Chinese Tech Firms Entice Opera with $1.2 Billion Bid
Opera Software, a Norway-based company that operates a popular web browser, intends to accept a...
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Norway Tried to Prevent Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Peace Prize
Geir Lundestad, the former secretary of the Nobel Peace Prize committee, revealed in a newly...
China Defends Academic Freedom, in Norway
Reuters’ Sui-Lee Wee and Joseph Campbell report Chinese indignation at the expulsion from...
Norway Woos China in Race for Arctic Oil Riches
Bloomberg’s Omar R. Valdimarsson and Mikael Holter report on Norwegian efforts to cultivate...
China Quiets Criticism Abroad as 1989’s Shadow Fades
As China goes to new lengths to impose silence at home ahead of the Tiananmen crackdown’s...
Dalai Lama Urges Outside Inquiry Into Self-Immolations
More than 130 Tibetans have self-immolated in recent years in protest against Beijing’s...
China Gains Influence in Arctic Region
This week in Beijing, during a visit from Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir, Iceland became the first country in Europe to sign a free-trade pact with China. The agreement is aimed at assisting the recovery of...
China’s Arctic Ambitions
China’s appetite for raw materials has become a source of concern from Afghanistan and Mongolia to Peru and Zambia. Now, these tensions appear to have spread to Greenland, where the prospect of Chinese encroachment...
Liu Xiaobo’s Wife Speaks as Thousands Protest Couple’s Imprisonment
Liu Xia, wife of jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, has given her first interview in 26 months, less than a week before the 2012 Nobel ceremony next Monday. Liu Xia has been under house arrest since the announcement...
Norwegian Ambassador on China’s Arctic Role
In an interview with The Diplomat, Norwegian ambassador to the US Wegger Christian Strommen discusses the Arctic’s growing global importance and China’s place in it: One of the countries that might wish to challenge...
China’s Arctic Ambitions Face Threat
A Norwegian newspaper has reported that poor relations between Norway and China over the awarding of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo, and the series of diplomatic snubs by China that have ensued, may prompt Norway to...
China in a No-win Situation in Norwegian Slaying
The Los Angeles Times reports on a murder of a Norwegian student, who was allegedly killed by her Chinese boyfriend who has since been released by Chinese authorities before being tried: When it was learned this month that...
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