THAI: Our Bread Is Tasty And Cheap Read MoreWaraporn was visiting Denmark for the third time when in 2005 she met Martin van der Muts in Copenhagen. Soon their relationship became more serious and before Waraporn returned to …
Denied Wedding in Denmark Read MoreA Norwegian officer drank an entire bottle of liquor and went amok on a KLM aircraft on its way to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. And now he has been fired …
Officer Fired After He went Amok On Aircraft Read MoreThe Danish Immigration Service is trying to get an overview of the impact of an EU Court ruling this past Friday which might make it easier for families to seek reunification …
Danish Immigration Puts All Cases On Hold Read MoreNeonode Neonode extends its text input capabilities support for Asia by introducing T9 text input for Malaysia and Indonesia. With the addition of Indonesian and Malay for Malaysia, the Neonode …
Swedish Neonode Launch New Product In Malaysia And Indonesia Read MoreBy Patcharee Lae-ya Thai tourists going to Scandinavia has dropped 20 percent this year. But the decline is mostly due to the increasing prices on airplane tickets and the cost …
Thai Tourists Drop Scandinavia Read MoreDenmark-based electronics firm GN Netcom, which used to make wireless headsets for offices and call centers under its own corporate name, has reintroduced its products in the Philippines but this …
Danish Headset Maker Introduces Jabra Brand To RP Enterprise Market Read MoreOMD Malaysia has been awarded the media planning and buying account for Carlsberg Malaysia estimated to be worth of RM15 million. According to a statement, the change was part of …
OMD Malaysia Wins Carlsberg Account Read MoreThe owner of the brothel property with Thai girls at Ribevej in the Danish town Vejle, the 42-year-old Keld Wulff, is still enjoying his life in Thailand with the five …
Enjoying His Millions In Thailand Read MoreAugust 3, 2008 the go-kart people from Kartthai will drive around them self´s once again. The great event will be held at Pattaya’s Bira circuit, wich is situated beside the …
Go-kart Race At Pattaya´s Bira Circuit Read MoreA customer became acutely ill after eating a filet of fish, bought at a Rema 1000 store in Haugesund. The Norwegian Food Safety Authority found dangerous bacteria and toxins from …
Dangerous Bacteria Found In Frozen Fish From Vietnam Read MoreNo wonder if the Pattaya´s media king Niels Colov has problems with his hand, after having greeted at least one thousand welcomed guests. The reason was that the Dane turned …
Pattaya Media King Turn 60 Read MoreA Norwegian ship officer drank an entire bottle of liquor and then went amok on a KLM aircraft on its way to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. He was handcuffed and …
Norwegian Officer Handcuffed On A Plane And Jailed In Malaysia Read MoreA Norwegian man wanted by Interpol on charges of kidnapping his six-year-old daughter more than a year ago has been arrested in Cambodia, an interior ministry official said. Torgeir Nordbo …
Norwegian Held In Cambodia On Kidnap Charge Read MoreThe six year old girl who has been held away in Cambodia by her father landed in the morning at Arlanda airport. Along with her was her mother. “It …
Kidnapped Girl Back In Sweden With Her Mother Read MoreWhen a 42 year old Dane fresh out of a prison got away with cashing in a check of 5,6 million kroner and quickly moved the cash – and himself …
Got Away With 5,6 Million Kroner Read More