Asia and Norway

Climate change is the biggest challenge for humanity and all nations will have to adopt policies to face and address it, Norway’s ambassador to India, Nils Ragnar Kamsvag said here …

The Norwegian Embassy of Nepal has agreed to provide funds to rebuild six quake-hit schools in Semjong VDC of northern Dhading, one of the districts hardest hit area by last …

The Emirates Capital Limited (TECL), a boutique corporate finance firm with offices located in the DIFC, Dubai, has been retained to assist with sourcing capital funding of more than $21 …

Bringing people and business enterprises together, taking bilateral economic cooperation to a higher level and seeking new possibilities, new markets and new projects are the goals of the Serbian-Norwegian Business …

Ten collaborative agreements between Singapore and Norway were signed at the Research Council of Norway on Tuesday (Oct 11), covering areas such as educational exchanges, renewable energy and urban solutions. …

Norway may be over 10,000km away from Singapore, but it is also a place some Singaporeans call home. Yesterday evening, 140 of them, together with their family members, gathered at …

‘Norway is a long-term partner for Afghanistan. We intend to maintain our current level of aid to the country, approximately NOK 700 million a year, in the period 2017 to …

The contracts were signed in the context of International Exhibition of Fishery, Aquaculture and related industries in Milad Tower in Tehran. Iranian Minister of Agriculture Jihad Mahmoud Hojjati and Norwegian …

A Vietnamese Cultural Event in Oslo – “Essence of Viet Nam” took place on 13 September 2016, at Gamle Logen, in celebration of the 71st anniversary of the National Day …

Norway condemns the nuclear test carried out by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) today. ‘The DPRK has once again defied a united international community by carrying out a …

Innovation Norway, DNV GL and the Norwegian Embassy organized a seminar in New Delhi recently to display Norwegian expertise within natural gas, and to address the challenges and opportunities in …

Qatar Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani yesterday met Norway’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Borge Brende in Oslo and discussed relations between both countries, especially in …

‘The arrest of several people with links to the opposition, including Natiq Jafarli of the Republican Alternative movement, gives cause for concern,’ said State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign …

The Norwegian government is offering the latest fishery technology to members of the Indonesia-Indian Ocean Local Government Forum (Indonesia-IOLGF) to optimally utilize the potential of the sea. “The offer was …

Norway is ready to make the best of post-sanction situation in Iran to further develop cooperation with this strategic country, Norwegian FM Børge Brende said on Wed. Foreign Minister of …

South Korea’s VIP Research& Management Co. came under the spotlight by drawing successive investment from Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest with assets $847.6 billion under management. According to …

A longtime backer of Burma’s pro-democracy movement, Norway has been a high-profile donor to development and peacebuilding programs inside Burma since the launch of political and economic reforms in 2011. …

A consortium of Norwegian knowledge-based companies and academic bodies, organized by an Iranian energy management and consultancy company Energiring, held a seminar on the development of oil and gas upstream …

A petitioner alleged before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that the Royal Norwegian Embassy has played a role in transporting his wife and daughters to Norway and the FIA did …

From 24 to 26 July the 49th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting took place in Vientiane, Laos. The meeting was attended by a range of foreign ministers from Southeast Asia, but …

Two missing citizens of Norway have been rescued in the mountains of Almaty, said Ruslan Imankulov, official representative of the emergency situations committee of the Ministry of Interior Affairs. “2 …

The slump in the offshore oil and gas market continued to hurt shipbuilders with mainboard-listed Vard Holdings sinking to a 53 million Norwegian kroner (S$8.47 million) loss for the second …

The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana has been closed. An ambassador based in Oslo will be responsible for Norway’s relations to all the Central-Asian countries. The appointment should …

The MoU was signed between the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and Norway’s DNV GL certification body in a ceremony in Tehran. The MoU covers areas of legal …

Mr Lars Erik Tellmann, a member of the Telenor Myanmar team since it established operations in 2013, has been appointed chief executive officer to succeed Mr Petter Furberg, the Norway-based …