Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
Hong Kong Vikings is the name of the new Scandinavian football team. The spirit of the team is to combine football with the opportunity to meet other expats and enjoy a …
New Scandinavian football team in Hong Kong Read MoreYesterday, the Viet Nam Blind Association held a workshop to spotlight a common predicament of many blind people in Viet Nam. While calling for help from international organizations, Swedish and …
Vietnam blind association praises Norway and Sweden Read More
FAO and IKEA of Sweden has agreed in June 2015 to begin working together on a forestry certification initiative aimed at promoting the sustainable management of forest plantations and empowering …
IKEA of Sweden and FAO begin collaboration on forestry certification initiative Read More
With the focus theme ‘Healthcare Solutions For An Ageing Society’ the recent Swedish Healthcare delegation to Thailand and Vietnam was spot on, as Business Sweden’s Ambassador-led delegation met with public …
Sweden helps to address Thailand’s future healthcare challenges as an ageing society Read MoreThis week, Bangkok experienced a wave of lightning, and torrential overnight rain left the city flooded. The monsoon season in Thailand has begun, and looking at the weather forecast more lightning will strike the city the …
Increased risk of lightning in big cities Read More
As the most recent effort in promoting Swedish culture, including its cuisine, the Embassy of Sweden in Singapore, in partnership with $100Gourmet, invited the Michelin-starred Swedish chef Niklas Ekstedt to …
Swedish Embassy Singapore successfully showcases cuisine with Michelin chef Read MoreAbdul (11) was at sea for one month after he was abducted from his parents in Myanmar. Save the Children is now asking for a long-term solution. ‘With particular focus …
Smugglers are abducting children Read More
Nuts and candy are the indisputable favorits among tax free goods that travelers from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland buy, when they are traveling. Norwegians want to pamper themselves and …
Danes buy Haribo Matadormix – Swedes buy peanuts.. Read More
The Embassy of Sweden in Hanoi, Vietnam had an early National Day 6 June celebration as it hosted a reception for the Swedish expatriates community already on 4 June 2015. “We had …
Embassy of Sweden in Hanoi celebrates National Day, midsummer style Read More
Marking Swedish National Day on 6 June Swedish Ambassador Camilla Mellander, Embassy of Sweden in Hanoi highlights Swedish innovation and its development towards sustainability in this article. By Camilla Mellander On …
Ambassador to Vietnam: Swedish innovation leads way to renewable success Read More
On 4 June 2015 the Nordic Embassies in Jakarta came together for a first joint Nordic Midsummer Party. 4 Nordic Embassies; Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden celebrated their annual national …
First joint Nordic Midsummer Party held in Jakarta Read More
The Swedish sports bar/restaurant franchise O’Learys is expanding in Asia. A second O’Learys Sportsbar & Grill has opened (May 2015) at Singapore Changi Airport. at Terminal 1, O’Learys has since …
O’Learys continues its expansion in Asia with second Changi Airport outlet Read MoreThe Swedish community in Thailand had quite a blast on Saturday 6 June 2015 at Radisson Blue Hotel in Bangkok. The crowd was about 200 persons, including quite many Thais …
Swedish Summer Party in Bangkok a great success Read More
Swedish baby formula and food product company Trident Nutrition has announced the opening its Hong Kong office, to serve as its regional headquarters and the base for its expansion in …
Swedish Trident Nutrition gears up for expansion with Hong Kong regional headquarters Read More
IMD, a highly ranked global business school based in Switzerland and Singapore, has releases its 2015 World Competitiveness Ranking with China Hong Kong taking second place, Singapore third and the …
Singapore and Scandinavia among top ten in World Competitiveness Ranking Read More
Business Sweden has announced an energy delegation to Malaysia and Singapore on 8 – 10 September 2015, which will take place in conjunction with the International Greentech & Eco Products …
Swedish energy delegation to Malaysia and Singapore in September Read More
