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A 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 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 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 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 MorePresident 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 More