International Business News - NOR http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif StatoilHydro ASA says it has discovered natural gas with a wildcat well drilled in the Barents Sea, about 125 miles north of Norway's northernmost tip. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/statoilhydro-strikes-gas-in-barents-sea.htm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:49:47 EDT Norway's Kongsberg Gruppen ASA on Thursday said it won an at least 1 billion kroner ($200 million) contract from U.S. company Lockheed Martin Corp. to supply parts for the F-35 fighter jet. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/kongsberg-wins-us-fighter-parts-contract.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:02:49 EDT Suspected communist guerrillas launched a series of attacks Thursday in the southern Philippines, lobbing a grenade that killed three people and raiding a police station and a gold mining company, officials said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/philippine-blast-kills-3-injures-11.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:58:03 EDT FMC Technologies Inc., which makes equipment for oil production and other industries, said Wednesday it received a $38 million order from the Norwegian oil group StatoilHydro to supply subsea equipment for a project at its floating oil platform in the North Sea. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/fmc-technologies-wins-contract-with-statoilhydro.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:27:19 EDT Norway's economic crime police on Tuesday ordered a unit of the German company Siemens AG to pay a fine of about $400,000 for corruption in defense contracts. The company said it expected to fight the fine in court. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/siemens-to-fight-norway-corruption-fine.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:04:38 EDT Communist rebels killed two soldiers in a public market and torched a cellular phone tower in the southern Philippines as the latest flare-up in the 40-year-old insurgency showed no sign of abating, officials said Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/philippine-rebels-stage-more-attacks-2-dead.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:45:54 EDT FMC Technologies Inc. said Monday it signed a deal worth $120 million to supply underwater oil and gas production equipment to ConocoPhillips Scandinavia AS. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080630/fmc-signs-120m-contract-with-conocophillips-unit.htm Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:42:01 EDT Siemens AG said Monday that the chief executive of its industry solutions division will leave the company in September to become CEO of Norway's Yara International, a chemical company. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080630/siemens-exec-leaving-to-become-yara-ceo.htm Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:39:23 EDT Syria's foreign minister on Monday repeated his country's denials that a site bombed by Israel last year was a nascent nuclear reactor but said he wished his country had such a program to counter Israel's nuclear might. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/82674-mideast-syria-norway.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080630/syria-denies-bombed-site-was-a-nuclear-reactor.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080630/syria-denies-bombed-site-was-a-nuclear-reactor.htm Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:28:38 EDT Communist guerrillas attacked a police station and burned a cellular phone transmission tower in the southern Philippines, sparking clashes with government forces that killed at least 11 people, an army official said Sunday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080629/11-killed-in-philippine-clashes.htm Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:28:47 EDT Israel will allow the resumption of food shipments into the Gaza Strip on Sunday after a four-day halt in response to Palestinian rocket attacks, Israeli defense officials said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080628/israeli-troops-kill-teenage-militant-in-west-bank.htm Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:46:33 EDT EU regulators on Friday approved the $3.9 billion acquisition of a Scandinavian cigarette company by British American Tobacco PLC. Approval is conditional on the sale of a number of British American's brands in Norway. The company has offered to sell two roll-your-own tobacco brands in Norway, the EU said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080627/regulators-approve-3-9-billion-tobacco-co-sale.htm Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:59:41 EDT It was less than a year ago that Iraqis poured into the streets in a rare show of unity and celebration after the national soccer team won the prestigious Asian Cup. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080626/iraqi-association-dissolves-soccer-team.htm Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:28:12 EDT The Norwegian branch of Canada's Talisman Energy Inc. made a small oil discovery with a wildcat well drilled near its existing Varg offshore field, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate announced Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080626/talisman-makes-oil-find-off-norway.htm Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:56:07 EDT Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: June 20 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080625/editorial-roundup-excerpts-from-recent-editorials.htm Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:49:23 EDT Norway's central bank raised its key interest rate Wednesday by a quarter percentage point to 5.75 percent despite signs that the oil-rich Nordic nation's booming economy shows signs of slowing. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080625/norway-hikes-key-interest-rate.htm Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:52:49 EDT European regulators fined five companies that produce aluminum fluoride $7.74 million for collusion on Wednesday. The European Commission said the companies agreed in 2000 to fix worldwide target prices and divide markets. Norwegian company Boliden Odda received immunity from EU antitrust authorities because it blew the whistle on the cartel, the commission said in a statement. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080625/eu-fines-aluminum-fluoride-companies-7-74m.htm Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:25:10 EDT More than 30,000 Myanmar refugees living in camps in Thailand have been sent to third countries in what the United Nations said Wednesday had become the world's largest refugee resettlement operation. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080625/more-than-30-000-myanmar-refugees-resettled.htm Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:42:41 EDT A senior Russian general says Russia will conduct military exercises in the Arctic to uphold the country's claim to the region's vast natural resources. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080624/russia-plans-to-hold-military-exercises-in-arctic.htm Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:10:01 EDT A deadlock between pro- and anti-whaling nations led the International Whaling Commission to put off the most controversial issues on its agenda Tuesday and agree on a committee to overcome differences--probably by next year. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080624/chilean-president-pushes-whaling-ban.htm Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:25:15 EDT