Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
The Royal Embassy of Norway in Hanoi has collaborated with Vietnamese theatres and cultural institutes to organize Ibsen Festival 2006 in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City during October – …
Ibsen Festival 2006 in Vietnam Read MoreThe Swedish-led veto of five-year duties may force proponents of protection to accept an alternative plan that would impose anti-dumping duties on shoe shipments that exceed quotas.The rejection leaves the …
Sweden Vetoes Five-Year Tariffs On Vietnamese Shoes Read MoreThe Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin will send two delegates to an international conference on Agent Orange and Dioxins in Oslo this month.The latest studies on the effects …
Vietnam To Attend Agent Orange Conference In Norway Read MoreThe Finnish Government will provide Vietnam with official development assistance (ODA) to help upgrade three railway bridges on the Ha Noi-Hai Phong route, the Vietnam Railway Corporation said on July …
Finland Upgrade Vietnam’s Railway Read MoreThe Vietnam Ship Building Industry Corporation (Vinashin) is building three ferries with non-refundable grant from Denmark for river traffic in the Mekong Delta.The three new ferries are due to begin …
More Danish Fund To Ferry Project in Mekong Delta Read MoreDenmark-based Dalhoff Larsen & Horneman A/S (DLH) and Indochina Wood Ltd have formed a joint venture to provide lumber and finished wooden products to Vietnam.The company will begin operations soon …
Danish DLH To Provide Vietnam Wooden Products Read MoreThe Nordic Investment Bank, NIB, signed a general loan proggramme worths USD 30 million with Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance. The loan will be used for Vietnam’s National Coal-Mineral Industries Group. …
NIB Grants Loan To Vietnam Read MoreNGO Fontana is a Danish organisation committed to prevent and treat harm caused by chemical dependencies – alcohol and drug abuse – in Denmark and Vietnam.The NGO is concerned with …
Fighting Alcohol And Drug Abuse In Vietnam Read MoreThe Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) proposes a tender for assistance to the Government of Vietnam for preparation of a Project document for credit financing of the Vietnam land …
Sida Announces Land Administration Project Tender in Vietnam Read MoreThe typical Vietnamese worker is young, relatively low skilled and possesses little work experience. To get these workers attention and convince them to act if their situation is unacceptable is …
Putting An Effort Into Interesting Union Training Read More“Carl Bro entered the Vietnamese market many years ago and the growth and development we are seeing today is the result of many years of experience,” Branch director Bent Rahbek …
Persistence Pays Of For Carl Bro Read MoreThe project starting in July 2006 will address gender inequality for women in the private sector – both for businesswomen and female workers in Vietnam.On one hand the goal is …
Lending A Helping Hand To Vietnamese Business-women Read MoreThe Vietnam Ship Building Industry Corporation (Vinashin) is building three passenger ferry boats as part of the Danish non-refundable aid programme to improve waterway traffic in the Mekong River Delta, …
Danes fund ferry boats for Mekong River Read MoreAs reported earlier on ScandAsia the Danish brewery company Carlsberg is already fighting an uphill battle in Malaysia, where strong competitors are stealing valuable market shares. And it doesn’t looking …
Thai Rival Ready To Pounce Upon Carlsberg Read MoreUnder the agreement, Vietnam will receive technical assistance through the Vietnam Business Registration Reform-Implementation Planning and Mobilisation plan.Backed by a budget of US$626,000, the plan will be executed by the …
Norway To Help Put Vietnam’s Businesses Into System Read MoreAs the world-famous Roskilde Festival took place in Denmark this past weekend, several of Vietnam’s top performers were present under the Vietnamese name “Vong Nguyet” or in English “Wishing upon …
Success For Vietnamese Music In Denmark Read MoreThe Norwegian writer and dramatist Ibsen was first introduced in Vietnam in the early 1970s with translations of his well-known plays such as A Doll’s House, Brand, Peer Gynt, Ghosts …
