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Articles Archive for 2012
We found 72 posts.
1. Norwegian ambassador encourages broader Pakistan view
‘Pakistan is much more than the scandals and a lot of propaganda which is being published in to the international media,’ Norway’s ambassador to Pakistan, Cecilie Landsverk tells The Foreigner in an exclusive interview at the Islamabad embassy.
Published on 31st December, 2012 at 1:40am by Malik Ayub Sumbal.
2. Dagbladet’s xenophobic glasses
EDITORIAL: Norwegian tabloid Dagbladet was so keen to sell stories at news-sparse Christmastime that its journalists resorted to the ‘Norway’s Nightmare on Karl Johans gate’ trick.
Published on 27th December, 2012 at 1:56pm by Michael Sandelson.
3. Oslo on the rocks
It is all about water it seems. Norway has a total of more than 80,000km of coast and 2.5 million Norwegians gaped at the ‘Hurtigruten’ TV programme, broadcasting 135 hours of non-stop coastline.
Published on 26th December, 2012 at 9:30pm by Tove Andersson.
4. Santa Claus: Born in Turkey, loved in Japan and living in Norway
Last year, some Norwegians thought that Santa was threatened by immigrants, but it turned out to be a false alarm.
Published on 25th December, 2012 at 9:01pm by Tove Andersson.
5. Santa story: Reindeer truth
The most familiar myth of Christmas may be the story of Santa Claus arriving on the Eve in a sleigh hitched to a team of flying reindeer, known round the English-speaking world and beyond.
Published on 24th December, 2012 at 4:09pm by M. Michael Brady.
6. Heating up the capital
As Norway settles into the chill of another winter, we are fortunate that some streets have heated pavements to prevent us slipping on ice. Or does that make us 'unfortunate'?
Published on 15th December, 2012 at 1:35pm by Ilan Kelman.
7. A man for all Europe
The first edition in December of cultural weekly publication Morgenbladet was dedicated to Europe, in step with the award of the 2012 Peace Prize to the EU on 10 December. Article “De ti mest europeiske europeerne” (“The ten most European Europeans”) profiles the persons and entities that the newspaper believes most exhibit pan-Europeanism.
Published on 9th December, 2012 at 5:09pm by M. Michael Brady.
8. The Rightists and their foreign strangeness
EDITORIAL: Norway’s Progress Party (FrP) is riding two horses about foreigner matters, at home and abroad. Giddy-up, it is getting towards 2013’s general election.
Published on 9th December, 2012 at 10:39am by Michael Sandelson.
9. Capital skiing
Many urban skiers dream of combining wintertime business and pleasure, of maintaining their city pursuits yet have skiing at their doorsteps. Few fulfill that dream, as city living and snow sports usually are distant from each other, and travel between them is time consuming.
Published on 8th December, 2012 at 1:09pm by M. Michael Brady.
10. Mother Nature is not good to everyone
Most of us are likely to agree with that nature is good and a source of mental and physical health. Or are we?
Published on 7th December, 2012 at 10:17am by Consuelo Griggio.
11. English reclassified
Is English Scandinavian? Two researchers have been looking into linguistic discrepancies.
Published on 2nd December, 2012 at 5:00pm by M. Michael Brady.
12. Corporate conundrums
Are corporations the evil multinational empire sucking you and your descendants' blood, or do-gooders who keep the world turning? The truth is that both forms exist--alongside many in between.
Published on 30th November, 2012 at 8:44pm by Ilan Kelman.
13. Swedish surveillance, Norway’s nightmare?
EDITORIAL: Norwegians, Swedes, and their relations are once again in the news, this time with a to-date minor rumpus over alleged mobile security concerns. This sounds like a job for Trade and Industry Minister ‘the name’s Trond, planes Trond’ Giske.
Published on 17th November, 2012 at 5:38pm by Michael Sandelson.
14. Petrol and philosophy
'Thinking dutifully, acting beautifully' encapsulates what Norwegian philosopher Arne Næss and his Deep Ecology movement stand for. It was also the title of last week's Arne Næss Symposium at the University of Oslo.
Published on 17th November, 2012 at 8:53am by Ilan Kelman and Robbie Andrew.
15. Nobel chocolate?
Might munching chocolate trigger intellectual achievement? Doctor Franz Messerli, a Swiss-born and educated cardiologist on the faculty of the St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York recently conducted a statistical study to see if this might be so.
Published on 15th November, 2012 at 4:34pm by M. Michael Brady.
16. Projects probed: Concepts decisive
About ten years ago, project management researchers at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) became involved in a Ministry of Finance programme to better predict the outcomes of public investment projects. The results to date go beyond finance.
Published on 11th November, 2012 at 9:09am by M. Michael Brady.
17. Putting humans on environmental trial
We are killing our ecosystems. Urban expansion, poaching, exploitive fishing, climate change, and persistent pollutants, amongst other human activities, are wiping out species and interfering with biological processes at a terrifyingly rapid rate.
Published on 2nd November, 2012 at 10:04am by Ilan Kelman.
18. Sinister Presences on the Vega Archipelago
Though All Hallow’s Evening (familiarly known as Halloween) has been certainly influenced by the Christian holy day of All Saints’ Day, its origins are thought to be pagan.
Published on 31st October, 2012 at 9:07am by Consuelo Griggio.
19. Trysil Knud: Epic poetry
Skiing arguably is the winter sport with the most songs. There are many skiing themes in fiction, and the sport has drawn many writers, most famously Ernest Hemingway, who in the 1920s, escaped the bleak winters of Paris to ski in Switzerland. In films, there have been many ski scenes and even full-length features, such as Downhill Racer (1969) starring Robert Redford. In comparison, ski poetry palls, though it may well be the oldest form of ski literature and exists in all skiing countries.
Published on 21st October, 2012 at 8:48am by M. Michael Brady.
20. Disaster prevention: A shared responsibility
Everyone can contribute to tackling disasters. The measures are often simple and cheap, yet effective.
Published on 19th October, 2012 at 10:09am by Ilan Kelman.
