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Nordmannsforbundets 17 May Committee in collaboration with the Norwegian Embassy in Bangkok invites ever yone with relations to Norway to a traditional national day celebration at the Residence of the Ambassador.

Gates open 10.45 and the procession starts 11.00 from the residence 74 Sukhumvit Soi 38. (BTSThonglor).

DTCC Gala Dinner 2016 Where: Chatrium Hotel Riverside When: 4 June, 18:00 - 22:00 Dancham - Danish Thai Chamber of Commerce - invites members and friends to a Danish Gala Ball on 4 June 2016 at Chatrium Riverside Hotel in Bangkok.

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Easter with SWEA & Swedish Church Bangkok Text and photos: Agneta de Bekassy

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n Easter Sunday the 27th of March 2016, SWEA (Swedish Women Educational Association) and the Swedish Church in Bangkok, organized a short, nice service with our priest Lars Rydestad, followed by a terrific Easter Buffet, at Rembrandt Hotel.

Trudi Carlesson played during the service and even the young kids par ticipating, were listening to Lars, Trudi, Björn and Mie. The service was followed by a rich buffet with all typical Easter dishes presented.

The decor ations, were as always at Rembrandt, great and the kids had fun playing and posing with bunnies and eggs. Every single seat was booked and the expectations were big and all showed a happy face. BRAVO SWEA and the church!

Thailand’s Team Norway meets Norwegian Prime Minister

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n connection with the opening of Norway-Asia Business Summit on 12 April 2016 at the Fullerton Bay Hotel in Singapore,Thailand’s Team Norway had the opportunity to meet H.E. the Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg. Seen in the picture with Prime Minister Solberg (seated) from left to right: President of Thai-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce Vibeke Lyssand Leirvåg; H.E. Ambassador Kjetil Paulsen, Ambassador of Norway to Thailand; Axel Blom, Country Representative for Innovatiuon Norway in Thailand and Myanmar and the host of the Summit, President of Norwegian Business Association (Singapore) Hilde M. Nafstad.

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New Norwegian strategy makes real estate in Thailand easy

By Maria Andreasdottir

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t is so easy to fall in love with the Asian paradise in Thailand. But when visitors decide to actually move to their favourite destination, it is a far more difficult task.

“I remember how complicated it was to find a place to live when I came to Thailand from Norway in 2010,” says Jostein Aksnes, founder of FindYourSpace.

The Norwegian entrepreneur wanted to solve this problem with a real estate web portal for Thailand, which aims to find your dream house easily.

“I founded FindYourSpace due to the

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frustration related to finding a place to live in Bangkok. I wanted to give the home seekers the tools required to easily navigate the property market in Thailand to find properties that match complex requirements.”

New strategy The concept is still the same, but after two years Jostein decided to change direction and focus on the agents instead of the house seekers.

“We did not want to be just another real estate website.”

When Jostein came up with the idea of the portal in 2014, he believed the current solutions

were too dependent on the brokers. There were not many options of website por tals finding property or renting condos either. He made a demo version of his website in 2014, but he had to focus less on FindYourSpace for a few months while managing his new position as Managing Director of his new start-up company 7 Peaks Software, although, he was still eager to release it the soonest.

He hired a Chief Technology Officer in August 2014 to work full time on the software platform.

In the end of 2015 the Norwegian entrepreneur had time to bring it up again, but since he had set his project aside for a while, the Internet was suddenly loaded with user-friendly real estate websites in both Thai and English. Then Jostein saw a new opportunity.

“We want to be the heart of the whole real estate system!”

Instead of competing with the other real estate portals, his platform turns focus on allowing agents and brokers to manage their complete proper ty por tfolio online, both through web and mobile access. This allows them to work more efficiently, and easier find proper ties in their own portfolio, matching customers’ exact requirements.

Agents can increase their leads by conveniently allowing for automatic distribution of property listings to a wide range of lead generation sources.

“The idea is to help each other.We will collect the whole portfolio of available property and estate, and connect agents with each other. For example, if agent A has a client, and agent B has the house, agent A can connect with agent B and ask for cooperation. That way everyone is happy and finally, a client will find the house he requires.”

Real estate agents can subscribe to the platform as members. This way they will be able to see all properties available, have their own presentation website, and order special services as professional videographer or photographers to make a presentation video of the different properties.

“This is all about modernising the working method for agents.”

The system allows exploring neighbourhoods, investigating real-estate projects, and discovering available properties on the map. Jostein Aksnes believes an overview of the many houses and rooms is the perfect solution.

The membership is a paid service.

Enjoy timeless Danish films all over the globe

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irch Passer, Olsen Banden, Lille-Per and many more icons from the chest of Danish film history are now on deck for online streaming at every corner of the world.

It’s near to half a century ago since Egon came up with his first genius plan and it’s been more than 80 years since Liva Weel sang “Gå med i lunden”. As times fly Nordisk Film has decided to catch and collect Danish film classics throughout time and connect them to the newly launched streaming service “Dansk Filmskat”.

“Dansk Filmskat” has experienced an enormous interest - also from Danes resided abroad. That’s why Nordisk Film has made the popular Danish films available to watch and enjoy from all over the globe.

Beyond generations and borders “Dansk Filmskat” compiles Danish films from 1931 and for th. The variety of films changes every week, so there’s constantly new cozy movie moments for you to enjoy.

“The classic Danish films are inherited by each generation and loved beyond age groups because they have such a special place in many

Danes hearts. Now “Dansk Filmskat” goes beyond borders as well, so anyone can benefit from the cozyness of Danish film regardless of where you live”, says Ole Martini, Director at Consumer Channels, Nordisk Film.

A glimpse of Danish lives The streaming service grants not only Danish “hygge”, nostalgia and hear twarming humour for the entire family, but also a sheer insight to Denmark and Danish lives in the past generations.

