F-16 crash
Rescue teams continue to search for wreckage from a Danish F-16 fighter jet that crashed, Tuesday, off southwestern Denmark into the North Sea after faulty landing gear prompted the pilot to parachute to…
MoreDenmark moves up ‘business friendly’ list
Denmark is ranked no.1 in Europe and has moved up one place, to no.3, globally on the World Bank’s global ‘Ease of Doing Business’ list, 2016. In the global ranking stakes, Singapore retains…
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Ramboll wins Saudi contract / Denmark looks for Iran business / Foreign students fail to learn Danish Saudi: Engineering company Ramboll has been appointed technical adviser for a 500MW district cooling project in…
MoreGovernment defends Lego in Chinese artist controversy
The Danish government has defended Lego’s decision not to provide Chinese activist artist Ai Weiwei with a large amount of its iconic toy building bricks for an art installation. Ai Weiwei, a vocal…
MoreNew poll: Government has mishandled refugee crisis
The government has handled the refugee crisis ‘badly’ according to nearly half of all respondents in a new Wilke Insitute poll for Jyllands-Posten shows. And just one in five say the government has…
MoreThorning-Schmidt calls for more refugee funding
Helle Thorning-Schmidt has urged the world’s richest countries to contribute more money to solving the global refugee crisis. As one of the four leading candidates to become the UN’s new High Comissioner for…
MoreLeft wing will play no part in new police bill
Parliament’s three most left wing parties have been excluded from negotiations surrounding a new police bill. The government asked all parties to state beforehand that they would be willing to accept cuts of…
MoreChallenge to government’s negative growth proposal
The government is facing severe problems putting together a majority for its local authority negative growth proposal, after Social Democrat leader Mette Frederiksen told the annual Federation of Trade Unions (LO) congress that…
MoreFemale foreign fighter stripped of passport
Danish police have confiscated the passport of a 22-year-old woman and slapped her with a travel ban after she returned to Denmark from the Iraqi Kurdistan region and Kurdish areas in Syria, known…
MoreForeign Minister aims for more cooperation with China as Denmark joins AIIB
There is a vast potential in developing Sino-Danish relations, Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen said on arrival in Beijing on an official visit, expressing hope that China’s slower but more quality-focused economic growth will…
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