ScandAsia Southeast Asia- April 2011

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Indonesia
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Party with Big Strong Saigon Vikings
The big, strong vikings, singing and dancing, swinging their beer mugs, were at the centre of this
year’s annual Viking Party on the Saigon River in HCMC this weekend, Saturday 26 March 2011.
The Nordic companies fully backed the event and many had brought several non-viking staff
members along. All seemed to have a great time with the good food, free flowing beer and wine and
the party continued deep into the night.
“We are having a jolly good time at these Viking parties,” says Sigmund Stromme, Chairman of
Nordcham Saigon.
“This has become one of our solid traditions that we will continue to follow up every year,” he
promised.
Close to a total of 300 participants sailed up the Sagon River on the special Viking Boat and
reached the parrty area where the party took place - including the battle where the Vikings from the
different companies competed in friendly tug of the rope.
1. Jan Tromler, the owner of the Au Lac do Brasil
restaurants in HCMC, Sigmund Stromme, Nordcham
Chairman and Nick Jonsson, Sophie Paris
in Vietnam had a great time.
2. Jorgen Lundbaek and Thip were in Viking
mood.
3. Andreas and Erik from STX and Sigmund
Stromme.
4. Nga Tromler, Au Lac do Brasil, and Hung,
Storm P went wild.
5. Kirsten and Jacob Larsen, Sonion A/S.
6. Jacob Lund, Claus Sørensen and Peder Frandsen,
Phasion and Viedam.
7. Nordcham’s past vice president Sørens Juelsbak
and current vice president Jasper Waale
8. Pulling the rope in the “tug of war”.
9. Good food.
April 2011 • ScandAsia.South East Asia 7

ScandAsia News Brief
Swedish
Minister
Visited
Malaysia and
Indonesia
Swedish Minister for Social Affairs Göran
Hägglund visited Malaysia and Indonesia
4 - 7 April 2011 as head of a delegation
of fifteen Swedish companies operating in the
healthcare sector.
Malaysia
During his visit to Malaysia, Göran Hägglund
met his Malaysian colleague, YB Datuk
Seri Liow Tiong Lai, and participated in two
Knowledge Sharing Seminars. During the stay
he also visited Prince Court Medical Centre, a
private hospital owned by Malaysia’s national
oil company Petronas, and National Heart
Institute, Malaysia’s national center for cardiovascular
diseases.
Malaysia is already one of Sweden’s largest
trading partners in Southeast Asia.
Indonesia
The visit to Indonesia lasted from 5 to 7 April
and included on the first day a meeting with
his colleague Minister of Health H.E. Dr. Endang
Rahayu Sedyaningsih. Minister Hägglund
invited Dr. Endang to visit Sweden later on
this year, where they are supposed to develop
details in an MoU in health care between
the two Governments.
On the following day, both ministers
were keynote speakers at the seminar
“Health Care for the Future - A Knowledge
Sharing Seminar with Sweden”.
A second seminar “Linking Partnership
between Indonesia and Sweden” - was also
held at Pertamedika, with speeches of Minister
Hägglund, Dr. H. Mardjo Soebiandono,
Director PT Pertamedika, and Dr. H. Sugiharto,
President commissioner of PT Pertamina.
Swedish Ambassador to Indonesia, Mrs.
Ewa Polano was obviously very satisfied with
the outcome of the visit.
“This visit by His Excellency Minister for
Health and Social Affairs of Sweden Göran
Hägglund further strengthens the already excellent
bilateral relations between Sweden
and Indonesia”, Mrs. Ewa Polano says.
“We are confident this will lead to increased
cooperation between our countries
in the field of health care to the benefit of the
Indonesian and Swedish people”.
Several of the fifteen world class global
leading Swedish health care companies in the
delegation signed business deals or MoU's
during the visit.
Agreements
During the visit of Minister Hägglund, several
business agreements were made and signed;
• Between the leading cancer curing company
from Sweden ELEKTA and the Lippo
Group Siloam Hospitals for a Gamma
Knife for the MRCCC.