The Swedish electric vehicle producer Nevs (formerly Saab cars) has announced the establishing in Tianjin, neighbouring Beijing City and Hebei Province, in China of its second global factory with focus …
Nevs (Saab cars) sets up second factory and R&D in Tianjin, China Read More
Tetra Pak in Thailand has partnered up with Greyhound Café in introducing drinking water packed in a unique design carton that answers to urban lifestyle while reduces carbon footprint. The …
Tetra Pak partners with Greyhound Café for environmental campaign Read More
ScandiDos from Sweden has started the production for both products and deliveries to begin in the summer to countries outside the United States of Delta4 Phantom and Delta4 Discover, with …
Radiation cancer therapy / dosimetry tool from ScandiDos lands Thailand order Read MoreAre receptions at Mandarin Oriental or pool parties at Sofitel So Bangkok not really what you are looking for? Then maybe this exploration will get you up from the chair. Text …
An abandoned urban exploration in Bangkok Read MoreOn June 4, Thai Swedish Chamber of Commerce holds its monthly networking evening at the Huntsman’s Pub. Besides catching up on the latest news and exchange information, the staff bid farewell to …
Thai Swedish Chamber bid farewell to Ambassador Klaus Molin Read MoreThe Thai-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce together with Belgian-Luxembourg/Thai Chamber of Commerce invite everyone interested to a breakfast talk: ‘Technological Innovations in Healthcare’ followed by a visit of Samitivej Sukhumvit Hospital – …
Visit award-winning hospital in Thailand Read More
In 2015 the world-leading communications technology and services provider Ericsson celebrates its 50th Year Anniversary in Malaysia, and has marked this milestone by launching a brand new office location in …
Ericssson marks 50 years in Malaysia with the opening of new office Read More
ScandAsia is the proud media partner for an upcoming ‘early summer’ evening dinner and party, arranged by the Thai-Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Bangkok, and held in the ballroom of …
Exciting Swedish national day dinner party in Bangkok announced Read More
Handcuffing a tourist who believed he was Jesus, bringing back injured trekkers from the wilds or handling a tsunami. Michael Schulz has been dealing with a variety of emergencies in …
Danish SOS agent meets challenges every day Read More
On 12th May 2015, Tuesday the Malaysian-Swedish Business Association, MASBA, conducted a company visit to SKF Bearing Industries (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd located in Nilai, Negeri Sembilan. “It was a great …
MASBA made corporate visit to SKF Bearing, Malaysia Read More
In nod to the international café culture, and with some key Swedish flavours added to the menu – including bakery temptations such as Swedish cinnamon bun, chocolate balls and the …
Sapparot Group’s Swedish baker Jeff Oberg Read More
Sapparot Group, looking to strengthen its team of skilled bartenders, as the owners increasingly have to manage, and let go of their favourite function of being hands-on cocktail shakers, has …
Sapparot Group’s Swedish bartender team reinforced with Sebastian De la Cruz Read More
[sliderpro id=”20″] Sapparot Group could very well be the name of a producer and exporter of Thailand’s tropical fruit pineapple. But no, we are talking restaurateurs, where the three Swedes …
Swedish bar trio brings international café culture to Bangkok Read More
[wzslider] The Swedish Young Professionals in China (YP) organized their first Swedish Career Fair on Saturday the 18th of April in Shanghai and the following Saturday, April 25th in Beijing …
Inaugural Swedish Career Fair 2015 organised in China Read More
The new Norway Visa Application Centre opened in Cebu on 7 May 2015, Thursday. The Norway Visa Application Centre in Cebu, in addition to Manila, is ready to accept visa …
New Nordic visa application centre in Cebu Read More
The Swedish Embassy, Beijing, in collaboration with CSR Asia in China has released a comprehensive CSR study, showing an increased awareness for CSR, and that weak enforcement of legislation is …
Swedish Embassy Beijing and CSR Asia China study looks at the development for CSR Read More
Connecting to the Shanghai Auto Show Volvo Cars also announced with confidence that its sales in China in 2015 is expected to grow faster than the overall market for premium …
