The Little Mermaid Vandalized
If you visit The Little Mermaid these days you may find that she is more colorful than usual. Vandals have thrown white paint on her, and the photos you get home will be of an unusually decorated mermaid.
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Copenhagen Metro elected World's Best
Today at the
Metrorail 2008 Conference, The Copenhagen Metro was given the award as The World's Best Metro, ahead of of Madrid, Singapore and London.
The award was given in recognition of the Copenhagen Metro's high levels of security, stability and passenger satisfaction by transport specialists from around the Globe at their annual industry conference.
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Credit card payment costs get lowered
From July 1 2008, the credit card transaction cost when shopping in Denmark will be lowered. Today the cost of a credit card transaction can be up to 5.75% of the purchase including VAT, after July 1 it will be a maximum of 3.75%. The price for using debet cards wil be a maximum of 0.3% of the purchase or a maximum of DKK 4 per transaction.
Danish shops and businesses have been somewhat reluctant to offer payment by credit cards till now because of the high transaction cost, and today about one in every three shops offers to take credit cards as payment. The lowered price is expected to bring this figure up to every two out of three shops.
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Denmark one of the World's safest countries
The Fund for Peace in Washington D.C. has released their
Failed States Index, in which they evaluate each country in the World according to its security situation and rank them accordingly.
According to the Failed States Index 2007, Denmark is the World's 8th. safest county.
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The Town Hall Clock has stopped
At 12 noon today the
Copenhagen Town Hall Clock stopped working. This is now the second time in a couple of weeks that it has gone on strike. The word from the town hall is that the clock is suffering from the wear and tear of the passage of time. Considering its otherwize flawless function since its activation in 1902, that was to be expected. It would seem a good idea, though, for the town hall people responsible for the maintenance of the clock to consider the concept "preventive maintenance"?
Until it is brought back in activity, the Town Hall Square is unusually silent without the usual bell ringing every 15 minutes and on the hour.
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