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One or more bankers in Vejle overlooked a false cheque, and were forced to wave goodbye to 5.6 million kroner. The 5.6 million is the figure at the check, a …
Cashed False Cheque – Went To Thailand With 5.6 million Kroner Read More“The Tiger Temple” in Thailand is a major tourist attraction, but the story behind the project are based on lies. The animals are imported to Thailand under the “highly dubious …
Danish Tour Operator Boycotts Well Known Thai Tourist Attraction Read MoreThai-Danish Club has a special ability. These guys can make people wake up at 5 in the morning to gather at 6.30 outside the main auditorium of Kasetsart University – …
Thai-Danish Club Did It Again! Read MoreThe Prime Minister on July 2 gave nod to a Danish funded project. Namely a sewage and liquid waste treatment system in the capital of the northern mountainous province of …
The Government In Vietnam Approves Danish-funded Project Read MoreFollowing her trip to Timor Leste, Ambassador Ann Marie Bolin Pennegård on 16-20 June 2008 made an official visit to Bali where she met with among others the Governor Dewa …
Swedish Ambassador Makes official Visit To Bali Read MoreAmbassador Ann Marie Bolin Pennegård paid an official visit to Timor-Leste 9-13 June 2008, together with Sida’s regional representative on democracy and human rights, Mr. Johan Hallenborg. The Ambassador …
Ambassador Bolin Pennegård Visits Timor-Leste Read MoreMr. Sigve Brekke takes up the position as head of Telenor Region Asia and joins Telenor’s Group Executive Management on September 1st 2008. Brekke succeeds Mr. Arve Johansen, who returns …
Sigve Brekke Appointed New Head Of Telenor Asia, Tore Johnsen New CEO Of DTAC Read MoreTAC, controlled by Norway‘s Telenor has said it expects to launch the service using HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access) in early 2009. HSDPA is an advanced 3G mobile technology …
TAC Has Said It Expects To Launch The Service Using HSDPA Read MoreSEK is one of only 15 foreign applicants who have been granted permission to issue Baht-denominated bonds in Thailand. The permission is important for Swedish companies wanting to make investments …
SEK One Of Only 15 Foreign Applicants To Be Granted Permission To Issue Baht-denominated Bonds In Thailand Read MoreThe Swede who was shot in the Philippines is steadily improving. Doctors have picked out two bullets from his body. “My husband is feeling good after the surgery,” says …
Swedes Condition Is Steadily Improving Read MoreHe has been active as an artist for more than 40 years, but Finnish painter and sculpture artist, Ilja West, is as creative as ever. At age 58 he is …
Finnish Artist Builds Bronze Sculptures In Thailand Read MoreThe festival arranged by the Royal Thai Embassy, and several thousand people took the opportunity to check up on Thailand in the past, present and future. And not to forget, …
Great Thai Festival In Copenhagen Read MoreThe Indonesian embassy in Oslo joined an international cultural festival called “Stoppested Verden` which was held in Hamar, Norway. The embassy presented Indonesia`s traditional Bali music `gamelan` in the festival, …
Indonesia`s Embassy Joins Cultural Festival In Norway Read MoreLong-running Swedish death metallers Dismember will perform their first-ever show in Singapore on July 13 at Substation, Guiness Theatre. Tickets are now on sale in Singapore and Malaysia through La …
Dismember Schedules First-Ever Visit To Singapore Read MoreMalaysia has selected Saab Erieye radar and the purchase is included in the country’s plans for defence equipment purchases. Its confirmed by Saab Vice President Erik Löwenadler, writes the Swedish …
Saab And Malaysia Close In On Billion Deal Read MoreSingapore shipyard operator SembCorp Marine Ltd. said on Tuesday its unit SMOE has won a $400-million contract from Maersk Olie og Gas AS, a unit of Danish shipping and oil …
