Latest Denmark News
RSS-
Swedish pension fund pulls out of cluster bombs
Swedish pension fund AP7 will sell all its holdings in companies making cluster bombs and nuclear weapons. The move by AP7, one of seven state-owned pension funds in Sweden, means holdings in Airbus parent EADS and US-based Lockheed Martin Corp. and General Dynamics Corp. will be sold. AP7 manages pension savings worth around 90bn kroner (about $15bn). The move follows news in April ...
-
Swedens AP funds update
Sweden’s AP1 – one of the buffer funds assigned by the Swedish Parliament to manage the Swedish people’s pension funds – has posted strong performance figures in both absolute and relative terms for the first half of 2007. The Forsta AP-fonden, which manages assets with a value of SEK 221bn, reported a total return on net assets of 6.3%, which is equal to SEK 1.3 bn ...
-
Swedish companies avoid the red
Swedish pension companies were given favourable evaluations by The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority, Finansinspektionen (FI), in the Q2 2007 traffic light report. No insurance companies received a red light during that period, while pension companies as a whole – including life insurance companies and occupational pension funds – showed a larger margin to the red light ...
More Denmark News
RSS-
At least 87 killed in twin attacks in Norway first suspect arrested
A gunman wearing police uniforms and police identification landed on a small island about 40 kilometers west of Oslo, shooting people at a youth camp two hours after the deadly bomb explosion rocked the government building quarters in the Norwegian capital city. (Xinhua/AFP Photo) The death toll of the twin attacks Friday in Norway may surpass 87 after more victims were discovered in the ...
-
Ambassador Sanders discuss Danish system
Monday May 20, 2013 BRATTLEBORO -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vt-I, invited the Danish Ambassador Peter Taksoe-Jensen to speak about what the United States could learn from Taksoe-Jensen’s country, which has universal health care as well as a unique education system. "I believe there’s an enormous amount we can learn from them," said Sanders, who credited Denmark’s ...
-
Maersk net profit sales down in Q1
(MENAFN) Danish conglomerate A.P. Moeller-Maersk reported a decline in quarterly net profits and sales, reported AFP.This decline was due to the weak economic growth in North America and Europe.The total profit drop was 33 percent, reaching USD771 million.Meanwhile, the group's sales slid by 2 percent, standing at USD13.6 ...
-
Lego strikes gold with collectible minifigure
But Lego's Mr Gold doesn't come with a lifetime's supply of chocolate. He's an inch-and-a-half tall plastic figure like any other Lego product. His value - and he has been fetching over 700 on eBay - is in his rarity. There were just 5,000 made worldwide. The desire of adult collectors to get their hands on one is fuelling a commercial bonanza for the Danish toy maker. Part ...
-
Henrik Sedin leads Sweden to gold at Worlds with 5-1 win over Switzerland
Team USA's Alex Galchenyuk scores the winning shootout goal against Finland goalie Antti Raanta during bronze medal final action at the world hockey championship in Stockholm, Sweden, on Sunday, May 19, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques ...
-
Stranded Swedish family of seven heading back home thanks to Carson sheriffs deputies reserves
A stranded Swedish family of seven, made penniless by airfare changes due to a family emergency, should be on its way home today, Sunday, May 19, 2013, thanks to sheriff's deputies and reservists sympathetic to their plight. Carson station deputies and personnel from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Reserve Forces Bureau chipped in donations for the family to provide them with food, ...
-
Sweden hammers Switzerland to collect world hockey gold on home ice
Sweden's Loui Eriksson (C) celebrates his goal against Switzerland with teammates Erik Gustafsson and Gabriel Landeskog during their 2013 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship final match at the Globe Arena in Stockholm May 19, 2013. (GRIGORY ...
-
Sweden wins world hockey title
Swedish players react after winning the 2013 Ice Hockey IIHF World Championships gold medal match against Switzerland, at the Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, Sunday, May 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Lehtikuva, Martti Kainulainen) FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY ...
-
Epic Lego Star Wars Laser Battle Shows Power of Civilian Lasers
No special effects were needed for Alex to demonstrate the very real power of intense lasers that are available to the public on a small scale. But if lasers that can melt Star Wars figurines are available publicly, how powerful are the directed energy weapons the government possesses? Related ...
