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| Nigeria: Govt Imports N109 Billion Fish From Norway Annually |
| [Norwaynews] [03.02.2012, 01:38pm, Fri. GMT] |
| Nigeria imports fish worth about N109.2 billion ($700 million) annually from Norway, the Norwegian Ambassador to Nigeria, Kjell Lillerud has said. He said this yesterday in Abuja when he visited the Minister of state for Trade and Investment, Dr Samuel Ortom.Lillerud said that though he does not have the tonnage of fish that gets to Nigeria, there are three categories with stock fish taking the lead. |
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| Foreign media produce documentaries about Utøya |
| [Norwaynews] [02.02.2012, 11:32am, Thu. GMT] |
| Teams from the BBC, National Geographic and Discovery Channel have arrived in Norway to start the production of documentaries about the terror attacks that took place in Oslo and at Utøya on July 22nd last year. "This is one of the hardest things I have ever done," BBC photographer Edward Watts tells NRK. Watts and producer Anne Leer have already been in Norway for three weeks to work on a documentary about the terror attacks at Utøya. |
| | | | Norway police not told of phone threat before massacre |
| [Norwaynews] [06.01.2012, 01:50pm, Fri. GMT] |
| THE Norwegian government received a phone threat just months before July 22 twin attacks that killed 77 people but police were not alerted to the call, public radio NRK reports. A man with the same dialect as the gunman Anders Behring Breivik spoke about shooting members of the youth wing of the Labour Party with a calm voice, said the radio station on Friday. He also mentioned a manifesto during the phone call to the government in March 2011. |
| | | | Benazir Bhutho death anniversary in Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [02.01.2012, 09:20am, Mon. GMT] |
| A function was held by Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Norway Chapter in connection with 4th Death Anniversary of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto (BB), the former Prime Minister of Pakistan last week in Oslo. She was assassinated in a terrorist attack in Rawalpindi joint city of Islamabad on 27th December 2007. The Co-Chairman, Pakistan Peoples Party, Mr. Asif Ali Zardari had desired that all Overseas Organizations of PPP hold the forthcoming 4th Death Anniversary of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto on 27th December 2011. |
| | | | The Norway News Wishes Its Readers, a Happy New Year! |
| [Norwaynews] [01.01.2012, 11:35am, Sun. GMT] |
Human beings tend to temporarily abandon the stubborn divisions based on race, religion, region, intellectual standard and even the sexual orientation, in order to collectively celebrate the triumphant onset of the New Year.
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| | | | Oslo is world’s most expensive city: survey |
| [Norwaynews] [19.12.2011, 04:48pm, Mon. GMT] |
| In a finding that will come as no surprise to anybody who has ever visited or lived in Oslo, the Norwegian capital has emerged as the most expensive shopping city in the world. Oslo comes out so far on top in a study of 32 countries worldwide that second-placed São Paulo seems almost ludicrously cheap by contrast in a survey carried out by price comparison service PriceRunner. |
| | | | Young job seekers look to Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [07.11.2011, 06:49pm, Mon. GMT] |
| Young people in Southern Europe are fleeing the financial crisis in their homeland, and there is an increasing interest in seeking work in Norway, NRK reports. The Norwegian section of EU's agency for cooperation in the labour market, EURES, reports a strong increase in requests for information. |
| | | | The Thrust Areas for Norway During the Year 2012 Astrologically |
| [Norwaynews] [30.10.2011, 11:56am, Sun. GMT] |
| As per information available online, Norway seceded from Sweden on 7 June, 1905. Declaration in this regard is recorded to have been made at 11:00 (zone hle) at Oslo. The horoscope cast for these details of Norway shows sign Leo with 15 degrees of sidereal zodiac rising in the ascendant. This means that Leo is the ruling sign of Norway since 7 June, 1905. But in national astrology in Vedic system, a new year commences when the Sun and the Moon conjoin in sign Pisces of sidereal zodiac. Planetary disposition for the moment of conjunction exert influences on the affairs of a nation. |
| | | | Norway investigative panel visits island where massacre took place |
| [Norwaynews] [11.10.2011, 02:53pm, Tue. GMT] |
| The panel tasked with reviewing Norway's response to the twin attacks that claimed 77 lives in July on Tuesday visited the island where most of the victims died. 'It was very special to visit a place where so many young people died and where so many were so afraid,' attorney Alexandra Bech Gjorv who heads the July 22 Commission told news agency NTB. |
| | | | Immigrats - Divided in Oslo |
| [Norwaynews] [30.09.2011, 07:15am, Fri. GMT] |
| This is one of the most placid and pleasant capitals of Europe, but Oslo is a divided city. The west of the city is rich, safe and predominantly white; the east, poorer, less safe and populated by immigrants, many of them Muslim. |
| | | | Jagdish Gandhi invited to University of Oslo |
| [Norwaynews] [23.09.2011, 09:26am, Fri. GMT] |
Dr Jagdish Gandhi, renowned Indian Educationist and Founder-Manager of City Montessori School (world’s largest school) was invited by the University of Oslo to address its Master and Bachelor Students. The lecture on the topic ‘Education for Protection & Security in the World’ was held on 22 September 2011 at University of Oslo.
