Sweden will be monitoring Danish journalists
As of 1 January 2009, Sweden’s new anti-terrorism law will come into effect, allowing its intelligence services to read and listen to any corresponden...
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Private jet business coming to Iceland
Jet Republic, a new European aviation company, aims to redefine the private jet business. Iceland is a key focus area for the new company. Jet Republi...
Inspired continues to grow in south-east Asia
Part of Inspired Gaming Group, Inspired Gaming International (Inspired), today announced its first shared-revenue partnership deal where it will inves...
Tromso’s Winter Olympic dream fading
When asked in a recent poll by authorities in Norway if its citizens would support the government spending around USD 5 billion to host the 2018 winte...
Commercial solar panel manufacturing plant opens in Finland
Solel Solar Systems’ new USD 9 million solar reflector production factory has opened in Akaa, a town 200km north of Helsinki. The latest alternative e...
Norway gives Rio Tinto the boot over ethical concerns
As part of Norway’s aim to invest its sovereign wealth fund only in ethical, environmentally responsible projects, it has pulled out of a deal with Ri...
Danish navy fends off pirates in Gulf of Aden
The Gulf of Aden, off the African nation of Somalia, is notorious for being one of the most pirate-infested regions of the world. Within a three day p...
Brit attempts to kayak to North Pole
Lewis Gordon Pugh, a 38 year-old environmental activist from the UK, has begun the extraordinary challenge of kayaking 1,200km from Svalbard, Norway t...