Volvo Cars expects stronger sales than overall premium market in China Read MoreMay 7 the third ScandBizBar of the year took place. Scandinavian entrepreneurs, bankers and other with skyscraper offices met for a beer and some networking By Søren Engelbrecht Bartenders are …
ScandBizBar: Casual networking and some cold beers Read MoreMay 9 it is the official Europe Day. EU institutions open their doors to the public and EU Delegations around the world organize activities on the theme of Europe in the World. “Europe …
Asian countries celebrate Europe Day 2015 Read More
Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam is leading a ‘SkillsFuture’ delegation to the European countries Switzerland and Sweden from 6 to 12 May 2015. SkillsFuture is a national movement to …
‘SkillsFuture’ Singapore education delegation visits Sweden Read More
The Swedish Chamber in Hong Kong, in celebration of the arrival of the summer, is inviting to a Meet & Greet Swedcham Cocktail event, at the 270 Degrees Rooftop Bar. …
Swedish Chamber in Hong Kong invites to rooftop bar meet & greet Read More
How foreign companies will be affected by proposed amendments to the Foreign Investment Law is the topic for a seminar, taking place on 21 May in Hong Hong and hosted …
Hong Kong seminar on proposed new foreign investment law Read More
Global ICT solutions provider Huawei has launched the 2015 Global Connectivity Index (GCI) where the US leads followed by Sweden and Singapore. Denmark ranks seven and Norway ten. The United …
Sweden and Singapore, second and third in 2015 Global Connectivity Index Read More
On 21 April The Malaysian-Swedish Business Association (MASBA), together with the Embassy of Sweden in Kuala Lumpur, had the honour of listening to a prominent guest speaker on the topic …
MASBA hosted human rights seminar Read More
The members of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai respectively had the unique opportunity of hearing a personal perspective on China from a Swede going …
Göran Leijonhufvud looks back at 50 years of covering China Read More
On 20 April the Embassy of Sweden in Bangkok hosted a meet and greet with KTH, The Royal Institute of Technology and its KTH Bangkok alumni where about twenty new …
Former and new KTH students meet at alumni event with Swedish Embassy in Bangkok Read More
The Swedish Supplementary School will relocate to Stamford American International School’s centrally-located campus in August 2015, exclusively offering supplementary language classes to the Swedish community in Singapore. The Swedish Supplementary …
Swedish Supplementary Language School Partners Exclusively with Stamford American International School Read More
A relatively young, innovating Swedish software developer of market-leading high quality and fully interactive 3D visualizations is now eyeing Asia as a big potential market. Signing up its first client …
Sensavis’ 3D educational software revolution reaches Singapore Read More
The embassy of Sweden in Singapore has a tradition of regularly inviting Singaporeans who have previously studied in Sweden to meet-and-greet events at its residence. This time around, on April …
Swedish Embassy hosts KTH student alumni event Read More
Swedish furniture retail store IKEA has come under criticism in Singapore due to promoting a magic show that features pastor Lawrence Khong of Faith Community Baptist Church, who is known …
IKEA Singapore responds to criticism over anti-gay pastor support Read More
Lars Andersson was elected as new Chairman of Scandinavian Society Siam at the AGM on Wednesday 25 April 2015, replacing outgoing Chairman Christer Holmvall who, however, remains on the board. …
Lars Andersson new Chairman of SSS Read More
While Southeast Asia is eagerly awaiting the XC90’s arrival, Volvo Cars has unveiled “the most luxurious vehicle ever built by the Swedish company in its 88 year history” at the …
Asia launch: XC90 ‘Excellence’ – Volvo’s most luxurious car model ever Read More
A kind of business class/luxury suite for cars is here! Volvo Cars has unveiled a new concept at the Shanghai Auto Show 2015 that takes executive in-car luxury to a …
Volvo Cars unveils Lounge Console solution in Shanghai Read More
The world of disc jockeys has up until now been very male-dominated, though female DJs have become more common in recent years as the electronic dance music scene has invaded …
Swedish female DJ school ‘Femme Beat’ visits Hanoi Read More