• An MoU in the field of upgrading hospital
management processes and clinical knowledge
and it’s strategies was also signed on
Thursday between the Scandinavia Quality
Care Company SQC and Pertamedika
• As well as with the Jakarta Eye Center,
• Swedish company Getinge also signed
several contracts with Lippo Siloam Hospitals
Group.
• Swedish company KanMed - a UNICEF
listed Swedish company - donated an
incubator “BabyWarmer” to the leading
Indonesian Teaching Hospital RSCM. The
ceremony took place on 5 April when the
Minister and delegation visited the hospital.
Qatar Airways
Opens Oslo, and
Doubles S’pore
and KL Flights
On 9 March, Qatar Airways announced
that there will be more
expansions to its rapidly growing
global network, beginning the second half
of this year.
On 5 October 2011, Qatar Airways
will start off their five-flights-a-week schedule
to Norway’s capital city, Oslo. The airline
already operates scheduled services
to Stockholm and Copenhagen. Flights to
Copenhagen will also be upgraded to daily
operations.
In South East Asia, Qatar Airways has
announced plans to double its weekly flights
to Singapore by introducing a second daily
service. The Doha-based airline currently
operates daily flights from Doha to Singapore
with continuing flights to the Indonesian
resort island of Bali.
Additional non-stop services between
Doha and Singapore will start in May when
the airline adds three weekly flights to its
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operate to Singapore from 3 November,
doubling its daily flights.
According to Qatar Airways Chief Executive
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with load factors consistently in the high
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8 ScandAsia.South East Asia • April 2011

Cambodia Sets
Age Limit for
Foreign Husbands
Male foreigners over 50 year can
as of 1 March 2011 not marry a
Cambodian woman according to a
recent government decree.
Foreigners who earn less than $2,550
per month are also barred from marrying
local women. A Cambodian Foreign Ministry
spokesman described marriages between
old men and young women as “inappropriate”
but for practical reasons the
law will not apply to weddings taking place
overseas.
Cambodia imposed a temporary ban
on foreign marriages in 2008 to prevent human
trafficking, amid concern over a sharp
rise in the number of brokered relationships
involving South Korean men and mostly
poor Cambodian women.
That ban followed an International Organisation
for Migration report that said
many Cambodian brides suffered abuse
after moving to South Korea in marriages
hastily arranged by brokers who made large
profits.
Foreign Spouses Granted
More Residency Rights
The Indonesian House of Representatives
passed a new immigration law
early April that introduced sweeping
changes for foreign spouses and children of
mixed marriages.
Fahri Hamzah, deputy chairman of House
Commission III overseeing legal affairs, spoke
of a “breakthrough” as the gavel was banged
passing the bill.
House Deputy Speaker Priyo Budi Santoso
called the new law “monumental,” while
Justice and Human Rights Minister Patrialis
Akbar said the law was aimed at taking good
care of citizens’ foreign spouses and children.
“We want to give protection to Indonesian
citizens and their foreign relatives,”
Patrialis said.
“They are the children of Indonesia. Their
[foreign] wives and husbands are part of our
big family.”
The law, among other things, grants permanent
residency to foreigners married to
Indonesians and to their children, and allows
foreign spouses to work in the country without
sponsorship.
If any figures are known about the num-
One Visa for All Asean
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) is working on a plan to
make one visa for all of ASEAN in the
same way Europe’s unified visa system works,
reports The Independent.
“You would just have to apply for one
visa and you could then visit all the countries
using that visa,” said Eddy Krisneidi, an official
at the Jakarta-based ASEAN Secretariat,
which recently released its Tourism Strategic
Plan for the next five years.
ASEAN countries recorded more than
65 million foreign visitor arrivals in 2009. Malaysia
led the field, followed by Thailand, Singapore,
Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines,
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Brunei.
Analysts say visitor numbers could be
ber of foreigners living in Indonesia, those figures
are not shared with the public.
In late 2001, the Jakarta Post reported that
in 2000, there were 3,256,854 expatriates, including
their dependents, registered with Immigration
to live/work in Indonesia. This figure
includes all non-Indonesian, also members of
the non-documented ethnic Indonesian communities.
