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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...
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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'...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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,...
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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...
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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, ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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Date posted: 19th of February 2010
Source: EurActiv with Reuters
News Category: Statistics




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