Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
On 6 February 2006, 100-200 demonstrators protested in a non-violent manner outside the Embassy of Denmark in Bangkok against a Danish newspaper publication of 12 drawings of the Prophet Mohammed. In …
Demonstration Outside Denmark’s Bangkok Embassy Read More“The Danish government has to apologise for a month. Every day there has to be a statement in the newspaper where the government is to promise that something like this will never …
Bangkok Demonstrators Demand One Month of Daily Apologies Read MoreFinland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs has told embassy staff to keep their guard up after the attack on the Danish embassy in Indonesia. Finland shares buildings with other Nordic countries …
Finland Tells Jakarta Embassy Staff To Be Cautious Read MoreA workshop on post-tsunami aquaculture was held in Phuket, Thailand and attended by fishery experts from Norway, aqua culture networks in Thailand, Indonesia, USA, UK and non-governmental organizations. There were …
Thailand, Norway Help Tsunami Affected Fishermen Read MoreDanish-owned Pedershaab A/S, who create machines for the production of concrete pipes for draining and sewers, are to move their headquarters in Asia from Thailand to Vietnam. The chief representative Tri …
Denmark’s Pedershaab Relocates to Vietnam from Thailand Read MoreISS Facility Services Co., Ltd. – a unit of the Danish ISS Group – has entered an agreement to acquire MPA Security in Thailand for an undisclosed amount. MPA Security, owned and …
Denmark’s ISS Acquires Security Company in Thailand Read MoreSome time next week the world will see the largest freefall formation ever become a reality featuring no less than 400 skydivers freefalling to the ground below them in Thailand. …
45 Nordic Skydivers Join World Record Jump Attempt Over Thailand Read MoreMarita Liulia has taken the Tarot and made it into a vehicle for contemporary art through the use of digital technology. Now the Finnish artist will stage an exhibition featuring …
Finnish Artist To Stage Tarot Exhibition in Bangkok Read MoreWilhelmsen Maritime Services is a global company delivering state of the art maritime services, including ship management, crewing, port and logistics services through a global network of local offices. …
“Wilhelmsen Maritime Services – Barwil (Thailand) Ltd. Will be the shaper of the maritime service industry” Read MoreIn the period until the Annual General Meeting on March 30, 2006, EAC will complete two share buyback programmes for a total value of DKK 1.1bn. The first programme will …
EAC To Initiate DKK 1.1bn Share Buyback Read MoreLeif Thomas Olsen and his Vietnamese wife Phuong Yung Mai Le bought a piece of land, basically in the middle of nowhere, but in the midst of truly scenic landscape, …
Mangospa – Pioneers In Pineapple Land Read MoreIndividual tourism to Thailand and South East Asia does not suffer from increasing oil prices, Tsunami, earthquakes and hurricanes. Jacob Bojsen, the new regional manager for Jysk Travel Company in …
Jysk Travel Builds Up Individual Travel Business in South East Asia Read More“When I first arrived here, I was so angry at my family because I had so many good friends in Manila, and here in Bangkok, I didn’t know anyone,” says …
After A Shaky Start A Young Swede Makes Her Mark And Thailand Her Home Read MoreThe Norwegian travel trade has honored Thailand as the World’s Best Tourist Country 2005. This is the second consecutive year that Thailand has won the Grand Travel Award. The January …
Norwegian Travel Trade Votes Thailand Number One Read MoreThe Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs – Project Export Secretariat, in cooperation with the Swedish Embassies in Bangkok and Manila will organize a workshop for Swedish companies to analyse upcoming …
Mekong Region Workshop Planned For Swedish Companies Read MoreThe Royal Danish Embassy hosted a Danish-Thai alumni evening January 24 in Bangkok sponsored by EAC, giving some 70 Thais who have studied, lived or worked in Denmark a chance …
Royal Danish Embassy Hosts Alumni Evening In Bangkok Read MoreIt was a simple love story that brought Gregers Moller to Thailand many years ago. Today with two beautiful daughters to be proud of he is for good reason also …
The Man Behind ScandAsia Read MoreNot long after take-off in Arlanda airport in Stockholm, a heavily intoxicated Swedish man created chaos in the air by hitting and kicking everyone around him. Eye-witnesses report that the …
Drunken Swede went Berserk on Flight to Thailand Read MoreDr. Thanong Bidaya, Thailand’s Finance Minister said January 18 he had met with Telenor group president and chief executive Jon Fredrik Baksaas and that the Telenor group is interested to …
DTAC Interested In Listing On Thai SET Read MoreThe Thai government has rejected an offer from Sweden to try and mediate a peace deal in the strife-torn south of Thailand. In line with the government’s iron-fisted approach to …
Swedish Offer to Mediate in Thailand Rejected Read MoreTelenor group’s president and chief executive Jon Fredrik Baksaas said January 17 that Total Access Communication (DTAC) is ready to compete with Advanced Info Service Plc (AIS). Advanced Info Service …
DTAC is Ready to Compete with AIS Read MoreItthiphol Jitphumsak is the editor and founder of Thai Tang Dan Newspaper, a Thai newspaper based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The paper is approaching the end of its second year in …
Volunteer Newspaper Binds Thai Community In Denmark Read MoreSAS says ongoing contract negotiations with unions are not progressing toward the cost-saving goals it needs, according to a recent edition of the company’s internal newsletter. As a result, it …
SAS to Downsize Unprofitable Scandinavian Units Read More“It was a real kick start to the resort’s rebirth with TV crews from all over the world staying and filming here. And with as much as 300 meters of …
Swedish-Managed Khao Lak Resort Back in Service Read More
Peder Jorgensen has been more closely involved with the lives of the poor rural people of Thailand than any other living Dane today. For ten years, between 1962 and 1972, …