Justice and Human Rights Minister Patrialis Akbar
says wives and husbands of Indonesian citizens
are “part of our big family.”
boosted by slashing the time-consuming and
confusing visa requirements for each of ASE-
AN’s 10 countries, which range from vibrant
developing democracies to isolated, militarydominated
Myanmar.
While some allow foreigners to simply
purchase visas on arrival, others require wads
of paperwork, photos and up to a week to
issue the required stamp.
“One of the major concerns of the industry,
as well as visitors, is the difficulty of obtaining
visas, a series of widely differing regulations
and information needs for visas,” ASEAN’s
strategic plan states.
It is a view shared by Stuart McDonald,
who runs an online travel forum for Southeast
Asia.
“One of the most common questions that
we see on travelfish.org is people asking visa
questions: What kind of visa can I get? How
long is it valid for? What does it cost?,” said the
Australian who travels extensively in Asia.
“The rules change all the time and it introduces
a level of uncertainty and confusion that
the industry can do without.”
The concept of a single visa has wide support
among tourism bodies across Southeast Asia.

Fighting for Malaysian
Madeleine had
managed to stretch
the nine months
she had been given
to thirteen, but still
she was only six
years old when she
lost the fight with
the disease that had
haunted her little life
for so long.
‘Don’t buy
flowers,’ I said.
‘Let’s start a
collection of
cash,’ and that
was when the
first donations
came in.
By Katrine Bach Sigvardt
No one could have
predicted the tragedy
that hit the Sjonell
family in 1999 only a
year after they had
left Sweden and moved to Kuala
Lumpur.
Everyone was shocked when
the doctors announced that five
year old Madeleine only had another
nine months to live. Madeleine,
who had so easily adapted
to her new surroundings,
learnt English, and made many
new friends had an incurable brain
tumor.
Her parents did everything they
could to save their little girl, and so
did the doctors, but despite getting
the best treatment available, Madeleine
eventually had to give up. She
had managed to stretch the nine
months she had been given to 13,
but still she was only six years old
when she lost the fight with the disease
that had haunted her little life
for so long.
Feeling lucky
The loss of Madeleine came as a
devastating blow to everyone who
knew her. Her family suffered, but
despite tremendous grief and sorrow,
Madeleine’s mother Eva decided
that she would do what she could
in order to give something back to
the medical community in Malaysia
that had supported and helped her
family so much.
When Madeleine was ill, everyone
did whatever they could to
treat her but her tumor was located
on her brain stem - the switchboard
of the brain and thus very delicate
- and surgery was never an option.
The fact that the Sjonell’s had insurance
allowed them to go to the best
private hospitals in Malaysia and to a
couple abroad as well. Sadly, nothing
worked. Madeleine passed away
but only after everyone had tried
their best to save her.
A while later, when Eva visited
the pediatric cancer ward at a local
Malaysian hospital, she was shocked
at the realization that not all children
got the medication or even the help
they needed for a fighting chance in
the struggle against cancer.
“It really hit me how lucky we
were. Not in the sense that we had
lost our daughter but we didn’t have
that economical struggle. You meet
so many families there,” she says
and explains that you usually see
mothers who have left a family of
five or six people in rural parts of
Malaysia behind to be with their sick
child. These women have typically
never been to KL before, and according
to Eva there is a lot of fear
and guilt in the air at those hospitals.
She had wanted to give something
back, and it became clear to her that
her help should go to people and
institutions that really needed it.
“Don’t buy flowers”
When Madeleine died there was
a memorial service at Mont’ Kiara
International School where she had
been a student since her family moved
to KL. People came up to Eva to express
their condolences, but at the
same time they asked her what they
could do and how they could help.
“ ‘Don’t buy flowers, I said. Let’s
start a collection of cash,’ and that
was when the first donations came
in,” she says.
The new organization, Madeleine
Children’s Fund, or MCF as
it quickly became known, soon
became a reality as she and a
couple of other mothers started
raising funds. According to Eva,
the hard part was to figure out
how to spend the money in the
best way. She did know, however,
that it should go to children
with cancer in Malaysia as this is a
group that received little aid from
other organizations. There were two
large national cancer organizations
in Malaysia, but both of them were
mostly for adults. There was no
specific children’s cancer fund in the
country.
