Tag: Nobel Peace Prize

Giske secures free trade pact with UAE

Trond Giske was flying home from his last planned overseas trip as Norwegian trade minister on Wednesday with a new free trade agreement in...

Norway and China set to reconcile

After three years of a diplomatic freeze, the foreign ministers of Norway and China had a meeting this summer and both expressed a strong...

Manning nomination delivered

An American author and activist delivered 4,500 pages with more than 100,000 signatures to the Nobel Institute in Oslo on Monday. The petitions support the...

Chinese tourists help melt freeze

A feared tourism boycott of Norway by Chinese tourists seems to have faded away. Their overnight stays were up by 50 percent in June...

Support grows for fugitive Snowden

Support is growing in Norway for fugitive American Edward Snowden, who set off an international controversy after releasing information about the US' global surveillance...

Telenor poised to ‘rebuild’ Burma

Norwegian telecoms giant Telenor is ready to play a major role in helping Burma catch up with the rest of the world. Telenor chief...

China brought into the Arctic cold

UPDATED: Months of diplomatic intrigue ended on Wednesday when Arktisk Råd (the Arctic Council) decided to grant observer status to China and several other...

China snubs Nor-Shipping

Despite some signs that diplomatic relations between Norway and China may soon normalize, Chinese state-owned companies won't be attending or exhibiting at this year's...

Nobel nominations set record again

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has received 259 nominations for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, breaking the record of 241 set in 2011. One of...

EU sends Peace Prize money to children

The European Union (EU ) has decided to send the cash award it received along with the Nobel Peace Prize to needy school children...
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