Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
In Sweden,A new technique for donor insertion in cases of Descemet’s stripping endothelial keratoplasty can reduce the amount of endothelial damage caused by the folding and compression in standard techniques, …
Swedish New Insertion Technique Developed By Singaporean Read MoreThe demand in Finnair’s Asian traffic, measured in passenger kilometers, was up 34.9% in August compare to last year. The passenger load factor rose three percentage points to 82.5%. European …
Strong Growth for Finnair’s Asian Traffic and Load Factor on The Rise Read MoreSingaporean-based, SembCorp Marine subsidiary PPL Shipyard has won a contract from Egyptian Drilling Co. (EDC), 50% owned by Danish A.P. Moller-Maersk Group to build a US$201 million Baker Marine Pacific …
SembCorp Marine Won a Contract From 50% Owned Danish Company Read MoreSilicon Semiconductor, a company is headquartered in Linkoping, Sweden with development subsidiaries in Singapore has licensed Certicom(R) KeyInject(TM) system to protect the high-definition digital content protection (HDCP) cryptographic keys that …
Silicon Semiconductor License Its Digital Content Protection System Read MoreSimon Neo, a broker with the Singapore unit of Norway-based Wilhelmsen Bunkers SA said, “Every new refinery wants to produce more gasoline and diesel and cut back fuel oil,” “And …
A Broker With the Singapore Unit of Norway-Based View On Fuel Oil Demand Read MoreNOS Clearing ASA, the Norwegian-based clearing house for freight derivatives, is opening an office in Singapore and is extending clearing to include more of Asian time zone trading hours. The company …
NOS Opens Office in Singapore Read MoreEOC Ltd., an 88 percent-owned subsidiary of Singapore-based Ezra Holdings Ltd., an integrated offshore support and marine services provider for oil and gas operators in Southeast Asia has been given …
Singaporian Marine Services Provider To List on Oslo Stock Exchange Read MoreSweden’s IKEA said on August 1, 2007 that the contribution from Asia-Pacific to the group’s total sales could triple to 10 percent within six years, creating a huge challenge for …
IKEA Expects to Do Well in Asia Read MoreThe Danish retailer Zone Company delivering chic, quality homeware at affordable prices is about to open its first franchise store in Asia. On September 5, the company will launch a …
Danish Retailer to Open Franchise Store in Singapore Read MoreSweden’s IKEA operated as franchise in Singapore said on August 2, 2007 that its contribution from Asia-Pacific to the group’s total sales could triple to 10 percent within six years.This …
Sweden’s IKEA As Singapore’s Franchise To Triple Its Total Sales Read MoreRush Pleansuk, Thai design director at Plato Furniture has created a range of eco-chic furniture with its contract in Lampang Province to promote the use of renewable forests to its …
Thais Promote Use Of Renewable Forests To Swedish Customers Read MoreTeo Chee Hean, Singaporian Defence Minister on his first official visit to Sweden discussed with his Swedish counterpart, Mikael Odenberg in Stockholm about the modernization of the armed forces, regional …
Sweden And Singapore Face Similar Challenges Read MoreKeppel Offshore, a unit of Singapore’s Keppel Corp’s chairman and chief executive officer, Choo Chiau Beng, told an oil and offshore conference in the Norwegian capital on August 30, 2007 …
Keppel Offshore’s Chairman At Conference in Norwegian Capital Read MoreNokia, Finnish Mobile handset manufacturer introduced Ovi, a new web platform on August 29, 2007 in Singapore, which will enable its consumers to download music, games and other content directly to …
Nokia Introduced New Web Platform in Singapore Read MoreNasdaq Stock Market, which planned to use proceeds from its stake in the London Stock Exchange sale to pay down debt and repurchase stock, also funnel some of the money …
Temasek Holdings Acquire Nasdaq’s Shares Towards Its Play for Sweden Read MoreAban Offshore’ Singapore subsidiary after acquired Norway-based Sinvest last year, enable it to have 20 offshore assets by the year 2010 which is the biggest beneficiary of the current deficit …
Aban Offshore’ Singapore Subsidiary Acquired Norway-Based Sinvest Read MoreA new award launched recently by the Danish Ambassador to Singapore, Klavs A Holm, called the Green Denmark Award, has been included in this year’s National Junior Robotics Competition held …
