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February 14, 2012
Emea
The following articles have been tagged with "Emea":
Five buyers 'seriously interested' in Saab
Business & Money: 30 Jan 12
As many as five companies have expressed a strong interest in purchasing bankrupt Swedish automaker Saab, a bankruptcy administrator said on Sunday.
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Wounded Swedish teen dies from injuries
National: 1 Jan 12
The 15-year-old boy who was shot in the head and chest in the Malmö suburb of Rosengård, in the south of Sweden, late on Saturday night, has died in hospital from his injuries.
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Schools agency: kids taught 'to take a beating'
Education: 29 Nov 11
After reviewing the prestigious boarding school Lundsberg, the Swedish Schools Inspectorate has given the foundation until the end of February to prove that they can rid the school of bullying.
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Sweden Democrat: 'a negro is a negro' to me
National: 28 Nov 11
A local Sweden Democrat has courted controversy by claiming that the word “negro” is not a racist term, explaining that there is "the red race, the yellow race, and then there's me, who is of the white race".
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Muslim man kicked off train for praying
National: 3 Nov 11
A devout Muslim was kicked off a train bound for Flen, south of Stockholm, in May, after failing to show his ticket to the conductor as he was deep in prayer.
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Family torn apart after false sex abuse claims
National: 2 Nov 11
One call to social services was enough to land a Swedish couple behind bars and have their kids taken away for more than two months after an innocent situation was misinterpreted as sexual abuse.
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Staff bra sizes on display at Swedish lingerie shop
Society: 1 Nov 11
The Swedish branch of a Scandinavian lingerie chain is under fire after making employees wear name tags displaying both their bust circumferences and cup sizes.
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Prosecutor: slave auction was 'costume party'
National: 28 Oct 11
A ”slave auction” held by a Lund student group in April was a ”costume party” meaning no charges will be filed against the organizers. However, charges have been filed against an artist who drew up demeaning posters of the person who reported the incident.
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'Bildt hushed talk of Darfur genocide'
Politics: 19 Sep 11
Former minister and Liberal Party leader Per Ahlmark has slammed current Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt in a new book arguing that he has a "passive" attitude towards genocide, is ignorant about Israel and holds "reactionary views".
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Gothenburg tram driver charged for racial slur
National: 5 Aug 11
A Gothenburg tram driver has been charged with racial agitation after uttering slurs into the trolley's speaker system in reference to a group of teenage boys.
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Relatively calm midsummer celebrations in Sweden
Society: 25 Jun 11
Midsummer came and went amid the usual flurry of accidents and drunkenness, but with few serious incidents for police to deal with around the country.
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Cybersex Swedes claim they did 'nothing wrong'
National: 13 May 11
The two Swedish IT-experts jailed for life in the Philippines for running a cybersex den say they are living a nightmare among hardened criminals and maintain that they have done nothing wrong.
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Swedish entrepreneur launches first Social Exchange: Introducing Social Networking 2.0
Business & Money: 15 Sep 10
Sponsored article: Swedish internet visionary and serial entrepreneur Johan Staël von Holstein is back, this time with MyCube, which he calls 'the social exchange,' where privacy, ownership and control are the foundations that enable more valuable and meaningful online interactions.
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Blood pudding most disliked Swedish dish
Lifestyle: 24 Aug 10
Sponsored article: Foreigners living in Sweden can't get enough of smoked salmon, cinnamon buns, crayfish and meatballs. However, they have a harder time warming up to blood pudding, fried herring, Kalles kaviar and pasta with ketchup, The Local's readers revealed in a survey.
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Moderna Museet: Malmö art scene's new dawn
Lifestyle: 5 Jul 10
Moderna Museet Malmö has been open since the end of 2009 and Robert La Bua has found that it is exactly what the city needs to boost its art scene with an institution of international standing serving the community.
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Father prosecuted for scolding son's bully
Society: 11 Dec 09
A Lund man has been charged with trespassing after going to the home of a boy who had been bullying his son and verbally scolding him.
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Sweden’s swine flu response wins EU praise
Science & Technology: 4 Dec 09
Two European-wide health bodies have praised Sweden’s response to the swine flu pandemic, particularly the country's mass vaccination programme. Nearly half of all Europeans to have been vaccinated are Swedes.
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Teen girls convicted for 'torture-like' assault
National: 14 May 09
A court in Malmö convicted two 15-year-old girls from southern Sweden for the “torture-like” beating of another 13-year-old girl in a dispute over insulting text and internet chat messages.
