Posted on 14 March 2010. Tags: football, Iceland, opinion, sport
Iceland currently has 53 football players playing abroad. Not bad for a little country marooned in the North Atlantic Ocean, or is it?
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Posted in Business, General, Iceland, International, MBL, Sports
Posted on 14 March 2010. Tags: alcohol, court, Finland, internet, legal, tax
All charges have been dismissed in the case of a Finnish website that had been accused of improper distribution and importation of alcoholic products from Germany for sale in Finland.
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Posted in Business, Finland, General, MBL
Posted on 13 March 2010. Tags: Denmark, economy, GDP, lars lokke rasmussen
The Danish Prime Minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, has declared that his country will embark on a range of ambitious projects aimed at increasing the national GDP over the next decade.
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Posted in Business, Denmark, Energy, General, MBL, Marketing and Consulting, Politics, Society
Posted on 13 March 2010. Tags: Audur Capital, finance, Iceland, OMX
NASDAQ OMX Iceland hf. has confirmed that Audur Capital will be Certified Adviser for First North Iceland.
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Posted in Business, General, Iceland, MBL
Posted on 13 March 2010. Tags: Norway, oil fund, pensions, recession
The Government Pension Fund Global, or National Oil Fund, recorded a record annual return for 2009 according to a new report by the Norwegian Central Bank.
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Posted in Business, Energy, General, Lifestyle, MBL, Norway, Society
Posted on 12 March 2010. Tags: Denmark, herbert pundik, israel, mossad, politiken
The former chief editor of Danish newspaper Politiken, Herbert Pundik, has spoken out for the first time of his time as an Israeli Mossad spy.
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Posted in Business, Denmark, General, International, MBL, Politics
Posted on 12 March 2010. Tags: business, Iceland, internet, marketing, Reykjavik, RIMC, sales
This morning begins a very high profile weekend for the internet in Iceland with today’s Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference and the accompanying high-tech expo which runs until Sunday.
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Posted in Business, General, Iceland, International, MBL, Marketing and Consulting, Technology
Posted on 11 March 2010. Tags: bahamas, crime, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, nordic, Norway, Sweden, tax
An information sharing contract has been signed between the Nordic nations and the Bahamas, intended to hinder Nordic tax evasion.
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Posted in Business, Denmark, Finland, General, Iceland, International, MBL, Norway, Politics, Society, Sweden, Travel
Posted on 11 March 2010. Tags: Norway, piracy, shipping, Somalia
The Norwegian-owned UBT Ocean oil-product tanker, along with its 21-member crew, has been captured by Somali pirates in the waters of the Indian Ocean.
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Posted in Business, General, International, MBL, Norway, Travel
Posted on 10 March 2010. Tags: agriculture, business, Finland, milk
Matti Vanhanen, the Finnish Prime Minister, has declared that he will personally boycott the chain of grocery stores operated by the S chain as an objection to their decision to phase out from some of their stores milk produced by the country’s largest dairy organisation, Valio.
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Posted in Business, Finland, General, MBL, Politics, Sweden