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Norwegian cross-country skiing champion Petter Northug has fired his entire coaching and management team at the behest of his major sponsor, supermarket and hardware chain Coop. Northug’s sponsorship deals and his entire skiing career had been thrown into doubt after he capped off a lacklustre season and disappointing Olympic campaign with a serious drunk driving […]
Norwegian hockey star Mats Zuccarello Aasen is “writing Norwegian sports history” this week, according to national ice hockey coach Roy Johansen, with his spectacular scoring for the New York Rangers in prestigious NHL Stanley Cup play. Johansen told state broadcaster NRK on Wednesday that Zuccarello Aasen, who goes simply by “Zuccarello” in the US, is […]
Debate fired up again this week over the make-up of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, following reports that Norway’s Conservative Party is poised to use its new political muscle to unseat the current committee chairman, Thorbjørn Jagland. While Jagland is a controversial figure in Norway, two newspaper editorials in as many days have called for his […]
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Monday that Norwegian Major General Kristin Lund had “broken through the glass ceiling” to become the first woman ever to command a UN peacekeeping operation. He appointed Lund to take over the UN Peacekeeping Force on Cyprus. Lund will replace Major General Chao Liu of China on August […]
John Fredriksen worked hard all his life to become one of the most powerful shipowners in the world. Along the way he also invested in other businesses, not least fish farming. The legendary tycoon, who now ranks as one of the wealthiest men not just in Norway but the world, turned 70 over the weekend […]
An unusually humbled Petter Northug, once the best cross-country skier in the world, denied on Thursday that he has a drinking problem. Four days after he crashed his car at high speed in a drunk-driving spree, he was back out training on roller skis in his home district of Meråker in Trøndelag, and vowing to […]
Grete Faremo, one of the many government ministers who lost their jobs after Norway’s former left-center government lost last fall’s national election, has accepted a new job as executive director of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), headquartered in Copenhagen. UN Secretary General Ban-ki Moon announced Faremo’s high-level appointment on Wednesday in conjunction […]
The Supreme Court of Norway (Høyesterett) ruled on Tuesday that Rear Admiral Louise Kathrine Dedichen was not appointed as head of the Norwegian Defense University College (Høgskolene i Forsvaret) because she was a woman. Dedichen’s appointment was challenged by the man she beat for the role, Brigadier Øyvind Kirsebom Strandman, on the grounds the state […]
Øystein Mæland, the former Labour (Arbeiderpartiet, Ap) politician and police director was announced on Tuesday as the new chief executive of the embattled Akershus University Hospital (Ahus). Mæland’s appointment is part of an overhaul of the seriously troubled hospital’s management, after the former CEO quit last year and the previous board was thrown out last […]
Three former ministers from the Labour Party plus two state secretaries were able to claim lucrative severance payments after their own labours in government, reported newspaper VG this week. The newspaper documented how they all managed to collect the state’s maximum amount of severance pay while they pursued or set up new employment ventures. All […]
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