Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
The 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 MoreNormally chloramfenikol is used to treat various deceases in fish, but leftovers of the antibiotic seems to have found its way into a bag of pangasius fish with mushrooms and …
Medicine Leftovers Found in Danish Food from Vietnam Read MoreThe Vietnamese partner Bac Ninh Company makes handicrafts for foreign markets whereas the Danish partner company Prodex develops, manufactures and markets a range of garden products in Europe. The cooperation, …
Vietnamese Bamboo Fences To Enter Europe Read MoreClean drinking water is in short supply in the southern areas of Vietnam, as salt water from the ocean is mixing with ground water in the low region – rendering …
Danish Technology Creates Drinking Water In Vietnam Read MoreDanish daily Jyllands-Posten today questioned the way Danida spends the tax-payer’s money.“More than a hundred persons with relations to Danida, including spouses, girl/boyfriends and children spend the 10 – 13 May …
Danida Accused of Excessive Luxury Spending Read MoreJust one year ago Danish travel agency C&C Travel happily announced that they had brought their very own cruise ship. The Coco Explorer 2 with room for 300 passengers. The …
C&C Travel Sells Cruise Ship Read MoreSmall and Medium Enterprises and 15 business associations in Vietnam have been mobilized to work with HIV/AIDS in the workplace by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), which …
Vietnamese Enterprises Mobilized To Fight HIV/AIDS Read MoreOwned by Dane Klaus Krogh Christensen, the Storm P Bar & Restaurant, named after famous Danish cartoonist Robert Storm Petersen, is the only Danish restaurant in Vietnam. It is a …
Storm P, Ho Chi Minh’s Scandinavian Meeting Point Read MoreKrister Kling, a Swedish subject has been appointed Honorary Consul General. Kling, 49 years old, is married with five children and hails from Malmo in Sweden. He was previously Swedish …
Krister Kling Sweden’s Honorary Consul To Vietnam Read MoreVietnamese and Norwegian sculptors have presented 12 joint works to the central city of Da Nang. The works were made under a Norwegian project to help train highly skilled workers …
Norwegian Sculptors Help Train Vietnamese Artists Read More‘Tsatsiki, Mum and the Policeman’ will be the first film screened following the opening ceremony in Hanoi. The other films include Immediate Boarding, Elina, Emma and Daniel, Strong as a …
Swedish Film Fest in Vietnam Read MoreOla Ree, chief representative of Norwegian telecommunication firm Telenor in Vietnam said his company is monitoring the rapid development of Vietnam’s cellular phone market with special interest.European telecom firms hope …
Telenor Looks To Penetrate Vietnam Mobile Market Read MoreThe Norwegian Royal Family is to fund a floating cultural center in Cua Van fishing village in Quang Ninh province of Vietnam. This 420 sq. m center is a component …
Norway Funds Floating Cultural Center In Vietnam Read MoreAmbassador of Norway to Vietnam, Kjell Storlokken says Norway and Vietnam have a productive relationship since they established diplomatic relations in 1971. Development cooperation was started with fisheries, the maritime sector …
Norway, Vietnam Strengthen Relationship Read MoreEarlier this week Carlsberg’s chief executive Nils Smedegaard Andersen asked that his employees should be willing to take more risks and declared himself ready to take an economical beating in …
Carlsberg Consider Vietnam Expansion Read MoreEuropean retailers are uniting to face down the threat of new EU taxes being imposed on children’s shoes. The Children’s Shoe Coalition, includes IBEC’s Retail Ireland and has members from Belgium, …
New Coalition To Fight EU Duty On Children’s Shoes Read MoreThe Norwegian Mission Alliance (NMA) on May 16 revealed plans for continued financial support for the southern province of Tien Giang. The supported projects include 32,000 USD microfinance funds for …
Norwegian Agency Continues Support For Vietnamese Projects Read MoreOn May 17 the Aalborg Industries Vietnam opened its new plant in Haiphong, one of the main centres for the Vietnamese shipbuilding industry.What the joint venture hopes to achieve with …
Aalborg Industries Opens Vietnam Factory Read MoreWith technical assistance from the Danish-funded Organic Agriculture Project 17 farmers in the northern province of Vinh Phuc have conducted an experiment in organic farming.The Vietnamese farmers tried producing squash …
Vietnamese Farmers Go Organic With Danish Help Read MoreTwo companies – the Vietnamese DTT and the Danish Globeteam – have joined forces to create a strong team in the area of software development and services. DTT has experience within software …
Vietnam: The Next IT Outsourcing Capital? Read MoreNordCham’s office in Hanoi has moved to a new address:Suite 506-3, Metropole Centre56 Ly Thai To, Hanoi,Vietnam.Tel: (84 4) 9362420Fax: (84 4) 9362419Email: [email protected]
NordCham Hanoi Changes Address Read MoreThree companies – namely the Vietnamese Mediplantex and the two Danish companies Dansk Famaceutisk Industri and Eurocare Danmark – have joined forces to improve and increase the production of the …
Danish-Vietnam JV To Produce Malaria Treatment Read MoreThis week the political party Venstre – the party of Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen – will announce its suggestions for the future distribution of Danish financial aid to the …
Incumbent Danish Party Reportedly Wants End To Vietnam Aid Read MoreLate last week Hoang Thach Cement Co., under Vietnam Cement Corp., signed a contract with Danish contractor FL Smidth to install its third production line worth 52.9 million euro and …
FL Smidth Lands Big Contract in Vietnam Read MoreFrom May 10 to May 28 cinema fans in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are again to be charmed by the films of the 5th European Film Festival. Among …
Danish Film Shown at Vietnam’s European Film festival Read MoreFrom May 10 to May 28 cinema fans in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are again to be charmed by the films of the 5th European Film Festival. Among …
Finnish Film Shown at Vietnam’s European Film festival Read MoreWhen Vietnam experienced yet another outbreak of the so-called avian flu in 2005, few national aid donors were able to act as swiftly as Denmark. The Danish support was given …
Danish Bird Flu Support Praised in Vietnam Read MoreIn cooperation with the Dansk e-Learning Center, Denmark’s Ministry of Refugees, Immigration and Integration Affairs has developed and launched a comprehensive online Danish course at http://www.danskabc.dk.DanskABC is an online language …
Learning Danish Online Read MoreThe Swedish film will play in Hanoi May 15 with Vietnamese dubbing and on May 16 with the original Swedish text and English subtitles. In Ho Chi Minh City, it …
Swedish “Mamma, Papa, Barn” Movie In Vietnam Read MoreA delegation of international cultural experts were welcomed Thursday in Hanoi by Vietnamese Minister of Culture and Information Pham Quang Nghi. The delegation, led by Sweden’s Minister of Culture Bengt Goransson, …
Swedish-led Delegation Studies Vietnamese Culture Read MoreTogether with his two friends Henrik Ejderholm and Martin Håkansson, Johan Hammarstrom, is well on his way to becoming the first pilot with a severe hearing impairment to complete a …
Flying Around The World To Make It Listen Read MoreA large-scale effort to win over the Chinese market has been launched by Arla Foods, and according to the Scandinavian dairy company – which is owned by Danish and Swedish …
Arla Foods Prepares to Move Into Vietnam Read More