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Stockholm native faces discrimination in Malmö
Society: 9 Jan 09
A Stockholm-born consultant living in the southern Swedish town of Malmö claims he is being discriminated against due to his Stockholm dialect.
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Sweden to prioritize deportations in 2009
Politics: 17 Dec 08
Swedish police are mulling chartering special planes in anticipation of the government’s wishes to step up the pace of deportations of the thousands of unsuccessful asylum seekers estimated to be in the country.
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Stockholm - the rat capital of Scandinavia?
Lifestyle: 8 Oct 08
Sleek design, spotless sidewalks and vast colonies of rats: It can only be Sweden, as Christopher Seymour finds out.
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A marriage made in Sweden and America
Dating: 15 Sep 08
How do a couple that met in London, live in Sweden and speak both English and Swedish plan their happy day? Ben Kersley (Englishman and ‘sambo’) attends a Swedish/American wedding.
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Tenants pine for laundry room feuds
Society: 21 Aug 08
Tenants' incessant feuds over shared laundry facilities prompted Lund council in southern Sweden to close down communal laundromats and install washing machines in individual flats instead. But now many tenants want the old laundry rooms back.
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Mushroom war marked by cunning and subterfuge
Lifestyle: 14 Aug 08
With chanterelle season upon us, it's time again for the annual funghi wars that help keep country life interesting, writes migrant mushroom worshipper Rose Kemp.
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Engla's killer admits to a second murder
National: 13 Apr 08
The 42-year-old suspected of having kidnapped 10-year-old Engla Höglund has confessed to killing the girl and to killing a 31-year-old woman back in 2000.
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Parents 'allowed to smack children'
Society: 15 Nov 07
Swedish parents are allowed to smack their children, as long as they do not hit them too hard, a ruling from a court in southern Sweden appears to show.
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Job seekers checked on criminal register
Society: 22 Jul 07
Looking for a job in Sweden? Don't be surprised if a brush with the law in the dim and distant past scuppers your chances.
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Ferrari Swede: British bank demands money
National: 27 Feb 07
A UK bank has asked a Los Angeles court to enforce claims of more than $1.3 million against a Swede who wrecked a rare Ferrari Enzo in Malibu.
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Police questioning for ex-culture minister
Politics: 2 Dec 06
Former Culture Minister Cecilia Stegö Chilò has been called in for police questioning over her failure to pay her television licence.
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Second Swedish minister resigns
Politics: 16 Oct 06
Cecilia Stegö Chilò has resigned as Sweden's culture minister after just ten days in the job. Not paying her TV licence for 16 years put her in an impossible situation, she admitted.
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Boy refused life-saving drug
Science & Technology: 5 Sep 06
A 7-year old boy has been refused an expensive drug that his doctor says he needs to enable him to live beyond his twenties. Halland council says it won't give him the drug until the EU approves it.
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Swedish consumers to pay price for BSE controls
Science & Technology: 4 Mar 06
After the first confirmed case of BSE in Sweden, the county is likely to tighten its slaughter regulation. The cost, both for the industry and for consumers, will be high.
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Swedish mad cow case confirmed
National: 3 Mar 06
The European Commission confirmed on Friday that the first case of case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, has been detected in Sweden. It's sad, says agriculture minister Ann-Christin Nykvist.
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Over 200 Swedes jailed abroad
National: 24 Nov 05
It's not uncommon to find Swedes behind foreign bars. But when it comes to the iron variety, drugs offences, violence and murder are the most likely reasons for their being there.
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Increase in passengers at Skavsta
Smörgåsbord: 10 Jan 05
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Knutby pastor broke trial restrictions
National: 28 Nov 04
To 'evil', 'manipulative' and 'dangerous' we can now add 'technically competent', after a newspaper reveals that with a couple of notebooks and a food tray Helge Fossmo broke a ban on TV in his cell.
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Olympics: Sweden doesn't do too badly after all
Sport: 27 Aug 04
There's nothing like a fistful of medals to make a country proud. Granted, Sweden hasn't quite won a fistful, but after a barren start things certainly picked up in week two.
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Class divisions over school trip
Society: 28 May 04
Should a school trip to Florida (cost: 9,100 crowns each) be cancelled because some parents can't afford it? And should children be made to pay their parents' parking fines?
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20 things to know before moving to Sweden
As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
How far can English take you in Sweden?
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.
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