“There is a so-called ‘free medical
service’ in Malaysia but it is very
basic, and very limited. That’s why
we chose not to work with the
private hospitals where people like
ourselves and other expats go. They
have good medical insurances, but
the University public hospitals help
people who have basically nothing,”
Eva explains and says that is where
MCF is able to help.
Whatever they need
Madeleine Children’s Fund works
closely together with two pediatric
oncology wards in Malaysia (HUKM
and UMMC). Usually, it is the staff
at those same hospitals that bring
certain children to the organization’s
attention.
“They know us well and they
know we have funding. Typically, they
will suggest children who need special
care or medication or families who
need help with funeral costs. They
make a request to us, and that is usually
how it goes. We have also done
activities at hospitals, but the major-
10 ScandAsia.South East Asia • April 2011

Cancer Children
ity of the money goes for medication
and equipment,” she says and
adds that sometimes the items the
children need are so basic. In some
cases, it is milk powder rather than
chemo that a child needs in order to
recover, but hospitals do not always
have the means to provide this.
Eva explains that they always
know the name and age of the child
they are sponsoring. They have a little
bit of background information as
well as information about the particular
type of cancer the child has.
The most common one is leukemia,
which according to Eva has a pretty
good chance of retreat. The second
most common cancer type in chil-
dren is tumors, but unfortunately
those are always harder to treat.
Once in a while, she and her fellow
MCF members receive notice from
the hospitals that one of the sponsored
children has passed away.
Making a difference
As mentioned earlier, the whole
reason for creating Madeleine Children’s
Fund was to give something
back to Malaysia and to help the
children who are not as fortunate
as Madeleine was in terms of treatment.
There is no doubt in Eva’s
mind that the help MCF is able to
provide makes a world of difference
to the families that need it. MCF is
based solely on volunteer work and
charity, and therefore all the money
that is raised goes straight to the
children.
“There is actually quite a lot of
poverty among the families that you
would meet in local hospitals, and
they really, really need money. Even
if they have the basic help, if we
compare with our world, the basics
are very, very limited, so buying milk
powder for a one year old who also
has leukemia, definitely makes a big,
big difference,” she says.
Helping individual children,
however, is only part of MCF’s
work. Through fundraisers and
other events, the organization helps
creating awareness about cancer,
and according to Eva, that is very
important.
“We always see a lot of students,
especially, in elementary all
the way through high school who
think that cancer is contagious and
that you catch it like you catch a virus.
Of course there is a fine line between
informing and scaring people.
I don’t think that anyone should live
in fear to get a deadly disease but
it could happen to anyone. It happened
to our Madeleine. She had
no symptoms, and there is no cancer
in our family. It just happened.
Somehow, I think that knowing that
makes you appreciate your daily life
a bit more,” she says.
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Three Danish
Promotions
to Vietnam
By Indius Pedersen
First week of April, 19 Danish
textile companies were
looking for partnership
with colleagues in the Vietnamese
textile industry.
Several of the companies found potential
partners and are now looking
at building up a cooperation in the
future, eventually maybe even form
a joint venture.
During the visit there were
seminars, individual visits and
speeches from business people, the
Danish Ambassador, John Nielsen
and Vietnam’s Minister of Industry
and Trade, Tran Tuan Anh.
Close to 250 individual meetings
were organized in both Hanoi and
Ho Chi Minh City. The visit agenda
was planned and organized by the
Embassy in order to facilitate new
long-term partnerships between
Danish and Vietnamese companies.
The business opportunity is
based on the fact that the salary
is low in Vietnam - compared
to China. The problem is that the
Vietnamese textile industry has to
import the raw material, wool and
cotton from China. That problem
cost extra money for transport
from China to Vietnam and makes
it more difficult to be competitive
on selling on the textile marked in
Europe.
Water and pigs
Parallel to the visit of the textile
group of companies, the Danish
Embassy held a water trade promotion
activity in Vietnam. As well as
a promotion activity from the Pig
Research Center in Denmark.
“Vietnam is definitely a future
agricultural nation with a potential
within pig and cow production," says
Lindhart B. Nielsen, Pig Farmer and
Chairman of the Pig Research Center
of Denmark who participated in
the promotion.
