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IFU, The Industrial Fund for Developing countries, recently signed one more agreement with a Danish company, to set up the production of alternative energy in southern Vietnam. In addition, the …
Huge Increase In Danish Investments In Vietnam Read MoreVietnamese man charged in large narco trail by the court in the Danish town Odense. The Plant that is on the agenda when the court in Odense in the …
A Danish And A Vietnamese Man Is Indicted For Hashish Nurseries And Hard Drugs Read MoreLundin Petroleum AB, Sweden‘s largest oil explorer, with new licenses in Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia plunged to a six-month low in Stockholm trading after second-quarter profit missed estimates and …
Lundin Petroleum Slumps To Six-Month Low Read MoreIf the oil price of oil stays where it is, Finns would no longer fly to Thailand or other Asian Countries for warmth during their holidays. People would not be …
Expensive Oil Could Stop Finns Going To Asia Read MoreAt least 12 Swedes is stuck in the flood in Vietnamese province of Lao Cai, but they are all doing relatively well. Renée Peyron, the embassy secretary at the …
More Than 10 Swedes Stuck In Vietnamese Floods Read MoreThe travel agency Exotissimo Travel has made a group on Facebook. The purpose is to make a forum, where Exotissimo travelers can connect and exchange experiences. There will also be …
Exotissimo Travel on Facebook Read MoreThe Danish International Development Agency launched their US$1.7 million Development of Ethnic Groups Community programme in Vietnam in 2006. The project takes sustainable farm methods to ethnic communities. Hoa Binh, …
Danish Project Brings Success to Vietnamese Farmers Read MoreNorway and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) will fund US$5.2 million to help Vietnam accelerate business administration reform, according to the Norwegian Embassy in Vietnam. Under an agreement …
Norway Funding Vietnam’s Business Registration Reform Read MoreIf you’re having children while studying abroad, you are still entitled to child allowance. The rule also applies to diplomats, state-employees and social security workers.This was decided by the High …
Swedish Expat Receives Retroactive Child Allowance after Verdict in High Court of Sweden Read MoreThe Overseas Vietnamese Association in Finland in co-ordination with the Vietnamese Embassy has held a 2008 summer camp in Tampere city for members of Vietnamese families living and studying in …
Summer Camp For Overseas Vietnamese Held In Finland Read MoreThe Head of the Development Cooperation Section at the Embassy of Sweden in Hanoi, Minister Lennart Nordström was thanked for his contributions over the past years to the development cooperation …
Medals Presented To Minister Lennart Nordström Read MoreDanske Bank is hosting a seminar about Vietnam at the Copenhagen Admiral Hotel on 7 October 2008. The purpose is to give an insight in the Vietnamese market to companies …
Danske Bank Hosts Seminar about Vietnam Read MoreThe Ha Long Shipbuilding Company launched a 53,000-tonne ship in northern Quang Ninh province on July 30. The ship, called AP-DRZIC-HL05, is one of a series of 53,000-tonne ships that …
Vietnam’s Ha Long Shipbuilding Launches New Danish Designed Vessel Read MoreSwedish Peder Gustafsson has a passion. He loves radio and is very good at it. So good, that he took care of the development of all programmes in the Swedish …
Local Radio In Asia For And With The People Read MoreThe global container shipping traffic is expected to grow by five to six percent while the traffic between Asia and Europe is expected to grow by eight percent. Maersk …
Maersk Line Will Deploy Larger Vessels Read MoreDanish-foreign couples, who have received incorrect or unclear guidance on family reunification, could get compensation for the economic losses they have suffered following the wrong advice on EU laws. …
Family Reunification: Rejected Couples May Get Compensation Read MoreThe Danish Immigration Service is trying to get an overview of the impact of an EU Court ruling this past Friday which might make it easier for families to seek reunification …
Danish Immigration Puts All Cases On Hold Read MoreA customer became acutely ill after eating a filet of fish, bought at a Rema 1000 store in Haugesund. The Norwegian Food Safety Authority found dangerous bacteria and toxins from …
Dangerous Bacteria Found In Frozen Fish From Vietnam Read MoreRepresentatives of over 20 Danish enterprises will arrive in Vietnam for seeking investment opportunities. Meetings and seminars on printing and packaging and production of materials that helps protect environment and …
Danish Firms Seek Business Cooperation With Local Enterprises Read MoreViet Nam Fan Company has transferred 25 per cent of its stocks to Denmark’s Bankinvest. VinaCapital Managing Director Andy Ho said that the company had signed six contracts with domestic …
Denmark’s Bankinvest Get New Capital Read MoreHalmstads District exculpatory judgments in the great huge trial about human smuggling from Vietnam are appealed to the court of appeal. The punishment for aggravated organisation of smuggling and human …
The Acquittal In The Trial On Human Smuggling May Create Precedence Read MoreA special opera written by Vietnamese bloggers is about to be produced, “Dream and Reality”. Blog Opera (/blogviet/blogopera/), sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the …
Dream And Reality: Opera & Blogging Converge Read MoreHanoi-Beer-Alcohol-Beverages Corp., a Vietnamese brewer partly owned by Carlsberg A/S, said pretax profit fell 9 percent in the first half because of a surge in the cost of malt used …
Habeco’s Profit Falls As Malt Import Costs Surge Read MoreMaersk Line, the world’s largest container shipping firm and a unit of Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk, said the global shipping industry is expected to grow 7 to …
Maersk Line: Asia More Shielded From A Downturn Read MoreConstruction has started on a Danish-funded project to upgrade the environmental conditions of a four-storey building for poor workers in northern mountainous Thai Nguyen province. The project is being carried …
