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President Nguyen Minh Triet arrived back in Hanoi on the morning of June 11, 2008, after successfully concluding his official visit to Norway, Austria and Greece. In a statement released …
President Nguyen Minh Triet Back After Norway Visit Read MoreOla Ree, Head of Norway’s Telenor Representative Office in Vietnam, told TMCnet Editor Michelle Robart during the International Telecommunications Conference in Hanoi earlier this month, that the Vietnamese telecommunication market, mainly …
Telenor Doing Better Than Expected in Vietnam Read MoreCarlsberg has completed its acquisition of an extra 1.75 million shares from Ha Noi Beer Alcohol and Beverage Co (Habeco), raising its total stakes in the company to 15.77 per …
Danish Carlsberg Raises Habeco Stakes Read MoreA Swedish man was arrested in the United States over the weekend in connection with the seizure of marijuana plants valued at $3 million. Van Dat Nguyen, a naturalized Swedish …
A Swedish Citizen Originally From Vietnam Held In Major US Pot Bust Read MoreYour national team doesn’t have to be sponsored by Carlsberg to fail to qualify for the Euro 2008 championship, but it helps. Four of the countries whose shirts bear the …
Why Carlsberg In Asia Is Hoping It Will Be The Best Tournament Yet Read MoreDonors expressed their continued support to Vietnam amidst global and domestic macroeconomic turbulence at the one-day mid-year informal Consultative Group (CG) Meeting for Vietnam held yesterday in the northern province …
Vietnam’s Long Term Prospects Remain Strong: Mid-year CG Meeting Read MoreThe Norwegian Royal Family greeted the president of Vietnam yesterday June 5, 2008 during his state visit to the European country. King Harald, Queen Sonja and Crown Princess Mette-Marit received …
Norwegian’s Royals Vietnam Visit Read MoreThe Denmark-Vietnam Development and Cultural Exchange Foundation has launched a contest to seek talents of performance art – a new thing to Vietnamese audiences. The contest aims to support Vietnamese …
Contest Organised To Seek Performance Art Talents Read More“Vietnam, Past and Present” is an outdoor show that will be held from 3-7pm at the Kongens Nytorv Square in Copenhagen, organised by the Vietnam-Denmark Cultural Development and Exchange Foundation …
“Vietnam, Past and Present” In Denmark Read MoreThey’re catching local criticism for it, but officials at both telecoms firm Telenor and the Norwegian government – which controls Telenor – continued to do their best on Friday to …
Government, Telenor Woo Vietnam Despite Protests Read MoreOn the occasion of Sweden’s National Day today the Vietnam News interviewed ambassador to Vietnam Rolf Bergman. Sweden leads the world in e-government. How do you think Sweden can help …
Sweden Plans To bolster E-ties With Vietnam Read MoreThe Norwegian and Vietnamese flags flew side by side along Oslo’s main boulevard on Thursday, in honour of a state visit by the president of Vietnam. The visit featured plenty …
Vietnam’s President In Oslo Read MoreDinh Tran Vu An, an 11th grader at SA Dec High School in Dong Thap province, will go to Sweden to take part in the final of the Stockholm Junior …
Waste Water Filter Wins Ticket To Sweden Read MoreCivil service reform is needed as part of Vietnam’s on-going overall public administration reforms, thus contributing to improving efficiency in fighting corruption. This is one of the outcomes of the …
Transparency And The Important Role Of Media Recognised At The Anti-Corruption Dialogu Read MoreAP7, the Swedish state pension fund, said it will sell all its holdings in munitions companies that make cluster-bombs or nuclear weapons, joining a growing trend among European investment funds …
Cluster-bombs: Swedish AP7 Offload Stakes In Singapore Technologies Engineering Read MorePreben Hansen, The General Secretary of NGO Fontana, is a former alcoholic. Now he’s devoted to help addicts from Vietnam to stay clean the rest of their lives via a …
