Posted on 08. Apr, 2011 in: News

SAS figures disappoint

Scandinavian flagship airline SAS carried 2.3m passengers in March, a growth of 4.9%, while its total passenger load factor rose from 66.5% to 68.1%, but analysts aren’t impressed. Jacob Petersen of Sydbank called…

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Posted on 08. Apr, 2011 in: News

C20 takes a dive

Copenhagen Stock Exchange’s trend-setting C20 index closed 0.7% down last night after a poor day for big hitters Vestas, Pandora and Novo Nordisk. Wind energy giant Vestas was particularly hard-hit after Swiss financial…

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Posted on 08. Apr, 2011 in: News

Bigger wage packet – longer life

The disparity in life expectancy for high and low-level income groups continues to widen. A survey by the 3F union shows that high earners have an average life expectancy of 81.4, compared to…

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Posted on 07. Apr, 2011 in: News

PM caught in commission’s net

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen is to be questioned about his role in the stateless Palestinians affair after Minister of Justice Lars Barfoed bowed to opposition demands today to widen the investigation into…

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Posted on 07. Apr, 2011 in: News

Iraq war led to ‘Arab Spring’ – or did it?

Former Foreign Minster and Liberal Party leader Uffe Ellemann Jensen has come out in support of Søren Pind’s assertion that the Iraq war created the spadework for the ‘Arab Spring’ move towards democracy…

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Posted on 07. Apr, 2011 in: News

US offers 5m dollars for JP terrorist

The US State Department has offered a 5 million dollar reward for information leading to the arrest of Ilyas Kashmiri, accused of planning terrorist attacks on Jyllands-Posten (JP), original publisher of the Mohammed…

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Posted on 07. Apr, 2011 in: News

Disgraced neuroscientist cries ‘conspiracy’

Disgraced Copenhagen University neuro-scientist Milena Penkowa, who has been accused of embezzlement, forgery, scientific fraud, and misappropriation of research grants, claims to be the victim of a conspiracy. Ms Penkowa said to tabloid…

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Posted on 07. Apr, 2011 in: News

Allies accuse government of ‘treason’

Two leading Danish People Party MP’s have accused the government of ‘treason’ for failing to challenge EU rulings that have forced Denmark to relax its strict immigration policy. In an op-ed piece in…

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Posted on 07. Apr, 2011 in: News

Iraq war motivated Arab Spring says Pind

There would have been no move towards democracy in North Africa without the Iraq war, according to Integration and Development Aid Minister Søren Pind who claims that young people in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya…

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Posted on 07. Apr, 2011 in: News

Danish F-16’s target Gaddafi’s home town

Danish fighter jets continued their bombardment of Muammar Gaddafi’s military units, Wednesday, dropping 16 bombs on ammunition dumps south of Gaddafi’s home town of Sirte. According to Danish Air Tactical Command, Danish F-16’s…

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7:59 – Danish News Today, is the most reliable source of daily Danish news in English for diplomats, the ex-pat community, the business sector, or anyone in Denmark or abroad seeking an insight into what’s happening in Denmark right now.

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