“We want to establish a cooperation
with the Vietnamese farmers
to develop pig production here.
The Vietnamese farmers are very
eager to learn and expand. Danish
farmer have good reason to cooperate
with the Vietnamese farmers
about selling pigs, and sell semen
for the breeding programme. In the
future, Danish environmental indus-
try related to farming will then also
have a big potential market here,"
he added.
40 years in Vietnam
The week long promotion initiative
was a major success for the the
Danish Embassy, which the end of
this year can celebrate its 40 Years
Anniversary. Denmark was the second
country to establish an embassy
in Hanoi after the American war. So
far Denmark has invested 1.2 billion
USD in Vietnam, directly and indirectly.
12 ScandAsia.South East Asia • April 2011

Sophie Paris Takes Vietnam
by Storm
The Swedish Managed
French fashion house Sophie
Paris has become an instant
success in Vietnam.
Nick Jonsson, right, from the opening ceremony with President Director Mr. Bruno Hasson left and one of the
many pretty models decorating the stage in front of them.
Sophie Paris, Asia’s leading
direct selling Fashion
Company which started
operating in Vietnam in
November 2010, has already
taken the city’s fashion enthusiasts
by storm.
“We are thrilled to see the success
we already have in Vietnam,”
says company General Director
Nick Jonsson.
“We targeted a sales per month
of 200,000 US$ - but we reached
that figure after only a few days. In
fact sales in the first two months exceeded
USD 1 million,” reveals the
Swedish-native Nick Jonsson.
Nick believes it is the combination
of Sophie Paris’ French designed
fashion, the competitive pricing and
the fantastic business opportunity
the company offers resellers, that
has created the instant success.
“If there is one thing we Swedes
pride ourselves on, it is our legacy of
design, and I have to hand it to our
team, they have done an incredible
job of designing an amazing range of
products at ideal price points suitable
for developing markets.”
With products designed by a
French design team led by Mr. Arnaud
Roca, the products draw inspiration
from some of the world’s
leading design and creative geniuses,
and are priced to suit local budgets
for discerning customers with an
eye on their purse strings.
“We produce a new catalogue
every 45 days, and each catalogue
features 40 per cent new styles.
This means the standard of products
that reach the market matches
the most exacting design and construction
standards imaginable,” said
Nick.
With a track record of establishing
the company in the Philippines
and Morocco as well as Indonesia,
the $100 million firm has come to
be Asia’s leading fashion company
selling direct, with over 100,000 active
members worldwide. Its Vietnam
foundation team brings more
than 40 years of experience in direct
selling to the fast developing
South East Asian Nation.
Fully certified and recognized by
the Direct Selling Committee of the
American Chamber of Commerce
in Vietnam, market reception to the
Nick Jonsson
General Director
company has been hot, with over
9000 members already selling the
company’s products.
“We are extremely confident
that Vietnam will continue turn a
little pinker with us here,” said Mr.
Jonsson.
“Our bright branding is already
all over the city, and we are sure
that our products will continue to
be the talk of the town.”
Interested members can view the
full catalogue online at www.sophieparis.vn
and they are welcome to
visit the Sophie Paris showroom in
Ho Chi Minh City.
About Sophie Paris
Sophie Paris is a French owned
fashion company selling direct. It
is present in four countries including
Indonesia, Morocco, Philippines
and Vietnam. With head office in
Jakarta, Indonesia the company employs
more than 500 staffs and has
more than 100,000 active members
around the world. The company
produces a new catalogue every 45
days full of French designed fashion
for woman, men and children.
Sophie Paris Vietnam was
launched in November 2010 and has
its office on 84B Tran Quoc Toan,
Ward 8, District 3. Ho Chi Minh
City. The company employs 75 staff
as well as more than 9000 members.
See news here: http://www.
scandasia.com/viewNews.php?coun_
code=vn&news_id=8502
With over 15 years in roles ranging from business development to
marketing communications, Nick leds the Sophie Paris team with a
diverse portfolio of experience behind him. Nick cut his multi-level
marketing teeth working with beauty company Oriflame in Vietnam,
where he was Area Sales manager based in the Ho Chi Minh City
branch. During his time with the company he grew the consultant
number by more than 50%.
