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…
MoreDanish 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…
MoreDI 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…
MoreBrewery 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…
MoreVietnam 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…
MoreThe 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…
MoreWhen 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…
MoreFinance 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…
MoreMore 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…
MoreLøkke: ‘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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