Asia and Norway

Kuralai is the daughter of a well-known politician and an influential figure in serious business circles. Growing up in a political family, she was surrounded by people in power from …

Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Norway Adil Tursunov met with the Minister of Digitalization and Public Governance of Norway Karianne Oldernes and discussed the prospects for bilateral cooperation in info-communication technologies, …

India and Norway on Wednesday extended their cooperation in implementing various health schemes across multiple regions in India. Union Health Secretary Apurva Chandra and Deputy Ambassador of Norway Martine Aamdal …

A new direct salmon air route between Norway and China has just been launched from Oslo. The interesting aspect is that the plane travels via the former Soviet republic of  …

The Parliament of Turkmenistan delegated its representative to the 8th International Parliamentarians’ Conference on the Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action (IPCI/ICPD), which was held in the Norwegian city …

The decision to build the nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan will be made by people, said President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in his comprehensive interview with the Egemen Qazaqstan newspaper, published on …

At the India International Centthe New Delhi on 30th November 2023, Mahatma Sri Prem Prayojan Prabhu (Ambassador for Peace UPF UN) delivered the keynote address BRICS+ “DIALOGUE OF TRADITIONS AND …

Vietnam Vice President Võ Thị Ánh Xuân had a meeting with Crown Prince of Norway Haakon Magnus in Oslo on Thursday (local time) as part of her ongoing visit to the northern European …

The Norwegian Embassy in Tokyo has launched a campaign to promote more salmon eating in Japan, where it is already a popular sushi topping. Norway started a blitz to sell …

Republic Day is a national holiday in Kazakhstan, celebrated on October 25. On this day in 1990, the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the country was adopted. The document declared …

Indonesia is urging Norway to expedite a $250 million (Rp 3.9 trillion) investment commitment to accelerate the tropical rainforest country’s decarbonization program as stated in the Just Energy Transition Partnership …

Special Representative of the President of Uzbekistan for Afghanistan Ismatulla Irgashev met yesterday with Norway’s Special Representative for Afghanistan Kjell-Gunnar Eriksen, Azernews reports, citing Kun.uz news agency. According to the Foreign Ministry, …

The President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, presented his new economic course during the annual state-of-the-nation address on 1 September. The President highlighted the country’s large-scale political reforms since 2022 and …

On 30 August, Kazakhstan marks Constitution Day. This year it is celebrated for the first time after the amendments to the Сonstitution following a nationwide referendum last year. At the …

Text and photos: Geir Yeh Fotland, formosa1951@gmail.com Norwegian language has two forms of writing: Bokmål and Nynorsk Local elections to the municipal council, the county councils as well as to …

Tekst by Geir Yeh Fotland, formosa1951@gmail.com                                    Illustration by Yilin Tsai. Norwegian heart-shaped waffles are widely available and universally celebrated in Norway and by Norwegian Church Abroad as one of …

The Norwegian Embassy in Colombo permanently closed down today as part of Norway’s decision to make structural changes in its network of diplomatic missions abroad. The Embassy announced earlier that …

Efforts to resume the stalled talks in Vienna aimed at the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal have gathered momentum again amid geopolitical shifts spurred by the Tehran-Riyadh rapprochement. Iran’s …

By Adil Tursunov, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Norway Kazakhstan’s parliamentary and local elections on March 19 will be crucial for the democracy, the nation-building and international relations. Throughout last year …

“456 nuclear explosions were carried out at the Semipalatinsk test site, 116 of them were atmospheric”, said Alimzhan Akhmetov, the director of the Center for International Security and Policy, an …

Việt Nam has become Norway’s largest seafood consumer in Southeast Asia with a total import output of about 50,000 tonnes last year. Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phùng …

For the first time since the pandemic, passenger flights between South Korean and Norway are due to begin. Every Thursday from May until August will see Air Premia operating direct …

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s biggest, has excluded two companies from China and India for selling weapons to Myanmar, the Norwegian central bank said. The fund said it had …

 The planned merger of Thai telecoms firms DTAC and True Corporation will not take place as planned this year, but may still go ahead in the first quarter of 2023, …