Posted on 26 July 2010.
Some 200 people are currently at work laying fibre optic cables to 8,000 homes in the Reykjavik capital area of Iceland. It is hoped 40,000 homes will be connected with high speed fibre optic communications by the end of the year and 65,000 by the end of 2014. Read the full story
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Posted on 08 July 2010.
A home help boss has been fired in Denmark after a hidden camera documentary uncovered widespread negligence throughout the organisation’s workforce. Several other staff members of the Handvaerkerhaven care centre in northwest Copenhagen were also suspended after the exposé slammed workers for spending their time eating out, shopping or relaxing at home instead of looking after patients. Read the full story
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Posted on 20 May 2010.
“This is totally brilliant,” said Oli Jon Gunnarsson upon hearing that he and his two brothers’ YouTube video had been shown on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show in the USA this week. Read the full story
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Posted on 02 May 2010.
A team from the world famous American current affairs programme, 60 Minutes is currently in Iceland. Read the full story
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Posted on 15 February 2010.
Around 800 girls aged 8 to 28 auditioned this weekend for the part of Stephanie in the popular Lazytown television show. Read the full story
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Posted on 23 January 2010.
A new television series entitled Lupaus (Promise) is to be launched by Finnish broadcaster YLE and will feature everyday Finns in a five-week pledge to give up drinking alcohol. According to the show’s resident physician, it is middle-aged females in Finland that have the most difficulty in admitting that they may have a drinking problem. Read the full story
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Posted on 19 January 2010.
The international film production company Reveille has recruited Sony Pictures to help finance and distribute the American remake of the Icelandic situation comedy series, Naeturvaktin, or The Night Shift. The story is being remade in an American setting using American actors. Read the full story
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Posted on 04 November 2009.
Thor 6, the latest satellite from the Norwegian Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc), has been successfully released into orbit from its launch site at the French Guiana Spaceport of Kourou. The new satellite will take over from its ancestor Thor III which will be retired in 2010. Read the full story
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Posted on 16 October 2009.
Iceland’s only free-to-air commercial television station will become a paid subscription channel from the middle of November, according to a press release from Skjar Media, which owns the channel. Read the full story
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Posted on 11 September 2009.
Iceland received some excellent coverage on BBC television this week in two episodes of BBC World News’s Fast Track programme. Read the full story
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Iceland’s Kaupthing bank repaid billions
Utøya witness: Breivik whooped with joy
H&M burned by tanned model criticism
Iceland president: beating drugs is simple
Leftists ‘arson terrorists’ released from custody in Denmark
Successful ending to safety landing at Keflavík Airport in Iceland
Famous Finland husband murder case to be reopened
Dermatologist Dr. Ron Moy gives BIOEFFECT EGF SERUM seal of approval
Teenager arrested for Copenhagen park attack
Mangs’ mother noticed racism
