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The Environment Fund of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SEF), has over the past two years provided US$308,000 to fund environmental protection projects in Vietnam, according to figure released …
SIDA’s support for environmental protection in Vietnam Read MoreThe Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) on December 17 handed over two pick-up trucks worth US$36,000 to clean water supply projects in Khammouane and Sayabouly provinces, Laos. The hand-over ceremony …
SIDA provides vehicles to clean water supply projects in Laos Read MoreThe Swedish software provider IFS, one of the world’s leading Enterprise Resource Planning systems suppliers, divides its Asia Pacific operations into four ‘territories’ next year: Australia and New Zealand, Asean, …
IFS sets up Asean territory in 2004 organisation revamp Read MoreThe negotiations between Sweden and Vietnam on an agreement regarding adoptions were completed the week before Christmas. A signing ceremony, were representatives from the two countries took part, was held …
New adoption treaty signed Read MoreThe Thai state owned telephone operator TOT has through its local cooperation partners Napakorn and Kanokkit purchased Viking Telecom’s SMS server platform SMSS. The order value for this first contract …
TOT purchases Viking system Read MoreMore than 1000 pages of new documentation about Swedish members of Gam, the free Aceh movement, have been handed over by Jakarta to special prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand in Stockholm. It …
Indonesia delivers more material to Stockholm prosecutor Read MoreTwo out of eight new exploration wells to be drilled by Swedish owned Lundin Petroleum AB next year are located in Indonesia, according to the company’s exploration and development budget …
Lundin Petroleum to drill two new wells in Indonesia 2004 Read MoreAs previously reported by Scandasia this fall, will Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia be making a state visit to Vietnam on 2–7 February 2004 at the invitation …
Dates for state visit to Vietnam and Brunei finalised Read MoreThe Swedish state has decided to provide funding for a library at the Thai information center in Ragunda through the Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs. Meanwhile, the Thai state …
Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs supports Thai library Read MoreThe Swedish government has just announced that Prime Minister Göran Persson will travel to Thailand, India and Singapore between 7 and 13 January 2004. He is in Thailand between 7 …
Swedish PM visits Thailand and Singapore January 2004 Read MoreNeither Sweden’s Adoption Centre (AC), the second largest adoption agency in the world, nor any other adoption organisation in Sweden has applied for authorisation to adopt from Cambodia during 2004. …
No Swedish adoption organisations seek authorisation for 2004 Read MoreSweden is the main market when Epoch Stockholm, a new Swedish luxury watch brand, is launched this fall. For collectors abroad Epoch takes a keen look at South East Asia. …
Watch collectors in South East Asia targeted by new Swedish brand Read MoreIt was Christmas eve. The Swedish couple Camilla and Stefan Lebert and their daughter Thelma were sitting on the beach in Koh Lanta looking at the bright stars, feeling the …
Koh Lanta’s inspiration Read MoreTicket, an independent agent chain with sales in some 100 outlets plus phone and Internet in Norway and Sweden, reports that Thailand is the most popular destination judging by confirmed …
Thailand most wanted destination again Read MoreSwedish-owned OM has been chosen by Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX) to provide a new integrated trading engine. It will be the first fully integrated trading platform in the world to …
OM wins contract for Singapore Exchange Read MoreThe Swedish controlled mobile phone operator Mobifone on 10 December announced its one millionth subscriber on its GSM network in Vietnam. “We are delighted to have reached this important milestone …
Mobifone reaches one million subscribers in Vietnam Read MoreSvenska Handelsbanken, SHB, is the largest Nordic bank in Asia and the strategy is to continue on that track. Growth, both in terms of added offices and more services – …
Growth in Asia priority for Svenska Handelsbanken Read More“A real breakthrough,” say four representatives from Ragunda municipality and the county of Jämtland after meeting their Thai counterparts in Bangkok 5-9 December to outline the next phase of what …
Ragunda delegation in Bangkok receive full support by Minister of Culture Read MoreThis June was Michael Olsson, a long time resident in Indonesia and Secretary in the Swedish Business Association in Jakarta, assaulted by dozens of knife wielding men while trying to …
Michael Olsson on trial for hurting his assailants Read MoreAn annual meeting among Lao and Swedish officials from Lao National Statistical Centre and Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) was held on December 5 in Vientiane City to review the …
SIDA cooperation in statistics with Laos continues Read MoreMalaysian wireless operator Maxis Communications Berhad has signed a contract with Ericsson as its new partner for 2G and 3G deployment to ensure a smooth evolution of Maxis’ network to …
Maxis pick Ericsson for upgrade of mobile phone network Read MoreThe Thai-Swedish Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with Scandinavian Publishing Co., Ltd. recently released an all new magazine-cum-directory to replace the chamber’s 11-year-old STEP Magazine and TSCC Year Book. “The …
Thai Sweden Review sets new standard for chamber publication Read MorePacketFront, a Swedish broadband infrastructure provider, has been selected to provide an operator independent network solution, enabling true broadband services, to Cyberjaya in Malaysia. Cyberjaya is at the heart of …
Cyberjaya gives broadband order to Swedish firm Read MoreThe Swedish produced reality TV series Robinson, Survivor in the US, has made a number of Malaysian islands off the Mersing coast well known and more importantly well visited by …