A Life at Rice Root Level Read MoreThe Nordic Chambers has organised a panel discussion involving four international schools in Thailand on January 11, 2006 at the Conrad Hotel, Bangkok. The schools invited to participate were Bangkok …
Nordic Chamber Meet Discusses Education in Thailand Read MoreBy Zosia Lav When the air navigation service provider of Thailand, AEROTHAI, was on the look-out for safety management expertise in connection with the construction of a new international airport …
Breakthrough in Thailand for Danish Consultancy Read MoreAfter recently selling the biggest of East Asiatic Company’s businesses, Nutrition, there has been a lot of talk about how long before the more than a century old Danish business …
EAC: The Name of the Company is not the Issue Read MoreAccording to the calculations made by the polling stations themselves, the number of Finns who came to vote at the Finnish embassies, consulates and other polling facilities abroad was well …
More Than 29,000 Finns Voted Abroad in the First Round of Presidential Elections Read MoreAt a press conference at the Swedish Embassy in Bangkok, Lars Danielsson, Deputy Minister to the Swedish Prime Minister, informed that the proposal given to the Thai Government in November …
Swedish Fighter Aircraft Proposal Made Public Read MoreNorske Skog by the end of 2005 purchased Pan Asia Paper Company, previously owned by Canada’s Abitibi Consolidated, and is now the world’s largest producer of newsprint. Norske Skog completed the …
PanAsia Becomes 100 pct Subsidiary of Norske Skog Read MoreA 12 year-old Swedish girl on holiday with her family was reportedly raped Monday last week by one of the employees of the hotel that she and her family were …
Swedish Girl Raped in Koh Samui Read MoreDanish Ambassador to Thailand H.E. Ulrik Helweg-Larsen signed an agreement to support Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, based in Bangkok. Danish support aims to demonstrate how to develop community resilience to …
Denmark Granted DKK 9 Million for Asian Disaster Preparedness Read MoreDr. Alongkorn Chutinan, the brain surgeon in charge of treating the Danish patient Jan Johansen in Bangkok Pattaya Hospital, suggests that a Medical Insurance should be a precondition for tourists …
Medical Insurance Condition for Visa? Read MoreJan Johansen, a Danish tourist hospitalized in Pattaya for over a month, passed away early in the morning on Thursday 5 January 2006. Jan Johansen was 49 and died of …
Dying Dane Created Heated Debate Read MoreSweden upgraded its representation to a general consulate on Phuket in early 2005, and as a new consul-general, Alf Karlsson, 61, came in September to stay for three years, the …
Sweden’s new consul-general look forward to three years on Phuket Read MoreRoyal Copenhagen has announced its goal to increase the overall turn-over by almost 40 per cent in 2006, and the Danish porcelain company intends to make its production facilities in …
Royal Copenhagen Expands its Porcelain Production in Thailand Read MoreDanida signs funding agreement with the Mekong River Commission(MRC) to support the MRC Fisheries Programme. The program aims to supports sustainable use of the resources in the Mekong river. In …
Danida Supports Fisheries Program in Mekong Read MoreH.E. Ulrik Helweg-Larsen, Danish Ambassador to Thailand, has on behalf of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs signed an agreement with a group of Thai pig farmers on purchase of …
Denmark buys Carbon Credits from Thai Farmers Read MoreThis Christmas, many Norwegians returned to South East Asia to join in the memorial ceremony of the Tsunami disaster. Altogether 84 Norwegians died in the floodwaters which hit the beaches …
Norway Joins Memorial of Tsunami Disaster Read MoreIn Stockholm, Swedes paid tribute to all the victims in Tsunami disaster on Monday 26. King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia lighted 543 candles – one for each of …
Sweden Honors Tsunami Victims with Vigils Read MoreThailand marked the one year anniversary of the tsunami in a number of locations along the Andaman coast. The day, which was meant to mark the tragedy which took the …
Tsunami Memorial One Year After Read MoreAccording to the Danish daily, BT, 10 year-old children are working as construction workers 7-8 hours each day at a Danish-funded building site outside the village of Bahn Nam Khem …
Danish Embassy Accused of not Preventing Child Labor in Tsunami Aid Project Read MoreThe Swedish government donated three all terrain tracked vehicles to Thailand in a ceremony held at the Royal Thai Army headquarters Friday 23 December. General Vichit Jatip, deputy army commander, …
Handover ceremony of three tracked vehicles Read MoreIn Finland, the round in the Presidential Election is held on 15 January 2006 and the possible second round on 29 January 2006. Meanwhile, Finnish Expatriates can vote for their …
Advance Voting Abroad of Finnish Presidential Elections 2006 Read MoreOn Monday December 26 – exactly one year after the Tsunami killed 46 Danes – several memorial ceremonies will be held in Thailand with other visiting Danish tourists among the …
Danes to Attend Official Tsunami Memorial Read MoreFour Thai men aged 28-36 are now arrested and charged with non-intentional violence causing death after turning themselves in to the Cha-Am police Thursday afternoon. A crime that is punished …
Four Arrested for Beating Dane to Death in Thailand Read MoreIn a rare visit to Southeast Asia, the national Danish soccer team has accepted an invitation to play an official friendly match against Singapore in connection with the Danish team’s …
Soccer: Denmark to Play Singapore Read MoreA dispute over parking cost a 54 year-old Dane his life Tuesday evening at around 6pm (local time). The drama unfolded in the Thai vacation area of Cha-Am, when the …
Dane Beaten to Death by Thai Neighbours Read More“Denmark is internationally ahead offering digital services and digital signatures, and now Danes abroad can also benefit from this. No matter where in the world Danes are living, they will …
Digital Signature Becomes Global Read More