Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
Sex industry in Thailand was largely run by small and informal cross-border networks, a Norwegian NGO in Laos said at a recent symposium on human trafficking. According to the United …
Human trafficking victims mostly from Thailand’s neighbours Read MoreSwedish electrical appliance firm Electrolux AB in February announced plans to invest US$ 11 million (Bt 471 million) to set up its first wholly-owned plant in Thailand to produce front-loading …
Electrolux to invest Bt 471 million in washing machine plant in Thailand Read MoreStarting from 17 March 2003, the telephone numbers of the Royal Danish Embassy, Bangkok will be changed to 0-2343-1100(-10) and 0-2343-1180(-90). The fax number will remain unchanged as 0-2213-1752. The …
Danish Embassy in Bangkok to change contact numbers Read MoreThe investment write-down by Norway’s Telenor in Total Access Communications (DTAC) will have no impact on Telenor’s long-term relationship with the Thai cell-phone operator, according to the report published in …
Telenor still sees promising future with DTAC Read MoreThe new website of the Nordic Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam as an integrated part of the new ScandAsia.com concept was officially launched on Friday 14 February at a reception …
Nordcham introduces new website Read MoreBombardier Transportation (Signal) Sweden AB is confident in promoting its Thai office as a regional engineering hub to serve potential train-signalling projects in Asia. Bangkok Post quoted Mr. Staffan Hakanson, …
Bombardier makes Thai base its Asian HQ Read MoreGlobalization is the word that has been on everybody’s lips for quite a while. To most people it mainly concerns economical matters. But to most polices around the globe it …
Swedish drug buster in Thailand Read MoreA Norwegian businessman who is among owners of the bars and shops that were razed to the ground on Sukhumvit Soi 10 filed a complaint with Lumpini police on February …
Norwegian bar owner files suit Read MoreTheir Majesties King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden will be paying a state visit to Thailand from 25 February until 1 March 2003 at the invitation of …
Swedish State Visit to Thailand Read MoreThe number of foreigners from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland living in Thailand declined last year compared to 2001. The number of Scandinavians classified by the Thai immigration authorities as …
Declining number of Scandinavian in Thailand Read MoreNorwegian International Programme for Petroleum Management and Administration (PETRAD) on February 6 conducted a one-day workshop for Thailand’s Department of Mineral Fuels (DMF) in Bangkok to present and discuss national …
PETRAD conducts workshop in Thailand Read MoreDenmark’s Colourful Country Foundation on February 3, 2003 expanded its Colourful Country Carecenter with the opening of a newly-furnished dormitory. The 24 hour carecenter is located within the complex of …
Danish-funded care center for handicapped babies expanded Read MoreSome 120 Danes, Swedes, Norwegian and Finns enjoyed the annual Garden Party, which took place Saturday 1st of February in the lovely garden of the Danish Ambassador Mr. Ulrik Helweg-Larsen …
SSS Garden Party 2003 Read MoreNera ASA, through its wholly owned subsidiary Nera Broadband Satellite, has entered into an agreement with Shin Satellite to deliver gateways for use in the iPSTAR system, offering broadband communications …
Nera sign broadband satellite contract with Shin Satellite Read MoreSanta Fe, EAC’s Moving & Relocation Services, has developed a web-based Tenancy Management System which give their customers easy access to information about the properties they lease to house their …
Innovation improves service at Santa Fe Read MoreMr. Per Kastrup , one of the most colourful of the long-time Danish residents in Thailand, passed away on January 16, 2003 at the age of 62 at General Hospital …
Per Kastrup has passed away Read MoreThe heads of Norwegian telecom giant Telenor and its Thai business partner Total Access Communication (DTAC) had a meeting with Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra at the Government House in January …
Telenor meets PM Thaksin Read MoreThailand has called on Danish expertise to assist with its DKK 1.5 billion (USD 210 million) science park north of Bangkok. Researchers from the Danish food ingredient giant Chr. Hansen …
Thailand calls on Danish biotech expertise Read MoreThe Royal Danish Embassy, Bangkok, on January 22 held a seminar on Danish Energy Experiences to promote energy conservation and renewable energy. Financial support under a Danish government’s scheme was …
Denmark bringing clean technology to Thailand Read MoreEAC Nutrition is now back on track in Thailand following six months of intensive marketing activities since the company was last summer forced to withdraw two products from the Thai …
Dumex back on track in Thailand Read MoreThe Royal Danish Embassy in Thailand will again this year organise a Danish pavilion at ProPak Asia 2003 in Bangkok, South East Asia’s leading annual food processing and packaging exhibition. …
Danish Pavilion at ProPak 2003 Read MoreThe first networking evening of the year saw many new and old faces turning up. Doc Houlind & his New Orleans All Stars of Denmark Band was last minute announced …
A Jazzy Networking Evening Read MoreCarlsberg Asia has acquired through its subsidiary Carlsberg Brewery Hong Kong Ltd. the entire share capital of the Chinese brewery Kunming Huashi Brewery Company Ltd. from the Zhejiang K.K. Group.The …
Carlsberg Asia acquires brewery in China Read MoreThe conference takes place again this year at Beaufort Hotel on Singapore’s Sentosa Island on 13th and 14th March 2003, organised jointly by the Norwegian Business Association in Singapore, the …
Norway in Asia seminar in March 2003 Read MoreNorway in 2002 gained tremendous good will around the globe for its successful brokering of the peace process in Sri Lanka. For the Norwegian image in South East Asia, it …
