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The Nordic Business Council gathered the Philippine-Nordic business community for the Nordic Ambassadors’ Luncheon at the New World Makati Hotel Ballroom on Thursday, June 6, 2013.

The Consular Office, which operates in the premises of the Royal Norwegian Embassy, will have no customer service during this time.

The Norwegian Embassy in Manila is constantly working towards building and improving Philippine-Norwegian relations. The Embassy wants to get in touch with journalists who take an interest in covering and developing our mutual relationship.

A landmark event - to use the words of the moderators - took place in New World Hotel, Makati on 11 March, when ambassadors of five countries, Great Britain, Japan, Netherlands, Russia and Norway, were hosting the forum “Driving Growth in the Philippines. A Policy Dialogue on Natural Gas.”

Are you curious about job opportunities in Norway? The number of granted work permits for skilled foreign workers went up by 17 percent last year compared to the year before. Recent statistics show that Norwegian employers are still in need of skilled workers from abroad to fill demand.

Getting an appointment with the Norwegian master’s degree student Marta Fretheim is not easy. She is either catching waves hitting the Philippine shores, or under water, tumbled-dried and disoriented. But either way the Philippine coastal waters treat her she always walks ashore carrying a big smile and her surfboard.