By the end of this year, Thailand will be free from three types of plastic – microbeads, cap seals and oxo-degradable plastics – and from four other types of single-use plastics by 2022, according to a Cabinet acknowledged road map. Please read more here from The Nation 19 April 2019.
The Danish - Thai Chamber of Commerce would like to covey our congratulations to Mr. Karri Kivela, former Executive Director of the Thai-Finnish Chamber of Commerce (TFCC) who has been appointed as the new Executive Director of EABC. Mr. Kivela assumed the position at EABC on 18 April 18, 2019. We will miss Mr. Karri among [...]
Soon it will be possible to go by train to and from Cambodia. However, a bilateral border agreement for train transportation still to be signed between the two countries. The 1·3 km cross-border rail link between Arayaprathet in Thailand and Poipot in Cambodia which was completed last year is to be opened on April 22, Thailand’s [...]
COME AND VISIT PANDORA PRODUCTIONS DTCC MEMBERS ONLY Dear Members, The Chamber has together with Pandora Productions, Bangkok, planned a tour to the factory combined with a lunch which all together will take 3 hours. The tour to Pandora has been scheduled to Thursday 6 June 2019, from 1100 to 1400 including lunch at a restaurant [...]
Europes highest building soon to be in Denmark A tiny Danish town of just 7,000 people will soon play host to Europe’s tallest building - a 320-metre skyscraper higher than The Shard in London and roughly the same height as the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The Bestseller Tower, commissioned by the fashion retailer of the same [...]
The Danish Transport and Logistics Company DSV acquires Panalpina DSV and Panalpina have reached an agreement on the terms and conditions of a combination by way of a public exchange offer to all Panalpina shareholders, which Panalpina's board of directors has recommended its shareholders to accept. The offer already has the support of shareholders representing 69.9% [...]
New Board Elected for the DTCC Good Governance on the Table for the AGM On the evening of 21 March 2019, the Danish – Thai Chamber of Commerce held its Annual General Meeting at the Two Pacific Place building in Bangkok. Seven candidates were on the electionof which two were for re-election. All seven was elected for [...]
On behalf of Baker McKenzie Thailand, Say Sujintaya, Partner; Business Development Chair and Waranon Vanichprapa, Partner; CSR Chair presented a cheque for USD 1,100 (THB 35,000) to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kris Chatamra, Founder, Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer Foundation and the Pink Park Village. The Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer Foundation supports underprivileged women [...]
The number of foreign citizens employed in Denmark has increased by 75,000 since 2014, according to figures from Statistics Denmark. That means that one in ten people currently earning a living on the Danish labour market was born outside of Denmark, an increase from one in 14 a decade ago, media TV2 reports. Figures used in the report [...]
Bangkok Airways has extended its cancellation of flights to and from the northern border province of Mae Hong Son until at least March 24 due to poor visibility caused by haze and smog. The airline earlier canceled flights to Mae Hong Son between March 14-16. Sunthorn Kanthamala, an official at the Mae Hong Son meteorological station, [...]
