Posted on 08. May, 2017 in: News

Two people killed by ‘crazy’ jet skiers

Two people died and six others were injured after one or more high-speed jet skis plowed into a tourist boat in Copenhagen Harbour, Saturday, near the Langebro bridge. Those on the jet skis…

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Posted on 08. May, 2017 in: News

Danish planes to monitor Indian Ocean, Mediterranean

Parliament’s Foreign Policy Committee has given the government the go-ahead to deploy a Challenger airplane to monitor shipping traffic in the Indian Ocean. At the same time the government will again make a…

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Posted on 08. May, 2017 in: News

DI welcomes China trade boost

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s successful trip to China last was a sign of the strong economic and political relations between Denmark and China, according to the Confederation of Danish Industry (DI). After…

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Posted on 08. May, 2017 in: News

Brewery adds pee to beer

Urine from music lovers at last year’s Roskilde Festival has been transformed into a specialty beer by a local Copenhagen microbrewery. Nørrebro Bryghus is marketing the beer, ‘Pisner’, as an alternative to the…

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Posted on 08. May, 2017 in: News

Vietnam welcomes Danish investment

Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc called on more Danish companies to invest and do business in his country when he welcomed Minister for Development Cooperation, Ulla Tørnæs, in Hanoi, Friday. Noting that…

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Posted on 07. May, 2017 in: TWTW

The Week That Was, May 1st – 7th 2017 

Politics/Economy As the left-wing celebrated May 1st with rallies and demonstrations throughout the country, a new study showed a majority of unskilled employees voted for a right-leaning party at the 2015 general election…

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Posted on 05. May, 2017 in: News

When is a Dane not a Dane (again)

Can non-western immigrants and their descendants ever become Danes? Yes, according to a significant majority of voters in a poll taken ahead of a parliamentary debate on the same issue today. In February…

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Posted on 05. May, 2017 in: News

Finance Minister: Danes need to work more

What many have long suspected has now been confirmed – Danes don’t work very hard. In the midst of the political debate about extending the retirement age to keep people in the labour…

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Posted on 05. May, 2017 in: News

More young people on welfare

The number of young people living off social benefits has risen sharply over the past decade. New figures from Statistics Denmark show that despite a raft of labour market reforms and work incentives…

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Posted on 05. May, 2017 in: News

Løkke: ‘China’s remarkable development’

China has made ‘great progress’, Prime Minister said yesterday during a meeting with Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress Zhang Dejiang at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing,…

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