Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
Denmark’s largest travel agency, Star Tour, has sold about 20 pct. less winter trips to Phuket than they did in the same period last year, Sales Director Stig Elling tells …
Less Danes Travel to Southern Thailand Read MoreSwedish volunteers that worked during the Asian tsunami will gather for a meeting at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm on Thursday afternoon and evening. The government is represented …
Tsunami volunteers meet in Stockholm Read MoreImpressively clean and oozing with sanitary care – and the smell of fish – 44 year-old Truong Thi Le Khanh’s new fish factory lies in the outer proximity of Ho …
Danish Aid behind Vietnamese Fishing Adventure Read MoreThe asphalt runs out and the tires instead find their grip in the mountains’ iron-red dust after about an hour’s drive south from Buon Ma Thuot, the biggest city in …
Danida Provides the Flush in Rural Vietnam Read MoreThe five-day visit to Vietnam May 16-20 was meant to give her a taste of Danida’s frontline work, and so it did. Since being named Denmark’s new Minister for Development …
Danida Delegation Satisfied After Vietnam Tour Read MoreThe smiles were wide and the faces full of relief, when Carlsberg’s executive delegation received their new partners from the North Vietnamese brewery, Habeco, at Hotel Sheraton in Hanoi late …
Carlsberg Wins the Beer Battle of North Vietnam Read MoreSweden’s trade office in Kuala Lumpur will open for business on 1 July 2005, announced the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm 20 May. “Malaysia is one of the countries …
KL trade office opens 1 July Read MoreA support action from the Swedish Thai Chamber of Commerce, STCC, to tsunami-hit SME’s in southern Thailand continues. So far have 66 SME´s in Phuket and Khao Lak received financial …
Thai SME receive Swedish support Read MoreThe Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson has signed a frame agreement with the mobile operator Viettel for the expansion of Viettel’s GSM/GPRS network in Vietnam. Ericsson will provide Viettel with core …
Ericsson awarded Vietnamese expansion agreement Read MoreThe National University of Singapore, NUS, will together with the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, in Stockholm open a college in the Swedish capital. The inauguration of NUS College, as …
Singaporean university sets up college in Stockholm Read MoreNo less than 22 Swedes are currently being shot in an archipelago in eastern Malaysia. On video for the reality series Robinson that is. Produced by Strix and aired this …
More shooting in Malaysia Read MoreThe Swedish company Gunnebo Entrance Control, in association with Thales, a French company within automatic fare collection integration, has booked orders to supply entrance control systems and related equipment to …
Gunnebo wins MRT deal in Singapore Read MoreThe Swedish oil and gas exploration and production company Lundin Petroleum has announced positive results from testing of two oil and gas wells in Indonesia. The strong flow rates from …
Lundin Petroleum upbeat on Indo assets Read MoreHad Michael Jenselius not been left stranded in Phuket in 1995 when his employer went bankrupt two weeks after his arrival, his life would definitely have been different today. A …
Online payments made simple Read MoreLooking at Duni’s buyer guide, it is easy to be overwhelmed by the variety of products, which makes it hard to describe what Duni’s core business is. Mr. Roland Grohmann …
The Food & Drinks Presenter Read MoreNorway has cancelled all of Vietnam’s NOK 35 million debt to Norway. In return, the Government of Vietnam has agreed to mobilise an equivalent amount for development and poverty reduction. …
Norway Erases Vietnam’s Debt Read MoreThe Danish Minister for Development Cooperation, ms. Ulla Tørnæs will visit Vietnam on May 16-20. During her stay the Minister will get a first hand impression of the fisheries sector …
Danish Development Minister to Visit Vietnam Read MoreThe Swedish nutritional product company Bringwell has signed a new export agreement with Reborne in Singapore. Bringwell will buy a nutritional ingredient, developed by Reborne, and market it under its …
Bringwell enters new export agreement Read MoreThe Asia Pacific region is the world’s fastest growing market when it comes to cell phone services. Right now, Nokia is the indisputable market leader in this region, and it …
Keeping Booming Asia Connected Read MoreThis year’s annual meeting for Swedish ambassadors in the Asean countries takes place in Manila, from Thursday 5 May to Sunday 8 May. Information exchange, policy guidelines and work issues …
Regional ambassadors meeting Read MoreTo the average Norwegian APL (Advanced Production and Loading) is not among the most well known companies. But to anybody in the oil and gas business APL is a name …
APL opens new office in Kuala Lumpur Read MoreGrethe and Allan Juel Jensen will start working as local staff and assistant at the Danish Seamen’s Church in Singapore on August 1, 2005 and for the next two years. …
New Danish Church Assistant in Singapore Read MoreSAS Ground Services (Thailand) Ltd. is a wholly owned company in the SAS Group to be established in 2005 incorporating SAS’s Central Departure Control Centre in Bangkok, SAS EuroBonus Retro-Registration …
Axel Blom appointed Managing Director of SAS Ground Services Thailand Read More‘Dear child’ is the name of a newly opened photo exhibition about men, children and gender equality. The photos, shot by Ulla Lemberg, are a historical account of the positive …
Men, children and gender equality Read MoreCambodia’s new ambassador to Sweden, Hor Nambora, submitted his credentials to HM King Carl XVI Gustaf on Thursday 28 April. The new Cambodian ambassador is born 1957 and has served …
