China brings billions in investment
President Hu Jintao’s visit to Denmark this week is expected to culminate with multi-billion contracts for the Danish business sector. Minister for Trade Pia Olsen Dyhr said to DR News yesterday that contracts…
MoreCarlsberg announces China expansion
Carlsberg is to build a brand new, DKK4bn brewery in China, its biggest ever, with an annual production capacity of 10 million hectolitres. CEO Jørgen Buhl Rasmussen announced the news of the massive…
MoreDPP demands observer pull-out in Syria
The Danish Party (DPP) has demanded that Danish UN observers be withdrawn for Syria immediately, after head of of the UN peacekeeping force in the country, Hervé Ladsous, declared that the country is…
MoreLøkke’s ‘voodoo’ economics
Liberal Alliance leader Anders Samuelsen has signalled a rift in the opposition by accusing his Liberal ally, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, of ‘voodoo economics’. According to Mr Samuelsen, the former PM is ‘irresponsible’ when…
MoreCopenhagen not that expensive
Copenhagen is no longer amongst the world’s most expensive cities. In Mercer’s Worldwide Cost of Living Survey for 2012, which covers 214 cities across five continents and measures the comparative cost of over…
MoreAirline to offer cut-price transatlantic flights
Norwegian Air is determined to revolutionise inter-continental flight traffic. The cut-price airline will offer return tickets to New York for DKK2,000 and Bangkok for DKK3,000 later this year and is convinced that the…
MoreJustice Minister in the EU hot seat – threat to Danish Presidency
Minister of Justice Morten Bødskov was met with boos, sarcastic comments, and threats of a lawsuit, Tuesday morning, when he appeared before the EU Parliament to defend why 27 EU countries last week…
MoreDenmark ranks low in child safety
If you want to give your child more protection when swimming, cycling, or just riding in a car, move to a country such as Finland, Holland, Sweden or Germany. That’s the general conclusion…
MoreArms sting linked to Colombian rebels
Swedish police have arrested and charged two men with supplying a rocket firer and AK47 rifle to undercover PET (Danish Intelligence) agents in Copenhagen. According to DR News, PET helped to uncover the…
MoreVestas shares amongst world’s worst
Vestas’ stock is now amongst the world’s worst-performing wind energy shares. A new report by Ritzau Finance reveals that the Danish wind-energy giant has performed far worse than its global competitors this year….
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