Police ´can´t afford´ cop jobs
Publisert: 11:25 03-09-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
The cost of living in Norway is so high, and police salaries so low, that increasing numbers of police officers are quitting. They say they can´t afford to stay in their chosen profession. |
 
 |
|
Parliament launches external pension probe
Publisert: 17:07 02-09-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
The Norwegian Parliament agreed Tuesday to set up an independent commission to investigate its own controversial pension system. Critics think it´s too little, too late. |
|
|
Smoking worse for women
Publisert: 16:06 02-09-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norwegian heart specialists presented new research Tuesday that shows how smoking can harm women more than men. Women who smoke are more likely to develop heart attacks at a much earlier age than non-smoking women, and the gap is much wider than it is for men. |
|
|
Foreign minister turns author
Publisert: 15:04 02-09-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Jonas Gahr Støre, Norway´s high-energy foreign minister, somehow has found time to write books that he hopes will spark more public debate over the country´s foreign policy. |
|
|
´Not dangerous´ to travel to Thailand
Publisert: 13:21 02-09-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norway´s foreign ministry isn´t warning against travel to Thailand, despite massive government protests and violence during the night. Tour operators aren´t refunding any tickets, either. |
|
|
Soccer star faces drugs rap
Publisert: 12:58 02-09-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
One of Norway´s most high-profile soccer stars of the past decade has been charged with possession and use of cocaine. Investigators have linked him to a major network of drug dealers and users that´s been the target of one of the largest narcotics investigations in Norwegian history. |
|
|
New signs emerge of a weakening economy
Publisert: 11:07 02-09-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Purchase orders are falling off, experts think the housing market is heading into a lengthy period of decline and economic growth is likely to be lower than expected. As the price of oil slipped below USD 110 a barrel on Tuesday, gloomier economic predictions are emerging for Norway as well. |
|
|
Weight gain spells profits
Publisert: 17:02 01-09-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norwegians have grown steadily fatter in recent years, and are gaining weight faster than ever before. While health care specialists shudder, some businesses are cashing in on the need for larger products to accommodate bloated bodies. |
|
|
Hovdenes cycled to victory
Publisert: 16:33 01-09-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Anders Hovdenes, a 21-year-old from Oslo who says he just loves to cycle, proved to be the toughest of all the tough guys who cycled 91 kilometers over some Norwegian mountains during the weekend. |
|
|
SAS laying off oldest pilots
Publisert: 16:09 01-09-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), faced with needed cost-cutting and conflicts in their cockpits, has decided to lay off 50 of its most senior pilots. |
|
|
Thousands stripped of their driving licenses
Publisert: 11:35 01-09-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Nearly 4,000 motorists on Norwegian roads have lost their drivers´ licenses after getting caught for excessive speeding and other offenses. That´s up 32 percent since 2006, and fully a third of the offenders are men under age 25. |
|
|
Students cheating, too
Publisert: 10:12 01-09-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Just a week after news broke that former members of Norway´s parliament are facing charges of collecting more pension benefits than they should, comes news that students are effectively cheating the system as well. |
|
|
More Somalians wanted
Publisert: 20:41 29-08-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Hassan Samahle returned to the mountain village of Vinje in Telemark County after getting his degree. Somalians here are so well integrated that the community want more of them to come. Everyone completes secondary school, and no one is a passive welfare recipient. |
|
|
Electric cars increasingly popular
Publisert: 20:35 29-08-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Sales of environmentally friendly cars are increasing rapidly in Oslo . The producers of the Think
electric car has 700 buyers on their waiting list. |
|
|
Bronze winning show jumpers may lose medals
Publisert: 19:00 29-08-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Veterinarian and horse anti-doping expert, Svein H. Bakke, believes that the Norwegian equestrian team will not be allowed to keep their Olympic Bronze medals. |
|
|
Warm for the rest of August
Publisert: 18:54 29-08-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Summer ends, as it started, with sunshine and warm weather, ensuring crowds at the beach and around the lakes this weekend. |
|
|
Lean times, but not in Norway
Publisert: 17:05 29-08-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Economists at the government statistics bureau SSB predict "the world’s smallest economic downturn" next year. Statistics Norway (SSB) forecasts no change in unemployment and higher disposable incomes. |
|
|
Brundtland may face pension enquiry
Publisert: 16:15 29-08-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
The President of the Norwegian Parliament, former Labour Party Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland, is considering an external audit to determine whether former MP’s have cheated the parliamentary pension fund. |
|
|
Lean times avoid Norway
Publisert: 14:48 29-08-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Economists at the government statistics bureau SSB predict "the world’s smallest economic downturn" next year. Statistics Norway (SSB) forecasts no change in unemployment and higher disposable incomes. |
|
|
Warm weather out August
Publisert: 13:24 29-08-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Summer ends, as it started, with sunshine and warm weather, ensuring crowds at the beach and around the lakes this weekend. |
|
|
