Stoltenberg stresses climate change in India visit
Publisert: 17:30 07-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is in India, stressing the need for the fast-growing economy to confront pressing climate challenges. |
 
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Robots could help avert elderly health care crisis
Publisert: 16:05 07-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Household robots may help human carers look after the growing number of elderly Norwegians in years to come, enabling them to live longer and more comfortably in their own homes, a project leader told Reuters on Thursday. |
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Robots could help avert health care crisis
Publisert: 15:52 07-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Household robots may help human carers look after the growing number of elderly Norwegians in years to come, enabling them to live longer and more comfortably in their own homes, a project leader told Reuters on Thursday. |
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Stoltenberg stresses CO2 capture in India
Publisert: 15:13 07-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is in India, stressing the need for the fast-growing economy to confront pressing climate challenges. |
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Whaling quota draws fire
Publisert: 15:06 07-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norway has set its 2008 quota of minke whales for its hotly protested commercial whaling, maintaining the level set in 2006, when it sharply increased the extent of the hunt. |
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"Humiliating" loss to Wales
Publisert: 14:17 07-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norway lost 0-3 to Wales in yesterday’s (Wednesday´s) soccer friendly in Wrexham. |
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Industry facing end of heyday
Publisert: 11:33 07-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Economists, who had predicted an increase in Norway’s industrial production, were surprised by new statistics that show it tumbled 3.4 percent in December. |
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Tax on parking wins support
Publisert: 16:09 06-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen, always on the lookout for new sources of tax income, appears to support a proposal to levy a tax on employee parking privileges. |
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Marathon star fighting cancer
Publisert: 15:44 06-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Grete Waitz, the Norwegian marathon legend, has taken her battle against cancer to new levels, and not just personally. |
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Debate flies over hospitals´ budget ´crisis´
Publisert: 13:36 06-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
A debate is raging in Norway over acute budget problems at many hospitals, and news that more budget cuts loom. With waiting lists long, and patients still often lying in corridors, many Norwegians can´t understand why medical care is under so much pressure in one of the world´s wealthiest countries. |
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Shares take new dive
Publisert: 12:32 06-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Shares in Norwegian companies traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange tumbled once again on Wednesday, led by a new, steep dive in the share price of solar energy firm REC. |
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Foreign ministry accepts criticism after Kabul trip
Publisert: 12:06 06-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norway´s foreign minister has acknowledged that cooperation could have been better between the various government ministries involved in planning security measures for last month´s fatal trip to Afghanistan. |
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Ex-pats monitored ´Super Tuesday´ results
Publisert: 11:07 06-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Interest in the US presidential primary elections is running high in Norway, and not just among the Norwegians. |
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SAS loss sparks new worries
Publisert: 10:50 06-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) reported a fourth-quarter loss on Wednesday and announced a need to cut costs that´s left staff worrying about their jobs again. |
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Quota law doomed the ´good old boys´ clubs´
Publisert: 16:33 05-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Six years after it was first proposed, Norway´s stocklisted corporations have mostly conformed to a new law requiring that 40 percent of their boards be comprised of women. The so-called "quota law," once controversial, now seems widely accepted. |
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King gets fancy new car
Publisert: 15:28 05-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
It´s big and shiny and expensive and, of course, luxurious. But it´s environmentally friendly as well, as cars go, making the king´s new car politically correct. |
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SAS disruption fears ease
Publisert: 14:25 05-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Concerns over a pending sale of airline SAS´ ground operations may be moot. The airline´s board apparently isn´t inclined to sell after all. |
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Eltek boss admits tax evasion
Publisert: 12:02 05-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Morten Angelil, the 41-year-old chief executive of Eltek, has admitted that he failed to report taxable gains on share sales. He still denies, though, charges of misusing insider information. |
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Ex-pats to monitor ´Super Tuesday´ results
Publisert: 11:41 05-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Interest in the US presidential primary elections is running high in Norway, and not just among the Norwegians. |
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Majority supports troops in Afghanistan
Publisert: 10:53 05-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
A new public opinion poll indicates that a solid majority of Norwegians support their troops´ participation in the NATO-led military operations in Afghanistan. |
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