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Danish firm Brainstornes International has signed a US$35 million deal in Vietnam’s central Thau Thien Hue province. The Danish group will join hands with Ho Chi Minh City’s Gia Minh …
Danish Firm To Build Beach Resort In Vietnam Read MoreElectrowatt-Ekono, a subsidiary of the Finnish engineering and consulting company Jaakko Poyry Group Oy has announced they have been awarded a contract extention with Petro Vietnam. The contract includes project …
Finland’s Jaakko Poyry Group Wins Contract Extention In Vietnam Read MoreAs March got underway, the International Garment Training Center (IGTC) opened in Ho Chi Minh City with the goal of helping the Vietnamese compete in the worldwide textile industry. As …
Danish Expertise To Assist Vietnamese Upgrade Textile Industry Read MoreThe Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) funded a 2.1 million USD project called Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction from Industry in Asia and the Pacific (GERIAP), the principles of which …
Hanoi Workshop Plans Cleaner Production Methods With Swedish Help Read MorePromotion seminar reveals Vietnam is the place for Danes to invest but the still-developing country provides many challenges including incomplete infrastructure and a shortage of skilled workers.Participants at a Vietnam-Denmark …
Vietnam Investment Future Bright Despite Challenges Read MoreThey’re on a mission to monitor. On March 4th, the Danish government is sending a delegation of state auditors to take a closer look at the use of Danish public …
Denmark Takes A Closer Look At Vietnam Aid Spend Read MoreSweden is to invest US$ 7 million between now and the year 2010 to help preserve traditional music under a program developed to stregthen ties between the two countries.Under the …
Sweden Helps Preserve Vietnamese Traditional Music Read MoreThe Embassy of Denmark and the Danish Federation of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and the Confederation of Danish Industries to organize a business delegation to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh …
Danish Business Delegation Heads For Vietnam Read MoreDanish companies within the marine industry are to join the international VIETSHIP 2006 exhibition February 21-24 in Hanoi. The participation of Danish marine companies was facilitated by the Danish Marine …
Twenty Danish Companies Line Up For Vietship 2006 Read MoreLeading Norwegian companies within the maritime industry, services and equipment suppliers and manufacturers, have joined Vietship February 21-24 in Hanoi. In addition to the exhibition, there will be a seminar …
Norwegian Maritime Companies Join VietShip 2006 Read MoreA joint venture sourcing furniture for export and joint production of furniture between Notio Direct A/S (Denmark) and TCT Company Limited (Vietnam) has received official approval. The production of furniture …
Danish-Vietnamese Furniture JV Approved Read MoreSwedish citizen Krister Kling has formally presented his credentials – a diploma signed by His Majesty the King of Sweden – appointing him Honorary Consul General of Sweden in Ho …
Honorary Swedish Consul Exchanges Credentials With Vietnam Read MoreThe meeting will discuss three major thematic areas: the use of natural resources and rural livelihood protection in the uplands; the environmental implications of increasing trade; and the questions attached …
Swedish Environmental Secretariat For Asia Meet In Hanoi Read MoreFinland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs has told embassy staff to keep their guard up after the attack on the Danish embassy in Indonesia. Finland shares buildings with other Nordic countries …
Finland Tells Jakarta Embassy Staff To Be Cautious Read MoreDanish-owned Pedershaab A/S, who create machines for the production of concrete pipes for draining and sewers, are to move their headquarters in Asia from Thailand to Vietnam. The chief representative Tri …
Denmark’s Pedershaab Relocates to Vietnam from Thailand Read MoreIn the period until the Annual General Meeting on March 30, 2006, EAC will complete two share buyback programmes for a total value of DKK 1.1bn. The first programme will …
