March 20, 2010
Cambodia
The following articles have been tagged with "Cambodia":
What's On in Sweden: March 19th - 25th
Lifestyle: 17 Mar 10
What’s on in Sweden: Ship shape tour in Stockholm, Cameroonian Jazz in Gothenburg and a spin on Cinderella in Malmö. Plus English comedy in Linköping.
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Sweden in major embassy shake-up
Politics: 21 Jan 10
Sweden announced on Thursday it will shutter six embassies by the end of the year, while at the same time opening ten new embassies to help carry out its foreign aid programmes.
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Swedish paedophile jailed in Cambodia
National: 19 Jan 10
A 62-year-old Swedish man has been sentenced to more than six years in prison by a Phnom Penh court for having sex with three boys.
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Swedish businessman murdered in Cambodia
National: 15 Nov 09
A Swedish businessman has been found dead in Phnom Penh in Cambodia. Embassy officials confirm that local police suspect murder.
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Stockholmers 'fund the rest of Sweden': report
Politics: 21 Oct 09
Stockholm-area taxpayers help fund the rest of Sweden to the tune of 14 billion kronor ($2 billion) a year to put the country’s municipalities on an equal financial footing.
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US wanted to bring Pol Pot to Sweden: report
National: 3 Aug 09
Recently declassified documents reveal that Sweden was among the countries the United States looked to for help in an effort to bring Pol Pot, the late leader of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge movement, to trial.
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Salinger 'sequel' writer reveals identity
Society: 10 Jun 09
A Swedish publisher has revealed that he is John David California, the pseudonymous writer being sued by reclusive American author JD Salinger for an unauthorized sequel to The Catcher in the Rye.
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Two Swedes caught in Thai child sex sting
National: 12 May 09
Police in Thailand working together with their Swedish counterparts have arrested two Swedes suspected of sex crimes involving children.
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Swede held for child sex crimes in Cambodia
National: 8 May 09
A Swedish man in his sixties has been arrested in Cambodia on suspicions of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy.
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Court lowers penalty for Swedish girl's Cambodia abduction
National: 13 Feb 09
An appeals court in Sweden has reduced the sentence of the father of a now six-year-old girl whom he abducted and took to Cambodia, hiding the girl for more than a year.
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Sweden signs up to cluster bomb treaty
Politics: 16 Nov 08
Sweden has decided to sign up to the international treaty, framed in Dublin in May, to ban current designs of cluster bombs.
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Charges dent TeliaSonera profits
Business & Money: 28 Oct 08
TeliaSonera has posted third quarter results that were lower than last year, but the Swedish-Finnish telecommunications operator's profits were higher than forecast.
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Alicia's father jailed over Cambodia abduction
National: 14 Oct 08
The father of Alicia Elfversson, the six year-old Swedish girl who he abducted and took to Cambodia, has been sentenced to one and a half years in prison by a district court in Gothenburg.
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Aussie NGO behind Alicia's return to Sweden
National: 25 Jul 08
Swedish six-year old Alicia Elfversson (left) returned with her mother Maria (right) on Friday after a dramatic rescue in Cambodia, thanks in part to the work of an Australia-based NGO.
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Swede in Cambodia held for kidnapping
National: 24 Jul 08
A Swedish man, Torgeir Nordbo (left), wanted by Interpol on charges of kidnapping his six-year-old daughter Alicia Elfversson (right) more than a year ago has been arrested in Cambodia.
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Sex slave defender wins children's rights prize
Society: 16 Apr 08
Sweden's Queen Silvia is to award this year's World Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child to a Cambodian woman fighting for the liberation and rehabilitation of girls working as sex slaves.
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'Day and night I think of Alicia'
National: 17 Mar 08
A Swedish mother has offered $10,000 for information about the whereabouts of her 6-year-old daughter.
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Communism new focus for history agency
National: 10 Mar 08
Sweden's Living History Forum has launched a project to highlight crimes against humanity committed by communist regimes.
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Sweden scraps aid to China
National: 27 Aug 07
Sweden is to halve the number of countries to which it pays foreign aid. The number of recipient countries is to be cut from 70 to 33, with China and Vietnam among those losing out. The Social Democrats accuse the government of "abandoning Asia."
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Cambodian genocide documents found in Sweden
Politics: 13 Feb 07
The Swedish government has sent 26 boxes of documents to an independent Cambodian group investigating the Khmer Rouge genocide.
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H and M slammed for Cambodia conditions
Society: 5 Jul 06
Cambodians making shirts for H and M earn less than two dollars a day, according to a Danish union. But the Swedish clothing giant says it's trying to improve conditions.
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"Recently I’ve been thinking of how much mental space we could create if we collectively agreed to get rid of stereotypes. All of those small compartments we walk around with in our heads would suddenly be cleared away and we’d feel so much lighter. Just think of all of that space for real new perceptions..." READ »
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