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Fewer Norwegians hail immigration

A new survey shows that the numbers of Norwegians who think immigration is good for the country have fallen markedly during the past year....

Hydro fends off corruption concerns

One of Norway's biggest international companies, Hydro, has been trying hard to control and contain information about its controversial past in the former Soviet republic of...

Labour open to restoring inheritance tax

The Labour Party is already in the process of imposing new property tax on Oslo residents and now its national organization reportedly is considering...

Reaction mixed to huge windmill plan

Both praise and objections were blowing around Norwegian plans announced on Tuesday to go ahead with what's billed as the largest land-based windmill project...

Corruption cloud hangs over Hydro

Last week it was being hailed by the prime minister. This week Norway's large industrial firm Hydro was confronted with suspicions that it has become the...

Chinese maintain diplomatic freeze

The Chinese embassy in Oslo apparently doesn't think its diplomatic freeze with Norway is about to melt anytime soon. It has rejected a visiting...

‘Winter is coming,’ warns bank chief

Norway's central bank chief Øystein Olsen engaged in what one local commentator dubbed as his own "Game of Krones" on Thursday evening, when he...

Central banker draws the elite

Øystein Olsen, governor of Norway's central bank, was once again drawing the country's financial and politial elite to the headquarters of Norges Bank Thursday...

Legal community condemns Turkey

Norway's entire legal community, represented by professional organizations for the country's judges, legal scholars and attorneys, has sent a letter to Foreign Minister Børge...

Professor helps melt diplomatic freeze

Diplomatic relations between Norway and China remain frozen, but the ice reportedly is melting, thanks to a Chinese professor who's an American citizen and based in Singapore....
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