Nordic News, Business and Life in Asia
Nguyen Van Lang, chairman of the Dak Lak People’s Committee, had a working session with Darran Riber, a representative from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, to discuss a …
Denmark helps upgrade local TV broadcasting in Vietnam Read MoreFinnair launches faster and more frequent flights from Asia to Europe to serve the fast-growing business from the East. Finland’s newly extended Helsinki-Vantaa Airport has made Finnair to start …
Finnair’s new traveling campaign Read MoreNine of Sweden’s honorary consuls from Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam began a week long visit to Sweden on Sunday 12 September. One of the most important …
Honorary consuls from Asean visit Sweden Read MoreThe Viet Nam-Sweden Hospital and Viet Nam Fund for Children provided surgery rehabilitation for free of charge to 253 children between the ages of 3 to 16 years. Among …
Sweden supports remedial surgery in VN Read MoreThe Swedish Embassy and the Comvik International Viet Nam AB (CIV) announced in Hanoi that a “Vietnamese Day in Sweden” will be held in Stockholm on November 8, 2004. …
Vietnamese Day in Sweden to be held Read MoreSweden funded 210 billion VND under the project entitled “Sharing” for the Ministry of Planning and Investment to organize a training course on building a socio-economic development plan in the …
Sweden funds VN poverty reduction project Read MoreThe smuggling of cigarettes to Norway is showing a strong increase. The statistics indicate that most of them come from the Far East, namely Vietnam, the Philippines and Singapore. …
More smuggling of cigarettes to Norway Read MoreThe Ministry of Culture and Information of Vietnam co-operated with the British Council, the Goethe Institute, L’Espace, and embassies of Asian and European countries to organise an Asia-Europe Film Festival …
Denmark, Finland, Sweden participate in ASEM Film Festival Read MoreAge-old co-operation in fisheries Vietnam and Denmark has developed an age-old co-operation in fisheries, which was marked by a beginning in 1975 when Denmark provided Vietnam loans to build freezing …
Denmark injects money into Vietnam’s fisheries Read MoreFinnair announced that its business class cabins on MD-11 aircraft will be renewed. Finnair is the first European airline to renew its Business Class cabins in every aircraft belonging to …
Finnair to renew Business Class cabins in intercontinental fleet Read MoreFinnair has announced that from October onwards its passengers will be able to check-in in advance with only a text message sent from their mobile phones. The service, created by …
Finnair to introduce new text message check-in Read MoreThe Viet Nam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) recently signed in principle a contract to build ten container ships, each with a capacity of 5,000 tonnes, for the Danish company Clipper. …
Vinashin to build 10 ships for Clipper Read MoreMechanical Factory 45-1 in the southern province of Dong Nai, Vietnam, has exported 33 wind turbine electricity generation towers to New Zealand under a contract worth US$1.2 million signed with …
Vietnam exports wind turbine towers under Danish contract Read MoreCu Lao Cham marine reserve was recently established around Cham island off the central province of Quang Nam in Vietnam, with assistance from Denmark. The marine park is the second …
Vietnam’s 2nd marine park established with Danish support Read MoreThe Swedish government grants non-refundable aid of 48 million SEK (6.154 million USD) in July to a project on health care for poor people in Tay Nguyen, the Central Highlands …
Sweden aids health care projects in Viet Nam Read MoreThe Denmark-Vietnam Cultural Fund and the Sweden-Vietnam Cultural Fund together make an effort to reconstruct and preserve the Vietnamese cultural patrimony, which has been left unprotected from the climate in …
Denmark and Sweden help Vietnam preserve cultural legacy Read MoreThe fourth magazine in the ScandAsia family, the ScandAsia.fi, is now about to be established. The magazine has been a planned expansion ever since the start of the current three …
ScandAsia.fi for the Finnish in South East Asia soon to come! Read MoreDanish systems solutions company Intertec A/S was declared bankrupt on July 15, 2004 in Denmark. In this connection, reports the Danish-Thai Chamber of Commerce on its website, Mr. Dan Christensen, …
Intertec declared bankrupt Read MoreThe office of the Nodic Chamber of Commerce (NordCham), Hanoi Branch, has moved to a new location. From August 26 onwards, the new address is: Nodic Chamber of Commerce, Hanoi …
NordCham Hanoi moved Read MoreNorway’s King Harald and Queen Sonja kicks off the business part of their state visit to Singapore and Vietnam on 29 October by attending an Innovation Norway led plenary morning …
King Harald and Queen Sonja on state visits to Singapore and Vietnam Read MoreThe Swedish Committee for Solidarity with Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia supported the Agent Orange Victim’s Fund to develop three health projects to call for more international aids for the victims …
Sweden supports VN health care projects Read MoreDenmark funded US$ 6 million in an aquaculture project to introduce a new trade, otter clam breeding, to fishermen working in Quang Ninh province. Otter clam breeding was introduced …
Denmark aids otter clam farms in Vietnam Read MoreOriflame, a Swedish cosmetics company, reports a seven percent sales increase to EURO 7.9 million in Asia for the first half 2004 compared with the same period last year. Operations …
Seven percent up first half 2004 Read MoreVietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Comvik International Vietnam is organising “Vietnam day in Sweden” in Stockholm on August 11 to fulfil the commitment made by the Kinnevik group and …
Vietnam day in Sweden Read MoreDanish company VTI Vinderup Traindustri As will participate in the furniture and handicraft expo in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The event is organized by the Department of Trade in …
Danish company participate in VN furniture and handicraft expo Read MoreDanish ambassador to Viet Nam, Bjarne Sorensen, has been awarded the “For the Cause of Agricultural and Rural Development” medal for his contributions to Viet Nam’s agricultural sector. It …