Learning Vietnam About Ibsen Read MoreScandAsia has joined a research project to help improve the experience of being an expatriate. The research project is set up by Saira Jhutty, a PhD Candidate at Alliant International …
Help Improve the Experience of Being an Expatriate Read MoreAfter weeks of speculation regarding Denmark’s future aid to Vietnam, the Danish government has now sent a clear signal about their future intensions in the economically booming country. Vietnam is …
Denmark to Cut Vietnam Aid in Four Years Read MoreEricsson announced the signing of the contract with Viettel, the fastest growing mobile network operator in Vietnam in a press release on July 5th.Under the contract, Ericsson will provide Viettel …
Ericsson To Expand Viettel’s GSM Network In Vietnam Read MoreTrying to stop the explosive growth in imports of leather shoes from Vietnam and Chine the EU-commission propose to limit the numbers of shoes entering the union. The solutions is …
EU Maintains Tax On Vietnamese Shoes Read MoreHeadquartered from Faaborg, where 14 people are employed, the Viking Rubber Company A/S, produces working clothes at their factories in Poland and Vietnam – and a booming order book is now …
Booming Viking Sales Create Jobs In Vietnam Read MoreSo far nine international theatre-troupes have registered to participate in the festival. The international contributions range from an Indian troupe performing the drama: “The Rival,” to their Swedish counterparts, who …
Swedish “Doctor Jeckle and Mr. Hyde” On Stage In Vietnam Read MoreVietnam’s new ambassador to Sweden, Mr. Trinh Quang Thanh, has presented his credentials to HM King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. Trinh Quang Thanh, who is born 1949, has served …
Hanoi Sends New Envoy To Stockholm Read MoreThe Swedish government has appointed Deputy Director-General Mr. Rolf Bergman to be the new ambassador for Sweden in Hanoi, Vietnam. Rolf Bergman is currently head of the administrative department at …
Rolf Bergman To Head Hanoi Mission Read MoreThe meeting recently held in Hanoi was the last of its kind being held under the Project – “Assistance to the 20 Year Review of Doi Moi in Vietnam” using …
Vietnam Needs To Promote Democracy Read More“Where will Vietnam be in five years?” that was the question up for debate on a recent meeting between donor-countries discussing Vietnam’s development plan for 2006 – 2010.During the meeting …
Danish Ambassador Foresees Brighter Future For Vietnamese Citizens Read MoreBy Anna Pia Hudtloff. The kitchen in Lars Mikkel Johannessen’s house is filled with paintings and so is the rest of the house. A huge painting with lots of happy …
Danish Con-Fusion Creates Food In Vietnam Read MoreDenmark’s FLSmidth has signed a contract, worth US$71.5 million, with Vietnam National Cement Trading Company for a 3,300 ton per day cement clinker production line at the Hoang Thach cement …
Danish FLSmidth Wins Contract in Vietnam Read MoreDenmark’s largest brewery group, Carlsberg, has dropped out of the race to buy the remaining Asian assets of their competitor, Foster’s Group. Carlsberg announced this decision on Friday, and later …
Carlsberg Drops Out of Race to Buy Foster’s Assets Read MoreLet the lobbying begin. In light of recent suggestions from members of the Danish governing party Venstre to phase out the economically booming Vietnam from the list of Denmark’s aid …
Ambassador Praises Own Efforts in Vietnam Read MoreThe four Nordic Ambassador to Vitenam; Ambassador of Denmark Peter Lysholt Hansen, Ambassador of Sweden Anna Lindstedt, Ambassador of Finland Kari Alanko, and Ambassador of Norway Kjell Storlokken, have been …
Nordic Share Experiences In Fighting Corruption Read MoreDanish Embassy in Vietnam has provided a grant of DKK 486.000 to Vietnamese Department for Social Affairs, a specialist support unit under the Committee for Social Affairs of the National …
Danida Grants Vietnam To Stop Gender Based Violent Read MoreOn June 19, as an agreement was clinched in the province between representatives of the local authorities and Norwegian Ambassador to Vietnam Kjell Storlokken on June 19.In order to aid …
