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American Chamber News Philip Morris Norway Announces Lawsuit Challenging Norwegian Tobacco Product Display Ban Oslo – Philip Morris Norway AS (PMN) will today start legal proceedings to overturn the ban on displaying tobacco products in retail stores. “Display bans have had no impact on reducing sm... Read More Date posted: 9th of March 2010 Source: Philip Morris News Category: Food & Beverage Harris Corporation and Jotron Team to Pursue $200 Million Next-Gen FAA Radio System Contract Harris Corporation and Jotron AS have teamed up to pursue an anticipated five-year, $200 million Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) contract for next-generation radios that will support the agency'... Read More Date posted: 9th of March 2010 Source: Harris Corporation News Category: IT & Communications Lockheed, Pentagon Soothe Partners Over F-35 Delays Lockheed Martin Corp. and the Pentagon assured their international partners Thursday that problems in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program have been resolved and development of the next-generation wa... Read More Date posted: 8th of March 2010 Source: MarketWatch News Category: Defense Statoil Secures Transportation Capacity to US Market “This is an important breakthrough for Statoil’s gas marketing position in the US,” said executive vice president for Natural Gas, Rune Bjørnson. Statoil has recently entered into transpor... Read More Date posted: 8th of March 2010 Source: Maritime & Energy News Category: Energy Conax (Telenor) Partners with TiVo to Offer Advanced Global TV Platform ALVISO, CA and OSLO, NORWAY -- TiVo Inc., a leader in advanced television services and personal video recorders (PVRs), and Conax, a leading global provider of security solutions for digital TV and co... Read More Date posted: 8th of March 2010 Source: Conax News Category: IT & Communications Hilton åpner luksus-hotell i Oslo En av verdens største hotell-kjeder er på full fart inn i Oslo-markedet: I løpet av vårmånedene åpner Hilton-gruppen sitt første eksklusive hotell av typen Doubletree i Skandinavia. Det sk... Read More Date posted: 8th of March 2010 Source: Aftenposten News Category: Travel & Tourism Multilateral Approaches to Global Challenges Speech by Svein Gjedrem, Governor of Norges Bank, at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington D.C.... Read More Date posted: 2nd of March 2010 Source: Norges Bank News Category: Finance & Investment CF Industries Raises Bid for Terra, Tries to Top Yara Fertilizer maker CF Industries relaunched a hostile bid worth $4.75 billion to buy rival Terra Industries in a move to break up Terra's planned takeover by Norway's Yara International. CF,... Read More Date posted: 2nd of March 2010 Source: Reuters News Category: Agriculture Go-Ahead for Gudrun Statoil and its partners in the Gudrun licence, Marathon Petroleum and GdF Suez, have agreed to submit a plan for development and operation (PDO) of this North Sea discovery to the Norwegian authoriti... Read More Date posted: 1st of March 2010 Source: NRK/Press release News Category: Energy Increasing Norwegian Trade with Asia While Norwegian exports to the US and Europe were reduced by 23 per cent last year, due to the global financial crisis, the sales of goods to South Korea and China increased by more than 40 per cent, ... Read More Date posted: 1st of March 2010 Source: Aftenposten News Category: Statistics Court Decides in Favor of Shipowners The Norwegian Supreme Court has awarded in favor of the shipping companies that the retroactive tax imposed in 2007 for the years 1996-2006 was in breach of the Norwegian Constitution. In... Read More Date posted: 1st of March 2010 Source: NRK/Press releases News Category: Shipping & Offshore Slight Increase in Unemployment The unemployment rate in Norway has increased slightly, but slower than before, and at the end of February it reached 3.2 per cent of the total work force, up from 3.1 per cent at the end of 2009. Read More Date posted: 1st of March 2010 Source: SSB News Category: Statistics Norway's Oil Income Drops Petoro, which manages the Norwegian state's direct financial interest in the development of petroleum resources, reports an income for Norway of NOK 97 billion for 2009, down from NOK 155.4 billion in... Read More Date posted: 1st of March 2010 Source: NRK/Press release News Category: Energy Record Year for Norwegian Salmon Exports Predicted The export of salmon from Norway is so far this year 33 per cent higher than in the record year of 2009. The industry believes this trend will continue, and that 2010 will be a new record year for Nor... Read More Date posted: 1st of March 2010 Source: NRK News Category: Seafood/Aquaculture The Hamner Institutes and Oslo Cancer Cluster Announce Partnership RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. and OSLO -- The Hamner Institutes at Research Triangle Park has signed a formal Memorandum of Understanding with the Oslo Cancer Cluster in Oslo, Norway, one of the leadin... Read More Date posted: 19th of February 2010 Source: The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences News Category: Education & Research Lockheed Cuts Costly F-35 Fighter Jet Delays Lockheed Martin Corp. says it has reduced delays in the development phase of its F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jet to about 13 months. That's far less than the 30-months earlier feared and puts the progra... Read More Date posted: 19th of February 2010 Source: MarketWatch News Category: Defense Acando Partners with Ping Identity to Support European Clients with Internet Single Sign-On OSLO -- Ping Identity(R), the leader in Internet Identity Security, and Acando, one of Northern Europe's leading Management and IT consultancy companies, today announced a partnership to simplify and ... Read More Date posted: 19th of February 2010 Source: Ping Identity Corporation News Category: IT & Communications Kongsberg Maritime: Deep Water Multibeam for United States Coast Guard Cutter 'Healy' The United States Coast Guard has ordered a Kongsberg Maritime EM 122 deep water multibeam echo sounder for use aboard the icebreaker Healy, the largest vessel in its fleet. Although a Co... Read More Date posted: 19th of February 2010 Source: Maritime & Energy News Category: Shipping & Offshore 160 Choice Hotels Certified by DNV to the Environmental Management System Standard The certification process was conducted throughout 2009, and was according to the hotel chain’s website the single most comprehensive project Choice Hotels Scandinavia has ever gone through. In the en... Read More Date posted: 19th of February 2010 Source: DNV News Category: Environment US Aims to Boost Export-Led Jobs in SMEs US Trade Representative Ron Kirk welcomed a new report on Tuesday (19 January) he said showed the potential to create well-paying American jobs by encouraging more small and medium-sized US companies ... Read More Date posted: 19th of February 2010 Source: EurActiv with Reuters News Category: Statistics © 2010 American Chamber of Commerce in Norway. All rights reserved.

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