Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) is changing its contact numbers for Bangkok as the office is switching to new digital telephone lines, effective February 1, 2004. The Bangkok office at the …
SAS Changes Contact Numbers for Bangkok Read MoreSmedvig announced on January 8 that the company has entered into agreements with Esso Norge AS and Singapore’s offshore marine giant Keppel FELS Ltd. related to the disputes concerning the …
Smedvig’s Balder disputes settled Read MoreThe county of ÖÖstergötland in south central Sweden has signed a contract with Scandinavian Healthcare, SHC, to send open clinic patients for treatment in Thailand. This is a first for …
Swedish patients get tax paid treatment in Thailand Read MoreThe first ever Thule store located in a shopping centre has opened in Malaysia in conjunction with the official opening of IKANO Power Centre at Mutiara Damansara, in which the …
Thule flagship store opened at IKANO Power Center Read MoreJyske Bank (Schweiz) will be on a tour to meet with investors in four South East Asian countries again, this time starting on April 19 with Singapore, then Thailand, Malaysia …
Jyske Bank to visit South East Asia again in April, May Read MoreHis name is Frank C.S. Pedersen. He lives in Jakarta and feels great. So great that he has been living in the country as an expatriate for two years, even …
Great time in Jakarta for Frank C.S. Pedersen Read MoreTAC, a Swedish indoor climate systems supplier headquartered in Malmö, has received an order to deliver the complete building management system (BMS-system) for the passenger terminal complex at Bangkok’s new …
Swedish firm wins major project at Bangkok’s new international airport Read MoreWhen experts are stationed abroad it is often their first time in that particular country. They start from scratch. This however was not the case when the anthropologist Birgitte Bruun …
She helps women in her country Read MoreSingapore’s first Danish restaurant is called Akvavit, and is due to open in February. It is named after the famous snaps that is to find at almost every traditional Danish …
First Danish Restaurant Opens in Singapore Read MoreA. P. Jessen, a long-time top leader of Jebsen & Jessen Group (SEA), has stepped down as chairman after more than half a century of his active service in the …
Long-time chairman of J&J Group (SEA) gives way to next generation Read MoreAn agreement on a project in which Denmark will help Vietnam develop a national network of marine parks was signed in Hanoi mid of December last year. Under the agreement, …
Danish aid given to developing marine parks in Vietnam Read MoreThe Danish Embassy in Vietnam has funded a project to help Vietnamese children with harelip and palate problems in the southern province of Tien Giang improve their life. Under the …
Denmark helps Vietnamese children with harelip problems Read MoreLaminova Production AB, Stockholm, a subsidiary of Opcon AB, has signed a Letter of Intent with carmaker Proton of Malaysia concerning deliveries of oil coolers. The deliveries are expected to …
Laminova clinches oil cooler deal with Proton Read MoreAfter building up GPV Asia (Thailand) to a successful enterprise, Hans Danielsen left Thailand earlier this year and has now taken up the position of General Manager for Danish company …
Ex-leader of GPV Asia (Thailand) now with DentalMan A/S Read MoreDanfoss (Thailand) Co., Ltd. has announced that General Manager Prasansak Suwanpotitra has left the company as of January 1, 2004. The new Country Manager is Klaus Stove who also keeps …
Danfoss Thailand appoints new Country Manager Read MoreEight films from Denmark, Norway and Sweden were screened at the Nordic Film Festival 2004 organized between January 14 and 20 at GV Marina cinema, Marina Square shopping centre, Singapore. …
Scandinavian films at Nordic Film Fest in S’pore Read MoreSenator Pensak Howitz is excited with the coming revival of an active Thai-Danish Almuni. In fact, Mrs. Pensak Howitz has twice established associations like this, where Danes and Thai people …
Thai Senator pleased to see alumni revival Read MoreThe celebrations to mark the 200th anniversary of Danish fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75) will be a major cultural event in 2005 in Denmark as well as around the …
Hans Christian Andersen celebrations taking shape Read MoreMost people have experienced visiting a cemetery in a foreign land and there found a grave with the name of one of their own countrymen. You have no other information …
Johanne Christensen “- a most remarkable Danish woman” Read MoreNorway’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Ansgar Gabrielsen, will visit Singapore between 24 and 28 January to meet his counterpart, Norwegian companies and various Singaporean organisations with ties to …
Minister of Trade and Industry visits Singapore Read MoreBesides the benefit of reducing pesticide and toxic-chemical usage, which helps improve food safety of Thai farm products, the Danish funded “Integrated Pest Management” (IPM) project has also helped Thai …
Danida teaches Thai farmers to reduce chemical usage Read MoreGulf Agency Company (GAC) and Kudrat Maritime Group of Malaysia have signed a global network agreement that will provide a more extensive geographical coverage of port agency services offered by …
GAC strengthen coverage with new alliance in Malaysia Read MoreOn Saturday 10 January, the funeral of one of the long time Danish residents of Thailand, Mejnert Lynge Badstue Lund took place at Wat Chaimongkol in Pattaya where a large …
Mejnert laid to rest off Koh Larn Read MoreEnvironment, IT & Telecom and Health Care are the main industries represented in the business delegations that will join King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia on their state visits …
Business delegations to Vietnam and Brunei announced Read MoreBjorn Henriksen is one of only four Danes living in the Thai seaside resort of Bang Saen. A few months ago he and his wife Nuan expanded their restaurant and …
A Danish hang-out in Bang Saen Read MoreTrade and business were high on Swedish PM Goran Persson’s agenda when he toured Thailand and Singapore the past week. In Thailand Goran Persson marketed the Saab made fighter jet …