“There’s some unmistakably Danish about these films, which puts them in a central position in our shared cultural history. Digging into these pieces of history gives a unique glimpse of the progress in Danish society, language, fashion, gender roles, technology and so on”, explains Ole Martini.

“Dansk Filmskat” is available on TV, tablet and laptop. Members of “Dansk Filmskat” moreover gets access to amusing Danish commercials from the 50’s and 60’s and extraordinary interviews with figures as Ghita Nørby, Morten Grunwald, Bent Fabricius-Bjerre and a range of other icons from the history of Danish cinema giving their insights on the stories behind the films.

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News Brief

Airports of Thailand seminar

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n 15 March 2016 a Nordic Seminar was held in Bangkok, with Dr Nitinai Sirismatthakarn, President of Airports of Thailand Public Company Limited (AOT) as speaker. He gave a seminar on the topic of Future Airport Infrastructure in Thailand: Policy, investment and business oppor tunities at Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit.

He pinpointed several prominent investment plans due to increasing number of passengers.The guests were alerted to business opportunities and updated to interesting trends by the expert.

Source: Thai-Finnish Chamber of Commerce

Swedes set up new association in Udon Thani

By Frederik Guy Hoff Sonne

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wedes in Phuket have one, in Pattaya and Hua Hin they got one as well. Now time has come for the Swedes living in the Udon Thani Province of the Northern Thailand to unite in their own Svenskförening. “Svenskar in Udon” will be formally established in the coming weeks, Sven Arne Hedell, the man behind the initiative tells.

Reasons behind the initiative is two-stringed Sven Arne Hedell explains. First of all the numbers of Swedes settling in Udon Thani increases according to Sven Arne Hedell: “There are a large number of Swedes living in and around Udon. I got no figures, a guess is at least 200. Just to give an idea, yesterday we had the every second week Swedish meeting, 25 man attended. And the number of Swedes living here on “full-time” is increasing”, he tells.

A newly started and highly active Facebook group called “Vi Svenskar i Udon Thani” counts 55 members at the moment.

The other cause behind is slightly more political. ScandAsia has previously written about how Swedish expats in Phuket and Hua Hin aired their discontent about not getting covered by the Swedish States health insurance when living in Thailand. They eventually posted a letter to the Swedish Minister for Health Care, Gabriel Wikström, pledging their discontent and presenting some proposals.

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“Actually the trigger was that I saw a link on Facebook to the article in ScandAsia”, Sven Arne Hedell reveals. “Hopefully we can influence government officials by writing to give our support for the initiative from Phuket”, he explains, when asked to tell about the ambitions for the union.

Sven Arne Hedell, 65, is covered by the Thai health insurance BUPA himself. He retired at the age of 63 and moved from Växjö to Udon Thani 2,5 years ago. The majority of Swedes living in Udon Thani is seniors over 60 years old and they

all have a great interest in receiving Swedish state health care insurance, as private insurances gets more expensive with age and can be hard to pay on a pension.

“Immediately after Song Kran we will gather to constitute “Svenskar i Udon”, Sven Arne Hedell ends.

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Second Nordic Networking success for 2016

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n 21 Apr il, the successful Nordic Networking series, this time hosted by the Thai-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce and Thai-Finnish Chamber of Commerce (the for Nordic chambers alternate to be hosts), continued with all the four Directors from the respective chambers of commerce, and also Sweden’s Ambassador to Thailand H.E Mr Staffan Herrström and his wife Karin Herrström.

This time the event was arranged in a fabulous top floor event venue called Altitude at the familiar five-star hotel The Westin Grande Sukhumvit Bangkok in downtown Bangkok, with a good turn-up to fill the rather large and upscale locale, featuring panorama views of the city centre. Aside from Nordic countries, the event has also gained attention by participants from other countries such as Thailand, Mexico, Germany and Netherland.

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This event included fabulous Nordic food flavours, where The Westin Grande Sukhumvit Bangkok had really gone the extra mile in lining up a splendid Nordic selection of, “finger food”, which was almost like a buffet. Among the sumptuous temptations were: Poached Norwegian salmon with piquant mustard sauce; Grandmother Greta’s meatballs with cream sauce, lingon berries & pickles cucumbers; and among the desserts: ‘semlor’ pancakes with Nordic-flavoured toppings (very innovative!) as well as Budapest bakelse arrak balls!

The wine was just as sumptuous! Fruitful networking among the various nationalities took place, while enjoying it all!

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New Swedish series takes place in Thailand

By Frederik Guy Hoff Sonne

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More Enter tainment has begun the shooting for a new Swedish thriller-series in Thailand. The series is called ‘Farang’, meaning foreigner in Thai, and famous Swedish actor, Ola Rapace, plays the leading role.

Ola Rapace’s char acter is “Rickard”, a Swede forced to flee Thailand where he get’s by as a petty criminal in the backstreets of Phuket with a secured identity and a price on his head. Back in Sweden “Rickard” has left his family behind but his 15-year old daughter “Thyra” travels to Thailand to find her dad.

Intensity rises when “Rickard” is put

in the dilemma between revealing his identity and risking his life or once again leave his daughter behind.

“I began with the father and daughter relation, which I’ve never seen alike before, and I recognized myself for good and bad”, Ola Rapace said in a press release.

The rolelist counts both Swedish and Thai contributors.

Among others Louise Nyvall as the daughter “Thyra” and Thai star actress Yayaying Rhatha Phongam in a supporting role.

“Farang” premieres on C More in 2017 and is par t of C More’s parade of Swedish dramas counting

“Gåsmamman”, the “Beck”-films and coming series “Saknad”.

