Northern Canadian territory puts trade mission to China on hold amid diplomatic tensions
The ongoing diplomatic dispute between Canada and China following the arrest of a top Chinese tech executive has caused the
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Arctic-based news site launches Chinese-language section
Eye on the Arctic editor’s note: The Independent Barents Observer is part of the Eye on the Arctic circumpolar news partnership.
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Beijing finds a Chinatown in Arctic Norway
The Asian superpower looks towards the Arctic and finds a home in this year’s Barents Spektakel winter festival in Kirkenes,
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Norway wary of China’s growing presence in Arctic Russia
Chief of Norway’s military intelligence service, Lieutenant General Morten Haga Lunde, highlighted Chinese, Russian Arctic cooperation in his annual focus
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Russian visa applications in Norway hit 10-year-low
More than three times more Chinese were granted visa by Norway than Russians, in 2018. Cross-border traffic from Russia to
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Arctic Council experts tackle black carbon risk posed by wildfires
Forest fires, important sources of black carbon emissions, devastated Arctic regions around the world in 2018, and are an increasing
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Finnish president makes state visit to China
Monday’s meeting is the third rendezvous between President Sauli Niinistö and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Niinistö opened a climate seminar
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New icebreaking tankers sailing through Russia’s thick Arctic ice
Two ships are on their way from China and South Korea and will have to break through up to 2
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Blog – 2018: Recapping the year in the Arctic
Planet Earth has completed another rotation around the sun, which has now set on the Arctic for the next three
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Alaska drilling, China, and the Arctic Council handover to Iceland : Northern news to watch for in 2019
All year long, Eye on the Arctic brings you news, and newsmakers, from around the North. But as 2019 gets
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What Congress’s Farm Bill did for fish sticks in Alaska schools
The Farm Bill Congress passed last week will be known for many things. It increases subsidies for farmers and legalizes
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Canadian tourism organizations, including in North, decide to ‘pause’ marketing in China
Chinese tourism in the Northwest Territories has seen a boom in the past few years, but with the current political
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Blog – South Korea, an unlikely polar pioneer, hosts Arctic conference
Over the weekend, as the temperature in Seoul plunged to -12°C, Koreans bundled up in the long puffy black parkas
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Uighurs in Sweden say they face surveillance, threats from China
People from the minority group say they have been pressed to gather information about other Uighurs living in Sweden and
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Blog – When a town in Arctic Norway transforms into “the world’s northernmost Chinatown”
Sitting on the rocky coastline of the slate gray Barents Sea, the hilly city of Kirkenes, Norway is located at
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