Norway the Peace Maker Read MoreThe Danish-Thai Chamber of Commerce has had a prosperous year in terms of new members. The Chamber has welcomed 11 new corporate members and 8 new individual members. Some of …
DTCC: 19 New Dancham Members in 2002 Read MoreThe introduction of Lurpak Spreadable butter in South East Asia has significantly expanded Arla Foods markets in Singapore and Hong Kong. In Singapore, where the product was introduced five years …
Arla Food expanding with Lurpak Spreadable butter Read MoreThe Norwegian Businessmen Charity Fund of Thailand in November raised an amazing 1,700,000 Thai Baht in support of a project for HIV Children in Chiang Mai which the Norwegian business …
Norwegian businessmen support Thai AIDS orphans Read MoreThe Swedish consulate in Chiang Mai was permanently closed 26th December 2002. The date also marked the last day of the last Swedish Consul General in Chiang Mai, Khun Vorakit …
Swedish Consulate in Chiang Mai shut down Read MoreMaersk Group has appointed Mr. Michel Deleuran as the new managing director of Maersk Bangkok Branch. Mr. Deleuran has now started working in his new position, succeeding Mr. Peter S. …
New top management at Maersk Bangkok and Manila Read MoreThe Thai cabinet passed a resolution dated 11th September 2001 which has only become common knowledge in the last seven days. The resolution concerns new improvements to immigration procedures and …
New Immigration Rules Read MoreA clipping from a Thai newspaper had for weeks been lying on my desk. It was about a Thai monk who had some unusual ideas. For me, the most unusual …
Phra Baitika Walter – the monk from Denmark Read MoreThe Danish-Thai Chamber of Commerce invited all their members for FREE to their yearly Danish Christmas lunch, as it this year marked their 10 Years Anniversary. Around 80 cheerful members …
Celebrated Dancham X-mas and 10 Years Anniversary Read More
Ask any Italian and they will tell you, the Oriental Hotel – Bangkok’s most famous hotel – is in fact Italian. After all, it was the Italian architect S. Cardu, …
The Oriental Hotel in Bangkok in a Danish perspective Read MoreThe question was put forward by President of the Thai-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce Mr. Nils-Gunnar Hjellegjerde at the Thai-Norway Business Seminar held on Wednesday 16 October 2002 at the Hotel …
First Thai-Norway Business Seminar Read MoreOne hundred years ago – on October 14, 1902 – a young Danish soldier in the service of HM King Chulalongkorn prevented the whole Northern part of Thailand to fall …
Danish captain Hans Marqvard Jensen in Thai service honoured Read MoreMr. Ulrik Holt Sørensen took up his new position as Head of the Consular Section at the Royal Danish Embassy, Bangkok on September 1, 2002. He succeeds Tove Wihlborg Andersen, …
Ulrik Holt Sorensen new head of Danish Consular Affairs Read MoreWhen Jorgen lb Hedes arrived Thailand in 1990, Sun Paratech was only a plan about to be realized. The factory floor had been cast, but the design of the buildings …
Jorgen lb Hedes 70 Years Read MoreFormer electronics manufacturer in Denmark now serves Danish and Swedish companies with components from Singapore, the Philippines and other places in South East Asia.“They are cheaper and better,” says Mr. J๘rgen …
Electronic Components from Asia Cheaper and Better Read More
Last year, the number of Danish tourist traveling to Thailand dropped 1.49%. By the end of 2001, only 78.728 had come to visit the land of smiles. This year, however, …
Danish Thai tourists coming back Read More
The significant chapter in the history of one of the most prominent Danish construction and engineering companies, Christiani & Nielsen, is about to be written. The decision to formally close …
Christiani & Nielsen – a Danish legend lives on in Thailand Read More
Danish-Thai Chamber of Commerce was conceived by Ambassador Mogens Isaksen, Royal Danish Embassy; Peter Miller, Maersk Bangkok Branch, and Poul Weber, Berli Jucker Public Co., Ltd.. The idea was first …
Danish Thai Chamber of Commerce: 10 Years Anniversary Read MoreIntroduced in Thailand only two years ago, an increasing number of export shipments from Thailand are protected on their journey to their final destination all over the orld by a …
Unique Danish product keeps Thai exports dry Read MoreDenmark-based firm guns for top-three spot in brown-shoe sector within 5 years ECCO, a Danish footwear brand, opened its first local retail shop yesterday and announced it had plans for …
ECCO shoes enters local retail market Read MoreBang & Olufsen Thailand invites all Scandinavians in Thailand to be among the first to experience a new cool Bang & Olufsen product – the BeoSound 2 (a pocket friendly …
B&O new MP3 player introduced in Thailand Read MoreSweden is a leading IT-nation and a longtime user of computers and software in public as well as private education. And now comes the first virtual school for Swedish children, …
Sweden’s first virtual primary school opens Read More
Thailand and Denmark, two kingdoms located far apart and in different hemispheres of the world, have long had a close relationship, thanks to their much-revered dynasties. The two countries will …
The Special Ties of Friendship Between Thailand and Denmark Read More
By Henrik Petersen, Royal Danish Embassy Deadline is fast approaching for Thailand to make use of a Danish offer to finance additional supplies of Danish medical equipment to hospitals in …
Danish Mixed Credit for Public Health Ministry worth 2 billion Baht Read More
On March 18-19, 1999, His Royal Highness Prince Henrik, the Prince Consort of Denmark, visited Thailand. Prince Henrik is the protector for the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) in …
Prince Henrik Visits Thailand Read More
“The first Maersk shipment to Thailand was railway equipment from Japan. That was in 1948. A year later, Maersk Line set up an office and a regular route from Thailand …
Maersk Celebrates 50 Years in Thailand Read More