“This will be a thriller like nothing we’ve seen before. A drama that portrays the emotional relation between a father and the daughter that he has given up and at the same time offers a lot of action”, Josefine Tengblad, TV4 and C More Drama Director said.

The series is created by Malin Lagerlöf and Stefan Thunberg. Main Director is Erik Leijonborg and Anna Wallmark Avelin is the Producer.The script is written by Malin Lagerlöf, Veronica Zacco, Anders Sparring and Niklas Rockström.

Swedish Ultraman swims around Phuket

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n 30 March Swedish U l t r a m a n Wo r l d Champion Jonas Colting commenced his ‘Swim Around Phuket’, an eight-day swim trek. He swam around the island of Phuket, with the start on Mai Khao Beach, to raise funds for Yaowawit Orphanage School and Mai Khao Marine Turtle Foundation.

As the first-ever such swim the Swedish athelete circumnavigated the island of Phuket over eight days, completing his mission by returning to Mai Khao Beach on 6 April.

Mr. Colting led a group of swimmer s including four-time triathlon World Champion Chris McCor mack on the fir st leg comprising 14 kilometers from the JW Marriott Resort & Spa Mai Khao to Trisara Phuket villas & residences.

The swim trek then proceeded every day from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. in a counter-clockwise route around the island passing the Andaman beaches, the famous sunset point Laem Phrom Thep, and Chalong pier.

The route then turned northward past Ao Poh Pier, passed under the

Sarasin Bridge and curve down to end again at Mai Khao beach.

“I’m ver y excited and look forward to getting star ted on this adventurous and inspirational journey around beautiful Phuket!

My preparations have gone well but I have a lot of respect for the challenges of averaging more than 15 kilometres per day in the ocean.

My main concerns are the heat and the sun and I will make an effort to pace myself over the eight days,” he said before commencing the first leg.

Mr. Colting aims to raise funds for the Yaowawit Orphanage School which was first built to suppor t victims of the Tsunami 10 years ago and the Mai Khao Marine Tur tle Foundation, which is committed to protecting the marine and coastal environment and ecosystems for the wellbeing of the sea turtles that nest in the Sirinath National Marine Park and the surrounding areas.

“I’ve known Jonas my entire racing career,” said Mr. McCormack, who is also Thanyapura’s executive chairman. “I believe he’s the perfect

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Scandinavia supports resilient coastal communities:

Mangroves for the future

By Joakim Persson

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ollowing the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster, the unique par tnerled programme ‘Mangroves for the Future’ (MFF), was initiated to promote investment in coastal ecosystems for sustainable development. Breaking new ground and generating new or improved coastal ecosystem management models, MFF has continuously received support from Scandinavian countries for its operations.

In keeping with its unique partnership-based principle, MFF has established the highest-level decision-making body, the Regional Steering Committee (RSC), to provide strategic leadership for policy change and advocacy. The RSC is cochaired by IUCN (Asia Regional Office) and UNDP (Regional Centre in Bangkok) and has representatives from each of the MFF member countries, and the institutional par tners FAO, UNEP and Wetlands International.

Within each MFF member country, a National Coordinating Body (NCB) has oversight of MFF activities at the national level. Here again, reflecting the partnership approach of MFF, NCBs include relevant government departments, civil society organizations including NGOs, academia, and individual experts and, in most countries, private sector representatives Though mangroves is the flagship of the initiative, MFF helps countries, sectors and agencies tackle growing challenges in all types of coastal ecosystems such as, coral reefs, estuaries, lagoons, wetlands, beaches and sea grass beds.

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national and regional needs for the long-term sustainable management of these sensitive ecosystems - where coastal communities, civil society organisations as well as the private sector are stakeholders.

Based on lessons learned, MFF – now in its third phase – has come a long way, with its own designed “tools” that are being implemented in all the 11 member countries. Danish MFF coordinator Dr Steen Christensen, who oversees the programme, explains MFF’s achievements to date and what lies ahead for the initiative’s future beyond its current funding.

Nordic phase 3 funding MFF has received core donor funding from Norad (Norway) and Sida (Sweden) since 2007, and from Danida (Denmark) since 2012. The ongoing third phase of the regional initiative was announced in June 2014, with new funding from Sida (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) for the period 2014-2018.

SIDA’s decision to fund phase 3 was based on significant achievements made by MFF in its first two phases. Up until then, around 200 projects had been implemented through the MFF grants mechanism, and its unique partnershipbased model had brought together government, civil society and private sector to play more effective roles in the governance of coastal areas in numerous cases.

But SIDA has also placed demands on MFF for the future.

“SIDA said that MFF must clearly demonstrate

the added value of a regional programme, otherwise they could as well support a number of national projects. So rather than being just a grant mechanism we aim for the project to have a regional impact on sustainable coastal management. MFF follows the principle that healthy coastal ecosystems can contribute significantly to human well-being and resilience to climate change,” explains Steen.

MFF’s main focus is on developing the resilience of ecosystem-dependent coastal communities, and to develop “shared understanding and capacity for building community resilience to natural disasters and climate change related impacts”.

Efforts to influence coastal management policy with an increased emphasis on “soft governance”, as well as to expand its knowledge management and capacity development activities (offering hands-on training and learning opportunities for coastal management practitioners around the region) will also continue.

In 2012, Danida stepped in as a donor to MFF with particular support to a 3-year project (2012 – 2015) aiming at developing an ecosystembased approach to climate change adaptation in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Vietnam.

“With Danida’s suppor t, we took the opportunity to develop our ecosystem based resilience approach which basically is a set of tools and guidelines to be followed to ensure a consistent approach to climate change adaptation and resilience building. These tools and guidelines are now the guiding principles for the entire MFF

programme,” explains the Dane, who has been with MFF since 2011. Based on these results, Danida decided to join Sida as a core donor to all 11 countries for the period 2015 – 2018.

