Past Events
Greenland holds tourism promotion in Singapore
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or the first time, Air Greenland exhibited at NATAS, Singapore’s key business-to-consumer travel fair, from 28 February to 2 March 2014. NATAS brings together travel specialists, tour operators and national tourism organisations all under one roof, twice a year. Each NATAS sees an average of 62,000 visitors, spending SGD 96 million on travel packages. A recent MasterCard survey has found Singaporeans amongst the most well-travelled in Asia Pacific. Air Greenland found NATAS to be a good platform to create awareness of Greenland and its scenic winter and summer period. Greenland, which is part of the North American continent, belongs to Denmark but have autonomous self-
rule. Greenland is the world’s largest island, and its northernmost point, Cape Morris Jesup, is just 740 kilometers from the North Pole. Greenland made its presence felt with a friendly Greenlander, greeting visitors in her unique national costume. Greenland’s national costume consisted of furs, trousers and boots, decorated with hand-strung beads and intricately hand-sewn floral details. She certainly drew much attention. Air Greenland flies all year around from Copenhagen to key cities in Greenland. The Danish Ambassador to Singapore, Her Excellency Berit Basse, attended the NATAS opening ceremony, and graced the stand of Air Greenland.
Olympic Games night at Swedish Church
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he Swedish Church in Singapore had the big screen up for the patriotic event when the Swedish Winter Olympic Game contenders in Sochi competed to add more gold medals to the home country. Unfortunately Sweden lost the Ice Hockey Finals against Canada, but they did bring home a silver medal.
Sweden won 15 medals at the Sochi Winter Olympic Games. Two gold medals in cross country skiing and five silver and two bronze. A silver and a bronze medal in Curling, and a bronze in freestyle along with last nights silver medals in Ice Hockey.
Delightful atmosphere at Scandinavian Sports Day in Singapore
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he annual Scandinavian Sports Day in Singapore, held on Saturday, March 1, took place at Jurong West Stadium and turned out to be a great success with 263 participants. The ongoing traditional event is arranged by the Norwegian Seamen´s Church, and had participants from Sweden, Denmark and Norway, both grown ups and children. There were prices in several athletics disciplines up for grabs, such as sprint, long jump, relay and shot putting. Last but not least, the big international football game completed the Sports
day, with Sweden as winners, plus the honor of being given the more important right to ridicule for the next twelve months. The Swede´s dominated most of the disciplines, while the Danes did not scrape that many points home. In all fairness, there were more Swede – and Norwegians, participating than Dane´s. The work of the many volunteers from all of the Scandinavian families and expats, was the core and foundation, which made the sunny and delightful Sports day possible.
Swedish companies visit Port of Singapore
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usiness Sweden recently led a business delegation compromising of Swedish companies focusing on material handling equipment, power equipment and transport solutions for ports. The delegation was part of a two-country visit (Singapore and Malaysia) and the program in Singapore was coordinated by Business Sweden together with the Embassy.
The aim of the visit was to learn more about the expansion plans for the port of Singapore and to explore opportunities for collaborations with the participating Swedish companies. The delegation had fruitful discussion with PSA and Jurong Port, discussing a number of topics including the upcoming plans to develop the ports. Ambassador Jevrell also took part in a lunch hosted by Business Sweden. April 2014 • ScandAsia.Singapore 5