Green Denmark Award Included in the National Junior Robotics Competition Read MorePUB Singapore, Singapore’s national water agency, was awarded the 2007 Stockholm Industry Water Award on August 15 organized by Stockholm International Water Institute and being held this year on August …
Sweden Awarded Singapore’s National Water Agency Read MoreTan Yong Soon, permanent secretary of Singapore’s environment ministry, and Weber-Mosdorf, The World Health Organization (WHO)’s assistant director general for sustainable development and healthy environments signed an agreement on August 8, 2007 …
Singapore’s Agreement Signed in Sweden Read MoreOn 11 August 2007, media company Singapore Press Holdings announced that SPH Search, a joint venture with Norwegian media group Schibsted ASA, has started crawling and indexing websites for a …
SPH and Schibsted to Launch Singapore’s Premier Local Search Engine Read MoreSaxo Capital Markets, the Singapore subsidiary of Saxo Bank A/S Denmark, has formalized a data feed arrangement with the exchange regarding the issue that stock listed on the Singapore Exchange …
Saxo Clients Can Trade Online on Singapore Stock Exchange Read MoreThe St. Regis Hotel, Singapore, which will open in December, now has its full management team in place, headed by the experienced Norwegian hotelier Yngvar Stray.Designed by internationally acclaimed architects …
St. Regis Hotel in Singapore to be Managed by a Norwegian Hotelier Read MoreF-Secure Corporation achieved accelerated 11% quarter over quarter growth rate in its strategic Internet Service Provider (ISP) business during Q2, compared to a 6% growth in the first quarter, representing …
F-Secure With ISP Accelerates Strong Growth in Q2 Read MoreF-Secure, a leading Finland-based Internet security service company, announced on July 25, 2007 a partnership with SingNet, a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel), Asia’s leading telecommunications company. “We …
Finland-Based F-Secure and Singapore’s Leading ISP SingNet Announced Partnership Read MoreTANDBERG, a global leader in visual communications with headquarter in Norway, will be conducting TANDBERG NOW Visual Communication Seminar in Singapore on August 22 and in Malaysia on September 18, …
TANBERG to Hold Seminars Promoting Video-Conferencing Read MoreSingapore Telecommunications (SingTel) on July 20, 2007 announced its entry into the pay television market, offering an Internet protocol-based service to challenge the monopoly of rival StarHub. SingTel’s Chief Executive for Singapore …
SingTel Launches Internet Protocol TV in Singapore Read MoreA new trade policy strategy from the Government of Denmark called “An Assertive Trade Policy Strategy – Danish Trade Policy in a Globalised World” aims at supporting international trade liberalisation …
New Danish Strategy Targets Free Trade With Asia’s Markets Read MoreThe 3rd World Vovinam (Vietnamese martial art) Championship 2007 will take place in HCM City on July 20-21 at the Phu Tho Sports House with the participation of 215 athletes …
Vietnam to host World Vovinam Championship Read MoreHaidic’s hotel offers hunting and fishing tours in Fredrika, 100 kilometres west of the coastal city Umea that is located some 660 kilometers north of Stockholm. But to makes ends …
Swedish Moose and Deer Antlers Make Asian Love Pills Read MoreFor the second time this year, the Danish rock band Sasha Bach Band has been selected to give a concert at one of Singapore’s biggest music festivals, the SingFest music …
Sasha Bach Band Visits Singapore Read MoreAs from Friday, 15 June 2007, a new EC Regulation on controls of cash movements became effective in all EU Member States. In accordance with the Regulation, travellers entering or …
Passengers Carrying 10,000 Euros or More in Cash Must Declare the Cash at External Border of the EU Read MoreAirline Services GSA has launched its third Nordic base, with the opening of a new subsidiary in Sweden. The Swedish company’s launch customer will be Singapore Airlines.The new addition to …
Sweden Airline Services to Launch with Singapore Airlines Read MoreThe Finnish Nokia giant is making Skype, software that lets you use your computer and internet connection to communicate with anyone, anywhere in the world, available on the N800 Internet …
