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Ryanair’s airport ‘will shut down’

The board of directors in charge of the Rygge airport in Moss, south of Oslo, announced Tuesday it had decided to shut down the airport...

Strong sales stun the doomsayers

Cars sales are up, construction firms are busy, housing prices are higher than ever and unemployment figures are declining, even in some areas of...

Hotel strike to spread again

UPDATED: Norway's nationwide hotel strike entered its second week on Monday with nearly double the number of strikers out on the picket lines. As...

Unemployment rate steady at 4.6 percent

Norways's state statistics bureau SSB (Statistics Norway) announced a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate on Thursday of 4.6 percent for February. SSB's numbers showed that...

Soap factory down the drain in Kristiansund

More than 100 years of making soap in Kristiansund were washed down the drain on Tuesday, when the board of the Lilleborg cleaning products unit...

Another job cut alarm sounds in Statoil

Norwegian oil company Statoil may need to cut as many as an additional 500 jobs, reported newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad on Monday. The cuts would...

More jobs disappear at oil and offshore firms

National Oilwell Varco (NOV) has confirmed that another 520 of its employees will be laid off, the latest casualties of the sharp economic downturn...

Hundreds to lose jobs at FMC

Yet another oil service company has warned this week of hundreds of pending job cuts. FMC Technologies announced that more than 700 employees will...

Oil service firms warn of more job cuts

Aibel and National Oilwell Varco are among oil and offshore companies warning of more job cuts, with hundreds of employees likely to soon be out...

Public sector snaps up laid-off experts

Norwegian towns and cities, and many state agencies, had trouble finding qualified geologists and engineers just a year ago, and couldn't compete with the...
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