Travel chaos persists despite easing of air lockdown

Travel chaos has continued to grip Europe, despite the easing of its aerial lockdown as the Icelandic volcano eruption appeared to wane. The UK has reopened its airports, while some flights have left Paris, Amsterdam and Frankfurt, but airspace in Germany and Ireland remains restricted. More than 95,000 flights were cancelled across Europe in the [...]

Denmark to open world-class international research center in October

Under the name “The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research,” the University of Copenhagen in Denmark will open an international research center on October 1st, 2010, conducting research on Type 2 diabetes, among other diseases, and will acquire the capacities and resources to establish itself as one of the leading international research centers [...]

Gender equality gap should close in Denmark

It was on the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day that Denmark was been given an overwhelming thumbs-down on the issue of gender equality by the Danish Institute for Human Rights (IMR). Such was done mainly because of the salary gap of almost 20 percent still existing between the women and men in Denmark. The [...]

Japan & Denmark agree to cooperate towards COP16

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and his Danish counterpart Lars Rasmussen on Monday agreed to cooperate towards making the next U.N. climate change conference a success. The two also proposed to work closely on other global issues, including the reconstruction of Afghanistan. ‘‘We agreed to cooperate in making COP16 a success,’’ Hatoyama said at a [...]

Oceans are new front in global warming challenge

Us environmental experts issued a notice and called for an urgent meeting to consider sea-a massive carbon store that can play a very vital role in dealing with global warming. The United nation environment control program (UNEP) launched the “blue carbon” initiative together Indonesian government Thursday on the resort island of Bali. “ A global [...]

Denmark celebrates “Day of Vietnamese Culture”

The Embassy of Vietnam in Denmark, along with the Danish-Vietnamese Association (DVA), organized a Vietnamese Culture Day, terming it as the “Day of Vietnamese Culture”, in the capital city of Copenhagen. The event brought together a large number of representatives from the Danish Foreign Ministry, the DVA, local companies and the community of overseas Vietnamese [...]

Denmark’s Prime Minister Shuffles Government

10 months after taking office, the prime minister of Denmark announced a major government shuffle on Tuesday by changing more than a dozen Cabinet posts, including the ministers of defense, justice and foreign affairs to build his own team. The change had been widely expected since Lars Loekke Rasmussen took over as leader of the center-right [...]

First free heroin clinic opens in Denmark

Denmark opened its first clinic equipped to distribute free heroin under medical supervision to people heavily addicted to the drug on Monday. The country joins a number of countries such as Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands, to allow prescriptions for medicinal heroin, or diamorphine, to be written out to a small group of addicts strongly [...]

Men not allowed to attend school meeting in Copenhagen

A school meeting held at the Holberg School in Copenhagen, Denmark, raised questions when men were not invited to it. The primary school refused the fathers of the pupils to join the same meetings as the mothers were attending. The segregation was kept for the Muslim women attending the meeting. The meeting held in the [...]

Children being paid for losing weight in Denmark

Children between the ages of 11 to 15 are being offered financial incentives for losing weight by a private advice company, according to reports from Copenhagen. The Danish Weight Consultants offers an experiment on weight loss and healthy eating advice to families and children who are at least 11 years old for a sign-up fee [...]

Immigration laws to become stricter in Denmark

Immigration laws in Denmark are to become stricter after a certain number of years, according to reports from Copenhagen delivered Tuesday. Danish Integration Minister Birthe Ronn Hornbech will propose the laws to immigration spokesmen of the Liberal and Conservative ruling government and she expects the laws will be passed in the Parliament with the support [...]

UN says that a binding climate deal will be ‘reachable this year’

The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said on Tuesday that the countries may reach a binding agreement on climate change in Mexico City this year, after failing to do so in Copenhagen. “I think we have a very short period of time in which the world has to get its act together. [...]

UN tries to defend climate change deal

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moo spoke to reporters on Monday after global bickering erupted as the world leaders fumed about the climate change deal made in Copenhagen, Denmark, last week. The UN chief tried to defend the world body’s central role in the ongoing debate. Ban said that the deal was an essential start [...]

COP15 is over & the Copenhagen Climate Summit has failed

The Copenhagen Climate summit ended in a disappointing end on Friday and fell short of the expectations of many. The hopes of bringing a positive change in the environment and making the world a ‘greener’ place to live in are upended. The U.S. President Barack Obama, who plunged into an unscheduled meeting on Friday with [...]

The human effect of global warming

The quest for a different planet good enough to be inhabited by the human race will fast take the shape of a real mission if conditions here on Earth continue to change the way they are  doing at the moment and the way they are predicted to in the future. While ‘change is the only [...]