EAC To Initiate DKK 1.1bn Share Buyback Read MoreJan Olov Agrell, Development Co-operation Minister of the Embassy of Sweden in Hanoi has been conferred the Friendship Medal from Government inspector Quach Le Thanh, on behalf of the Vietnamese …
Swedish Envoy Honored For Services To Vietnam Read MoreThe first stop on Prince Joachim’s humanitarian trip to Southeast Asia will be in Cambodia, where he is to visit an orphanage for children with HIV in the capital of …
Prince Joachim to Visit Cambodia and Vietnam Read MoreUnder the bold headline “Building Vietnam with Danish Technologies”, the Danish Embassy in Hanoi and DI (the Confederation of Danish Industries) are offering companies from Denmark to take part in …
Danish Deputy Prime Minister To Head Delegation Seeking Ties With Vietnam Read MoreThe Aquaculture Research Institute of Vietnam plans to import more salmon eggs from Finland in order to expand a pilot salmon and sturgeon farming program in the northern mountains of …
Vietnam Plans to Import More Finnish Salmon Eggs Read MoreSAS says ongoing contract negotiations with unions are not progressing toward the cost-saving goals it needs, according to a recent edition of the company’s internal newsletter. As a result, it …
SAS to Downsize Unprofitable Scandinavian Units Read MoreAccording to the calculations made by the polling stations themselves, the number of Finns who came to vote at the Finnish embassies, consulates and other polling facilities abroad was well …
More Than 29,000 Finns Voted Abroad in the First Round of Presidential Elections Read MoreDanish ambassador to Vietnam Peter Lysholt Hansen and Cao Viet Sinh, Vietnam’s Vice Minister for Planning and Investment, signed a government agreement on the second phase of the fisheries sector …
Denmark Granted USD 39 Million to Support Vietnam’s Fisheries Sector Read MoreDanish Ambassador to Vietnam Peter Lysholt Hansen and Vietnam’s Vice Minister of Education and Training, Mr. Tran Van Nhung signed a supporting agreement on 30 December 2005. This project is …
Denmark Supports Vietnam’s Arts Education Read MoreThe Danish Yggdrasil ballet troupe dancers will perform in Hanoi on January 10 and 11 and in Ho Chi Minh City on January 13. This program “Butterflies”, which incorporates both …
Danish Ballet Dancers to Perform in Vietnam Read MoreDanish and Vietnamese Governments jointly conducted a seminar on launching a Business Sector Support Program (BSSP) in Da Lat city, Lam Dong province, in the Central Highlands on December 29, …
Business Support Program Launched in Vietnam Read MoreThe National Danish Performance Team will do performances and workshops in major cities in Vietnam in this coming February. This tour aims to promote awareness of Danish gymnastics tradition abroad …
Denmark’s Gymnastic Tour in Vietnam Read MoreSweden’s Minister for Justice Thomas Bodström will pay a first official visit to Vietnam on 7-11 January. In Hanoi, Thomas Bodström is scheduled to talk with his Vietnamese colleague on …
Sweden’s Minister for Justice to Visit Vietnam and Cambodia Read MoreDanish Ambassador to Thailand H.E. Ulrik Helweg-Larsen signed an agreement to support Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, based in Bangkok. Danish support aims to demonstrate how to develop community resilience to …
Denmark Granted DKK 9 Million for Asian Disaster Preparedness Read MoreThe Danish Government has contracted to grant US$6.5 million to help Vietnam in the third phase of its legal and judicial reform project. The Government of Sweden also donates about …
Denmark and Sweden Grant for Vietnam’s Judicial Reform Project Read MoreThe Danish Embassy in Vietnam and the Kim Dong Publishing House signed the agreement on December 29, 2005 to carry out a five-year project that aims at helping Vietnamese children …
Danish-funded Project for Vietnamese Children Read MoreDenmark pledge DKK 2 million to support Vietnam’s renewed cultural cooperation program. A five years program aims to develop and promote Vietnam’s regional and ethnic culture. The fund will …
Danish Support Vietnam’s Regional and Ethnic Sustainability Read MoreOver the next three years, the Embassy of Denmark will support the Vietnam Young Entrepreneurs’ Organization (VYEO) to become a leading Business Membership Organization. The project of a grant value …
