Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
On Saturday 10 January, the funeral of one of the long time Danish residents of Thailand, Mejnert Lynge Badstue Lund took place at Wat Chaimongkol in Pattaya where a large …
Mejnert laid to rest off Koh Larn Read MoreBesides the benefit of reducing pesticide and toxic-chemical usage, which helps improve food safety of Thai farm products, the Danish funded “Integrated Pest Management” (IPM) project has also helped Thai …
Danida teaches Thai farmers to reduce chemical usage Read MoreBjorn Henriksen is one of only four Danes living in the Thai seaside resort of Bang Saen. A few months ago he and his wife Nuan expanded their restaurant and …
A Danish hang-out in Bang Saen Read MoreTrade and business were high on Swedish PM Goran Persson’s agenda when he toured Thailand and Singapore the past week. In Thailand Goran Persson marketed the Saab made fighter jet …
Goran Persson talked business in Singapore and Thailand Read MoreScandinavian Woodworking Machinery Co., Ltd. – an importer of woodworking machinery and tools from Europe to Thailand – has recently changed its name to Scanmach Asia Co., Ltd., effective January …
Scandinavian Woodworking Machinery becomes Scanmach Asia Read MoreThe National Danish Performance Team (NDPT) on December 18 arrived in Chiang Mai to entertain Thai schoolchildren, students and families, starting from the north to the south of the country, …
Danish gymnasts on tour in Southeast Asia Read MoreSweden is making a coordinated marketing campaign for the jet fighter aircraft system JAS Gripen during Prime Minister Göran Persson´s official visit in Thailand. “Saab has to do the selling …
Göran Persson promotes JAS Gripen aircraft in Thai talks Read MorePrime Minister Göran Persson arrived Wednesday in Bangkok for an official visit to Thailand which lasts until Friday. The bilateral talks are held on Thursday, primarily at a meeting with …
PM arrives to Bangkok Read MoreAvoid traveling to the Thai southern provinces Narathiwat, Yala, Pattani and Satun, recommends the Swedish embassy in Bangkok its citizens. The recommendation cames after attacks by so far unknown groups …
Stay out of four southern provinces Read MoreA Swedish summer without mosquitoes is no summer. But such familiarity with the bloodsucking insect does not explain why Niklas Lindegardh and his fiancée Anna Annerberg are key persons in …
Swedish researchers lead fight for new malaria drugs Read MoreMr. Per Vransøe, Danish, has been appointed leader of SAS Cargo’s new regional sales organization for Asia recently established in Bangkok. Mr. Per Vransøe comes from a position as SAS …
Regional SAS Cargo Head Office in Bangkok Read MoreJotun A/S, Norway, one of the world’s major paint manufacturers, has selected Swedish component-based business application developer IFS and global management consulting firm Accenture to deliver and implement an extensive …
Jotun selects IFS, Accenture to supply new business applications Read MoreNorsk Hydro’s agri-business operation Hydro Agri will take the name Yara upon the demerger and stock exchange listing planned for March 25, 2004. At the same time the new company, …
Hydro Agri to become Yara 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 MoreRamboll, the leading Nordic consulting group, on 11 December, 2003 opened a regional head office for South East Asia in Bangkok. The Grand Opening was held at Dusit Thani Hotel …
Ramboll opens regional office 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 MoreA familiar sight on roads and seas in South East Asia, Norwegian energy and materials company Hydro’s viking ship logo, has been given a overhaul. The new worldwide corporate logo …
Hydro’s viking ship overhauled 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 MoreSome twenty Norwegian-expat and Thai members of the Thai-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce (TNCC) gathered at the Admiral’s Pub & Restaurant, Sukhumvit 18, Bangkok on December 11 for a great Christmas …
TNCC Christmas Lunch 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 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 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 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 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 MoreDanish suppliers of medicine and hospital supplies Missionpharma on July 3 this year signed a cooperation agreement with Danish biotech company ViroGates ApS to obtain the exclusive rights to distribute …
Missionpharma to distribute ViroGates’ new, low-cost HIV-test next year 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 MoreBy Robert Kronberg “I will not go back to Denmark,” says five year old Mathilde. “Only for Christmas…,” she adds by second thought. Mathilde is the eldest daughter of Rikke …
Danish volunteers enjoy life in Thailand Read More“I think it’s a brilliant idea to have a Thai Danish alumni,” says Peter Sontidech, vice chairman of Thai-Danish Association in Denmark and probably the most respected Thais living in …
Prominent Thai in Denmark supports alumni initiative Read MoreTo build a subway in a city like Bangkok which is flooded several days per year, doesn’t seem like such a brilliant idea. But it’s there now. Three years after …
The Tube Read MoreThai police has arrested a 39-year Norwegian man wanted for a drug case in his native Norway. The arrest took place 26 November in Buriram northeastern Thailand where the man …
Norwegian wanted for drug case arrested in Thailand Read MoreDanish pump manufacturer Grundfos has been listed as one of “Ten Great Places to Work For in Europe” in a survey conducted by the renowned US business magazine, Fortune. To …
Grundfos listed in “Ten Great Places to Work For in Europe” Read MoreJail House, reads the sign. Denmark, shouts the building. Next to the entrance there is one Danish flag and on first floor two more big Danish flags wave in the …
Danish Jail House in Hua Hin Read MoreCharlotte Fung Korff arrived in Bangkok this February together with her husband, Kim Korff, who holds a position as Supply Chain Manager with the East Asiatic Company. But she is …
Charlotte Fung Korff – a Scandinavian coordinator at BNH Hospital Read MoreResponsive IT Solutions Ltd. has recently been awarded two Danish deals – a major network upgrade and maintenance contract with a Thai-based Danish maritime service provider in Sri Racha and …
Responsive IT getting more Danish deals in Thailand 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 MoreDanish National Rugby Sevens Team will be participating in the 2nd King’s Cup International Rugby Sevens Tournament at the Army Stadium in Bangkok on November 29-30, 2003. Grouped in pool …
Danish rugby team to compete for King’s Cup in Bangkok Read MoreA group of Buddhists from Norway in early November visited Thailand to hand over donations totalling almost Bt300,000 to a rural school and temple in Buriram Province. Leading the group …
Wat Thai Norway helps poor Thai school Read MoreWat Thai Norway Buddhist temple in Oslo will next summer move to a new location 30 km north of Oslo on Trondheim Road to become the center for Buddhism in …
Wat Thai Norway to move next year 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 MoreThe Danish-Thai Chamber of Commerce has taken an initiative to establish a Danish-Thai Alumi – an alumni of Thai people who have at one time worked, studied or lived in …
Danish-Thai Alumni to be launched Jan 2004 Read MoreFormer Danish Ambassador to Thailand, Niels Kaas Dyrlund, who is currently Chief of Protocol at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Copenhagen, has published a new guide book for expatriate …
Guide for expat diplomats in Denmark Read MoreWhat is a hotel manager like? Probably he or she is wearing a suit, if it is a he maybe a striped shirt and a tie with dots. Most likely …
Norwegian hotel manager’s meaningful Sundays Read More