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Halle Jørn Hanssen
Halle Jørn Hanssen (born 18 February 1937) is a Norwegian television correspondent, development aid administrator and politician. He was born in Brønnøy Municipality, and worked as a teacher in Vinje Municipality before enrolling at the University of Oslo. He graduated with the cand.mag. degree in 1964, and worked as a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs from 1965 up to and including 1968. Having been the chairman of the Young Liberals of Norway from 1964 to 1966, in early 1969 he was hired as secretary for the Liberal Party. Immediately after the 1969 election he was hired in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1978 he became the first correspondent for Africa in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, which was the only television station in Norway at that time. As a correspondent he was stationed in Nairobi. Hanssen left the Liberal Party in 1972, as the party split over disagreements of Norway's proposed entry to the European Economic C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bærum Municipality
Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Akershus County, Norway. It forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a population of 128,760 (2021). The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Sandvika. Bærum was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838. Bærum has the highest income per capita in Norway and the highest proportion of university-educated individuals. Bærum, particularly its eastern neighbourhoods bordering West End Oslo, is one of Norway's priciest and most fashionable residential areas, leading Bærum residents to be frequently stereotyped as snobs in Norwegian popular culture. The municipality has been voted the best Norwegian place to live in considering governance and public services to citizens. Name The name (Old Norse: ''Bergheimr'') is composed of ''berg'', which means "mountain", and ''heimr'', which means " homestead" or "farm". It probably ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 Births
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: The Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assassinate its leaders. * January 30 – The Moscow Trial initiated on January 23 is concluded. Thirteen of the defendants are Capital punishment, sentenced to death (including Georgy Pyatakov, Nikolay Muralov and Leonid Serebryakov), while the rest, including Karl Radek and Grigory Sokolnikov are sent to Gulag, labor camps and later murdered. They were i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ola H
Ola may refer to: Places Panama *Olá, a subdistrict in Coclé Province *Olá District Russia *Ola, Russia, an urban settlement in Magadan Oblast *Ola District, an administrative division in Magadan Oblast *Ola (river), a river in Magadan Oblast United States *Ola, Arkansas, a city *Ola, Georgia, an unincorporated community *Ola, Idaho, an unincorporated community *Ola, Nevada, a ghost town *Ola, South Dakota, a census-designated place *Ola, Kaufman County, Texas, an unincorporated community *Casa Linda Estates, Dallas, formerly known as Ola People * Ola (given name), a list of men and women with the name * Ola (surname), a list of men and women with the surname * Ola Svensson (born 1986), also known by the mononym Ola, Swedish singer-songwriter * Ola Nordmann, a national personification of Norwegians * Ola people, another name for the ''Wurla'', an indigenous people of Western Australia Other uses *Ola High School (other), the name of several high schools *Ola Cab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olav Myklebust
Olav Myklebust (17 January 1932 – 1 November 2011) was a Norwegian civil servant, diplomat and politician for the Liberal Party. He hailed from Sunnmøre and took the cand.psychol. degree in 1957. He worked in NAVF and the Norwegian Computing Center. From 1962 to 1964 he was the leader of the Young Liberals, the youth wing of the Liberal Party; and from 1964 to 1968 he was the secretary-general of the Liberal Party. He was hired in the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) in 1968, became Norad's representative in Tanzania in 1972 and advanced to head of department in 1976. In 1989 he became deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Development Cooperation, continuing in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when the two ministries were merged. Between 1992 and 1998 he was Norway's ambassador to Namibia, then Malawi. While serving in Namibia he was also posted as ambassador to Angola. He was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav The Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Høvik
Høvik is a suburban area in the municipality of Bærum, Akershus, Norway, within the Oslo metropolitan area. Primarily a residential area, its population was 4,311 in 2005. Høvik is typically divided into two parts: Nedre (lower) and Øvre (upper). Høvik features a church, a small shopping area, and a railway station, Høvik Station, which is served by Drammensbanen. The Flytoget (Airport Express Train) does not stop at Høvik. The Henie Onstad Kunstsenter is located nearby. There are three schools in Høvik: Ramstad Skole, Høvik Verk Skole, and Høvik Skole. Several significant businesses also have offices in Høvik, including DNV. Høvik is home to beaches that are popular and often crowded during the summer. It is a well-known recreational area throughout the year, drawing visitors from across Bærum. Høvik IF has sections for alpine skiing, bandy, association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Forum For Environment And Development
Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *Norwegian language, including the two official written forms: **Bokmål, literally "book language", used by 85–90% of the population of Norway **Nynorsk, literally "New Norwegian", used by 10–15% of the population of Norway *Norwegian Sea Norwegian or may also refer to: Norwegian *Norwegian Air Shuttle, an airline, trading as Norwegian **Norwegian Long Haul, a defunct subsidiary of Norwegian Air Shuttle, flying long-haul flights *Norwegian Air Lines, a former airline, merged with Scandinavian Airlines in 1951 *Norwegian coupling, used for narrow-gauge railways *Norwegian Cruise Line, a cruise line *Norwegian Elkhound, a canine breed. * Norwegian Forest cat, a domestic feline breed *Norwegian Red, a breed of dairy cattle *Norwegian Township, Pennsylvania, USA Norsk * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panos Network
The Panos Network (originally called Panos Institute) is a network of independent non-governmental institutes working "to ensure that information is effectively used to foster public debate, pluralism and democracy" (see Communication for Development). There are currently six member institutes: Panos Caribbean, Panos Europe, Panos West Africa, Panos Eastern Africa, Panos Southern Africa and Panos South Asia. The member institutes participate in a global network, through which they work on common themes. Jon Tinker also founded Panos Institutes in London, Paris, Washington, Budapest and Canada. Globally and regionally, Panos Network works with media and other information actors to enable developing countries to shape and communicate their own development agendas through informed public debate. They particularly focus on amplifying the voices of poor and marginalised people. The name Panos may have some connection with the ancient Greek word ''phanos'' (''φανός''), which me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurostep
''Eurostep'' (European Solidarity Towards Equal Participation of People) was a network of autonomous European non-governmental development organisations working towards peace, justice and equality in a world free of poverty. Its membership, rooted in their own societies, worked together to influence Europe's role in the world, particularly in pursuing the eradication of injustice and poverty. The organization advocated changes in Europe's development policies and practice based on the perspectives drawn from direct experiences of an active involvement of its members and their partners in development in over 100 countries across the world. Members of the network included NGOs such as Alliance Sud (Switzerland), ACSUR Las Segovias (Spain), CFSI (France), Concern (Ireland), Deutsche Welthungerhilfe (Germany), FDSC (Romania), KEPA (Finland), Hivos (The Netherlands), Mani Tese (Italy), Marie Stopes International (United Kingdom), Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke (Denmark), Network of East Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inter Press Service
Inter Press Service (IPS) is a global news agency headquartered in Rome, Italy. Its main focus is news and analysis about social, political, civil, and economic subjects as they relate to the Global South, civil society, and globalization. History IPS was set up in 1964 as a non-profit international journalist cooperative. Its founders were the Italian journalist Roberto Savio and Argentine political scientist Pablo Piacentini. Initially, the primary objective was to fill the information gap between Europe and Latin America after the political turbulence following the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Later the network expanded to include all continents, from its Latin American base in Costa Rica in 1982. In 1994, IPS changed its legal status to that of a "public-benefit organization for development cooperation". In 1996, IPS had permanent offices and correspondents in 41 countries, covering 108 nations. Its subscribers included over 600 print media, around 80 news agencies and data ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudan
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the southeast, and South Sudan to the south. Sudan has a population of 50 million people as of 2024 and occupies 1,886,068 square kilometres (728,215 square miles), making it Africa's List of African countries by area, third-largest country by area and the third-largest by area in the Arab League. It was the largest country by area in Africa and the Arab League until the 2011 South Sudanese independence referendum, secession of South Sudan in 2011; since then both titles have been held by Algeria. Sudan's capital and most populous city is Khartoum. The area that is now Sudan witnessed the Khormusan ( 40000–16000 BC), Halfan culture ( 20500–17000 BC), Sebilian ( 13000–10000 BC), Qadan culture ( 15000–5000 BC), the war of Jebel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
