Prince stresses aquaculture's vital global role
The importance of aquaculture for rural and developing economies was underlined today by Norway's Crown Prince.
Speaking at AquaVision 2006 in Stavanger, Crown Prince Haakon said that aquaculture offers a means of providing people around the world with healthy nutritious food. (Link to AquaVision 2006).

Irish rocker activist Geldof hopes Norway will work for fair trade
In an op-ed piece in the Oslo daily Aftenposten and the daily Stavanger Aftenblad, Geldof said that 'Africa was not hopeless' despite 'hunger, sickness, corruption, grinding poverty and, yet again, the threat of genocide.

Viking eye Addicks keeper
Charlton's out of favour Norwegian goalkeeper Thomas Myhre is reportedly attracting interest from Viking Stavanger in his homeland (Picture source: www.addickted.net).

NOKAS brawl in court
Two of the defendants in the ongoing appeals trial in the Norwegian Cash Service (NOKAS) robbery case came to blows on Wednesday morning.

Nordlie to take over Viking
Stavanger soccer club Viking will announce that coach Tom Prahl will be replaced in a late move to avoid relegation from Norway's top football division. (Photo source: www.viking-fk.no)

Students fixed more places in the petroleum technology program
After pressure from both students and a flagrant oil industry, UiS decided to accept the 25 students that were right under the admissions? criteria to be accepted to petroleum technology.

The Bridge: A Movie About Scientology
Brett Hanover's new feature length film, The Bridge, has raised a few eyebrows on Internet discussion groups. Debuting in Stavanger, Norway, home of Scientology critic Andreas Heldal-Lund operator of the website http://www.xenu.net, during the 10 year anniversary celebration of Heldal-Lund's website the film was immediately released to the public via Google and XenuTV.

Zimbabwe: 4 Artists At Norway Festival
Four local artists will participate in this year's International Festival of Literature and Freedom of Speech to be held from September 13-17 in Stavanger, Norway.

Apologized to victim's family
The testimony of Lars-Erik Andersen, one of the convicts in the brutal Norwegian Cash Service (NOKAS) robbery, continued in the appeals trial on Thursday.

DFDS acquired new passenger ship
The ferry line DFDS has bought the passenger ship Fjord Norway from the Norwegian shipping line Fjord Line.
The handing-over takes places on October 16, and in November the ship will sail on a new DFDS route and call at Bergen, Haugesund, and Stavanger before it crosses the North Sea with Newcastle as destination.

Schumann admits guilt
One of the main defendants in the commando-style NOKAS robbery, Kjell Alrich Schumann, made a surprise confession when the NOKAS defendants' appeals trial started in Stavanger on Monday.

Nokas appeals trial underway
Jury selection began Monday in the appeals trial for 13 men convicted in the commando-style robbery of the NOKAS currency depot. The trial has been linked to last week's recovery of two stolen paintings by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch.

Semester fees - this is what they are used for
The Student Welfare Organization?s (SiS) pie diagram shows that semester fees go back to the students. But the semester fee is also used for salary expenses, operational costs and subscription to the Norwegian Student Union.

City's Weston could be a Viking by the weekend
Cardiff City's out-of-favour right-back Rhys Weston could be on his way to Norwegian Premiership team Viking Stavanger by the weekend.

2ND Police say stolen Munch paintings recovered
Norwegian police announced Thursday they had recovered two masterpieces by artist Edvard Munch stolen two years from an Oslo museum. Two armed men ripped the paintings - Madonna and a version of The Scream - off the museum walls and fled in a stolen car in the August 2004 heist.

The most happening event in Stavanger
Are you interested in music? Or just like to swing on your dancing feet? September 6-9, Stavanger's international music festival Numusic will be launched for the seventh year in a row. Numusic opens with a concert by Pierre Henry in Domkirken. This French composer was the first use sampling as a technique back in 1949.

Students without housing
The student housing market is overcrowded and many students are still without a place to live. Student Jørgen Carlsen (19) lives in a cottage. - Yes, there is clearly greater stress on the housing market this year, confirms Øyvind Lorentzen, department manager for SiS Housing.

