The Norwegian band Muringa (Kim Fiskum Myhr, Klaus Ellerhusen Holm, Martin Taxt and Tor Haugerud) is touring Vietnam in late January. Photo: Muringa

A chance to experience Norwegian music in Vietnam

News and events // Last updated: 20/01/2012 //

Muringa is an up-and-coming Norwegian band playing improvised music. Just after releasing their first CD, "the unknown knowns", they are now touring Asia, and as part of that tour they will play three concerts in Vietnam.

A team celebrates victory at Norway Cup.
Photo: Elena Dafinceska/Norway Cup.

News and events // Last updated: 06/01/2012 //

Every summer, Oslo is host to the world’s biggest youth football tournament: Norway Cup. The tournament that started in 1972 is a cultural melting pot with 30.000 participants from 49 nations. Football For All Vietnam will participate again this year. Perhaps other Vietnamese teams will join them?

Representatives from Vietnam National University (VNU), the Norwegian Embassy and other partners celebrated the international human rights day at the VNU campus.
Photo: Balder Vestad.

News and events // Last updated: 22/12/2011 //

Vietnam National University (VNU) invited the Norwegian Embassy and other partners to mark the international Human Rights Day by celebrating the start-up of the first Master's degree in Human Rights in Vietnam. The master program at VNU is established in collaboration with the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. But the Master's degree wasn...

Unexploded bombs and mines, exemplified by these cluster bombs, continue to inflict human suffering and limit Vietnam's development.
Photo: Simon Conway.

News and events // Last updated: 16/12/2011 //

Vietnam still struggles with the aftermath of decades of war, as the country is still littered by unexploded ordnances. The Vietnamese government invited to a seminar on the mine action sector in early December, and Norway used the opportunity to encourage Vietnam to accede to the Convention on Cluster Munitions as a way forward.

The Nobel Peace Prize 2011 Laureates in Oslo Rådhus.
Photo: Marta B. Haga/MFA.

News and events // Last updated: 12/12/2011 //

“Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman are each in their own right worthy winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Government welcomes the award of this year’s prize to these three women. It is recognition of women’s non-violent efforts to promote peace and democracy,” said Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.

Norwegian Minister of Agriculture and Food, Mister Lars Peder Brekk (2nd row, 2nd from right) with embassy employees and guests at Hanoi Opera House.
Photo: All photos: Nguyen Ngoc Tien, Kjell Arne Nielsen and Balder Vestad.

News and events // Last updated: 02/12/2011 //

25 November 2011 marked 40 years of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Norway. A daytime symposium and a nighttime classical concert exhibited and celebrated the strong ties between the two countries. Celebrations also took place in the southern and central parts of Vietnam.

The Norwegian Ambassador, Mr. Ståle T. Risa, highlighted Lao PDR's work on the Cluster Convention in his commemorative speech.
Photo: Zenia Chrysostomidis.

News and events // Last updated: 09/12/2011 //

Individual stories of victims of cluster munitions and other unexploded ordnances, displayed at the Visitor’s Centre of the Prosthetic Enterprise and Orthotic Cooperative in Vientiane, provided a meaningful backdrop for commemoration of 20 years of Lao-Norwegian relations on 21 November.