About Town: Homeland’s head honcho, cuban cigars and the spaceman

The Copenhagen Post

 

American TV-producer and scriptwriter Howard Gordon (left), the co-developer of the mega successful Homeland, was in Copenhagen from August 12-16 attending the Copenhagen TV Festival at the Tivoli Hotel Copenhagen, where he was one of the keynote speakers. Others included Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier, producers of The Jinx (centre left). The opening night of the festival included a special screening at Rydhave, the residence of the US ambassador Rufus Gifford (centre right). Among the guests were the actress Vivienne McKee and her husband Søren Hall (right).

AboutTown5b

Cuban ambassador Caridad Yamira Cueto Milian organised another fun edition of Cuban Days at the central Copenhagen food market of Torvehallerne over the weekend, which featured delicacies, cigars, music and other cultural offerings from the Caribbean island. Among the diplomats in attendance was Chilean ambassador Flavio Tarsetti Quezada (right).

AboutTown3c AboutTown3a AboutTown3b

The countdown has started ahead of Andreas Mogensen becoming the first Dane in space on Wednesday September 2. He will launch off from the spaceport of Baikonur in Kazakhstan in a Soyuz rocket.

AboutTown1

 

Brazilian triathlete Guilherme Valenza Manocchio got the better of last year’s winner, Denmark’s Henrik Hyldelund, to take the men’s KMD Copenhagen Ironman title on Sunday.

AboutTown4

 

Ukraine’s charge d’affaires Andriy Biriuchenko (right) joined (left-right) musicians Olga Chornokondratenko, Elisabeth Nielsen, and Jakob Vad following their Carl Nielsen celebration performance at The Lapdarium of Kings on August 16.

AboutTown6a

 

TOP STORIES

  • Chinese wind turbine companies sign pact to end race-to-the-bottom price war

    Chinese wind turbine companies sign pact to end race-to-the-bottom price war

    China’s 12 leading wind turbine makers have signed a pact to end a domestic price war that has seen turbines sold at below cost price in a race to corner the market and which has compromised quality and earnings in the sector.

  • Watch Novo Nordisk’s billion-kroner musical TV ad for Wegovy

    Watch Novo Nordisk’s billion-kroner musical TV ad for Wegovy

    Novo Nordisk’s TV commercial for the slimming drug Wegovy has been shown roughly 32,000 times and reached 8.8 billion US viewers since June.

  • Retention is the new attraction

    Retention is the new attraction

    Many people every year choose to move to Denmark and Denmark in turn spends a lot of money to attract and retain this international talent. Are they staying though? If they leave, do they go home or elsewhere? Looking at raw figures, we can see that Denmark is gradually becoming more international but not everyone is staying. 

  • Defence Minister: Great international interest in Danish military technology

    Defence Minister: Great international interest in Danish military technology

    Denmark’s Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen attended the Association of the Unites States Army’s annual expo in Washington DC from 14 to 16 October, together with some 20 Danish leading defence companies, where he says Danish drone technology attracted significant attention.

  • Doctors request opioids in smaller packs as over-prescription wakes abuse concerns

    Doctors request opioids in smaller packs as over-prescription wakes abuse concerns

    Doctors, pharmacies and politicians have voiced concern that the pharmaceutical industry’s inability to supply opioid prescriptions in smaller packets, and the resulting over-prescription of addictive morphine pills, could spur levels of opioid abuse in Denmark.

  • Housing in Copenhagen – it runs in the family

    Housing in Copenhagen – it runs in the family

    Residents of cooperative housing associations in Copenhagen and in Frederiksberg distribute vacant housing to their own family members to a large extent. More than one in six residents have either parents, siblings, adult children or other close family living in the same cooperative housing association.

Connect club

Connect Club is your gateway to a vibrant programme of events and an international community in Denmark.

Sign up here

Career

  • Come and join us at Citizens Days!

    Come and join us at Citizens Days!

    On Friday 27 and Saturday 28 of September, The Copenhagen Post will be at International Citizen Days in Øksnehallen on Vesterbro, Copenhagen. Admission is free and thousands of internationals are expected to attend

  • Diversifying the Nordics: How a Nigerian economist became a beacon for inclusivity in Scandinavia

    Diversifying the Nordics: How a Nigerian economist became a beacon for inclusivity in Scandinavia

    Chisom Udeze, the founder of Diversify – a global organization that works at the intersection of inclusion, democracy, freedom, climate sustainability, justice, and belonging – shares how struggling to find a community in Norway motivated her to build a Nordic-wide professional network. We also hear from Dr. Poornima Luthra, Associate Professor at CBS, about how to address bias in the workplace.

  • Lolland Municipality launches support package for accompanying spouses

    Lolland Municipality launches support package for accompanying spouses

    Lolland Municipality, home to Denmark’s largest infrastructure project – the Fehmarnbelt tunnel connection to Germany – has launched a new jobseeker support package for the accompanying partners of international employees in the area. The job-to-partner package offers free tailored sessions on finding a job and starting a personal business.

Want to advertise your job with CPH Post?

Contact us

Jobs