Robinson series boosts travel to Malay islands Read MoreWhere would you like to retire? asked Swedish daily Aftonbladet’s online edition and offered four alternatives: Sweden, Spain, Thailand and ‘other country’. So far 29.8 percent of the readers vote …
Spain gets more votes than Thailand Read MoreElectrolux new washing machine factory in Rayong is the company’s first in South East Asia. The 9000 square metres large plant, a THB 500 million investment that opened 27 November …
Double digit growth predicted for Asean market Read MoreBy Mia Hansson Eva arrives forty minutes early to the interview, utterly surprised at the absence of traffic. I find her lounging in a red leather chair with a book, …
Eva Sophonpanich Read MoreWhen Mr. Sitthichai Olankun started working for the Swedish pharmaceutical company Astra 17 years ago, the company ranking among research-based pharmaceutical companies in Thailand was somewhere between number 12 and …
Sitthichai Olankun sees AstraZeneca on top in 4 years Read MoreBy Mia Hansson It’s hard enough for adults to arrive in a foreign country, knowing nobody, and not knowing what to expect from even the most everyday things like grocery …
Swedish kids in Thailand Read MoreThe smell of spices from various pots and sizzling pans fill the room. It is lunch hour and the place is packed and noisy. At one table, a man in …
Little Asia in Stockholm Read MoreThe agribusiness company Syngenta is using the EU approval of the dangerous pesticide paraquat to put pressure on Malaysia to lift the ban and phase out of paraquat the country …
Swedish Society for Nature Conservation attacks pesticide supplier in Malaysia Read MoreThe Stockholm School of Economics has participated in seven Asian trade fairs during November in an effort to recruit new students to the school’s new MBA-program, writes Swedish business daily …
Swedish institution wants Asian MBA-students Read MoreOn Thursday 27 November did Swedish white goods giant Electrolux celebrate the grand opening of its new washing machine factory in Rayong. HRH Princess Somsawalee was guest of honour and …
Electrolux inaugurates Rayong plant Read MoreHardworking entrepreneurs can make it in the Kingdom. But to get there, you must take in some hard earned advice and act accordingly. Otherwise you may end up a loser. …
Hardworking entrepreneurs can make it in the Kingdom Read MoreVietnam’s water puppeteers have just ended their performance tour of European countries where they received a warm welcome from audiences, writes the news agency VNA. The Central Water Puppetry Theatre …
Water puppeteers back after tour to Denmark and Sweden Read MoreThree Malaysian students from Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Victoria won the National Science Quiz 25 September. Soon they will enjoy their prize, a trip to Stockholm and attend the Nobel Prize …
Students win trip to Nobel Prize award ceremony Read MoreAfter Singapore’s Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong first mooted the idea to erect a Nordic Centre in the island state during a round trip to the Nordic countries in June …
Nordic European Centre up and running Read MoreIf ever you have listened to the news on Swedish Broadcasting you have most definitely heard his voice. Lars Gunnar Erlandson, he has been a foreign correspondent for almost thirty …
Lars Gunnar Erlandson, Bangkok Read MoreThe Swedish Prosecutor General’s International Public Prosecution Office in Stockholm is still collecting material for its investigation about the Free Aceh Movement’s, GAM, activities in Sweden. “There is no conclusion …
Swedish investigation on GAM still on Read MoreHanoi Power Company has signed a SEK 38 million contract for delivery of a new operations center that will manage electricity supply in Hanoi. The center, which enables real time …
ABB secures SEK 38 million contract in Hanoi Read MoreThe Thai Association in Dalarna, a province in the north east of Sweden, wants to locate a Buddhist temple in or close to the city Borlänge, reports local media in …
Plans underway for new Thai Buddhist temple in Sweden Read MoreHelene Benno, Swedish reporter with ScandAsia.se, could have been in a lot of trouble when she forgot her wallet in a Thai restaurant in Bangkok Airport had it not been …
Thai restaurant returns wallet to Swedish journalist Read MoreFor the first time since Sweden began to support Vietnam with foreign aid over 30 years ago does a new aid package come with strings attached on democratic development, greater …
SIDA lays down conditions for democratic development and human rights Read MoreThe Swedish Broadcasting Corporation, SR, will protest and act forcefully against regular jamming of Radio Sweden’s Swedish language broadcasts in South East Asia, says Ms Kerstin Brunnberg, Director of Programs …
Vietnamese jamming of Radio Sweden broadcastings causes strong protest Read MoreIn February 1999 SWECO submitted a Feasibility Study concerning the Se San 3 Hydropower Project, located some 20 km downstream of the Yali Dam, writes the Swedish consultancy firm SWECO …
SWECO rejects allegations for bad advise on Yali dam Read MoreThe Swedish wireless network solution provider Aptilo Networks has, through its Malaysian consortium with Mutiara.com, been awarded a 1000 hotspot contract for northern Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur and Penang, according to …
Aptilo clinches major hotspot deal Read MoreThe Malaysian-Swedish Business Association (MASBA) on October 30, 2003 launched its new website, which have packed many improved features and functions under a clean and user-friendly design. The URL remains …
MASBA launches new website Read MoreTelecommunications was one of the hardest hit industries when the Asian crisis began with Thailand’s float of the baht 2 July 1997. Ambitious projects came to a halt and people …
Networking in the jungle Read MoreThailand is in the spotlight with five films selected for screening at the upcoming Stockholm International Film Festival, 13 – 23 November 2003. The films are Fake by Thanakorn Pongsuwan, …
Five Thai films to be screened at Stockholm festival Read MoreThe Swedish government has appointed Director Lennart Linnér as new ambassador in Jakarta, Indonesia. Prior to this, Lennart Linnér was Assistant Head of the Americas Department. He has also worked …
Lennart Linnér new ambassador to Indonesia Read More