-
Danish delight at song win
"Europe adores Emmelie," the Danish press exclaimed after Emmelie de Forest won the Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden's third largest city, Malmo.The 20-year-old Danish singer took the crown from last year's Swedish winner, Loreen, after gaining 281 points from viewers and jurors, who accounted for 50 percent each of the vote.Rhythmic pop tune Only Teardrops was already ...
-
Denmark easily wins Eurovision with 281 point barefoot song
MALMO, Sweden--Twenty-year-old barefoot singer Emmelie de Forest was the toast of Denmark Sunday after winning this year's Eurovision Song Contest in the Swedish city of ...
-
US Beats Finland for Bronze at Hockey Worlds
STOCKHOLM, May 19 (R-Sport) – Alex Galchenyuk scored twice in a shootout as the United States won its first medal at the world hockey championship in a decade with a 3-2 win over Finland in the bronze medal game on Sunday. After winning gold in 2011, the Finns finished fourth for the second year in a row. They came first in the Helsinki group stage at the 2013 tournament with 16 points. ...
-
Danes attempt to brew probably the best bee larvae beer in the world
beer vocabulary guide , to "help connoisseurs verbalise their enjoyment -- just as wine drinkers can". So when Carlsberg approached the lab, it was not hard to come to a deal."We want to promote the idea of beer with fine dining as an alternative to wine and help get a better selection of these in Denmark's top restaurants," says Morten Ibsen, master brewer at ...
-
Denmark triumphs at Eurovision Song Contest
Denmark has won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Azerbaijan finished second and Ukraine came third. The number one slot was always pencilled in for the Danes, with the bookies giving incredibly short odds (around 4 to 6) on Denmark from the beginning of the week. They leapt ahead in the voting from an early stage and never lost pole position. The tension was supplied by Azerbaijan ...
-
Eurovision winner gets triumphant welcome in Denmark
COPENHAGEN (AFP) - Exuberant Copenhageners braved the chill Sunday to celebrate Eurovision Song Contest winner Emmelie de Forest in Denmark's iconic Tivoli Gardens amusement park.The Danish press lavished praise on the 20-year-old after she comfortably won the glitzy competition early Sunday in Sweden's third-largest city, Malmoe.Scores of fans greeted the star on her return and ...
-
Swedish Princess Madeleine American fiance attend pre-nuptial service
The Swedish royal family attended church Sunday in Stockholm's Royal Chapel for a traditional public announcement of Princess Madeleine's upcoming wedding. Princess Madeleine is scheduled to marry Christopher O'Neill, an American who has declined Swedish citizenship and will remain a U.S. citizen after the wedding -- and therefore will not hold a position of responsibility in the ...
-
New Mac Spyware Program Discovered At Oslo Freedom Forum
Mac OS X that appears to have been signed with a valid Apple Developer ID has reportedly been discovered on the laptop of an African activist at a Norwegian human rights conference. According ...
-
On Good Friday at about 2 am two Russian bombers and an escort of four fighters had come within 30-40 kilometers of Swedish airspace allegedly practicing mock attacks upon two specific targets in the Stockholm area and Southern Sweden. Wow
Dateline Dalarna, Sweden: Sometimes truly extraordinary events occur, events which impact an entire nation's people, though, the word 'surreal' perhaps fits better than 'extraordinary' in describing events here during the last third of April. Of course, too much has too long been overblown, the strongest of adjectives too frequently employed to mask the weakest of ...
-
“One on one” with Tone Winje The Director of The Arts Festival of North Norway
Harstad lasting well over a week around Midsummer organized by a foundation of the same name. Director Tone Winje, took over leadership from Birger Carlsen in 2011. Winje tells African Press International that this year’s festival has many ingredients and she encourages Festival lovers to turn up in large numbers and enjoy the week-long event from 22nd of June ending on the 29th. The ...
Denmark Discussion
-
Denmark's Russian relationship
Danish relations with Russia have existed for several centuries, with the first recorded diplomatic relations dating from 1493, when King Hans and Ivan III signed a treaty aimed at planning an offensive against Sweden and Lithuania. Since then the relations between the two countries have grown closer, frayed, become tense, reconciled and stagnated at different points throughout the history of their respective political development.
Denmark and Russia have always been economically and politically important to one another though. Denmark, since the end of the Cold War, has acted as a bridge between the east and west, and during much of the tumultuous politics of the post-war and Cold War period, remained largely neutral in many affairs concerning Russia. In 1939 the country refused to support measures to expel Russia from the then-League of Nations, and resisted attempts by Nordic countries to set up a defense alliance for the region. Read more
News from around our Network