Steen has vast experience working with multidisciplinar y programmes relating to management of aquatic resources and ecosystems in Europe, Africa, Greenland and South and Southeast Asia. He was previously in Vietnam as par t of a fisheries industr y development programme that Demark supported.

Steen has also worked for the Mekong River Commission, conducting economic evaluations within the same industry.

“This is where I got particularly interested in the livelihood aspects of fisheries, especially since millions of people are dependent on these resources.”

Gaps in resilience A central par t of MFF’s work involves the Community Resilience Framework, with its analysis platform, which guides MFF’s activities and interventions. This tool allows the programme to gain detailed understanding of the gaps in resilience in the target community’s social and ecological systems in close collaboration with all stakeholders in the target area.

“By applying our resilience framework, we try to support the people living in ecosystemdependent coastal communities in defining an own long term visions for their community. And then we support them in implementing naturebased solutions for sustainable development

and improved resilience towards climate change and natural hazards. Of course, as part of the framework, we also have a ‘Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation programme’ that allows us to monitor progress and actual results on the ground.

To be able to do that we need to establish good baseline data before we start the intervention and also good and informative indicators that one can actually measure at a reasonable cost,” explains Steen.

The ‘MFF Resilience Analysis Platform (RAP)’ takes into consideration both the social and ecological system, when conducting structured analysis of the target communities.

“So now, before we do anything, we go out to the specific site and conduct a resilience assessment and try to identify with the local community what the problems and risks are.

Then we try to find out how things were in this community way back as long as people can remember and what happened along the way up till now.”

“How would this community look in a resilient state? What kinds of organisations are there? What are the things that you want to change? Then we identify maybe 25 different issues that could be improved in the community of which MFF perhaps can support only a few. We then try to make the plan by identifying the steps that need to be taken to work towards the goals we can support.”

For the next step, NGOs and civil society organisations are invited to propose their solutions for identified problems.

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“It is also important to highlight that it is the countries that decide which projects they want us to support.”

Organisations whose proposals are selected for support will be contracted to implement the projects.

These projects are highly effective as the testing ground for new and innovative practices, which are recorded and then shared through the own MFF knowledge platform.

“This is a very strategic way to have a much more directed support to fewer communities and build model resilience communities. The national or provincial government can then look at these communities and conclude if they have came up with solutions that can be replicated in other areas,” says Steen and adds: “Because we have aggregated cluster projects, we can invite people from other countries to come and see how they have solved similar issues” MFF also offers strategic suppor t and, provides countries with valuable information to guide them on the development of their national coastal development policies.

Success story from Trat Steen highlights, as example, a large project in Trat, Thailand where a particular community in the area was still affected by property rights and land tenure issues that originated 40 years back, and whereby attempts to rectify the situation had not been successful.

The project, which was supported by MFF in 2011 and 2012 was implemented by the Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and the Pacific (RECOFTC) and succeeded in strengthening existing community-based coastal resource management networks by focusing on knowledge sharing and improving management practices.

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“By strengthening the community-based coastal resource management approach in the area, the project encouraged the community to come together, discuss, negotiate and find better ways to solve their problems,” explains Steen.

Now these community groups are extending help and support to neighbouring areas facing similar challenges.

“Here is an area where MFF could play a larger role. I would like for us to more frequently go back to already completed projects and see if there is a need for following up in some way or the other. In Trat for example, we could support these successful communities in sharing their experiences and lessons learnt with other provinces in Thailand or communities in other MFF countries with similar issues. This would be a cost-effective way in improving unfavourable situations in other areas.”

MFF seeks to achieve demonstr able results through regional cooperation, national programme support, private sector engagement, and community action. The MFF grant-giving facilities are the main vehicle for delivering work on the ground.

The majority of MFF’s grants projects have contr ibuted to alleviating pover ty and empowering communities through the development of sustainable livelihoods. These projects have also led to behavioural changes that have reduced pressure on natural resources, particularly by reducing illegal fishing practices. In addition, the projects contributed to improving coastal governance by suppor ting Integrated Coastal Management, and by influencing national policies.

“I try to coordinate all the activities in the countries so that we work towards the same goal.

There are many different issues, which are not the same from country to country. We cannot use a

one-hat-fits-all approach. Even the term resilience is defined in various ways and it is important for a regional programme to appreciate that the countries have different backgrounds, do not face the same kind of threats and have not been through the same kind of development,” explains Steen. “You need to start where people are, otherwise you cannot hope to suppor t any development. Therefore, it requires a lot of strategic thinking and planning to move towards a common goal of building resilience.” “I think MFF is one of the few development programmes in the world that has actually managed to put the Resilience Approach into practice in a consistent way at a regional level.”

MFF in the future...

Among the priorities on the agenda for MFF is to enhance private sector engagement in MFF governance structures and reinforce the business case for green growth. Greater emphasis on engaging with the private sector involves, both, harnessing the resources of the sector in support of sustainable coastal management, and working with companies to reduce their impact on coastal ecosystems and communities.

MFF is also preparing a self-financing plan for the operational needs of MFF beyond 2018 etc.

“Now it’s time that the countries star t considering: can we move from being a grant receiving country to maybe supporting our own grants in our own country or even providing support to MFF? If the countries do not show interest or willingness or capacity to take over the financial responsibilities, the programme is not sustainable. Our donors will not support us forever. The time has come for countries to take ownership so that MFF can aim for sustainability beyond 2018.”

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Danes Worldwide pioneers new school concept in Bangkok

By Gregers Møller

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anes Worldwide is for the first time engaging itself directly in providing education in Danish language to Danish children living in a specific location abroad by entering in a collaboration with the community school NIST International School in Bangkok and a group of Danish parents in Thailand.