New ambassador from Phnom Penh Read MoreDetective Chief Inspector Lars Henriksson of the National Bureau of Investigation, Finland’s central criminal police, told that in the course of a raid on the man’s home a diary had …
Finnish men molest Thai boys Read MoreRamboll have sigend a contract with SIEMENS to supply 300 telecom towers to support the mobile network license owned by TELENOR in Pakistan. The agreement was confirmed on April 7, …
Ramboll have signed a contract for supply of 300 telecom towers to Pakistan Read MorePrecise Biometrics AB, a Swedish-based company has received an order from Thai authorities to license Precise Match-on-Card technology in the initial phase of Thailand’s new national ID card project. The …
Thailand’s ID-cards order for Precise Biometrics Read MoreA negative first quarter report from Millicom International Cellular and a secretive meeting in Hanoi between Kinnevik’s boss Vigo Carlund and the President of Vietnam, Tran Duc Luong, made investors …
Uncertainty about Swedish telecom operator’s future in Vietnam Read MoreThe background for the Vietnamese decision to drop the demand for visas in connection with shorter stays in Vietnam has to do with the improving bilateral relationship between Vietnam and …
Danes No Longer Need Visa For Vietnam Read MoreEffective May 1, 2005, Vietnam skips the visa requirement for all citizens holding passports from the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. All travelers from those countries …
Vietnam skips visas for Nordic citizens Read MoreKing Harald V was admitted to the national hospital on Tuesday March 15th for planned heart surgery to replace a clogged valve later in the week, the palace said. …
King Harald Admitted to Hospital for Heart Operation Read MoreA conference on peaceful conflict resolution is being organised on 12-13 April, 2005, as part of the activities to mark the centenary of the peaceful dissolution of the union between …
Swedish-Norwegian conference on peaceful conflict resolution Read MoreFour Scandinavian countries are the latest set to receive visa exemptions for travel to Vietnam beginning May 1st, announced Vietnam’s authorities April 19th. Citizens of Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland …
Vietnam to waive visas for Scandinavians Read MoreThe Swedish IT consulting company Cybercom Group purchases 100 percent of Netcom Consultants, also Swedish, from its owner Modern Holdings. Netcom Consultants, a telecommunications consulting firm, has offices in Sweden …
Cybercom buys Netcom Consultants Read MoreHaving flown up to Bangkok following the memorial weekend in Khao Lak, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen had two official meetings lined up on Monday. At 11 AM, he arrived …
Fogh: “Thank You, Thailand” Read MoreThe delivery will include equipment for wood yard, fiber preparation, drying and forming, continuous pressing with cooling zone, and equipment for panel handling and finishing. Metso Panelboard will also be …
Metso to supply fiberboard production line to Thailand Read MoreDeres Kongelige Højheder, Kære pårørende og efterladte, Vi er samlet her i dag for at mindes ofrene for den tragiske flodbølgekatastrofe anden juledag 2004. Flodbølgen ramte uden varsel og med …
“Every Life is Precious” Read MoreVi er samlede her på stranden i Khao Lak for at mindes vores kære, de døde og de savnede efter flodbølgekatastrofen den 26. december – 2. juledag – 2004. Det …
“I Leave You With Peace…” Read MoreYesterday, 15 April, marks the starting day for 24 hour satellite broadcasts of the Swedish TV channels SVT Europa, Text TV as well as radio channels Radio Sweden and P4 …
Swedish TV on air in Asia Read MoreDriven by increasing costs of operation and tougher competition the international airline industry has been forced to major cost cutting measures over the past decade. But not all of this …
Carmen Systems in Asian offensive Read MoreWhat’s the difference between studying in Sweden and at an international school in Singapore? “Discipline! And of course that we are taught in English and get a good understanding of …
Swedish kids study in Singapore Read MoreThe waves hit softly and continuously against the shore. As the little over 200 bereaved relatives and loved ones slowly found their seats, these waves provided such a soft and …
Beautiful Danish Memorial in Thailand Read More“The new bakery outlet is the first of many if all goes according to plans. It is starting its days softly simply by opening its doors to ensure proper training …
Norwegian bakery just opened in KL Read MoreThe Swedish company Precise Biometrics has been awarded a license contract from the Thai authorities for a biometric technology solution which will be used in the initial phase of introducing …
Precise Biometrics gets Thai national ID-card contract Read MoreIndonesian operator Telekomsel has picked Finnish telecom multinational Nokia as supplier when it is about to expand its packet network in Indonesia. The deal enables Telekomsel to address strong demand …
Telekomsel picks Nokia for network expansion Read MoreA not yet named operator in South East Asia has signed a significant order with Swedish telecom solutions supplier Teligent regarding development tools for various value added services plus a …
Secret customer opts for Teligent technology Read MoreShe claims she has the best job in the world. But actually, she has two. Still in her thirties, Charlotte Nors daily juggles the demanding duties of being both Executive …
No Time for Stage Fright Read MoreA prosecutor in Sweden has asked the court to issue an arrest warrant against a woman who managed to dupe Danderyds hospital near Stockholm and health care centers in Örebro …
Arrest warrant against fake doctor Read MoreSwedish telecom giant Ericsson has signed a contract with Maxis Communications Berhad, Malaysia’s largest mobile operator, to operate Maxis’ 3G network for a period of 18 months after which the …
Ericsson signs contract to operate Malaysian 3G network Read More