His most recent role saw him employed as Business Development
Manager at International SOS Vietnam, and roles before that
included periods consulting in communications in Thailand, the UK
and Australia, as well as his native Sweden.
In his spare time, Nick enjoys watching football and playing tennis
and golf.
With almost four years of Vietnam under his belt, the dynamic
father-of-one is also very active in the European and Scandinavian
business communities, indeed he currently sits as the Vice Chairman
of NordCham Vietnam.
Nick holds a Masters Degree in Public Relations and a Bachelor
of Communications, both from Bond University in Australia.
April 2011 • ScandAsia.South East Asia 13

Former Teen Actor Sel
Antiques, and Five Star
Carsten Jørgensen is truly one of the special
characters in Bali. The Dane came to the
village of Ubud with several containers of
antiques and started to sell the stuff inside or
outside his restaurant Coffee & Silver. At the
same time he is designing for some of the
regions best regarded hotel chains.
By Bjarne Wildau
Many years ago a
complete Danish
Antique shop arrived
in the artistic
Balinese village of
Ubud. The antique dealer Carsten
Jørgensen, former actor, model, and
restaurateur in the Danish town Arhus,
was on the move.
One of the things from the containers,
a typical Danish coffee mill
is now greeting his guest when they
enter Carstens restaurant Coffee &
Silver close to the Monkey Forrest
in Ubud. The rest of the stuff you
can find in the Danes’ Antique shop
in the backyard.
In one of several rooms in that
shop you will also find examples of
Carsten Jørgensen’s creations to
solve the need for “exclusive” but
cheaper designs to the modern
world, namely sinks in bronze.
Should stay one month
Back in the restaurant its time to
find out how the containers and
Carsten Jørgensen ended up in this
quite touristic and artistic village of
Ubud.
”My old man turned fifty, and
the family turned to me to find a
place where we all could celebrate
his birthday,” Carsten explains.
“I planned to stay one month
but Ubud this place has so many
things that I find so appealing. It’s
a very beautiful place. The nature
outside town is fantastic. During my
first years here we had rice paddies
in the middle of the town, and not
least, you have all these more or
less crazy people from all over the
world living here, some of them are
bastards, but most of them are lovable”,
Carsten Jørgensen says with
a laugh while massaging his moustache.
Suddenly he makes a decision.
He gets up from his chair and walks
over to another branch of his antique
shop attached to the restaurant.
Second later he is back with a
huge scrapbook.
After Carsten has been holding
me three steps from his story, it
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ling Jazz,
Vilas in Bali
seem like it is now literally going to
unfold in front of my eyes.
Looking in a Scrapbook
Some pictures from the most
watched Danish movie appear.
Those pictures show Carsten Jørgensen
as one of the most wellknown
Danish film characters,
namely “Jønne” in the film director
Nils Malmros’ movie Beauty and the
Beast (Skønheden og udyret) where
he played together with superstars
like Jesper Klein and Merete Voldstedlund.
The film was huge. And the
same was the reaction to the movie,
and the people behind this outstanding
peace of art.
“It was just too much. I couldn’t
step outside my room without
someone I had never seen before
was my best friend”, says Carsten
Jørgensen.
However, it was a lifelong enemy
from the schoolyard who
showed the teen actor that it was
time to go.
“One Saturday evening when I
enjoyed my self with my real friends,
a guy came up to me from behind
and offered me a beer. It was my
enemy from as far back as I can remember.
We had been fighting each
other for years, and now he would
share a beer with me. He would be
honoured to pay the bill. Oh my
dear, I simply had to get out, as far
away as possible”, says Carsten Jørgensen
rolling his moustache once
again.
Back in front of cameras
That place turned out to be Japan,
where Carsten Jørgensen easily
could walk around in Tokyo without
anyone padding his shoulder.
Years later his was ready for another
turn in his career.
Carsten turns a page in his
scrapbook. Now he is a photo
model for brands which at that time
were the biggest of the biggest like
Pierre Cardin and Versace.