Secretary General Anne Marie Dalgaard signed on Thursday 31 March 2016 an MOU with the school which included also the Danish Ambassador to Thailand as a signatory.

“It is the very first time we try this,” she told ScandAsia after the signing.

“If it works well, we may well want to implement it as a model in other countries.”

According to the agreement, the teaching material used by the teacher must be the material developed and provided by Danes Worldwide.The role of NIST will be to provide the all-important work permit for the teacher and an educational environment as the home base of the teacher. This teacher still remains to be selected and employed.

The teacher will be able to teach Danish at all the other International schools in Bangkok. The many Danish students at for instance Patana School or ISB will thereby be able to attend Danish mother tongue classes at their own school seamlessly integrated in their regular weekly class schedule.

Only Danish children whose parents are members of Danes Worldwide can join the class. The parents must also buy the teaching material from Danes Worldwide as well as pay to NIST to cover the teacher’s wages and other related expenses.

Mai Ellegaard, Bangkok representative of Danes Worldwide has been the key person working for this new offer for Danes in Thailand. On Friday, she accompanied Anne Marie Dalgaard on visits to Patana School and ISB to ensure that these schools understand and appreciate the offer they now have availabale for their Danish students.

“A critical point was, that we wanted this solution to cover all Danish children in and around Bangkok – not only international school students,” says Mai Ellegaard.

“This is now part of the deal. Both at NIST and ISB it will be possible for Danish students – who do not attend any of those schools – to come on the specific days where the teacher is on that school and join the classes there.

Many children of Thai-Danish marriages do not attend international school and they should also be covered with this solution!”

Danes Worldwide offers also an online Danish course as a separate product which many Danish parents already subscribe to.This is in particular good for children who live outside Bangkok in areas too far to be covered by the new school offer in Bangkok.

Once the Danes Worldwide school is up and running, it will also look at offering Danish education for toddlers and teaching Danish as a foreign language to for instance foreign spouses of Danish parents or as a pre-study for Thais planning to immigrate to Denmark.

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Jan B. Djerf presides over EuroCham Singapore Undoubtedly Swedish banking executive Mr Jan B. Djerf is one of our most well known Scandinavians in Singapore.

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n Southeast Asia’s undisputed business hub since 2004 Mr Djerf is not only Senior Vice President and General Manager of Handelsbanken Singapore Branch and Head of South Asia and Pacific; he is also the President of Eurocham, European Chamber of Commerce (Singapore), during two years spanning from 2015 – 2017.

Prior to this, Mr. Djerf took on the role as VicePresident for 3 years. Mr. Djerf also represents the Swedish Business Association in Singapore on the EuroCham Board and has been an active Board member since 2005.

ScandAsia finds out more about these, his prestigious additional roles on a European level.

But first, a résumé of his career up to now: In his professional career, Mr. Djerf ’s major step towards senior level management came with his appointment as the Head of the Treasury Department at Ericsson in Stockholm, Sweden.

This sparked his globetrotting career phase, leading him to be headhunted by Alfinad SA in Brussels, Belgium, the Treasury Center of Alfa Laval. Mr. Djerf soon saw his career taking him 16 ScandAsia.Thailand • May 2016

to Lausanne, Switzerland as Director Group Treasury at Tetra Laval. 1994 saw Mr. Djerf ’s entry into one of Scandinavia’s largest banks, Handelsbanken. In 1998, Mr. Djerf was appointed Head of Foreign Exchange Money Markets and Emerging Markets, Europe. This took him to London and then to Stockholm. After that he arrived to Singapore and Handelsbanken.

Mr. Jan B. Djerf represents the Swedish Business Association in Singapore on the EuroCham Board and has been an active Board member since 2005, including taking on the role of Vice President since 3 years. In March 2015, Mr. Djerf was unanimously voted to the Presidency of EuroCham for a twoyear term.

EuroCham’s Board of Governors comprises of the Office Bearers, which includes the President, a Patron, Ordinary Corporate Board Members, as well as 14 Representatives from the European National Business Groups (NBGs). EuroCham works very closely with the EU Delegation to Singapore for its events and activities. H.E. Dr. Michael Pulch, Ambassador of the EU Delegation to Singapore sits on the Board as Patron.

Under Mr Djerf ’s leadership, EuroCham has emerged as an instrumental body in the business community, making concrete efforts in enhancing and encouraging a vibrant trade relationship between Singapore and the EU. Locally, EuroCham has had several engagements with a myriad of government agencies and representatives in a bid to foster a conductive business environment. As Singapore continues to develop itself as a regional hub for major industries, EuroCham’s relevance becomes strikingly important to offer a support base for European companies that are looking to Asia to expand their operations.

To date, Singapore plays host to approximately 11,000 European companies and more are expected to arrive in due course.

The EuroCham collection of sector committees has grown from 9 to 11 – Commercial Vehicles, Financial Ser vices, ICT, Internship, Intellectual Proper ty Rights (IPR), Human Resources (HR), Regional Finance & Tax, Regional Trade, Sustainability, Food & Pharma Packaging and Wine & Spirits. Sector committees offer a common European platform to exchange

information, discuss common issues businesses are facing and undertake coordinated initiatives.

In line with the wor k of the sector committees, EuroCham has successfully published a number of Position Papers, which summarise policies and trends in Southeast Asia with recommended proposals. Examples are: Traceability: The Cornerstone of Food Safety Policy (introducing new regulations in Singapore’s Food Regulations); Position Paper on Degradable Packaging & Plastic Ban as a Solution to Littering; and HR White Paper (outlining priorities for the development of human capital in ASEAN in lieu of the ASEAN economic integration project).

