Kofi Annan to give corporate responsibility speech
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is to be the keynote speaker at this year’s annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) awards in Holstebro in September. The CSR Awards, initiated in 2011 by the…
MoreThe Week That Was, April 22nd – April 28th, 2013
Politics / Economy The teacher lockout came to an end, Friday, when the government intervened with legislation that will allow nearly 600,000 pupils to return to school. The three-week lockout provided a significant…
MoreLA PASADA SEMANA: Resumen de Noticias del 22 al 28 de abril de 2013
POLITICA/ECONOMIA El “lock-out” contra los profesores finalizó el día viernes con la intervención del gobierno que presentó una legislación que permitirá que 500,000 alumnos regresen a sus escuelas el lunes 29 de abril….
MoreSchools re-open today after PM presses panic button
Back to school for 600,000 kids Nearly six hundred thousand pupils will return to school today after a cross-party parliamentary majority passed the government intervention, Friday, forcing teachers to return to work. In…
MoreCopenhagen service industry dependent upon foreign manpower
The number of EU nationals working in the capital has swelled by 46 per cent – around 4,000 new immigrants – over the past two years, a period when unemployment amongst Danes rose…
MoreMinister heads green trade push in Saudi Arabia
Trade & Investment Minister Pia Olsen Dyhr will this week head a trade delegation of 15 leading Danish companies to Saudi Arabia, the first since Danish goods were boycotted during the Mohammed cartoons…
MoreLefty leader could be forced out at next election
Titular head of the Red/Green Alliance, Johanne Schmidt Nielsen, could be forced to step down at the next election after delegates at the party’s annual conference rejected a proposal to suspend the rotation…
MoreZero wage hikes
A new survey shows that Danish companies are keeping a tight rein on wage expenditure. Since 2009, half of the members of the employer organisation, the Danish Confederation of Industries (DI) have given…
MoreRecord number of gang members in grey-bar hotel
A record number of gang-members are now behind bars in this country. 1,647 people are registered by the police as being affiliated to a biker or immigrant gang and 362 of them are…
MoreFogh Rasmussen gets leadership award
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasussen is amongst the recipients of the Atlantic Council’s prestigious global leadership awards this year. Alongside former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Chevron CEO John S. Watson,…
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