Danish envoy gets farming honor Read MoreRevenues down but subscribers up for Millicom, the Swedish Stenbeck family controlled cellular phone holding company, in South East Asia first half 2004. “Revenues in Vietnam were impacted by the …
Less income but more subscribers in South East Asia Read MoreNorway´s healthy NOK 662 million trade surplus with Asean´s ten member nations the first half 2003 has turned to a NOK 607 million deficit för the same period this year. …
Trade surplus turns to deficit first half 2004 Read MoreDenmark will provide grant assistance of USD 1.1 million for research project related to arsenic pollution of groundwater in the Red River Delta in Vietnam. Arsenic contamination in groundwater …
Denmark supports arsenic contamination research project in Vietnam Read MoreVietnamese Ministry of Fisheries (MoF) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN) on July 16 launched a new Marine Turtle Conservation Action Plan to 2010, with an outline based on the …
Danish-funded findings kick-starts Vietnam’s new effort to save marine turtles Read MoreDenmark will provide a grant assistance of US$ 4.2 million for implementation of rural water supply and sanitation in Nghe An Province in Central of Vietnam. The project was approved …
Denmark supports improved rural water supply in Nghe An, Vietnam Read MoreThe Swedish Women’s Educational Association Internation, Singapore (SWEA Singapore) is hosting SWEA’s regional meeting for Asia on October 6-9 this year. The meeting will be followed by an optional one-week …
SWEA Singapore to host regional meeting in October Read MoreWith a target of helping Vietnam develop economy and fight against poverty, the Danish International Development Agency (Danida) set up the Private Sector Development (PSD) programme in Vietnam in late …
Danida’s programme helps private enterprises in Vietnam Read MoreActivities in Vietnam have helped experts from Danida understand that some water supply and sanitation works in rural areas do not operate after being built or were used improperly, which …
Danida helps improve Vietnam’s rural water supply, sanitation Read MoreComvik International Vietnam AB has made USD 47 million too much in revenues since year 2000 argues a Vietnamese government report, reveals the Swedish news portal Dagens Ps. The Swedish …
Too much money made Read MoreSon Tay High School in Son Tay, Vietnam seeks funding to continue the exchange program between the school and SAMgymnasiet in Jarfalla, Sweden. Mats Brolin, the project leader and …
School exchange programs seeks funding Read MoreNorway will focus on the following six industry sectors during the state visit by King Harald to Vietnam, scheduled to take place 1 to 5 November 2004: – Oil and …
State Visit to focus on six industry sectors Read MoreOn the 4th of June Mr. Jan Fabricius of Fabricius A/S and Mr. Mogens Poulsen of the Danish Embassy along with some 75 invited guests attended the opening of the …
Sea Saigon Shipping in new premises Read MoreSars put its mark on Scandinavian as well as total visitor statistics to Vietnam 2003. Overall travel to Vietnam fell 7.4 percent 2003 while the number of Scandinavian visitors dropped …
Small but stable Scandinavian stream of visitors Read MoreDANIDA along with the Danish Flooding Agency A/S help Vietnam to provide new technology for flood protection barrier instead of using sandbags. In preventing yearly flood disasters, Vietnam will …
DANIDA supports flood protection in VN Read MoreSweden has granted a dissident monk from Vietnam asylum. The 50-year old Buddhist monk Thich Tri Luc, who is also known as Pham Van Tuong, left Ho Chi Minh City …
Monk gets asylum in Sweden Read MoreSix Swedish parliamentarians are visiting Vietnam during the summer break. They go there to participate in various activities within a cooperation project which aims to support the democratic process in …
Parliamentarians visit during summer break Read MoreSweden and Switzerland has given Vietnam $3.2 million over three years to help the Vietnamese enterprises develop and expand new export markets. Vietnam News reported that the state officials …
Sweden supports Vietnam’s expansion of export Read MoreCarl-Henric Svanberg, president and chief executive of Ericsson, points out that Sony-Ericsson Mobile Communications undergoes sales increase after focusing on product designs and user friendly and trendy features. He is …
Sony-Ericsson grows in Asia Pacific Read MoreCountries, particularly Sweden, pay great attention to low-end woodwork products made by ASEAN developing countries. Although, in recent years, export turnover of Vietnam’s woodwork products has increased sharply, from US$220 …
IKEA supports Vietnamese woodwork makers Read MoreVietnam’s Ministry of Fisheries on June 12 awarded Per Gullik Starvnum, Norwegian Ambassador to Vietnam, the “For the Cause of Fisheries Industry’s Development” medal, Viet Nam News reported. Four other …
Norway honoured for supporting Vietnam’s fishery development Read MoreDanish Government aided the Vietnamese aquaculture particularly the fisheries industry through various multimillion projects for more than two decades. Danish Ambassador Bjarne Henneberg Sorensen has received a medal for “Vietnam …
Danish Government supports fisheries industry in Vietnam Read MoreThe Norwegian paint manufacturer, Jotun is a truly global business. Still, each subsidiary operates very much like a local company. This way, Jotun’s international way of operating business is being …
Jotun’s big family of colourful penguins expanding further Read MoreMHE-Demag, a Danish-German provider of lifting and handling solutions, launched its Vietnam manufacturing facility at the Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park in May 2004, with an aim to offer state-of-the-art technology …
Jebsen & Jessen’s JV launches manufacturing facility in Vietnam Read MoreThe Chairman of the Dak Lak People’s Committee Nguyen Van Lang and the Ambassador of the Royal Danish Embassy to Vietnam Bjarne Henneberg Sorensen signed on 13 June the Government …
DANIDA Supports PAR Process in Dak Lak Read More