Denmark to Grant Vietnam’s Young Enterpreneurs Read MoreThere is a new co-operation between Danish L&S Signal and Vietnamese My Anh in the flag manufacture. The inaugurated celebration of new workshop has been opened at Danish-Vietnamese flag producing …
New Danish-Vietnamese Flag Manufacture Co-operation Read MoreDANIDA finance the project between Vietnam and China on Geological surveys in the Yinggehai, Song Hong basin.The project aims at creating a better geological understanding of the basin and its …
Denmark Supports Sino-Vietnamese Cooperation on Petroleum Search in Disputed Area Read MoreThe Embassy of Denmark in Vietnam has approved the project with a goal to improve the policy environment to struggle Vietnamese domestic violence. As a result of the Domestic violence …
Denmark Supports Effort to Combat Vietnamese Domestic Violence Read MoreIn Finland, the round in the Presidential Election is held on 15 January 2006 and the possible second round on 29 January 2006. Meanwhile, Finnish Expatriates can vote for their …
Advance Voting Abroad of Finnish Presidential Elections 2006 Read More“Denmark is internationally ahead offering digital services and digital signatures, and now Danes abroad can also benefit from this. No matter where in the world Danes are living, they will …
Digital Signature Becomes Global Read MoreOn behalf of Danida (Denmark’s state-run aid organisation), Ambassador Peter Lystholt Hansen attended the signing ceremony in Hanoi on Friday December 16, where he put his signature to the funding …
Danida will Fund State Audit of Vietnam Read MoreSouthern metropolitan HCMC is going ahead with housing co-operative design for low-income earners following the success of Swedish housing co-ops which based on an international co-op model. This housing project …
Vietnam Follows Swedish Housing Co-ops Model Read MoreThe Danish ambassador to Vietnam, Peter Lysholt Hansen, was very pleased that it has been possible to turn a project into reality through diligence, hard work and excellent cooperation with …
Danish Funded Waste Water Plant Opened in Vietnam Read MoreOn 16 December 2005, an agreement to support a “Sustainable Mekong” program was signed between SIDA and SEI. The agreement, a three-year collaboration between SENSA and SEI, aims to help …
SENSA Supports “Sustainable Mekong” Read MoreDanish ambassador Peter Lysholt Hansen joined a consultative group (CG) meeting for Vietnam on 6-7 December, in Hanoi. The meeting focused on the directions, tasks and solutions for a successful …
Denmark Pledge USD 67 Million for Vietnam’s Socio-Economic Development Read MoreThe Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) will give 4.5 million USD to a project on developing Viet Nam’s small and minor enterprises. The three years project aims to encourage the …
Sweden Gives USD 4.5 Million to Vietnam SME Development Read MoreDanish government has provided nearly 4 billion VND to support a Denmark-funded speech therapy project. The project aims to help Vietnamese children who have undergone operations for cleft palates and …
Denmark’s Speech Therapy Project for Vietnamese Kids Read MoreSave the Children Sweden, Sweden’s non-governmental organization, in collaboration with Vietnam’s the Institute of Press and Information Dissesmination launched a “Press and children” website at www.cmvn.org and www.childrenandmediavn.org on 17 …
Sweden Support Vietnam’s On-line Forum for Children Read MoreNorwegian ambassador to Vietnam HE Mr. Kjell Storløkken together with ambassadors from Canadian, New Zealand, and Switzerland pledged to continue a support on Vietnam’s poverty reduction efforts and will strengthen …
Norway Pledge to Improve Vietnam’s Poverty Read MoreThe Swedish medical equipment developer Elekta has signed a contract to deliver a Leksell Gamma Knife to the largest regional hospital in Vietnam, Cho Ray hospital in Ho Chi Minh …
Elekta gets VN order for Gamma Knife Read MoreKjaer Group is official Nissan distributor for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia and wants to develop the markets in partnership with local car dealers and workshops. The aim of the cooperation …
Danish Nissan Distributor Cooperates With Vietnamese Auto Firms Read MoreNorway’s new Ambassador to Vietnam H.E. Mr. Kjell Storløkken went on a field trip to visit the Central Highland provinces of Vietnam from 4 – 6 November together with his …
Ambassdor Storløkken on Central Highlands Field Trip Read More