Kaupthing bank acquires Dutch merchant bank
The ninth largest Nordic bank, Kaupthing Bank, recently agreed to buy NIBC, a European merchant bank, for the sum of nearly three billion euros in cas...
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Fifteen foreigners hurt as bus drives off road
A bus drove off the road in eastern Iceland yesterday, injuring almost half of the passengers on board. Fifteen foreign workers on the bus were hurt, ...
Iceland a model for public sector expansion in Canada
Iceland has only twice as many inhabitants as Canada’s smallest province, Prince Edward Island, yet the Nordic country is being held up as a model for...
Economic lessons from online computer game
Eyjolfur Gudmundsson, a man with a doctorate in environment and resource economics from the University of Rhode Island, was recently hired to study in...
Icelandair wins Icelandic Transport Award
The Icelandic government last week awarded Icelandair with the first ever Transport Award for its contribution to the field of aviation and its pionee...
New flights to Spain with Iceland Express
Iceland Express will begin flying to Barcelona twice a week during the winter starting on November 9th. Tickets for the new flights, which will contin...
Search continues for missing German tourists in Iceland
Search teams are still scouring Iceland for two German tourists who went missing near Skaftafell National Park in southern Iceland on August 17th. To ...
Transformers the movie huge success in Iceland
Transformers the movie opened in Iceland on August 8th, a long way behind the opening dates in the rest of the world. The film has had a strong openin...