Goran Persson talked business in Singapore and Thailand Read MoreScandinavian Woodworking Machinery Co., Ltd. – an importer of woodworking machinery and tools from Europe to Thailand – has recently changed its name to Scanmach Asia Co., Ltd., effective January …
Scandinavian Woodworking Machinery becomes Scanmach Asia Read MoreThe National Danish Performance Team (NDPT) on December 18 arrived in Chiang Mai to entertain Thai schoolchildren, students and families, starting from the north to the south of the country, …
Danish gymnasts on tour in Southeast Asia Read MoreSweden is making a coordinated marketing campaign for the jet fighter aircraft system JAS Gripen during Prime Minister Göran Persson´s official visit in Thailand. “Saab has to do the selling …
Göran Persson promotes JAS Gripen aircraft in Thai talks Read MoreMillicom International Cellular S A, a Swedish controlled cellular operator company, reports a 45 percent increase in Asian subscribers since year end 2002 up to year end 2003. Its Vietnam …
Millicom close to doubles cellular subscribers in Asia Read MorePrime Minister Göran Persson arrived Wednesday in Bangkok for an official visit to Thailand which lasts until Friday. The bilateral talks are held on Thursday, primarily at a meeting with …
PM arrives to Bangkok Read MoreAvoid traveling to the Thai southern provinces Narathiwat, Yala, Pattani and Satun, recommends the Swedish embassy in Bangkok its citizens. The recommendation cames after attacks by so far unknown groups …
Stay out of four southern provinces Read MoreA Swedish summer without mosquitoes is no summer. But such familiarity with the bloodsucking insect does not explain why Niklas Lindegardh and his fiancée Anna Annerberg are key persons in …
Swedish researchers lead fight for new malaria drugs Read MoreMr. Per Vransøe, Danish, has been appointed leader of SAS Cargo’s new regional sales organization for Asia recently established in Bangkok. Mr. Per Vransøe comes from a position as SAS …
Regional SAS Cargo Head Office in Bangkok Read MoreThe Norwegian community in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi in early December met to celebrate the coming Christmas together with visiting Norwegian Minister, Mrs. Gro Haaversen Barth from the …
Norwegian Christmas gatherings in Vietnam Read MoreJotun A/S, Norway, one of the world’s major paint manufacturers, has selected Swedish component-based business application developer IFS and global management consulting firm Accenture to deliver and implement an extensive …
Jotun selects IFS, Accenture to supply new business applications Read MoreThe Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) on December 17 handed over two pick-up trucks worth US$36,000 to clean water supply projects in Khammouane and Sayabouly provinces, Laos. The hand-over ceremony …
SIDA provides vehicles to clean water supply projects in Laos Read MoreThe Swedish software provider IFS, one of the world’s leading Enterprise Resource Planning systems suppliers, divides its Asia Pacific operations into four ‘territories’ next year: Australia and New Zealand, Asean, …
IFS sets up Asean territory in 2004 organisation revamp Read MoreThe Environment Fund of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SEF), has over the past two years provided US$308,000 to fund environmental protection projects in Vietnam, according to figure released …
SIDA’s support for environmental protection in Vietnam Read MoreThe negotiations between Sweden and Vietnam on an agreement regarding adoptions were completed the week before Christmas. A signing ceremony, were representatives from the two countries took part, was held …
New adoption treaty signed Read MoreNorsk Hydro’s agri-business operation Hydro Agri will take the name Yara upon the demerger and stock exchange listing planned for March 25, 2004. At the same time the new company, …
Hydro Agri to become Yara Read MoreTwo out of eight new exploration wells to be drilled by Swedish owned Lundin Petroleum AB next year are located in Indonesia, according to the company’s exploration and development budget …
Lundin Petroleum to drill two new wells in Indonesia 2004 Read MoreThe Thai state owned telephone operator TOT has through its local cooperation partners Napakorn and Kanokkit purchased Viking Telecom’s SMS server platform SMSS. The order value for this first contract …
TOT purchases Viking system Read MoreMore than 1000 pages of new documentation about Swedish members of Gam, the free Aceh movement, have been handed over by Jakarta to special prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand in Stockholm. It …
Indonesia delivers more material to Stockholm prosecutor Read MoreRamboll, the leading Nordic consulting group, on 11 December, 2003 opened a regional head office for South East Asia in Bangkok. The Grand Opening was held at Dusit Thani Hotel …
Ramboll opens regional office Read MoreAs previously reported by Scandasia this fall, will Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia be making a state visit to Vietnam on 2–7 February 2004 at the invitation …
Dates for state visit to Vietnam and Brunei finalised Read MoreThe Swedish state has decided to provide funding for a library at the Thai information center in Ragunda through the Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs. Meanwhile, the Thai state …
Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs supports Thai library Read MoreDanish envoy Lasse Reimann ended his posting as Danish Ambassador to Malaysia in December 2003, after six successful years of strengthening ties between the two countries. Reimann, whose six year …
Lasse Reimann’s KL posting ends Read MoreThe Danish food ingredients company Palsgaard on Monday 8 December opened its new state-of-the-art Application Centre at their regional Asia headquarters in Singapore, equipped with an impressive range of food …
Palsgaard opens new Application Centre in Singapore Read MoreThe Swedish government has just announced that Prime Minister Göran Persson will travel to Thailand, India and Singapore between 7 and 13 January 2004. He is in Thailand between 7 …
Swedish PM visits Thailand and Singapore January 2004 Read More