Tag: politics

Chinese relations in deep freeze

Norway's relations with China were chilly even before the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded last year's Peace Prize to a Chinese human rights activist. More...

Why Norway’s welfare state works

NEWS ANALYSIS: As Norway heads into the New Year, it can boast low unemployment, one of the world's highest standards of living and strong...

New Year speeches and national pride

Norway's king and prime minister made their traditional New Year's speeches over the weekend and both of them touched on the issue of national...

WikiLeaks blockade under probe

Government officials in both Norway and Iceland are questioning the grounds for what's become a credit card blockade against WikiLeaks that has disrupted the...

Caught up in WikiLeaks impact

Norwegian government officials seem to be taking the contents of US Embassy documents leaked by WikiLeaks in stride, while some experts think the leaks...

Stoltenberg sums up the year

As Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg got ready to take some time off for "juleferie" (Christmas holidays), he looked back on a year featuring a...

Free parking no longer free

State officials are making another concerted effort to get Norwegians to walk, cycle or use public transportation instead of driving their cars to work....

Norway involved in China-Tibet talks

Norwegian officials have in all secrecy been contributing economically to funding meetings between Chinese authorities in Beijing and representatives for Dalai Lama's Tibetan government...

New Palestinian embassy not popular with the Israelis

Palestinian plans to upgrade their representative office in Oslo to a full-fledged embassy may become a reality late next year, but not without protests...

Norway condemns arrests in Belarus

Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre joined the European Union and US on Monday in condemning police violence and mass arrests of opposition leaders in...
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