Danish businessman helps Vietnamese addicts Read MoreBy: Brodie GovanRecently confirmed as Asia’s number one brand ahead of Coca Cola and Sony, Finnish giants Nokia believe Asia holds the key to the global market. The year ahead …
Ringing in the Changes Read MoreHave you ever been searching for someone without finding them or wondering where they are? And would you like to get notified in case your car gets stolen and be …
A Finnish invention hits Asia: Keep track of your loved ones Read MoreA plan to provide more people with access to clean water in Lai Chau town, northern Lai Chau Province is set to wrap up next week. The entire VND141.3 billion …
Clean water project wraps up in Lai Chau Read MoreChief prosecutor Thomas Wennerstrand calls for three to four years’ imprisonment and deportation for two women, 46 and 50 years, in the great trial on smuggling from Vietnam to Sweden. …
Jail Demanded For Human Smuggling Read MoreA seminar entitled ‘Climate change and sustainable development in Vietnam‘ was held in Hanoi on May 25 to discuss climate change issues in Vietnam and the world at large. The …
Sweden Support Sustainable Development In Vietnam Read MoreSome call him an environmental ambassador, as he can often be seen on the crowded streets of Ha Noi riding his bicycle around as his daughter takes the public bus …
Finland’s Ambassador To Viet Nam Sets An Environmentally-friendly Example. Read MoreVietnamese State President Nguyen Minh Triet will pay state visits to Norway, Austria and Greece from June 2-10 to foster friendly and all-round cooperative relations between Vietnam and the three …
Vietnamese President To Visit Norway In June Read MoreFormer manager for Scanmach Asia, Arne Christensen, is buying Scanmach Asia and Scanmach Vietnam after Danish wood industry company Junge A/S has decided to bow out and concentrate on the …
Arne Christensen Buys Scanmach Asia and Scanmach Vietnam Read MoreThe deputy PM delivered the message while receiving a delegation of Danish entrepreneurs in Hanoi on May 20. He pointed out Vietnam’s advantages such as stable growth, particularly in the …
Vietnam Welcomes Danish Investors: Deputy PM Read MoreThree cities of the country will now be able to get hold of stylish high end ECCO shoes exclusively at TBS stores. The ECCO products will be available at four …
ECCO Footwear Open Four Shops In Vietnam Read MoreThe Central Vietnam Puppetry Theatre will take 16 traditional water puppetry items to Finland for the first time this autumn. At the same time, 11 Vietnamese puppeteers will be trained …
Vietnamese Water Puppetry To Go To Finland Read MoreOn the occasion of Norway’s National Day on Saturday, Viet Nam News spoke to Norwegian Ambassador Kjell Magne Storlokken. “As part of the UN Reform Programme, Norway pledged an additional …
Matchmaking Gives Norwegian Firms A ‘TIP’ Read MoreThe Danish government will provide 4.8 million Danish krones (US$1 million) in official development assistance for a project to enhance the capacity of the Vietnamese software industry. The aid …
Denmark To Give $1 Million To Vietnam’s Software Industry Read MoreTwo witnesses are under arrest suspected of perjury in the great trial about smuggling people from Vietnam to be held in Halmstads District Court. This is a man and a …
Suspected Of Perjury In Human Smuggling Trial In Sweden Read MoreChildren and young people in Vietnam’s two largest city, Hanio and Ho Chi Min City will now have the opportunity to to experience the film from Denmark and Finland, plus …
Danish, Swedish, And Finnish Films Take Part In EU Festival In Vietnam Read MoreA Vietnamese man in Norway lost around 35,000 dollars after he was led to believe that mixing the cash with a special liquid would double its value, Norwegian media report. …
Vietnamese Man Loses 35,000 Dollars In scam In Norway Read More“Immigration to Finland could be made more efficient if all immigration services were centralised and housed under one roof”, says Ole Norrback, an ambassador and politician who has studied how …
Call To Create A Supra-Immigration Service In Finland Read MoreUS authorities on Thursday arrested a 58-year-old man accused of sexually abusing young Asian boys, ending a two-day global manhunt sparked by a rare public appeal from Interpol. Wayne Nelson …