Norway Supports Administrative Reform in Northern Vietnam Read MoreNorway has pledged to help Vietnam on enhancing its testing capacity and certification processes for textile products, improve quality of electrical products in correlation with European standards, and also upgrade …
Norway Helps Vietnam To Enhance Products Read MoreWhen this year’s Roskilde Festival kicks off on June 29, nearly 70,000 people will gather for four days to enjoy what has slowly become one of Europe’s most famous, annual, …
Vietnamese Musicians to Play at Roskilde Festival Read MoreThe newly started Cultural Development and Exchange Fund (CDEF) Board held its first board meeting on May 24 and was pleased to bestow grants on a total of four applicants.CDEF …
Danish Founding Mixes Danish and Vietnamese Music Read MoreThe Danida project ‘Enhancing Community Resilience to Natural Disasters in Southeast Asia’ on Cambodia and Vietnam is contributed to increased preparedness capacity of communities and local government authorities to coastal …
Danida Enhances Community To Cope Natural Disasters Read MoreThe first phase of the Vietnam-Sweden Cooperation Program on Strengthening the Capacity for Land and Environmental Management (SEMLA) in Vietnam which began in 2004 has been finished and the preparation …
Swedish-assisted Environmental Program Continues Read MoreAccording to Danish daily Berlingske Tidende founder and major shareholder, Bøje Bendtzen, under suspicion for having Scancom pay bills for nonexistent serviced to companies related to himself, thus putting the …
Scancom Under Investigation for Fraud Read MoreThe Danish grant of US$10.4 million is for a project on Pollution Control in Densely Populated Areas (PCDA) in four provinces of Vietnam; Ha Nam, Thai Binh, Quang Nam and …
Denmark Grants Vietnam’s Pollution Project Read MoreKONE from Finland and Vietnamese Thien Nam join hand together in escalator and elevator business in Vietnam and plan to deepen their cooperation in the future as the Vietnamese market …
Finland’s KONE Appoints Vietnamese Distributor Read MoreSweden’s role to help Vietnam in EUSince Sweden joined the EU, Sweden can have a direct influence on European politics and Swedish views are well known and respected. Sweden is …
Sweden – Vietnam Bilateral Ties Read MoreThe Danish-funded project on Vietnamese ethnic minority development was signed by the Agricultural Development Denmark – Asia organization (ADDA) and the Vietnam Farmers’ Union (VNFU) on June 1 in Hanoi.This …
Denmark Grants Vietnam For Ethnic Minority Development Read MoreVietnamese businesses in textile, footwear, crafts and interior decoration sector can get advantage from an entrepreneurs program under coordination of Federation of Norwegian Commercial and Service Enterprises, Swedish Chamber of …
Vietnamese Exporters Learn From North European Read MoreThe Danish Hempel Group, a global producer of protective coatings for marine and industrial applications, officially inaugurated its new paint production plant in the Vietnamese-Singapore Industrial Park in Binh Duong …
Danish Hempel Establishes Factory In Vietnam Read MoreDanish investment in VietnamThe Danish Ambassador to Vietnam, Peter Lysholt Hansen, says that even if Danish investments in Vietnam are modest, there is a steadily growing and rather strong interest …
Denmark – Vietnam Bilateral Ties Closer Read MoreDenmark and other five countries including Ireland, Belgium, England, France, and Holland oppose the anti-dumping tariff on Vietnamese leather shoes which is increased on June 02 by the European Commission …
Denmark Opposes EU Sanction On Vietnamese Shoes Read MoreThe Ambassador if Sweden, Anna Lindstedt, will host a reception at the Hanoi Daewoo Hotel on the National Day of Sweden June 6.The reception will start with the performance of …
Swedish National Day Celebration in Hanoi With Piano Concert Read MoreYesterday Danish daily Jyllands-Posten ran a story explaining how Danida-councillors had brought spouses and children to a seminar on a five-star hotel in Vietnam on the Danish tax-payers expense. The …
Minister: No Families On Danida Seminars Read More