Category: Food & Beverage
Norway, which has had a ban on cigarette and alcohol advertising since 1975, in 2010 banned even the display of tobacco products at their point of sale. Shops must keep cigarettes in unmarked cabinets or special vending machines with no visible logos. Customers wishing to buy tobacco must actively ask merchants for it.
Source: The Washington Post
Published: March 19, 2024
Category: Energy
A government-appointed commission on oilrigs and drilling concluded last month Norway must cut labor costs and ease regulations to ensure petroleum isn’t left in the ground. “As a country and as a sector, we should never compete on security, health and environmental standards, or hourly wages for personnel,” Norway Oil Minister Ola Borten Moe, 36, […]
Source: Bloomberg
Published: March 19, 2024
Category: AmCham News
KSAT will be using the company’s ground stations in Svalbard Norway and in Antarctica to provide services both to the NASA satellites JPSS and NPP as well as to the Japanese satellite GCOM-W1. The Ground Stations will be operated from KSAT’s main office in Tromsø. The contract is for 5 years of operation. The contract […]
Source: Nortrade
Published: March 19, 2024
Category: Government
In Friday’s session of the Council of State, the King has appointed Ms. Hadia Tajik, Member of Parliament, as Minister of Culture. At the same time Minister Hanne Bjurstrøm has been honourably discharged from her office. The Government represents the Labour Party (Lab.), the Socialist Left Party (Soc.) and the Centre Party (Cent.).
Source: Prime Ministers Office
Published: March 19, 2024
Category: Government
The measurement was made by TNS Gallup for TV 2 with personal telephone interviews of 963 eligible voters. According to the survey, 66 percent of the respondents think Erna Solberg becomes prime minister after the general election in 2013, while only 30.9 percent believe Jens Stoltenberg (Labour). At the same time a majority of Labor […]
Source: NorTrade
Published: October 9, 2012