US Nabs Pedophile Suspect, Ending Global Manhunt Read MoreLindman will take over from Alan Wren who has served as interim CEO since Ajay Srinivasan left Prudential in June 2007 to join the Aditya Birla Group in Mumbai. Prudential …
Prudential Hires Swedish Arne Lindman As Asia fund CEO Read MoreA database of more than 520,000 images, some of unspeakable crimes: Interpol’s vast collection of photos of child sex abuse and its victims has played an important role in an …
Swedish Police Officer: Small Details Can End The Abuse Of A Child Read MoreMichael Akester, an advisor with Denmark’s government aid organization who helped Vietnam develop its coastal management strategy, say that the target of moving people out of the fisheries sector had …
Overfished Vietnam To Subsidize New Fishing Boats Read MoreINTERPOL is requesting the public’s assistance to identify this man, assumed to be a Scandinavian, pictured in a series of child sexual abuse images posted on the Internet. The man …
Help find this man in child sex abuse images Read MoreDenmark ’s BankInvest will become a strategic partner of Vietnam’s Hoa Phat Corp JSC when it purchases a 5.2 percent of stake of the local company. Under an agreement signed …
Danish BankInvest to Inject Capital in Hoa Phat Corporation Read MoreThe Prime Minister of Vietnam on April 24 gave the go-ahead to the Vietnam Association of Lawyers and northern Thai Nguyen province to receive aid projects funded by Danish and …
Danida Supports Vietnamese Lawyers’ Project Read MoreVietnamese and Swedish scientists gathered in Hanoi on April 23 to review the results of 30 years of their research cooperation and work out orientations for future work. At the …
Vietnam, Sweden To Further Research Cooperation Read MoreAn exhibition of unique work by Finnish world renowned architect and designer Alvar Aalto was opened 23. April 2008 in Hanoi. The show, titled ‘Alvar Aalto Houses – Timeless Expressions’, …
Alvar Aalto’s Works Displayed In Hanoi Read MoreCarlsberg will now be able to buy the shares which the Hanoi-based brewer, known as Habeco, wasn’t able to sell in an initial public offering on March 27. The …
Carlsberg May Finally Buy Shares In Vietnam Read MoreVietnamese writer Nguyen Ngoc Thuan has won the Swedish Peter Pan Award 2008 for best children’s literature for his story Vua nham mat vua mo cua so (Open the window …
Vietnamese Author Wins Swedish Children’s Literature Award Read MoreAlleged killer, Finn Paul Nicklos Bernhard Gagneur, who was picked up by the police in a park in HCMC, is already deported back to Finland. Interpol Vietnam Monday arrested a Finnish …
Globally Hunted Finnish Wife-killer Nabbed In Vietnam Read MoreThe Vietnamese government is building a national programme on climate change and hopes that donors will assist the country to cope with this disaster, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said …
PM Nguyen Tan Dung Thanks Denmark For Support On Climate Change Read MoreInternational nature fund WWF Greater Mekong and TRAFFIC have launched a print design contest in an effort to raise awareness on wildlife protection in Vietnam. The “A Matter of Attitude” contest …
WWF Launches Design Contest On Wildlife Protection Funded By DANIDA Read MoreA delegation from the Vietnamese National Assembly visited Denmark from April 14-16 to learn from one of it´s most important donor’s experiences in parliamentary operations and socio-economic policies.The NA delegation, …
Vietnam Learns From Denmark’s Parliament Read MoreThe Foreign Ministry of Vietnam held a political consultation with its Norwegian counterpart in Hanoi on April 17 to boost relations between the two countries. The event, co-chaired by Deputy …
Foreign Ministry Of Vietnam Holds Consultation With Norway Read MoreDanish brewery giant, Carlsberg, may be able to secure more than the 10 percent stake reserved for it in the initial public offering of state-owned Vietnamese brewer Habeco, the Danish …
Carlsberg May Secure More Than 10 Percent Share of Vietnamese Habeco Read More