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| CHILD WELFARE MODELS – CASE FOR UPHOLDING INTERNATIONAL ORDER AND CULTURAL SENSITISATION |
| [Norwaynews] [25.01.2012, 08:16am, Wed. GMT] |
| White paper on an Indian expat family’s incident with Child Protection Agency in Norway - The Barnevarnet (Child Protection Agency) in Stavanger, Norway has placed two minor Indian nationals under its protective custody after the lower court ruled in favour of The Barnevarnet’s proposal. The main outlines of the decision were: |
| | | | Norwegian cinemas 2011: Record attendance, best local market share |
| [Norwaynews] [02.01.2012, 04:53pm, Mon. GMT] |
| With a 2011 attendance of 11,650,000 – up 5.7% on last year – Norwegian cinemas delivered the largest growth of the theatrical market in Europe, according to statistics from Norwegian cinema association, Film & Kino. For the fourth year local fare exceeded 2.5 million admissions, to close at 2,855,000 to control a record 24.5% of the market (2010: 23.3%). Not since selling 3.8 million tickets in 1975 - the best result in 36 years. |
| | | | Norwegian Singer Rashail Mansoor performance hailed in Islamabad |
| [Norwaynews] [01.01.2012, 11:43am, Sun. GMT] |
The rising Norwegian Classical Singer from Pakistani origin, Rashail Mansoor recently visited Pakistan where he performed at the different places including the capital city Islamabad. Rashail Mansoor 23, sings in many typical subcontinent languages and his album would release soon. He is the only Classical singer in Norway from Pakistani origin. Though, he lives in Norway but has been trained Hindustani classical singing by his Indian teacher Ustad Harbajand Singh and as well as Pakistani classical singer Ustad Mehfooz Khokar.
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| | | | Diplomatic thunderstorm between India and Norway - ‘Child snatch’ spat with Oslo |
| [Norwaynews] [23.12.2011, 09:36pm, Fri. GMT] |
| A diplomatic tiff is brewing with Norway ignoring the Indian foreign ministry’s requests to look sympathetically into the case of an NRI couple whose children were taken away by Norway’s childcare services in May. South Block officials said the authorities in Oslo had so far ignored the Indian mission’s explanations of cultural differences in child-rearing. Norwegian embassy officials in Delhi were unavailable for comment. |
| | | | How much are you willing to change in the name of love? |
| [Norwaynews] [07.12.2011, 02:59pm, Wed. GMT] |
"You know when Picasso took a shit, he didn't call it a 'sculpture', he knew the difference. That's what's made him Picasso". Entertaining, engaging and provocative; a dark romantic comedy to coincide with the winter darkness! The Shape of Things is a show that highlights the obsession today's generation has with looks and the surface of things.
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| | | | SSP to open Norway's first YO! Sushi outlet at Oslo Airport |
| [Norwaynews] [07.11.2011, 06:43pm, Mon. GMT] |
Leading travel food & beverage concessionaire SSP will open YO! Sushi at Oslo Airport in January next year. It will mark the brand's first appearance at a non-UK airport location and its debut in the Norwegian market. SSP will operate the sushi brand along with 29 other outlets at the airport from November this year as part of a major redevelopment.
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| | | | Oslo schools closed due to explosion danger |
| [Norwaynews] [13.10.2011, 08:32pm, Thu. GMT] |
| All schools in Oslo were closed or had revised schedules Thursday because of the danger of explosion in school fire extinguishers. At a press conference with the Education Service Thursday at 1 p.m., it emerged that the city of Oslo on Thursday morning was notified of the dangerous extinguishers – and that they must take action immediately. |
| | | | Global action day in support of sacked DHL unionist in Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [30.09.2011, 06:13pm, Fri. GMT] |
Transport, post and logistics unionists around the world will be taking a stand on behalf of a DHL worker and unionist in Norway who was sacked earlier this year. On 10 October, the activists will be participating in an action day in support of Monica Okpe, a DHL supply chain worker in Oslo who was dismissed on 6 May.
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| | | | Two people stabbed in Oslo |
| [Norwaynews] [24.09.2011, 01:54pm, Sat. GMT] |
Two people were stabbed in downtown Oslo on Friday night. Neither have life-threatening injuries. The police in Tollbugata were notified shortly after the attacks at 3. Tone Solberg, Operations Manager of the Oslo police, stated two suspicious persons were arrested nearby. One of the two injured people was taken by ambulance to Oslo University Hospital with stab injuries in the upper body.
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| | | | Norway killer captured on CCTV during Oslo attack |
| [Norwaynews] [15.09.2011, 07:52pm, Thu. GMT] |
| The man who confessed to killing 77 people in Norway in July was filmed by security cameras minutes before he launched the attacks, it has emerged. Anders Behring Breivik, 32, is seen dressed in a police uniform with a gun as he walks away from a car after placing a bomb in Oslo. Police confirmed the photo published on the ABC Nyheter website was authentic. The car bomb killed eight people. Mr Breivik then shot dead 69 people at a youth camp on the island of Utoeya. |
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