Today, Saturday May 1st, is Labour Day in Norway. A public holiday filled with different meanings and emotions, - depending on where you are from,- and who you are.
Read how a former Norway Post staff member, from the US, experienced his first Labour Day in Norway a few years back:
A brand new computer program has recently been developed in Norway designed to survey pupils' reading difficulties. It is the result of several years research carried out by Professor Torleiv Hoien at the Dyslexia Research Foundation. 
Scientific studies in the Arctic are gaining importance, in particular with regard to its crucial role in the ongoing global climatic changes. Norwegian polar researchers will soon spend several months along with Russian colleagues on a research station located on a large ice floe in the Arctic Basin.(Ill: Svalbard map) 
