Danish prisons continue to use solitary confinement to punish inmates despite international and political criticism. During the first 10 months of the year prisoners were placed in isolation 380 times, for 15 days…

The State Prosecutor’s Office for Serious Economic and International Crime (Søik), popularly known as the fraud squad, received 11,500 tip offs about money laundering during the first six months of this year, leading…

Retail sales, normally an indicator of consumer confidence, fell in October after an encouraging increase in September. The latest Statistics Denmark figures show retail trade turnover dropped a seasonally and price-adjusted 1.1 percent month-over-month…

The Danish People’s Party has demanded the deportation of more immigrant criminals as their price for supporting the government’s 2018 budget. Budget talks between the government and its parliamentary ally were put on…

Integration Minister Inger Støjberg has promised a foreign aid ‘bonus’ to  countries willing to accept failed asylum seekers and criminal foreign nationals, but at the same time warned there will be cutbacks for…

The Public Prosecutor’s Office has delayed a ruling on whether two high-ranking police leaders will be charged with perjury in the Tibet affair. The two top officials testified in August 2013 that no…

Forty candidates of Turkish origin were voted on to their local council in Tuesday’s municipal elections. Turkey’s English news website, Daily Sabah, reports that 101 Turkish origin candidates ran in the election. Turan…

Denmark is best at ensuring that workers get enough leisure time. A new work/life balance survey from TotallyMoney looked at what countries offer the most leisure time and minimum working hours – and Denmark came…

Denmark’s biggest supermarket chains, Bilka and Føtex, were hit by cyber-attacks as they launched their Black Friday sales campaigns. The websites were hit by “malicious cyber-connection” attacks, an advanced form of a Distributed…

Record-low interest rates in this country, which have fueled the housing market boom, have dropped again. Denmark’s largest mortgage lender Nykredit on Friday began issuing 30-year mortgage loans with a fixed rate of…