Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
Sweco is a Swedish provider of international consulting engineering services whose engineers, architects and environmental experts are working together to contribute to the creation of a sustainable society. A recent …
Sweco Architects designs Xijin Times Centre Read More
Mr Martin Vercouter (b. 1988), who grew up in Belgian Namur but now lives in Stockholm, Sweden, has been awarded the 2016 Anders Wall Scholarship for a one-year internship at …
Anders Wall Shanghai scholarship 2016 Read More
To make the application process more convenient for the increasing numbers of Chinese travelers, Sweden will open new visa application centres in several cities in China. During the spring, ten …
Ten more Swedish visa application centres in China Read More
Sweden’s Ambassador to China Lars Fredén made the following statement on 4 March 2016: “The detained Swedish citizen Gui Minhai recently, once again, appeared on Chinese television. We again express our …
Ambassador’s statement on detained Swede Read More
Sweden’s Minister for Infrastructure Anna Johansson is visiting Shanghai and Beijing on 4-7 April 2016. She will meet with the Chinese Minister of Transport and participate in a seminar on …
Swe infrastructure minister to China Read More
The benefit of living in a melting pot is the celebration of all cultural and religious holidays. The Scandinavian Easter is no excuse! The Danish Sømandskirken and the Norwegian and …
Scandinavian Easter celebrations in Singapore! Read More
The Finnish Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong celebrates its 30th anniversary this year 2016. Emilia Tavakoli, the Executive Director (ED) of FinnCham, is in charge of organizing what will …
Emilia Tavakoli spearheads Finncham Hong Kong at 30 Read More
Swedish global household appliance flagship, Electrolux, presents a new line of products to the Thai market under new “Electrolux Turn Delight Up” Campaign. This introduces a green approach to the …
Electrolux Thailand new products campaign Read More
Business Sweden in Singapore and Hong Kong, in cooperation with the Embassy of Sweden in Singapore and the Consulate General in Hong Kong, are arranging a delegation from City of …
Stockholm and KTH Smart Cities to Hong Kong Read More
A Retail Seminar series for top executives by-invitation-only on the topic: “Enhance customer experience – how to increase productivity through innovation” will be held at Swedish Ambassador’s Residence in Singapore …
Swedish retail seminar to KL and Singapore Read More
A Swedish man drowned in the southern beach town Vung Tau on 14 March, in the evening after he was caught in a rip current, reports thanhniennews.com. Sjogard Peter Larks …
Swedish tourist drowns in Vietnamese beach town Read More
In connection to the International Women’s Day the Embassy of Sweden in Hanoi, on 3 March, inaugurated a photo exhibition on gender equality; ’Swedish Dads’ by Swedish photographer Johan Bävman. …
Swedish Dads embassy exhibition in Hanoi Read More
Your passion for drawing or painting is in high command these days in the Scandinavian community in Singapore, and if you are keen to sell out of your work, a …
Sjømannskirken and SWEA encourage artists to charity exhibition Read More
On an auspicious date, number nine, in the month of March 2016, the moment had finally come: to unveil the much-anticipate new generation of luxury Volvo Cars to the Thai …
The new Volvo Cars era introduced to Thailand Read More
INTERNATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMMES (ITP) 2016 Indonesian citizens are eligible to apply to these programmes: Local Political Leaders – Capacitating Women in Politics Deadline: 31 January 2016 http://www.icld.se/…/Brochure_Local_Political_Leaders_4_201… “International Training Programmes …
2016 International Training Programmes for Indonesian citizens Read More
On 3 March the Nordic House in Yangon, the natural focal point for anything Scandinavian, opened its doors for visitors, marking the move to new premises. The Nordic House houses …
The Nordic House in Yangon – A promising perspective Read More
Following on Capital Airports Holding Company’s (CAH) MOU with Helsinki Airport on 7 January 2016, a similar deal was signed on 24 February with Swedavia, Swedish airport operator, on the …
