Playwright Ignacio García May and the Finnish actress Emilia Uutinen On Tuesday April 23, was held at the Night of the Books of Madrid a staged reading "The Nordic Man Exists Too" organized by the Embassies of Norway, Denmark, Finland and Sweden, the Ibero-American Institute of Finland in collaboration with ...

The Nordic Embassies in Spain organize on Tuesday March 23 (The Night of the books in Madrid) a dramatic reading of texts by contemporary Nordic writers performed by the Spanish playwright Ignacio Garcia May and the Finnish actress Emilia Uutinen.  The event run in collaboration with the library Tierra del Fuego ...

The Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal was proclaimed world champion today in Downhill skiing at the alpine skiing World Cup held in Austria. The downhill competition took place today, Saturday, in the Austrian ski resort of Schladming, being the Norwegian a clear winner. He marked a time that none of his competitors ...

The results of the Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia in the last quarter of 2012 are best in years. The company evaluates its earnings for this quarter period, from  October 2012 to December 2012, could rise up to 700 million of euros. The last time Nokia reached such results was ...

The current owner of Saab has announced that the company will manufacture both petrol vehicles as new energy vehicles in their new project that began Monday in eastern China in the city of Qingdao, Shandong Province. The project has cost around 1.6 billion dollars, and aims to achieve a better ...

The Finnish writer Pirjo Hassinen has received the annual Finnish literary prize Savonia for her novel "Popula". The $ 10,000 prize is given annually to an outstanding novel from the Finnish Savo region, being this year’s edition the 24th. Fruit of the writer's indignation against the recent growth of the extreme right ...

When China announced earlier this month that it would use about 43 billion euros to reduce air pollution in 2015, the Danish authorities saw an opportunity to enter in action in order to do business with China. The Danish Trade Minister Pia Olsen Dyhr (Socialistisk Folkeparti), said that if China wants ...

The Swedish Court Princess Madeleine of Sweden and her fiance, American Chris O'Neill will get married in the Church of the Swedish King's castle on June 8, said the Swedish court in a press release yesterday, December 23. The first to announce this news was the Swedish newspaper Expressen, to whom ...

Two Finns and one Austrian were kidnapped yesterday Friday in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. Apparently the kidnapped are a Finnish man who was studying Arabic at the University of Cales, Yemen, and his girlfriend who was only visiting the country. The Austrian Man is also a language student. According to the information ...

Joulupukki, (Father Christmas or Santa Claus in Finnish) is the most emblematic Christmas figure of the Nordic countries an the whole world. Joulupukki proceeds from Finland, more exactly from Korvatunturi, a village whose location is unknown to all adventurous, as it is Santas’s secret place, where he spends the rest of ...