Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
OM Technology, part of OMHEX in Sweden, has conducted a performance test of the Stock Exchange of Thailand, SET, trading system. “What we did is really a smaller project in …
SET benchmarked by OM Technology Read MoreLast year’s state visit by King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia to Thailand has inspired the authorities in Pitsanulok province to create a lasting memory there. “The forestry industry …
Jungle walk and green house follows state visit Read MoreRevenues down but subscribers up for Millicom, the Swedish Stenbeck family controlled cellular phone holding company, in South East Asia first half 2004. “Revenues in Vietnam were impacted by the …
Less income but more subscribers in South East Asia Read MoreThe Admiral’s Pub and Restaurant is hosting a Danish and Norwegian Cheese Promotion from August through September featuring a variety of cheese such as Danbo, Nokkel, Klovborg and many more. …
Danish and Norwegian cheese delight Read MoreThe 2004 Compensation & Benefits Survey – jointly organised by the American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand, the British Chamber of Commerce Thailand, and the Australian-Thai Chamber of Commerce – …
Compensations & Benefits Survey open for Scandinavian chamber members Read MoreNorway´s healthy NOK 662 million trade surplus with Asean´s ten member nations the first half 2003 has turned to a NOK 607 million deficit för the same period this year. …
Trade surplus turns to deficit first half 2004 Read MoreDenmark will provide grant assistance of USD 1.1 million for research project related to arsenic pollution of groundwater in the Red River Delta in Vietnam. Arsenic contamination in groundwater …
Denmark supports arsenic contamination research project in Vietnam Read MoreDNV Petroleum Services Pte., Ltd., a Singaporean maritime unit of Norwegian industrial group Det Norske Veritas is now relocated to 27 Changi South Street 1, Singapore 486071 with Captain Rahul …
New address for DNV unit in Singapore Read MoreSwedish software company Telelogic has donated its sophisticated DOORS software, an advanced requirements management RM tool, to the National University of Singapore’s Institute of System’s Science (ISS). This gift of …
Telelogic makes software donation Read MoreVietnamese Ministry of Fisheries (MoF) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN) on July 16 launched a new Marine Turtle Conservation Action Plan to 2010, with an outline based on the …
Danish-funded findings kick-starts Vietnam’s new effort to save marine turtles Read MoreNera Telecommunications Ltd. (NeraTel) on July 16 released its financial statements for the second quarter 2004, which shows a significant increase due mainly to strong performance in all the three …
NeraTel sees 15.6% rise in Q2 net profit Read MoreLV Technology’s shares (LVT) rocketed 83 percent above its initial public offering (IPO) price during its debut day in Thailand’s Market for Alternative Investment (MAI) on July 14, 2004. The …
LVT debut sees 83% surge Read MoreWhen I first entered the Grammy building, I was anxious as it is the place that breeds many celebrities and it indeed bears certain formality and fame. But as I …
Half Kid – Full Dream Read More“Earlier I have spontaneously accepted jobs offered to me if they had what I wanted. But when Raffles hotel called I had to think it over for a while. Raffles …
Swedish chef claims top job at Raffles Read MoreThe number of South East Asian tourists going to Denmark is growing significantly. Last year, South East Asian tourists bought 82,831 hotel nights in Denmark. That is an increase of …
South East Asian Visitors Growing Read MoreA Swedish company has declined to make a second bid for a large gambling system project by GLO, the Government Lottery Office of Thailand. It is the very high penalties, …
Swedes stay out of new lottery bid Read MoreFive celebrities each from Denmark, Norway and Sweden arrived this Wednesday near Tengah island on Malaysia’s east coast. Their mission: to compete for 30 days in a star-filled version of …
Scandinavian celebrities fight it out Read MoreTelenor’s mobile operation in Malaysia, DiGi.Com Berhad (DiGi), announced a dramatic growth in its results for the six months ended 30 June 2004. The company accounts the increase for its …
DiGi posts 163.8% growth in half-year net profit Read MoreOn 1 September, 2004 EAC will celebrate its 120th Anniversary in Thailand. The Company will mark this event by hosting a reception for the members of the DTCC at the …
The East Asiatic Company’s 120th Anniversary Read MorePer Johansen was quite happy when a few years back he accepted a request to move back to Denmark to work at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Copenhagen to …
Singapore – again Read MoreRambøll and ECCO shoe manufacturing facility in Thailand has signed a novel contract concept for energy efficiency and energy management at the ECCO factory facilities. Rambøll’s first task is …
Rambøll signs Energy Efficiency contract with ECCO Thailand Read MoreDanish businessman Carl Friis is fast becoming a Danish “Teak Baron” on the Indonesian island of Bali. So far, some 20 Danish investors have joined his initiative to plant teak …
Bali Teak Baron Read MoreI walked into the newly opened Great American Rib Restaurant on Sukhumvit Soi 36 in downtown Bangkok, and Chanisorn Ounayakovit, the co-owner warmly welcomed me. There is nothing Danish …
A Thai with Danish experience Read MorePhuket Provincial Immigration Office (PPIO) has recently launched its revamped website, which includes a Norwegian page of basic immigration information and regulations. Similar pages of the basic information are also …
Norwegian page included in Phuket immigration website Read MoreThe Scandinavian travel trade has rated the Kingdom of Thailand “The World’s Best Tourist Country 2004”. The prestigious “Grand Travel Award 2004” was presented to Thailand at the annual award …