Beijing and Stockholm enter sister airport relationship Read More
When visitor figures for 2015 for the southern Swedish city of Malmö were published recently, the result showed that the number of overnight stays increased by 17% compared to 2014. …
Swedish city Malmö taps into Chinese market Read More
Three public hospitals reports of million baht expenses from unpaid hospital bills by foreigners. ScandAsia have gotten insight in Vachira Hospital in Phuket’s outstanding balance on unpaid bills by foreigners …
Uninsured foreigners burdens Thai public hospitals Read More
Kalmar announced in February 2016 plans to reorganise its operations in Tampere, Finland, and deepen cooperation with the joint venture Rainbow Cargotec Industries (RCI) in China. The plan is to …
Finnish layoffs and increased Chinese cooperation for Kalmar Read More
Kalmar, provider of the widest range of cargo handling solutions and services to ports, terminals etc., has introduced their new Kalmar K-Motion technology for reachstackers to the Asian market in …
Kalmar introduces K-Motion technology in the Asia-Pacific region Read More
The first ever Sweden Indonesia Business Guide was launched on Monday 29 February by Swedish ambassador Johanna Brismar Skog. The event took place at the Swedish resident in Jakarta, which …
Successful launching of first ever Sweden-Indonesia Business Guide Read More
Fingerprint Cards, a Swedish high-tech, listed company which develops, produces and markets biometric technology, has reported on the full year results for January to December 2015. Revenues amounted to SEK …
Fingerprint Cards reports record year Read More
Volvo Car Group has reported an all-time sales record of 503,127 cars in 2015, the first time it has sold more than half a million cars in its 89-year history, …
All-time sales record for Volvo Cars in 2015 Read More
The eagerly-awaited Volvo V90 was revealed in Stockholm, Sweden on 18 February 2016. The stylish and versatile V90 is the latest in the premium car maker’s top-of-the-line 90 series sitting …
V90 estate revealed in Sweden by Volvo Cars Read More
Singtel and Ericsson will achieve nationwide deployment in Singapore of a 4G LTE network on 900MHz spectrum band by end March 2016. This enhancement means that Singtel customers will experience …
Singtel upgrade from Ericsson enables nationwide 4G LTE network Read More
Telecom giant Ericsson has reported on the results for 2015, including the full year, where they had good progress in all our targeted growth areas and we continued to invest …
China growth in Ericsson’s 2015 fourth quarter and full year results Read More
The State Secretary for Sweden’s Minister of Defence Mr Jan Salestrand attended the biggest airshow in Asia on 16 – 21 February. The state secretary also had a number of …
Sweden’s Defence Ministry attends Singapore Airshow 2016 Read More
30-year old Swede, Marcus Millberg, is hospitalized in Thailand with brain injury due to a motorcycle accident on Koh Phangan. The respirator is keeping Marcus Millberg alive, but soon his family …
Young Swede stuck in Thai hospital with serious brain injury Read More
Indonesia is set to lead the giant Swedish clothing brand. H&M global production head Helena Helmersson welcomed the cooperation set between the company and the Indonesian government to boost the …
Indonesia to lead H&M global production Read More
Many Swedes living in Thailand have a hard time getting a proper health insurance. Cases and stories a different, but common is that they either deselect insurance or face unmanageable …
Swedes in Thailand are battling for health insurance Read More
The investment company Pegroco Invest has announced the sales of its holdings in Bangkok-headquartered Diakrit International Ltd to the media group News Corp. Australia in a cash sale. Pegroco has …
Sweden’s Diakrit gets News Corp as co-owner in a landmark deal Read More
He was a craftsman with ambitions to become a world famous rock-musician, then he became a priest. Erik Stenberg Roos, Swedish Priest of Phuket, talks about priesthood in Phuket and …
Swedish Priest in Phuket and his unexpected path to priesthood Read More