Singapore’s SembCorp Marine Unit Wins $400 Million Contract From Maersk Read MoreAccording to the Tourism Authority of Thailand the country remains the top-choice long-haul destination for Swedish travelers accounting for 40 per cent of all travel packages purchased from Apollo, the …
Thailand Remains The Top Beach Destination For Swedish Travelers Read MoreA couple of dozen welders from Vietnam arrives in Österbotten in the autumn as an important part of local business projects. It is intended that the welders will be employed …
Vietnamese Welders Needed In Finland Read MoreThe man, originally from Blekinge has been more than 20 years a resident of the Philippines. He was on Tuesday July 1, 2008 in afternoon on his way home …
Swedish Man Shot In The Philippines Read MoreEight months after the Thailand-holiday disappeared 18,000 kroner from the account. While the card holder was in Norway, the VISA cards information’s were misused in Cologne in Germany, writes the …
Norwegian Couple Lost 18,000 Kroner In Thai VISA Card Scam Read MoreFinnish experts said rainbow trout’s at farms in Sa Pa grow even faster than those raised in Finland. However, Lam Dong is not only the only place in the country …
Finnish Rainbow Trout’s Grow Faster In Vietnam Read MoreSingapore shipyard operator SembCorp Marine Ltd. said on Monday its wholly-owned unit Jurong Shipyard has won a $640 million deal to build a semi-submersible drilling rig for Larsen Oil & …
Singapore’s SembCorp Marine Wins $640 Million Rigbuilding Deal Read MoreTourist from Sweden, Finland and Norway have their share in the newest record in Vietnamese tourism, when the country welcomed 2.5 million foreign tourists in the first half of the …
Vietnam Welcomes 2.5 Million Foreign Visitors In Six Months Read MoreFinnair’s long-haul destinations in the winter season 2008-2009 are the following: Bangkok 13, Beijing 7, Shanghai 7, Hong Kong 7, Delhi 6, New York 6, Osaka 5, Tokyo 4, Mumbai …
13 Finnair Departures A Week To Bangkok Read MoreThe Ministry for Foreign Affairs wants to enhance its consular services in order to be able to assist Finns travelling or residing abroad as efficiently as possible. If you have …
Client Inquiry About Finnish Consular Services Read MoreNorwegian Per Arne Solheim, who has been wanted in Thailand since April 18, 2008 took yesterday contact with the police in Norway writes the Norwegian newspaper VG Nett. “I …
Missing Norwegian In Thailand Safe And Sound: – Did Not Know That He Was Wanted Read MoreFor the past couple of years, Swedish companies with interest in opening up branches or trade to the Siam region have had to contact the Swedish Trade Council (STC) in …
Swedish Trade Coucil To Open Up In Bangkok Read MoreReactivated Swedish old-school death metallers Interment have inked a deal with Singapore’s Pulverised Records. The band is currently hard at work on material for a new full-length album, tentatively due …
Interment Signs With Pulverised Records In Singapore Read MoreVietnamese and Swedish artists collaborate on the new opera being devised by bloggers from the two countries. Scripts are created from young people’s blog entries, which gives the art form …
Opera Based On Blogs From Vietnam And Sweden Read MoreIn Vietnam, performance art is gaining favor as a way to push boundaries while evading censorship. In the last couple of years, performance artists have tried to move out of …
The Arts Used To Get Around Censorship Read MoreThe statistics are clear: Thailand is the country where most Norwegian men infected with the HIV-infection. Last year, nearly 40 Norwegians were infected by HIV during travelling abroad. Around 80 …
Norwegian Doctors: Sex Is Risky In Thailand Read MoreOn the 10th of June, the Thai-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce (TNCC) announced the future Executive Director of the TNCC in a press release. Starting her new job on August 1st …
Thai-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce Appoints New Executive Director Read MoreThe latest red list was compiled by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and …
