DNB profits soothe its ‘PR catastrophe’
DNB, Norway's biggest bank, suffered a humiliating barrage of fury earlier this month from potential customers at Sbanken who don't want anything to do with it. DNB's latest jump in pre-tax profits this week, … [READ MORE]
Earnings boost a sagging Equinor
Twenty years after Norway partially privatized its biggest state-owned firm Statoil, the company now known as Equinor could once again deliver strong first-quarter earnings this week. Now the company needs to … [READ MORE]
Farmers demand billions in support
Norwegian farmers' two major lobbying organizations have handed over demands for NOK 2.1 billion in taxpayer support for the year ahead, spread over cost coverage, higher prices for their products and direct … [READ MORE]
Shooting tied to financial conflict
Police have tied a dramatic and fatal shooting on a fashionable street in Oslo Wednesday morning to a financial and legal conflict between the assailant and the woman he's charged with killing. He owed her more … [READ MORE]
Oslo prepares to gradually reopen
Oslo's city government leader Raymond Johansen confirmed on Tuesday that the Norwegian capital is getting ready to "gradually" reopen in a "controlled" manner, but not just yet. It will be awhile before stores, … [READ MORE]
SV hurls abortion law back into play
NEWS ANALYSIS: Backed by his party's best public opinion polls in years, Audun Lysbakken strutted self-confidence when he opened the Socialist Left (SV)'s annual national meeting late last week. By the time it … [READ MORE]
Officers want some chiefs to resign
Norway's defense establishment has suffered a string of accidents and embarrassment in recent years. Now a group of naval officers are calling for the resignations or firings of Defense Minister Frank … [READ MORE]
Expats turned away at Norway’s border
Residency rules for non-citizens in Norway have been tightened dramatically during the past few months of the Corona crisis, as a means of halting imported infection. That's left some foreign citizens locked … [READ MORE]
PEOPLE
Skavlan bows out of the spotlight
Norwegian talk show host Fredrik Skavlan is calling it quits after 25 years of … [READ MORE...]
Prime minister loses support
Conservatives leader Erna Solberg has ranked as a highly popular prime minister … [READ MORE...]
MP indicted on fraud charges
A Member of Parliament (MP) for the Labour Party has been indicted on charges of … [READ MORE...]
Oil Minister ill with Covid-19
Norway's Oil Minister Tina Bru is among the record numbers of Norwegians testing … [READ MORE...]
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‘Atlantic Crossing’ crosses the Atlantic
Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) has confirmed that its dramatization of Crown Princess Martha's role during World War II is "mostly fiction." The NRK series Atlantic Crossing is now being aired on PBS' venerable … [READ MORE]
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