When Carsten left to get the
scrapbook I noticed he is leaning
forward a bit while standing and
working, and I could recognise the
same posture, lesser but still the
same, on the ads for Versace. The
answer to my question came right
away:
“I have rheumatism in my spine,
and it already started when I made
that commercial”, the former model
says.
Jazz and Antiques
Later when Carsten had his antique
shop in Århus, he and his brother
opened a restaurant named Coffee
& Silver. One of the things making
the places famous, except from jazz
music, was the fact that everything
in the restaurant was for sale, like in
Carsten’s shop around the corner.
“Our guest could literally risk
that the chair they thought were
theirs for the evening, would be
sold and then taken away right from
under their bottoms”.
But eventually all the stuff, including
the Coffee mill, was moved
here to his new Coffee & Silver restaurant
where Carsten still provides
beautiful jazz twice a week. And
that’s the place where you meet the
guy if he his not out doing something
else.
Mapping the Islands
“I has always been about selling. I
never sold my own mother, but
apart from that, I want to find things
someone made already and I love
to make my own stuff too - and
then sell it!” Carsten says.
“So during the first years out
here I spend loads of time travelling
around on all the small islands
nearby, Lombok, Sumba, Sumbawa,
Flores and Timor and even the eastern
part of Java, to see what they
were good at. I was mapping the villages
my own way, giving them new
names in my notebook. Table village,
bronze village, wood table’s village,
blacksmith village, and so on”.
The bronze sink that Carsten
keeps in his antique shop in the
backyard he found in a village in
Java. Now you can find washbasin
and even bathtubs made in bronze
in five star rooms in Bali and the surrounding
islands, and as far away as
in Langkawi Malaysia, The Maldives
and the Seychelles islands. And
where ever the hotel chain Four
Seasons is around.
Lately the Dane made his entry
to a new business.
“I help people build their villas
or maybe they want to create a new
hotel. I find the land, the architect,
take a fight or ten with him, then I
secure the quality of the construction
designs, the work, the material
and especially secure the end
result. When people contact me,
they know that guest will get a good
feeling in their stomach when they
enter one of “my” rooms”.
3000 US $ per Nigth
The latest project, and the biggest,
is a five star villa in a remote villa.
The owner is an Indian millionaire
with an Australian passport, and he
wanted the former teen actor to
create a five star villa, 1600 m2, for
typically Indian movie stars and similar
types of guests who are ready
to pay 3.000 US $ per night for five
bedrooms and a little more.
“It was difficult to understand
why it was me, among hundreds,
who got that project. He saw what
I had done before and liked it. And
that was it”, Carsten Jørgensen is
laughing massaging his moustache
one more time.
Life is good to Carsten Jørgensen now
that he has settled down in Ubud on
Bali with his Indonesian wife and their
cute baby - and... what? Is that a new
baby coming along?
April 2011 • ScandAsia.South East Asia 15

Nyborg
Gymnasium
Nyborg Gymnasium is
an unusual Danish college,
offering both STX
(a standard Danish A-level), HF
(2 year exam that gives access
to university studies) and IB (International
Baccalaureate) - and
further takes in boarders.
As a consequence, young
people from the local town of
Nyborg meet young people from
other regions of Denmark and
from abroad at Nyborg Gymnasium.
It gives a special educational
atmosphere, being local,
national, and international at the
same time.
All three educational lines are
characterized by
• a high educational standard
and personal attention to each
student
• development of the student
in terms of competence in the
subjects, excellence in cooperation
and an appetite for further
learning
• participation in the IT education
and it-based communication
between students and their
teachers related to their everyday
working environment
• tolerance, involvement and responsibility
for creating a safe and
pleasant living atmosphere for all
• positive and fun experiences,
school parties, sports days, etc.
Read more on our website:
www.nyborg-gym.dk
and our school magazine:
http://issuu.com/nyborg-gym/docs/
magasin2011
Stenhus’
Student
Exchange
in China
Stenhus Kostskole in Holbaek
in Denmark entered
last year a cooperation with
Tianjin Experimental High School
in China aimed at exchanging
students. The first two students
to study in China were Jonathan
Hvid and Kira Bach Pedersen.
They will be followed by more
Stenhus students in the years to
come.