Hosted by Shangri-La Hotel in Bangkok and the Thai-Swedish Chamber of Commerce, in collaboration with also the other three Nordic chambers of commerce in Bangkok, the ‘Ciao Bello, Ciao Bella!’ …
Classy Nordic networking held at Shangri-La Hotel in Bangkok Read More
On 18 February 2016 Ikano and Central Pattana representatives broke ground at the site for Thailand’s second IKEA second store in West Bangkok. The site is in Bangyai, to be …
Construction of second Bangkok Ikea store starts Read More
HeForShe is a solidarity campaign for gender equality initiated by UN Women. Its goal is to engage men and boys as agents of change for the achievement of gender equality …
Volvo Car Thailand joins the HeForShe campaign Read More
Swedish Ambassador in Bangkok, Staffan Herrström, returned to office the 15th February finishing an eventful roundtrip in the region. He’s been granted diplomatic accreditation in Lao PDR, discussed gender equality …
Swedish Ambassador in Bangkok tours Thailand and Laos Read More
Stiftelsen Teknikdalen – Ideas into business, in the Swedish province of Dalarna recently held China seminars in tree cities to present the world’s largest economy as the land of opportunity …
Discover China opportunities seminars held in Sweden Read More
Euromoney has awarded Nordea as the best provider of private banking services in the Nordic region and the Baltics for the eighth year in a row. Upon learning the …
Nordea wins 2016 Euromoney award for best private banking Read More
The famous Swedish drama series “30 grader i Februari” has returned with immediate succes. The drama focuses on Swedes leaving Sweden for Thailand in the search of a better life. …
Drama series on Thailand hits in Sweden Read More
Customisation and niche groups within the travel industry are increasing and the large tour operators with extensive experience in Scandinavia are belong to the trendsetters. As part of the Nordic …
Nordic tour operator launches love hotel in Thailand Read More
Thanks to an extraordinary and genuine interest from the Scandinavians in Pattaya, a new Nordic Music festival in the city exceeds all expectations according to its organizers. “The Orange feeling”, tagline …
Nordic festival in Pattaya was “surprisingly” successful Read More
On 28 January 2016, SWEA Bangkok held its Annual General Meeting and appointed the following Board of Directors for 2016: President: Monica Nilsson Vice-President: MariAnne Boström Secretary: Sofia Lindstrand Treasurer: …
Swea Bangkok holds AGM Read More
IKEA can not use its own trademark in Indonesia. Instead, Surabaya-based furniture company Ratania Khatulistiwa with the acronym Intan Khatulistiwa Esa Abadi has the rights to use Ikea as their …
IKEA loses brand name battle in Indonesia Read More
On 4 February 2016, Ambassador Staffan Herrström paid a courtesy call on Dr. Surin Pitsuwan, former Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). During this meeting, they discussed …
Swedish Ambassador meets former ASEAN Secretary General Read More
Sweden’s new Ambassador Designate to Myanmar, Staffan Herrström, visited the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nay Pyi Taw on 13 January 2016. During his first visit to Myanmar he first …
Swedish Ambassador’s first visit to Myanmar Read More
The name Ecolean can imply an inclination towards being eco-friendly [writer’s interpretation], and it turns out the be true that this Swedish company’s products are indeed friendly to nature, mainly …
Innovative package solutions provider takes on Southeast Asia Read More
The Embassy of Sweden Section Office in Yangon, in January, had an excellent opportunity to talk in Singapore about the opportunities for Swedish businesses in Myanmar. The seminar attracted a …
Myanmar business promoted to Swedes in Singapore Read More
Representatives from Sweden’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm visited Myanmar in the end of January 2016. The Deputy Head of the Department for Asia and the Pacific, Erik Widman, …
Swedish officials visit Rohingya and Rakhine people in Myanmar Read More
Sweden takes new steps in the controversial disappearance of Gui Minhai. On 17 October 2015 Gui Minhai, a Swedish citizen and book publisher, vanished from his apartment in Pattaya. Four …
Sweden support Thai police in the case of disappeared bookseller Read More