Tag: Nobel Peace Prize

No ‘perfect’ Peace Prize candidates

The Norwegian Nobel Committee had 231 nominees this year for the Peace Prize created by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, and they've sorted through another...

Questions fly over Nobel screening

The Norwegian Nobel Institute was under criticism this week, just days before the Norwegian Nobel Committee announces the winner of this year's Nobel Peace...

Taiwan waits for a nod from Norway

Autumn is high season for diplomatic gatherings in Oslo, when local embassies host receptions or celebrate national holidays. One country is almost always left...

Stoltenberg’s son off to China

Neither Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg nor members of his government or other top Norwegian politicians have been welcome in China for the past two...

Bono ‘starstruck’ by visiting ‘Lady’

Irish rock star Bono of the legendary band U2 was the latest celebrity to travel to Oslo on Monday, to attend a Foreign Ministry-sponsored...

Burmese in exile hail their ‘Lady’

Thousands of Norwegian residents, many of them Burmese in exile in Norway, headed for the City Hall plaza (Rådhusplassen) in Oslo on Saturday to catch...

Suu Kyi finally on the Nobel podium

Twenty-one years after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Burmese democratic champion Aung San Suu Kyi could finally step onto the Nobel podium in Oslo...

Burmese heroine lands in Oslo

Norway was rolling out the red carpets this weekend for Aung San Suu Kyi, the brave Burmese woman who endured more than two decades...

Tourism faces new Chinese boycott

Norwegian tourism officials have received reports from Chinese tour operators that they've been told by local authorities not to promote Norway as a tourism...

China denies visa to former premier

Kjell Magne Bondevik, warmly welcomed to Beijing when he was Norway's prime minister in 2002, has now become the latest Norwegian to be denied...
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