Denmark Helps Upgrade Housing For Poor Workers Read MoreAbout 20 Danish businesses involved in printing and packing, and producing materials that help protect the environment and save energy, will arrive in Vietnam from 6-12 October to seek investment …
Danish Businesses Seek Opportunities In Vietnam Read More“Our cooperation with ECPAT means in particular that we inform and educate our staff in how to deal if the problem occurs. And our hotel contacts’ has a clause that …
Spies Join New Campaign Against Child Sex Tourism Read MoreAccording to Finland Ambassador in Vietnam, Pekka Hyvonen, Vietnam and Finland not only promote mutual relationship in economic field. Since 2000, the two sides have had cultural exchanges. During a …
Vietnam Water Puppetry To Be Performed In Finland Read MoreThe Prime Minister on July 2 gave nod to a Danish funded project. Namely a sewage and liquid waste treatment system in the capital of the northern mountainous province of …
The Government In Vietnam Approves Danish-funded Project Read MoreMr. Sigve Brekke takes up the position as head of Telenor Region Asia and joins Telenor’s Group Executive Management on September 1st 2008. Brekke succeeds Mr. Arve Johansen, who returns …
Sigve Brekke Appointed New Head Of Telenor Asia, Tore Johnsen New CEO Of DTAC Read MoreFinnish experts said rainbow trout’s at farms in Sa Pa grow even faster than those raised in Finland. However, Lam Dong is not only the only place in the country …
Finnish Rainbow Trout’s Grow Faster In Vietnam Read MoreA couple of dozen welders from Vietnam arrives in Österbotten in the autumn as an important part of local business projects. It is intended that the welders will be employed …
Vietnamese Welders Needed In Finland Read MoreThe Ministry for Foreign Affairs wants to enhance its consular services in order to be able to assist Finns travelling or residing abroad as efficiently as possible. If you have …
Client Inquiry About Finnish Consular Services Read MoreVietnamese and Swedish artists collaborate on the new opera being devised by bloggers from the two countries. Scripts are created from young people’s blog entries, which gives the art form …
Opera Based On Blogs From Vietnam And Sweden Read MoreIn Vietnam, performance art is gaining favor as a way to push boundaries while evading censorship. In the last couple of years, performance artists have tried to move out of …
The Arts Used To Get Around Censorship Read MoreThe latest red list was compiled by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and …
Vietnam: Nearly 900 Species Are Threatened With Extinction Read MoreDanish group BankInvest signed a partnership agreement with the International Consumer Products (ICP) Company in Ho Chi Minh City Friday. The asset managing group will invest US$9.6 million in the …
Danish Group Backs Local Firm In Vietnam Read MoreExecutive search firms in India now traverse the map to identify and hire expat talent from Vietnam, Malaysia, Finland, and other contries, to take the country into the next level …
Vietnam And Malysia Can Loose Expats To India Inc. Read MoreMaria Sten-Knudsen is one of the 80 out of the world’s most beautiful women in the 57. Miss Universe competition, which is held in this year in Vietnam. Definitely an …
Danish Miss Universe Candidate Already In Vietnam Read MoreMore than 250 blind people in 42 provinces and cities have received IT training courses under the four-year project “Training IT for the blind in Vietnam”. The project was implemented …
SIDA Help Blind People Get The Opportunity To Access IT Skills Read MoreCounsellor at the Swedish Embassy in Hanoi Molly Lien said that Vietnam has acknowledged challenges facing the country in administrative reform – one of important measures in stamping out corruption. …
Vietnam’s Anti-corruption On Right Track Read MoreThe four persons, three women and one man, who was identified as primarily responsible for widespread human trafficking from Vietnam to Sweden was acquitted today June 26, 2008 by Halmstad …
Four Vietnamese People Acquitted Of Human Trafficking In Sweden Read MoreVietnam and Sweden have agreed to push bilateral relations to a new level, building on close to 40 years of traditional friendship. At talks between Vietnamese Permanent Deputy Prime Minister …
Vietnam, Sweden Agree To Heighten Relations Read MoreThe signing ceremonies were in Stockholm on 16 June 2008 during the visit to Sweden by Vietnam‘s Permanent Deputy Prime Minister 15 – 18 June 2008. The Agreement on Readmission …
Two Agreements Signed Between Sweden And Vietnam Read MoreThe Danish UEFA football school coach Peter Rasmussen will head the coming course in football in Bangkok. Peter Rasmussen, 42, is one of the most recognized Internationals in his trade. …
Danish Super Coach Holding Football School In Bangkok Read MoreInternational donors last week appreciated the Vietnamese government’s measures to ensure macroeconomic stability and pledged to continue supporting the country. However, donors said the government should take more specific actions …
Danish Ambassador: Vietnam should act quickly on monetary matters Read MoreDeputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung has thanked the Finnish government for making Viet Nam one of its long-term partners. During talks with Finnish Minister of Economic Affairs Mauri Pekkarinen, …
Finns Get Thanks As Long-term Partners Read MoreForeign berry pickers in Finland have come from as far away as Vietnam this year. The foreigners, who traditionally come to Lapland to work in seasonal agricultural jobs, are coming …
Berry Pickers Come From As Far Away As Vietnam And Thailand Read MoreA new national competition sponsored by the Cultural Development and Exchange Fund (CDEF) of the Danish Embassy in Viet Nam is encouraging young performance artists. “We hope our competition can …
Danish Support: Performance Artists Get Chance To Shine At New Competition Read MoreDanish Deputy PM Bendt Bendtsen said according to the news agency VietNamNet Bridge that Denmark backed Vietnam to continue enjoying the EU’s Generalised System of Preferences in the 2009-2011 period. …
Denmark supports Vietnam’s cooperation with EU Read More