Swedish travel industry rates Thailand best tourist country Read MoreThe Swedish national women’s floorball team will meet its Singapore counterparts in two matches 3 and 5 September 2004. This as part of the team’s tour to Singapore between 27 …
National floorball teams face off in September Read MoreDuring the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok July 12-17, 2004, the Danish Embassy in Bangkok co-sponsored a workshop for artists and young students at the Silpakorn University, Thailand’s most prestigious …
Denmark sponsored cultural AIDS event in Bangkok Read MoreThailand’s CAT Telecom Pcl. early July announced a promotion whereby CAT has slashed to seven baht a minute its eFone 009 charges on international calls from Thailand to 30 countries, …
CAT slashes call rates to Denmark, Norway Read MoreThe Royal Danish Embassy in Singapore has together with the Confederation of Danish Industries (DI) developed a business course to help more Danish companies break into the booming, but apparently …
Embassy, DI tailor course for Danish firms eyeing Asian markets Read MoreThere is a lot of Swedish participation at the 15th international aids conference held in Bangkok’s Impact center 11 to 16 July. And much of it is hidden behind the …
Behind the scenes Read MoreSwedish and Norwegian bands are to perform in Singapore’s indie music fest, Bay Beats, during July 16 to 18. Singapore’s Bay Beats is a three-day “indie” music festival featuring …
Swedish and Norwegian musicians to rock indie music fest in S’pore Read MoreDenmark will provide a grant assistance of US$ 4.2 million for implementation of rural water supply and sanitation in Nghe An Province in Central of Vietnam. The project was approved …
Denmark supports improved rural water supply in Nghe An, Vietnam Read MoreA Norwegian landed in jail after two women filed rape charges against him on Sunday, July 11 in Parañaque City, a report on Manila Bulletin says. The two victims, residents …
Norwegian jailed for rape charges in Philippines Read MoreJebsen & Jessen Marketing (M) Sdn. Bhd. has recently made a strategic partnership with a Hong Kong based digital entertainment producer, iRiver, to provide distribution, support and marketing for iRiver’s …
Jebsen & Jessen to solely distribute iRiver products in 3 SEA countries Read MoreWith a target of helping Vietnam develop economy and fight against poverty, the Danish International Development Agency (Danida) set up the Private Sector Development (PSD) programme in Vietnam in late …
Danida’s programme helps private enterprises in Vietnam Read MoreCaptain Hans Einar Fugl-Svendsen has been a pioneer all his life. During the Second World War, in 1942 he was one of the first Danes to join the British Royal …
A lifetime journey Read MoreThe Swedish Women’s Educational Association Internation, Singapore (SWEA Singapore) is hosting SWEA’s regional meeting for Asia on October 6-9 this year. The meeting will be followed by an optional one-week …
SWEA Singapore to host regional meeting in October Read MoreDiGi’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Tore Johnsen recently officiated the groundbreaking for a 6.5-acre site at Lot 10, Jalan Delima 1/1 of the Subang Hi-Tech Industrial Park in Shah Alam, …
Malaysia’s DiGi breaks ground for new headquarters in Shah Alam Read MoreKvaerner Power, a subsidiary of Norwegian industrial group Aker Kvaerner, has signed a power boiler contract worth more than EUR 40 million with an Indonesian pulp and paper mill in …
Aker Kvaerner wins power boiler contract in Indonesia Read MoreEricsson recently established a new regional operation center in Singapore to strengthen services delivery capabilities and reinforces its leading position in the fast growing managed services market in addition to …
Ericsson establishes new operation center in Singapore Read MoreEricsson has been selected by Advanced Info Service Pcl. (AIS) for the second phase of its EDGE expansion in the Bangkok metropolitan area. The Swedish telecom giant was also chosen …
Ericsson to expand EDGE network, supply MMS solution for AIS Read MoreNorwegian video-conferencing vendor Tandberg is keen to reap the growing market in the Asia-Pacific, says its regional vice president Asmund Fodstad in an interview with Singaporean IT magazine Asia computer …
Tandberg prepares for bigger Asian market share Read MoreThe Swedish food trader Coop Sverige AB will continue selling giant shrimps from environmentally sustainable shrimp aquaculture in Indonesia. Coop’s decision was announced 1 July following criticism from the Swedish …
Indonesian shrimps pass environment requirements Read MoreActivities in Vietnam have helped experts from Danida understand that some water supply and sanitation works in rural areas do not operate after being built or were used improperly, which …
Danida helps improve Vietnam’s rural water supply, sanitation Read MoreComvik International Vietnam AB has made USD 47 million too much in revenues since year 2000 argues a Vietnamese government report, reveals the Swedish news portal Dagens Ps. The Swedish …
Too much money made Read MoreThe independent Swedish oil and gas exploration and production company Lundin Petroleum AB now starts to explore the well Banteng–1 in the Lematang Block, Indonesia. The main objective of the …
Lundin starts exploration work Read MoreSon Tay High School in Son Tay, Vietnam seeks funding to continue the exchange program between the school and SAMgymnasiet in Jarfalla, Sweden. Mats Brolin, the project leader and …
School exchange programs seeks funding Read MoreSweden signed an agreement to continue development cooperation with Laos. The agreement, which covers the period from July 2004 to December 2006, is based on the Government’s decision of …
Sweden aids development in Laos Read MoreKLIPPAN AB recently set up a subsidiary in Singapore to serve customers in Asia as well as to increase its market share in Asia. The new subsidiary KLIPPAN PAPER ASIA …
KLIPPAN AB set up subsidiary in Singapore Read MoreOn the 4th of June Mr. Jan Fabricius of Fabricius A/S and Mr. Mogens Poulsen of the Danish Embassy along with some 75 invited guests attended the opening of the …
Sea Saigon Shipping in new premises Read More