This year, a group of 9 Graders
will travel to China to stay
with families of some of the students
and follow the classes at
the High School in the vicinity of
Beijing.
New
BioTech
College
Degree
Bagsvaerd Boarding and High
School in Denmark has established
Denmark’s first
five year BioTech College with
a vision of turning out some of
the brightest future BioTech researchers.
Starting in Grade 8 and for
the next five years, the students
are taught at the highest level
within a range of science disciplines,
including biology, physics,
chemistry and mathematics.
Experiments, field trips and
internships in connection with
major written assignments will be
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Stenhus Kostskole is a boarding
school located next to the Stenhus
Gymnasium with a total of 850 students.
Located some 60 km west of
Copenhagen, the school has room
for 50 students who are under the
care of seven boarding school inspectors,
two of whom live on the
premises.
Stenhus Kostskole was founded
in 1906 by the educationalist H. E.
Hass whose basic principles were
religious devotion, modesty and respect
for truth and justice.
Although the school has developed
over the years, Stenhus Kostskole
remains based on the principle
of freedom under responsibility
and mutual respect among pupils,
teachers and parents as evidenced
in some of the specific
rules of the school:
• Bullying is not tolerated.
• No visible piercings.
• Students must dress properly.
• Mobiles must be turned off
during lessons, tests and exams.
Stenhus Kostskole
DK-4300 Holbæk
Tel. +45 59 43 02 69
E-mail: admin@stenhus.dk
Website: www.stenhus.dk
BioTek
-
Danmarks første
femårige gymnasieforløb
8.kl.-3.g
Bagsværd Kostskole & Gymnasium løfter den faglige overligger. I
samarbejde med Novozymes, DTU og KU tilbyder vi nu en femårig
gymnasial BioTek-uddannelse for elever, der har talent inden for
naturvidenskab og bioteknologi. Uddannelsen indebærer bl.a, at
BioTek-elever i 9. klasse vil blive undervist på det, der i dag svarer
til 1.g niveau.
an important part of the educational
activities.
BioTek students will join with
other students who share their interests.
They form a strong community
that undertakes many social
activities. Bagsvaerd Boarding and
Highschool cooperates with the
Danish Technical University and
BioTech Academy in forming the
education so the students can get
be affiliated with mentors from
these institutions.
Students with an interest and a
talent for sports will also have plenty
of opportunity for training and developing
their talent.
“We want to equip our students
for tomorrow’s global job
market while at the same time
provide our boarders a consistent
and secure home with
space for both studies, homework
and friends,” says Head
Master Jimmy Burnett Nielsen.
Bagsværd Kostskole og
Gymnasium
Aldershvilevej 138
2880 Bagsværd
tel: +45 44980065
Att: Soren Borgesen
e-mail: bk@bagkost.dk
website: www.bagkost.dk
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April 2011 • ScandAsia.South East Asia 17

Medium
Evil
Pork
Liver
Pâté
The pork liver pâté
is a tasty mix of
ground liver and
fat minced into a
spreadable paste
which is later added
with a choice of
vegetables, herbs,
spices, or wine.
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Inexpensive and simple to make, this
dish serves as a great starter or light
meal and is healthy choice of light
eating.
Although usually eaten with Danish
rye bread, the pâté can also be spread
on any cracker of you choice. Tweaking
the recipe to fit personal taste can make
it better and especially more personal
when served.
This amazing dish does great at parties
and gatherings.
Ingredients
500 gr. pork liver (pork liver is great)
300 gr. pork fat
1 medium onion
3 anchovies (can be left out)
1/4 cup flour
1/4 cup light cream
2 eggs, lightly beaten
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon allspice
Directions
• Put the liver, anchovies, fat & onion
through a meat chopper at least 3 times
or use a food processor.
• The mixture should be quite fine in
the texture. Mix in the flour, cream,
eggs, salt, pepper and all spice.
• Spoon the mixture into a buttered
loaf pan.
• Put it in a pan of water and bake in a
350F oven for an hour.
• If the pate is browning too quickly
place a piece of foil loosely over it.
This dish is usually served with fried
mushrooms, bacon bits, and cucumber
pickles on Danish rye bread.
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