More bad weather on the way
State weather forecasters were predicting torrential rains and flooding early this week, on top of the heavy rains that have fallen over the past several days.

Bulgaria's President on First State Visit to Norway
President Georgi Parvanov is leaving on a three-day visit to Norway at the invitation of King Harald Fifth. Highlights on the agenda will be his lecture at the Nobel Institute in Oslo and a visit to the Joint Warfare Centre in Stavanger.

Fashion retailer Oda of Norway changes operation
We are now in a transition period with the Oda concept and Oda of Norway. The company Oda of Norway AS is no longer in operation and a new concept is under development. We will for a period leave the market but will come back later with a new collection.

Norway's Hydrogen Highway
Norway has opened its first hydrogen filling station, moving a step closer to creating a green highway between the capital Oslo and the port of Stavanger.

Air crash experts issue training call
The government's Air Accident Investigation Branch yesterday issued an urgent safety warning following an emergency at Aberdeen Airport in which a passenger plane overshot the runway.

Norway's Lyse Gass Plans 415MCM Gas Liquefaction Plant
The site of a new natural gas liquefaction plant planned in the Stavanger area, with an annual capacity of around 300,000 tons (415 million cubic meters) a year will be decided this autumn, a spokesman for Norwegian energy firm Lyse Gass AS said Tuesday.

World championship candidates compete in friendly ‘warm-up’
“Flirting with Norwegian seafood” is an informal culinary competition that is taking place in Stavanger tomorrow during the ‘Gladmat-festival’, with Norwegian seafood taking centre stage.

Royal opening at AquaVision
HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway has agreed to open the global aquaculture conference AquaVision in Stavanger, Norway (25-27 September 2006).

Viking battle to avoid the drop
Barely a matter of months after qualifying for the group stage of the UEFA Cup through the Fair Play award, Viking FK are facing a fight to avoid relegation in Norway, while SK Brann and IK Stabæk are enjoying improving fortunes.

Deadly bacteria in Norwegian hospitals
The Directorate for Health and Social Affairs called a sudden press conference on Tuesday to discuss streptococcus bacteria that has caused increased infant mortality at Norwegian hospitals.

Undersea tunnel contract for NCC
NCC Construction AS in Norway has signed a contract with the Norwegian Road Administration (Statens Vegvesen) for construction of the Finnfast road project in Rogaland in southwestern Norway. The order value is worth around US$80 million.

Girl lost family in car crash
A seven-year-old girl was the only member of her family to survive a collision with a truck in southern Norway Monday evening.

Orenburg Airlines Selects Pratt & Whitney for Engine Maintenance
Orenburg Airlines has awarded Pratt & Whitney a five-year, exclusive Maintenance Service Agreement for CFM maintenance on up to five Boeing 737 aircraft. The estimated value of this award is $10 million USD. The work will be performed at the Pratt & Whitney Norway Engine Center at Stavanger Airport in Norway.

Meteorite doubts emerge
Astronomers were excited by what they thought was a meteorite that fell near a Norwegian house over the weekend. Now an expert at the National History Museum in Oslo says he thinks it's just an ordinary earthly rock.

Calf calved
The farmer at Randaberg outside Stavanger could not quite believe it, when he found that his 12 month old calf had calved. Neither did the vet, at first.

ST Aerospace to shut down operations in Stavanger
Singapore Technologies Aerospace is shutting down its operations in Stavanger, Norway. The move follows plans by one of its major customers, SAS Technical Services, to close its production base near Stavanger.

4K Cinema For Norway
Norwegian cinemas are to trial Sony 4k digital projectors.

Second meteorite in a month hits Norway
A meteorite weighing about 4 pounds landed in western Norway during the weekend -- the second meteoritic impact in Norway within a month.

Centrica to Open Norwegian Office This Week
Centrica will expand its international exploration and production business by opening an office in Norway this week, ahead of its planned participation in the Norwegian licensing round in September.

Another meteorite hits Norway
A meteorite weighing around two kilos landed right in the yard outside Bjørn Herigstad's home in coastal Jæren, western Norway, over the weekend. It's the second meteorite-landing in Norway in a month, and experts are calling the incident sensational.