38 people were arrested Thursday morning in a dawn narcotics police raid on the Sandholm asylum centre in North Zealand. A police spokesman said the crackdown came in response to reports of widescale…

As Socialist People’s Party leader, Villy Søvndal has constantly lobbied for the closure of the Guantanamo prison camp, but as Foreign Minister he’s refused an American request to accept prisoners released from the…

The Socialist People’s Party’s (SPP) leadership battle may appear polite and courteous on the surface but the two candidates, Astrid Krag and Anette Vilhelmsen, have reportedly ‘gone negative’ behind the scenes. A number…

Imdat Yilmaz, head of the Copenhagen-based Kurdish ROJ TV, has expressed his surprise that the channel’s licence to transmit has been suspended for two months. Although the Radio and TV Commission cleared ROJ…

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt donated a Danish flag, found in the rubble of the World Trade Centre on 9/11, to the memorial museum at the site in New York, Wednesday. In a moving…

Everybody will soon be able to see for themselves exactly how much international multinationals such as McDonalds and Statoil, as well as big name Danish companies such as A.P. Moeller-Maersk and LEGO, pay…

Despite massive unemployment in this country, employment agencies (‘temp agencies’) are experiencing severe difficulties filling vacancies for unskilled industrial, cleaning, and restaurant jobs. Kristian Naerø, head of the Manpower agency in Copenhagen which…

A slight increase in housing prices throughout the county suggests that the market could have bottomed out. In response to new Statistics Denmark figures showing that the price of an average one-family dwelling…

It’s not just in this country that Vestas is having to implement cutbacks. Windpower Monthly reports that the troubled wind-energy giant is scaling back its operations in India as part of the global…

A group of 20-30 Syrians sought refuge at the Swedish Embassy in Copenhagen, Wednesday, in protest against strict Danish asylum legislation.e The refugees, who have either been denied residency or are still waiting…