Icelanders buy their first apartments like before the crash
More buyers bought their first property in Iceland now in the second quarter of 2018 than during any quarter since the economic collapse of 2008, says...
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Employment agencies hire five times more workers
The number of workers employed by employment agencies in Iceland has grown fivefold since 2016, as reported by RÚV. Around 1500 workers are now employ...
World Cup support comes from different directions
Iceland and Icelandic football is getting support from all over the world, even from the countries Iceland is competing with – We wanted to shar...
Female Staff of Hard Rock Café Made to Wear Dresses
Female staff of Hard Rock Café in downtown Reykjavík have been told that they need to wear dresses instead of shirts and trousers, like their male wor...
The First Icelandic Cat Coffee House Opens Today
The first cat coffee house in Iceland opens today in Reykjavík. The coffee house, called Kattakaffihúsið or The Cat Coffee House is in the city centre...
Icelandic Composer Re-Imagined Samsung’s Ringtone
Icelandic composer Pétur Jónsson was contacted by Samsung to re-imagine their ring tone “Over the Horizon”. The project is a part of the promotion of ...
Slide sheets for independent living might be the next big thing out of Iceland
The Snoozle Slide Sheet is a classic story of a person who had a problem, fixed it and then started selling the solution to the problem. Lilja Þorstei...
Wants Denmark to Legislate Equal Pay
The director of the civil servant association in Denmark, Dennis Kristensen, wants the Danish government to do as the Icelandic one and legislate equa...