Big bucks for upbeat StatoilHydro boss
Publisert: 13:51 10-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
The top man at Norway´s biggest company presented worse-than-expected results for last year, but he won´t need to tighten his own belt, with over a million dollars in salary and half as much again in a cash bonus. |
 
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Dollar dips below five kroner
Publisert: 11:51 10-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
The US dollar hasn´t been this cheap for Norwegians in modern currency history. |
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Low-cost plowing blamed for accidents and deaths
Publisert: 10:59 10-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Since 2003, Norwegian roads have been plowed and salted by independent companies that bid for the cotnracts. A new official report suggests this cost-cutting policy has contributed to injuries and lost lives in winter traffic. |
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Business backs Norway´s new Opera House
Publisert: 15:52 09-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Some of Norway´s biggest businesses have signed on as sponsors or helped fund artistic acquisitions for the new Opera House due to open in Oslo this weekend. There´s little tradition for such sponsorships in Norway, with most of the opera´s funding coming from the taxpayers. |
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Bhatti boycotted own trial
Publisert: 15:06 09-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Arfan Q Bhatti, the main defendant in Norway´s first terrorism trial, refused to appear in court on Wednesday. He wasn´t happy about the treatment he received on Tuesday. |
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Gypsy conflict spreads
Publisert: 14:34 09-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
An increasingly violent feud involving Oslo’s gypsy families exploded with a fire bombing in a residential neighbourhood during the night. One self-proclaimed leader later turned himself in to police. |
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Heiberg: Olympics in China ´more difficult than expected´
Publisert: 13:19 09-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Gerhard Heiberg headed Norway´s successful Winter Olympics in Lillehammer in 1994 and has been a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for years. Now he’s trying to put a brave face on the controversy around the upcoming summer games in Beijing, but admits to being worried. |
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´Typical´ Norwegians: ´Jan´ and ´Anne´
Publisert: 12:06 09-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
There is no real "typical" man or woman in Norway, but a fresh bunch of statistics from an official state agency can tell us a lot about what they do (or don´t do), and how they differ. |
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Politics won over human rights in Vanunu asylum case
Publisert: 11:39 09-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norway’s efforts to present itself as a champion of human rights suffered another blow on Wednesday, when news emerged that the Norwegian government stepped in to reject an appeal for asylum from long-imprisoned Israeli physicist Mordechai Vanunu. |
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Schools forced to close
Publisert: 16:12 08-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
The physical condition of some Norwegian public schools is so poor that state health and safety regulators have ordered them closed. Rundown facilities, roof leaks and rodent infestation are among the problems. |
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Effort launched to ease work permit process
Publisert: 14:50 08-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norway´s immigration agency claims it will try to speed up its work permit process, to help the country attract workers and compete against other European countries suffering a labour shortage. |
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Ambulance driver: ´I´ve never had racist thoughts or views´
Publisert: 14:06 08-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
One of two ambulance drivers accused of racism after they refused to take an injured African-Norwegian to hospital last summer has spoken out for the first time. He claims neither he nor his partner were motivated by racism, and instead viewed the victim of a beating as unruly and better aided by police. |
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Bear population booming
Publisert: 12:32 08-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Just three years after researchers voiced concern that bears were under threat in Norway, new figures indicate the country´s bear population has more than quadrupled. It remains well under the level sought by conservationists, though. |
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Seafood exports decline
Publisert: 12:06 08-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
The export value of fresh fish and other seafood from Norway dropped by more than a half-billion kroner in the first quarter. |
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Minister faces more criticism over jobs for party faithful
Publisert: 11:25 08-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Oil and Energy Minister Åslaug Haga, who´s also head of the small but powerful Center Party in Norway, faced more criticism on Tuesday after it was revealed that yet another party member was given a state job as a speech writer. |
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Oslo bans foreign flags from its 17th of May parade
Publisert: 10:56 08-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norwegian flag waving has long played a major role in the country´s Constitution Day celebrations on the 17th of May. A move to integrate foreign flags into Oslo´s main parade has been flatly rejected. |
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Foreign flags urged for Oslo´s 17th of May parade
Publisert: 10:45 08-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norwegian flag waving has long played a major role in the country´s Constitution Day celebrations on the 17th of May. Now there´s a move afoot to integrate foreign flags into Oslo´s main parade. |
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Landslide spurs evacuation
Publisert: 15:27 07-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Eight persons living in two flats in Røyken, west of Oslo, were evacuated during the night after a landslide near their building. |
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Oslo´s former real estate chief appeals jail term
Publisert: 15:07 07-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Frank Murud, who once managed a wide variety of real estate projects for the city of Oslo, has appealed his jail term to Norway´s Supreme Court. |
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Police bring new charges against ´Pocket Man´ suspect
Publisert: 14:28 07-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
A 56-year-old Norwegian suspected of being the pedofile "Pocket Man" was ordered held in police custody for another four weeks on Monday. He´s also been charged with 15 new assaults. |
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