“EuroCham has been involved in many advocacy initiatives in collaboration with Singaporean authorities, and more projects will follow. We have been active on diverse fields, ranging from tourism to taking actions against counterfeiting, not to mention our engagement on many policy dialogues on HR or FS. As such, our presence and close ties with the Singaporean Government allows us to be a key interlocutor

for European businesses, and we hope to see our voice growing stronger.”

“In addition, as our scope of action is constantly widening, EuroCham now aims to strengthen its collaboration with the Singaporean Government by taking more initiatives based on corporate social responsibility, a key aspect frequently mentioned in the Budget in March,” Mr Djerf comments on the activities going forward.

Fur thermore EuroCham organizes two annual flagship events – Europe Day Luncheon and Schuman Lecture Gala Dinner. During these events, the Chamber has the privilege to host high profile personalities to deliver a keynote speech, sharing their thoughts and views of the global economy and its future implications for businesses. EuroCham also offers a less formal platform for its members and the wider business community to network and access a wide and diversified audience (arranged four times yearly).

For Mr Djerf his experience from being President also for SBAS (Swedish Business Association of Singapore) is significant in his EuroCham role.

“Not only it is possible but I would say essential to apply past experiences to future roles as experience come with knowledge and lessons on how to overcome a challenge. Each National Business Group has its own topics of interest.

However, building an advocacy and lobbying strategy in Singapore is a constant challenge to all. If the issues are different, the approach remains the same, and it is crucial to follow the business environment and culture in place in Singapore.”

And one may also wonder how the head of Handelsbanken in the region can balance his additional President roles also with family life?

“Every day is a challenge with many obstacles to overcome. However, being the President of EuroCham does not mean I have to face them alone. I am blessed to have the support of my family. In addition, I have the great pleasure to work with a dynamic team offering the support I need to carry on the work and responsibilities I hold.“ May 2016 • ScandAsia.Thailand 17

Kaanda Beach Life beachwear

by Katarina Bonér Swede behind the beautiful beachwear collection

By Agneta de Bekassy

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atarina has lived with her husband and two children in Phuket, Thailand since 2009. After having sold their Relais & Chateau Hotel “Krägga and Thoresta Herrgårdar” in Sweden, her husband retired.The kids were still young and her husband wanted to stay active, so the family decided to go for an adventure, moving to Phuket.

While having Swedish friends visiting them and complaining about the lack of good bathing suits/bikinis here in Thailand, Katarina’s friend, got a brilliant idea.

After his almost 30 years’ work experience with underwear and bathing suits for a Swedish post Order Company with production in Hong Kong, he decided to connect Katarina with his former contact in Hong Kong, who also owns a big factory.

Katarina thought about maybe making her own brand of beachwear, but the Hong Kong contact instead suggested she should sell his label “Sunseeker Australia” and so she started. She also added a few other labels.

In year 2013 Katarina felt mature enough and ready to introduce her own collection: ‘KAANDA Beach Life’ was born.

The name tells a story, Katarina says: “It’s a bringing together of KAtarina and the ANDAman Sea and the name also has many meanings in different eastern languages and cultures;The Sixth Sense, Goddess and Protector of Mankind”, to mention a few.

Her collection has been very welcomed in Asia and is most appreciated as it stands for high quality and a modern, classy style. Katarina has focused on creating an ideal tropical beachwear and bikini brand, inspired by the beach life in Phuket.

Where does your inspiration come from I ask? Katarina answers quickly; “Oh, from the beautiful island Phuket and the exotic life style here and the Buddhist way of life.”

She focuses on young, feminine shapes and colourful prints.” I want my customers to feel

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confident and beautiful while wearing my bathing suits and bikinis” Katarina says.

All women can wear my brand, she adds.

The soft fabrics and seamless features make the swimsuits/bikinis very comfortable and easy to wear.

Among her favourite prints are tropical and jungle prints, leopard, paisley and snake, just to mention a few.

KAANDA also includes the LUXE group that offers more sophisticated prints, graphic prints and florals in classic styles.

Today you will find “KAANDA beach wear” in 15 different department stores, at 30 resorts and in 2 own boutiques (one shop is located at Surin beach and the other at Boat Avenue, next to Villa Market).

“Today we have between 20 and 30 employees, with offices both in Bangkok and Phuket,” she tells. “We are organizing fashion shows on a regularly basis in Phuket and we have also had a few in Bangkok.”

One of these shows at Siam Paragon a few years ago was quite an experience! The theme was “The Cabaret” and the models presented the beachwear in a very professional and interesting way, along with great music!

Katarina should be very proud of herself. Her collection has been published in most magazines in Thailand including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Image, Lips Women’s Health, Preaw, Lemon, EXPAT LIFE and now she can also add ScandAsia.

Images of her pieces have been on the cover of several different magazines including IMAGE at least 5 times with Thailand’s superstar Ya Ya Ying and as cover on Playboy magazine with Aum Lukkana.

When Katarina is not working, she loves spending time with husband and her two children Mathilda, today 13, and Carl Ola, 11, and of course she enjoys when her Swedish friends come to visit the family on the Paradise island Phuket.

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Agneta’s World

Dear readers, Last month, photographer Daniel and I took you along to a few places on Sukhumvit and ThongLoh. This month we have moved a bit further up to Ekkamai.

Like ThongLoh, Ekkamai has developed a lot these last years and become very popular with all new bars and restaurants.

Photographer: Daniel Herron

Dermaster

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e started the afternoon with a visit to Dermaster.This beauty clinic is like a small, luxurious Boutique hotel, located on Sukhumvit 63 between soi Ekkamai 18-20.

If you feel you need a real make over, I think this must be one of the best and most inviting places. Here you can get just about everything fixed.They offer Skin Laser & Aesthetic, Cosmetic Surgery, Slimming, Hair Restoration and last, but not least, Holistic Anti-Aging.