Vietnam: Nearly 900 Species Are Threatened With Extinction Read MoreDanish group BankInvest signed a partnership agreement with the International Consumer Products (ICP) Company in Ho Chi Minh City Friday. The asset managing group will invest US$9.6 million in the …
Danish Group Backs Local Firm In Vietnam Read MoreThe Indonesia Children’s Choir (PSAI) Cordana has invited PSAI to represent Indonesia invited by the committee for the 8th World Symposium on Choral Music in Denmark has invited PSAI to …
Danish Invitation To Indonesian Choir Read MoreExecutive search firms in India now traverse the map to identify and hire expat talent from Vietnam, Malaysia, Finland, and other contries, to take the country into the next level …
Vietnam And Malysia Can Loose Expats To India Inc. Read MoreA white with out any identification papers leapt to his death by jumping from the 10th floor of Mike Shopping mall on 23 June 2008 at around 6.00 pm in …
Swedish Man Commit Suicide At Shopping Mall In Pattaya Read MoreIn 2005, SAS divested 67 % of its share in SAS Component, now renamed to STAerospace Solutions (Europe) A/S, to Singapore Technologies Aerospace Ltd (STAerospace), the aerospace arm of Singapore …
Singapore Technologies Engineering Purchase Remaining Shares In SAS Component Read MoreMaria Sten-Knudsen is one of the 80 out of the world’s most beautiful women in the 57. Miss Universe competition, which is held in this year in Vietnam. Definitely an …
Danish Miss Universe Candidate Already In Vietnam Read MoreSweden will fund the continuation and expansion of the Indonesia Emergency Response Fund with 2 USD for a period of two years. The ERF was initiated by the Office …
Swedish Funding For The Emergency Response Fund In Indonesia Read MoreMore than 250 blind people in 42 provinces and cities have received IT training courses under the four-year project “Training IT for the blind in Vietnam”. The project was implemented …
SIDA Help Blind People Get The Opportunity To Access IT Skills Read MoreThe Royal Norwegian Embassy in Manila recently organised a one-day work environment seminar at the Filipinas Heritage Library as part of the Embassy’s Action Plan to improve the office work …
Norwegian Embassy Staff Focus On Work Environment Read MorePolice believe that a Norwegian man found dead in a hotel room with a fractured skull had fallen and injured himself while under the influence of narcotics. Officers led by …
Norwegian Dies In Hotel Room In Pattaya Read MoreCounsellor at the Swedish Embassy in Hanoi Molly Lien said that Vietnam has acknowledged challenges facing the country in administrative reform – one of important measures in stamping out corruption. …
Vietnam’s Anti-corruption On Right Track Read More99 % of the beers sold in Laos are the good old Beer Lao. What ever beer trying to brake into the Laos market, face a tough time. The reason …
Difficult To sell Carlsberg Beers In Laos Read MoreCarlsberg’s new Laos brewery close to the Thai border, which cost 25 million to construct, has since the start of the production in March 2008, only bottled beers three days …
Carlsbergs New Brewery In Laos Hit By Postponement Of Free Trade Read MoreThai Airways International (THAI) has bowed to the inevitable again and is passing on higher costs to travellers in a new round of fuel-surcharge increases. The increases, effective on June …
THAI Announces Substantial Increases In Fuel Surcharges Read MoreThe four persons, three women and one man, who was identified as primarily responsible for widespread human trafficking from Vietnam to Sweden was acquitted today June 26, 2008 by Halmstad …
Four Vietnamese People Acquitted Of Human Trafficking In Sweden Read MoreA 40-year-old man from northern Sweden was convicted on Tuesday by Umeå district court for a rape against a Swedish girl in Thailand five years ago. Umeå district court sentenced …
Man Sentenced Of Raping 14-year Old Swedish Girl In Thailand Read MoreFurniture retailer Ikea has recalled a sleeping bag for babies because of the risk a child could choke on the zip. Two customers reported that part of the zip …
Ikea Recall Indonesian Sleeping Bags Read More