Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
This year marks the century and half-century of Edvard Grieg’s and Jean Sibelius’s deaths. Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist during the romantic period and was best known for his Piano Concerto in …
Great Nordic Composers at the Esplanade Read MoreNorway’s Red Flag has signed a US$202 million deal with COSCO Corporation, Singapore, to build a semi-submersible rig hull in the North Sea which will have a dynamic positioning system, …
Norway’s Red Flag Signed a US$202M Deal to Build Rig Read MoreA summer’s collection by Pilgrim, a famous Danish jewellery brand was launched early in May 2007 in Singapore. Annemette Markvad and Thomas Adamsen established Pilgrim in 1983 by traveling around …
Danish Jewellery Collection Launched in Singapore Read MoreKONE has won an order for the supply and installation of all the elevators in a condominium development in Bangkok, Thailand, called the MET which will become the tallest residential …
KONE Will Supply Elevators to the Highest Condominium in Bangkok Read MorePetropod, a norwegian firm specializes in mobile production and field development for small and medium-sized oilfields, has ordered SembCorp Marine, a Singapore rig builder, to build a rig for use in …
Petropod Signed a US$442 Million Deal With a Singapore Rig Builder Read MoreA ceremony was held on Saturday 12 May 2007 in Singapore to name Maersk Contractors’s latest newbuilding drilling rig MAERSK COMPLETER which was honored by Mrs. Monique Desvoyes, with her …
Maersk Contractors Named Its New Rig Read MoreSwedish furniture giant IKEA has won top honours by the Building & Construction Authority (BCA) Universal Design Awards for the Built Environment in Singapore for its unique shopping cart that …
IKEA Won Top Awards in Singapore Read MoreA joint venture shipyard in Vietnam between Norway‘s Aker Yards and Singapore‘s Amanda Group has signed a contract worth 250 million US dollar to build six vessels for use in …
Norway-Singapore Shipyard in Vietnam Signed a 250 Million US Dollar Contract Read MoreBertil Andersson has always been fond of speed like the fast biochemical reactions occurring in nerves that capitvated him while he was an undergraduate. It was until he met his supervisor …
Bertil Andersson Holds Top Post at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore Read MoreA Danish politician, Anders Samuelson visiting Singapore has been told that if he speaks at a meeting promoting democracy in Singapore he will be arrested. The same goes for seven …
Danish Politician Threatened With Arrest in Singapore Read More