Are you familiar with Thermage CPT e.g.? I wasn’t, but now I am. Thermage CPT is a safe, non-invasive, radiofrequency (RF) cosmetic procedure that’s clinically proven to help smooth, tighten and contour skin for an overall younger looking appearance - suitable for all skin types.

This procedure can effectively and safely treat skin on most of the body parts and can temporarily reduce cellulites. If you are a person who wants the dramatic results of surgery, well when Thermage CPT might not be the right choice as it’s shows a more subtle, gradual result.

This treatment is the option when lotions and potions are not enough and surgery is too much.

Dermaster also offers the most wonderful facial treatments; you’ll think you’re in heaven.

Believe me, I’ve tried…

The motto of Dermaster seems to be ‘Live Beautifully’ and who doesn’t want to do that?!

Sasi SPA

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bit further, on Sukhumvit soi 71, next to St. Andrew’s school, you will find a newly opened petite and very personal SPA called Sasi SPA & beautee. Sasi SPA got its name after its owner Sasi. A chat with Sasi is really interesting. She is born Thai, married to an Englishman, a drilled business woman who early dropped out of school, but found out she had a talent for doing business.

Her father was a businessman who spoiled us kids, Sasi told us. As a young woman, she loved visiting different Spa’s.

“When I was young here [I interrupted and said: ‘younger!’], there were only good Spa’s at the 5-star Hotels and of course they were quite expensive.

When Sasi’s husband retired, she decided to fulfil one of her old dreams to open her own SPA. She found a town house on Sukhumvit soi 71, not too far from her home, started to change it completely, as she wanted more bathrooms than there were and she needed steam baths, Jacuzzis and so on.

Thinking about all things she herself would look for at visiting a Spa, she also added a coiffeur chair so the customers could have their hair washed and done after their treatments.

Sasi is a kind of “meticulous” woman who wants the very best; she orders her products from a French company, labelled “Le Club des Professional”.

These products are 100 % natural and ideal for people with allergies as no perfume is added.

Does Sasi know anything about Spa treatments? I was wondering. But I saw some diplomas hanging on the wall and she explained she had learned about beauty treatments and make-up at the Ketwadde School, among some others.

As I know this lady, there is no doubt that she will become successful!

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At Sasi’s you can also buy 5 vouchers of any treatment and get one for free. Most Spa’s and beauty salons offer 10 vouchers and one for free, already a reason to spend a morning or afternoon at Sasi.

After our visit to Sasi’s she invited us home for a chilled glass of wine.

She resides, together with hubby and three dogs, in a huge, very beautiful villa built around a beautiful pool. I couldn’t help thinking how this is the nonplus ultra place for an ambassador to live. Got to know that Sasi and her husband want to sell and asked why.

“Well, there are only the two of us today, no children hanging around, we don’t need this much space”.

So here we go, any ambassador who needs a representative living with lots of entertainment space, first book a Spa treatment and then take a look at Madame’s residence!

Ambre Jolie

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ow, happy and relaxed after wine and a nice visit, we went to see a German lady, Fine, who has opened a show room in her town house in Ekkamai Soi 28. I had met Fine at IWC (International Women’s Club). As my second mother tongue is German I was delighted to find someone to speak

German with.

Fine told me about a collection with extra ordinary garments, designed by a French/Khmer (Cambodian) designer, that she had discovered when she was out looking for a dress for herself. She fell in love with Romyda Keth collection and already in 2007 she bought her first dress from this label.

Her friends had immediately complimented her and they also wanted the same label. Unfortunately this collection couldn’t be found in Thailand.

A few years later, she realised she had to ask for a license to import and sell this collection in Thailand. In year 2012 the mission was completed, the Showroom named ‘Ambre Jolie’ was born.

Today she has a nice showroom at her home and her clients love to drop by and enjoy choosing between all colourful garments. In my opinion, it is a very special collection consisting of both long and short gowns in all kinds of colours and a unique design. A collection that you could say is inspired of both the east and the west.

I couldn’t resist trying out two very sexy, long dresses and I could easily have brought both back home with me. Asking about the price range, I was surprised as her price range is quite modest, starting from about 6,500 baht and up to around 22,000 baht for a long dress.

Iron Balls

When the Ball season starts again come the autumn, I can warmly recommend a visit to Fine. You will be impressed when you see the presentation at her showroom. I asked if she is doing a lot of advertising as she is a bit hidden, you don’t just happen to pass by her atelier. Fine replied: “No, I haven’t yet; it has been growing by word-of-mouth.”

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can also tell a secret, I have promised to help Fine with her very first fashion show taking place in September, just you wait and see…!

Early evening has arrived when I told the photographer: “Time for our last Stop, let’s go for a gin at IRON BALLS!” This unique bar is located on Sukhumvit Soi 63 (Ekkamai). I have only been there twice, but love the atmosphere.The owner is Australian and first he only wanted to distil his own gin, but learned that to be able to do so, he had to open a bar. When you’re longing to making a top class gin is big, yes why not open a bar, if that gives you permission to distil? The decision was taken and Iron Balls opened up. It’s the most cosy, crazy little bar where you can see the shiny cupper distil equipment, the designed gin bottles and much more fun curiosa. My favourite place is on the tiny balcony, there only 2 old armchairs find space. Here you have a view over the bar and its guests coming and going.

The bar opened up 2 ½ years ago and the man in charge, the distiller, is Khun Nalin from Sri Lanka. I asked if the visitors are mainly Thais or foreigners and Nalin answered: “ 50/50.”

Almost every evening you can meet khun Sopida Pachana there and we asked what her interest in the bar is. She smiled and said: “This has become my second home and I am here almost every evening, but don’t think I’m an alcoholic now. I just love the atmosphere and I always take my friends and visitors here.”

