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| Norway tells Lanka: Respect Vienna Convention |
| [Norwaynews] [22.05.2013, 07:56pm, Wed. GMT] |
| Norway has asked Sri Lanka to comply with “well established international rules on diplomatic immunity” after a Colombo Court ruled that the former Norwegian Ambassador and three officials did not have immunity in a huge transaction involving an NGO. Norway’s Ambassador Grete Lochen said yesterday that her government had held the position that the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations should be respected since Sri Lanka was a party to this convention. “Diplomats and state officials from Sri Lanka are enjoying the same privileges when serving their government,” she said in an email interview to media. |
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| Norwegian police detain 63 in drug raids. |
| [Norwaynews] [16.01.2009, 03:55pm, Fri. GMT] |
Norwegian police said that 63 people have been detained and the equivalent of nearly U.S. $8.5 million in narcotics and performance-enhancing drugs seized in raids on an Internet-based illegal drugs network. Police said the nationwide network appeared to have been run from a 24-year-old man's bedroom at his parents house in the western Norway town of Foerde. "This is a big case that involved a lot of people," Police Chief Johan Brekke of the Sogn og Fjordane police district said at a news conference. The case involved 16 police districts.
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| | | | Norwegian soccer under fire |
| [Norwaynews] [30.08.2007, 11:57pm, Thu. GMT] |
| The coach of Norway's national soccer squad fired off a wad of his own verbal abuse this week after a top agent and a talent scout claimed that the quality of Norwegian soccer (football) players has deteriorated in recent years. Per A Flod, who's been the agent for players including John Carew, had said that soccer officials in other countries have told him that they think the quality of Norwegian soccer isn't as high today as it once was. "It's almost impossible to sell Norwegian players to foreign clubs, with the exception of poor clubs in marginal countries," Flod told newspaper Aftenposten. |
| | | | Record compensation for injury |
| [Norwaynews] [30.08.2007, 11:31pm, Thu. GMT] |
| Footballer Dagfinn Enerly, whose life was turned upside-down in a 2005 accident, receives NOK 9,5 million in compensation for breaking his neck on the field, the highest ever compensation given to a Norwegian athlete. After breaking his neck in a 2005 accidental collision with a team mate on the field, Fredrikstad player Dagfinn Enerly has been tied to a wheel chair. Almost two years later, the football star whose life was turned upside-down, has received NOK 9,5 million (about USD 1,6 million), the highest financial compensation ever given to a Norwegian athlete after a sports injury, reports newspaper VG. Through his lawyer, Enerly said that he was "happy" with the compensation, but that he did not want to comment further on the issue. |
| | | | By producing good films, we can create good image of Pakistan out of the country, Says Pakistan Film Producer, Hamayun Saeed |
| [Norwaynews] [26.08.2007, 08:03pm, Sun. GMT] |
Famous Pakistani Actor and producer, Hamayun Saeed said, We can build good image of Pakistan by producing good films. Talking to The Asians at the side line of his film’s introductry ceremony here, the producer said, he wants to support the Pakistan film industry by making new films with news styles. The Urdu Film "Botal Gali" was introduced recently with cooperation of Norwegian Pakistan film producer, Nasrullah Qureshi. Hamayun Saeed said, We need to work much more for the improvement of the Pakistani film industry. |
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| Støre 'satisfied' with Foreign Ministry reform |
| [Norwaynews] [31.08.2007, 12:26am, Fri. GMT] |
Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre is so far happy about the reform of the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, long rumoured to be gender biased, authoritarian, bullying and old-fashioned. But the Minister still has a long way to go when it comes to gender equality.
Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, who has spent two years reforming his Ministry, this week looked back at his work with satisfaction. Surveys have previously found what was termed a "culture of bullying" in the Ministry. Combined with unusually few women in the top jobs, the Ministry has regularly faced public criticism. Støre, aiming to improve the situation, this week told a meeting including all Ministry employees that reform is well underway. |
| | | | Major hotel deal in the works |
| [Norwaynews] [30.08.2007, 11:45pm, Thu. GMT] |
| Norwegian Property, an Oslo-based real estate firm that's been on an enormous expansion drive the past year, has launched a bid to take over a large portfolio of hotels operated by Scandic, Choice and Rezidor in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. A successful takeover of Norgani Hotels would make Norwegian Property the largest stock-listed real estate company in all the Nordic countries, with more than 130 properties valued at nearly NOK 31 billion (about USD 5.4 billion). The 74 hotels in the Norgani portfolio are valued at NOK 10 billion, with 12 of them in Norway including the Radisson SAS Lillehammer Hotel and Quality Hotel & Resorts at Hafjell and Kristiansand. Around half of Norgani's hotels are run by Scandic, which was recently sold by Hilton to a Swedish investment group. |
| | | | Armed robbery at Vinderen |
| [Norwaynews] [30.08.2007, 11:05pm, Thu. GMT] |
| Police were holding a suspect Friday morning after an armed robber held up a grocery store in Oslo's fashionable Vinderen neighborhood earlier in the day. The robber hit the ICA grocery store at Vinderen just after 7am, and threatened two store employees with a pistol. He then taped them together before fleeing on foot. |
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