30.04.2015
VFS Global opens Iceland Visa Application Centre
In order to provide better and more efficient service for all applicants the Icelandic Embassy in Beijing has authorized VFS Global to run Iceland Visa Application Centre . The Centre will open on April 30 and are applicants encouraged to hand in the...
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20.11.2014
An Icelandic Documentary “Ash” Screened at NORDOX University Tour in BFSU

The documentary from Iceland “Ash” about the well known volcanic eruption in the year of 2010 was screened at the 2nd Beijing Foreign Studies University Nordic Film Festival and the NORDOX University Tour 2014 in BFSU on Friday the 14th of Novem...
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08.07.2014
Foreign Minister visited China to promote trade
Article previously published on 26 June 2014 on the website of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Iceland.
Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson is currently visiting China, accompanied by a trade delegation representing Icelandic Business and...
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16.05.2014
Agreement on dual Master’s degree between Reykjavik University and China University of Geosciences, Beijing
The President of Reykjavik University (RU), Prof. Ari Kristinn Jónsson, and Prof. Jun Deng, President of China University of Geosciences Beijing (CUGB) signed an agreement on a Dual Degree Program betw...
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16.04.2014
This is Sanlitun at the Beijing International Film Festival
A new Icelandic movie that takes place in China directed by Robert Douglas will be screened at the Beijing International Film Festival (BIFF) tonight, Thursday 16 April 2014. The screening starts at 18:30. The screening will aptly take place in ...
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26.03.2014
Icelandic Embassy is moving to new premises
The Icelandic Embassy will move to a new location at No. 1 Liang Ma Bridge, North Alley, Chaoyang District, 100600 Beijing, (Liangmaqiao Beixiaojie Yi Hao) during the days of March 28-31 (white building next door North of the new US Embassy). Curre...
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25.03.2014
The Blue Fox published in Chinese and Sjón at the Bookworm Literary Festival
The Icelandic novel Blue Fox by Sjón was published in Chinese translation by Yilin Press in Nanjing recently. Mrs. Wang Shuhui, a teacher of Icelandic language at Beijing Foreign Studies University, transl...
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16.03.2014
Sjon at Bookworm Literary Festival
20:00 17th Mar / The Bookworm – Beijing
Poetry Across Borders: Readings from Liz Lochhead, Sjón, Xi Chuan and David Sullivan
Four internationally renowned poets will talk about and read from their collections of poetry. Including Xi Chuan i...
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07.02.2014
Parliament adopts Iceland-China Free Trade Agreement
The Parliament of Iceland has adopted a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Iceland and China, the first FTA signed between China and a European country. Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson put the FTA before Parliament last October, following ...
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27.01.2014
Lazytown and the Embassy in BTV Chinese New Year Gala 2014
Chinese viewers of the 2014 Beijing TV Global Gala got to know the characters from Icelandic children‘s program Lazytown this year. The premiere was screened on 26 January but the Chinese New Year ...
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13.12.2013
China-Nordic Arctic Research Center was formally inaugrated in Shanghai
The China-Nordic Arctic Research Center was formally inaugrated in Shanghai on December 10 of this year with the signing of a cooperation agreement between six Nordic and four Chinese institutions. According to a press release from the Polar Resear...
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04.12.2013
Promens opens its first production facility in China
The CEO of Promens, Mr Jakob Sigurdsson, announced the opening of the company's first production facility in China, at an inauguration ceremony held at the new location in Taicang, on 30 November 2013. The opening...
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31.10.2013
60th anniversary of Iceland-China Culture Society, travel journal publication and concert
The travel journal of Icelandic poet Jóhannes úr Kötlum, recorded during his visit to China in 1952, was pubished this week. On the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Iceland-China Culture Society (ICCS), a special concert was held at B...
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28.10.2013
Embassy closes earlier
The Embassy will close today at 15:00 because of the publication and concert to be held at Beijing University of Foreign Studies.
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16.10.2013
Chamber Trio on tour in China
Icelandic Flute Duet Gudrun Birgisdottir and Martial Nardeau along with pianist Selma Gudmundsdottir are currently on a two week concert tour in China. The first concert was held this Monday, 14 Oc...
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11.10.2013
Presentation of Credentials
Ambassador Stefán Skjaldarsson presented his Letters of Credence as Ambassador of Iceland to the People‘s Republic of China to H.E. Xi Jinping, President of the People‘s Republic of China today. The presentation took place in the Great Hall of the ...
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13.09.2013
Icelandic art on display in Hong Kong
An exhibition of Icelandic art opened in Hong Kong on Tuesday, 10 September. About 80 works are on display that come from the collection of Anthony J. Hardy, who was the Honorary Consul of Iceland in Hong...
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13.08.2013
The Snorri Sturluson Icelandic Fellowships

The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies invites applications for the Snorri Sturluson Icelandic Fellowships for 2014. The Fellowships are granted to writers, translators and scholars in the field of humanities from outside Iceland, to enab...
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13.08.2013
Icelandic firm to supply diagnostic software in a Chinese hospital
The Icelandic research company Mentis Cura signed an agreement with Wanjia Yuan International Geriatric Hospital on Monday 12 August in Iceland. The agreement involves the supply of diagnostic ...
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23.07.2013
Arrival of Ambassador Stefan Skjaldarson
Ambassador Stefan Skjaldarson and his wife Mrs. Birgit Nyborg arrived in Beijing on Saturday, 20 July. The Ambassador presented the copy of his Letters of Credence to Mr. Jin Zhijian, Deputy Chief of the Protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affaire...
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