Nalin learned how to distil gin in Thailand and he said it takes about 2-3 weeks before the gin is ready. Their gin has a very smooth taste and we learned that the juniper berries are imported from Australia.

The bar is opened every evening, best customer days are Friday - Sunday and the customers are not really the young hip hop girls and boys, more like me and Daniel, middle age or maybe I should say “people in their best age”.

What a day!

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มุมภาษาไทย l mum pha:să: thai l Thai Language Corner

Thai in Stickness and in Health

By Klavs Johansen (thai@snakthai.dk)

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o, despite the headline, we will not discuss Thai matrimony, not this time at least, but rather pick up from our last month’s recommendation of health insurance (make sure to have one!) and look at some useful words and phrases per taining to health สุขภาพ / sùkkhàphâ:p / and staying healthy รักษาสุขภาพ / ráksă: sùkkhàphâ:p / in Thailand. As usual, we can only cover but a few.

Just like in English, a polite question when meeting up with someone could be สบายดีไหม / sàba:i di: mái / ~ how are you, are you well?

The normal reply is สบายดี / sàba:i di: / ~ I am fine, to be well, while ไม่สบาย / mâi sàba:i / ~ I am not well, to be sick, fortunately is less common and immediately produces a เป็นอะไรหรือ / pen àrai rŭe: / ~ what is it, is something wrong?

Having heard the complaint, ไปหาหมอหรือยัง / pai hă: mŏr: rŭe: yang / ~ have you been to see the doctor (or not yet)? is a frequent response from the sympathetic listener. Depending on the ailment, another response could be กินยาหรือยัง / kin ya: rŭe: yang / or, the more formal version, ทานยาหรือยัง / tha:n ya: rŭe: yang / ~ have you taken medicine (or not yet)?

To be outright ill is ป่วย / pùai / and, as we saw with the question เป็นอะไร / pen àrai /, the verb to use when having some illness is เป็น / pen /, e.g. เป็นหวัด / pen wàt / ~ to have a cold, or เป็นไข้ / pen khâi / ~ to have fever.

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Other symptoms อาการ / a:ka:n / are: เจ็บ / jèp / ~ to hur t [from exterior or

interior cause], e.g.

เจ็บนิ้ว / jèp nío / ~ the finger hurts, and เจ็บคอ / jèp khor: / ~ (to have a) sore throat,

ปวด / pùat / ~ to ache, to be in pain [generally from some interior cause], as in ปวดหัว / pùat hŭa / ~ (to have a) headache, ปวดท้ อ ง / pùat thór:ng / ~ (to have a) stomachache, and ปวดฟัน / pùat fan / ~ (to have a) toothache, แสบ / sàe:p / ~ to sting, to smart, e.g. แสบตา / sàe:p ta: / ~ having irritated eyes, คัน / khan / ~ to itch, for example คันหู / khan hŭ: / ~ the ear is itching, อาการคลื่นไส้ / a:ka:n khlûe:n sâi / ~ nausea, อ้วก / ûak / ~ throw up, or, as the doctor would put it, อาเจียน / a:jian / ~ to vomit, เวียนหัว / wian hŭa / ~ to be dizzy.

Some often heard of diseases โรค / rô:k / in

Thailand are:

ไข้หวัด / khâi wàt / ~ common cold, ไข้หวัดใหญ่ / khâi wàt yài / ~ influenza, ปอดบวม / pòr:t buam / ~ pneumonia, ไข้ป่า / khâi pà: / ~ malaria (literally ‘jungle

fever’), and

ไข้เลือดออก / khâi lûeat òr:k ~ dengue fever.

Again, these diseases may be preceded by เป็น / pen / to convey the meaning that someone suffers the disease in question. Another word used with contagious diseases is ติด / tìt / as in

ติดเชือ้ ไวรัส / tìt chúea wairát / ~ to have a virus.

The word for infection is อักเสบ / àksè:p / as in คออั ก เสบ / khor: àksè:p / ~ tonsillitis

(inflammation of the throat).

Arguably the most common ailment is known as ท้องเสีย / thór:ng sĭa / ~ stomach upset, which generally implies ท้องร่วง / thór:ng rûang / ~ diarrhea.

Turning to injuries อาการบาดเจ็บ / a:ka:n bà:t jèp / and accidents อุบัติเหตุ / ùbàttìhè:t /, we get: ขาหัก / khă: hàk / ~ broken leg, แขนหัก / khăe:n hàk / ~ broken arm, กระดูกหัก / kràdù:k hàk / ~ broken bone, บาดเจ็บ / bà:t jèp / ~ to be wounded, บาดแผล / bà:t phlăe: / ~ wounds, เลือดออก / lûeat òr:k / ~ to bleed (blood type is หมู่เลือด / mù: lûeat / by the way), สลบ / sàlòp / ~ to faint, to be unconscious.

Last, but not least, following this long list of sufferings, the chance of staying healthy in the first place is increased by eating fruits กินผลไม้ / kin phŏnlámá:i /, drinking plenty of water กิน น้ำ�เยอะแยะ / kin ná:m yóe› yáe› / and getting enough sleep นอนให้อิ่ม / nor:n hâi ìm /, while, once struck, you may cure รักษาให้หาย / ráksă: hâi hă:i / yourself with medicine ยา / ya: / as in ยาแก้ปวด / ya: kâe: pùat / ~ painkillers, and ยาแก้อักเสบ / ya: kâe: àksè:p / ~ antibiotics.

รักษาสุขภาพดีๆนะครับ / ráksă: sùkkhàphâ:p di: di: ná› khráp / ~ stay healthy, and see you at the Thai Language Corner on Facebook or here again next month!

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