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Politics permeate Telenor probe

NEWS ANALYSIS: The drama around Telenor's involvement in alleged corruption at its partly owned Russian mobile phone VimpelCom is rife with politics. While a former Labour Party boss...

Telenor ‘wonderboy’ now under arrest

He was once the "wonderboy" of Telenor, who ended up playing a key role in Telenor's long-troubled investment in Russian mobile phone company VimpelCom....

Calls rise to shut Russian border

Serious calls are being issued this week, also on the floor of Parliament, to close Norway's far northern border to Russia. Years of border cooperation...

Telenor admits to withholding info

UPDATED: "They need to learn the difference between right and wrong," thundered the head of the Norwegian Parliament's disciplinary committee on Tuesday. "They" referred to newly...

Hotels, barracks to house refugees

An acute shortage of housing for refugees has resulted in hundreds being sent to the mountains of Norway and put up in hotels. The boss...

Telenor caught in cloud of suspicion

NEWS ANALYSIS: Another of Norway's biggest state-controlled companies, Telenor, is facing serious and ever-growing corruption suspicions around its business expansion abroad. Some of the biggest...

Government fires Telenor chairman

Svein Aaser resigned under fire on Friday as chairman of state-controlled telecoms firm Telenor, after Trade Minister Monica Mæland expressed a lack of confidence in...

Foreign aid funds tapped for refugees

Prime Minister Erna Solberg confirmed on Friday that her government wants to use NOK 4.2 billion from its foreign aid budget to help meet the...

Searching for the Oil Fund’s soul

NEWS ANALYSIS: Since its inception around two decades ago, Norwegians have arguably had a love-hate relationship with their huge so-called "Oil Fund" that invests...

Government tackles rising jobless rate

Another 9,000 people were registered as out of work in Norway by the end of September, prompting state statistics bureau SSB (Statistics Norway) to...
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