It has been reported that Chinese interests want to finance the building of a health village in Flúðir, south Iceland to the tune of billions of krónur. Read the full story
Posted on 21 January 2012.
It has been reported that Chinese interests want to finance the building of a health village in Flúðir, south Iceland to the tune of billions of krónur. Read the full story
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Posted on 15 January 2012.
Around 21,000 foreign tourists left Iceland through Keflavík International Airport in December; which is about 11 percent more than in December 2010. Read the full story
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Posted on 31 December 2011.
It is believed that some 4,000 foreign tourists are currently in Reykjavík to celebrate the New Year – which is around 500 more than were in the Icelandic capital last year. Read the full story
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Posted on 24 December 2011.
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All fishing for halibut around Iceland will be banned from 1st January amid ongoing stock decline. Read the full story
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Posted on 21 December 2011.
Reykjavík’s iconic landmark to geothermal heat, Perlan, will controversially be sold to investors wanting to build a hotel and bathing spa next to the space-age dome. Read the full story
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Posted on 07 December 2011.
A hotel in Denmark is refusing to remove its women-only floor despite being told by the country’s equality board that it is illegal. The Bella Sky Hotel in Copenhagen says its 17th Bella Donna floor will stay free of men despite pressure from the Equal Treatment Board to abandon the venture. Read the full story
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Posted on 05 December 2011.
Iceland’s foreign minister this morning described Canadian fears that Huang Nubo’s hoped-for land purchase in Iceland is part of a wider Chinese plan to take the country over, as ‘ridiculous’. Read the full story
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Posted on 05 December 2011.
Carnival, the biggest cruise ship company in the world, has decided to add Ísafjörður in northwest Iceland to its list of destinations in summer 2013. Read the full story
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Posted on 04 December 2011.
The owner of the largest plot of land at Grímsstaðir á Fjöllum in northeast Iceland, says that it could very well be possible to rent the land to Chinese investor Huang Nubo to build a luxury resort. The Icelandic government denied Mr. Huang permission to buy the land — a move he criticised vocally as Western bias against China. Read the full story
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Posted on 26 November 2011.
Ögmundur Jónasson, Iceland’s Minister of the Interior, has rejected Chinese billionaire Huang Nubo’s application to buy 30,639 hectares in northeast Iceland for the construction of a luxury resort. Read the full story
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