Now There’s Skype on Nokia N800 Internet Tablet Read MoreInternational conference on poverty reduction and forests tenure, market and policy reforms will be held in Bangkok, Thailand from 3-7 September, 2007 which is organized by the Regional Community Forestry …
International Conference on Poverty Reduction and Forests Tenure, Market and Policy Reforms Read MoreJoining 21 countries including Denmark, Japan and Singapore, Thai cabinet has approved ban on motorists using mobile phones on July 10, 2007 with aim to reduce traffic accidents.“The cabinet banned …
Using Mobile Phones While Driving to Be Banned on Thai Motorists Read MoreSwedish researchers found that drinking two cups of coffee daily may cut the risk of liver cancer by 43% but a leading Singapore oncologist, Dr Ang Peng Tiam, felt the …
Two Cups of Coffee a Day Will Keep Liver Cancer Away? Read MoreNokia introduced a new technology called Near Field Communications (NFC) which will allow mobile phones to replace keys and credit cards at the Nokia Connection 2007 conference in Singapore from …
Nokia Introduced Near Field Communications Technology Read MoreA Norway-based PetroProd D&P I, a wholly owned subsidiary of PetroProd Ltd, has signed an EPC contract with Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd of Singapore on June 22, 2007 for the construction …
Petropod to Build CJ70 Jack-Up in Singapore Read MoreGunilla Nordström has been appointed head of Electrolux Major Appliances Asia Pacific and Executive Vice President of AB Electrolux succeeding Peter Birch, who will retire. She will be a member …
Gunilla Nordström Appointed Head of Electrolux Asia Pacific Read MoreThe brokerage and direct market access provider now offers trading and brokerage connectivity to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and Singapore Stock Exchange.NeoNet already has access to the Tokyo Stock …
Sweden Brokerage Agency Expands in Asia Read MoreSwedish telecom giant Ericsson expressed on Wednesday, June 20 at the event, CommunicAsia in Singapore, to invest further in Southeast Asia, particularly Vietnam, due to strong growth in mobile usage …
Ericsson to Invest Further in Southeast Asia Read MoreThe Finnish phone giant, Nokia, has come up with a different marketing approach to reach out to the tech-savvy Singaporeans using interactive outdoor medium.With aim to educate and raise consumer …
Nokia Employed Interactive Advertisements Read MoreSwedish mobile video specialist Kamera has been selected as one of the broadcast partners for Singapore’s first live DVB-H mobile TV service TV2GO which will be launched this summer by …
Kamera Trained on Singapore Mobile TV Read MoreNORDIC Heavy Lift subsidiary Avonway has ordered a crane vessel with a record 5,000 ton single mast lifting capacity from Singapore’s Sembawang Shipyard for 2010 delivery. Sea of Solutions, part …
Nordic Orders Giant Crane Vessel From Singapore Read MoreThe Danish Government has presented a strategy constituting the Governments proposals for prioritisation of the ways in which Denmark can contribute to tackling the opportunities and challenges in Asia. Asia …
Denmark in Asia – Opportunities for the Future Read MoreNorway-based DiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd (“DiGi”) was named the 2007 Wireless Service Provider of the Year in Asia-Pacific by a leading market reasearch firm, Frost & Sullivan, in Singapore on …
DiGi Awarded 2007 Wireless Service Provider of the Year Read MoreA Finnish-Swiss micro-optics manufacturer, Heptagon, announced on June 12 that it is building a 20,000 square-feet manufacturing facility and regional headquarters in Singapore with support from the Singapore Economic Development …
Finnish-Swiss Micro-Optics Expert Settles in Singapore Read MoreThe Danish Ambassador Klavs Holm will be leaving his office in Singapore from September 1st. Klavs Holm’s new work place will be The Foreign Ministry in Copenhagen where he will …
Ruben Madsen new Danish Ambassador to Singapore Read MoreNokia, the world’s largest mobile phone maker from Finland, on June 18 introduced three new mobile handsets and said their launch would help boost its global market share from the current …
Nokia Introduced New Handsets and Service Read MoreSince 2004, Mattila has served as Minister Counsellor in Finland’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva. She entered the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1983. She has been …
New Finland’s Ambassador Appointed to Singapore Read More