February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Earthquake":
Science & Technology: 30 Dec 11
Floods, infectious disease, forest fires, and cyberattacks are among several threats to Sweden identified by the country's Civil Contingencies Authority.
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Lifestyle: 21 Nov 11
Swedes are generally thought of as speaking English fairly well, but for some, the pressure to perform can be too much, as The Local's latest selection of video clips aptly demonstrates.
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Business & Money: 25 Oct 11
Swedish truck maker Volvo announced on Tuesday that it was cutting 450 jobs, after reporting that third quarter profit came in under expectations amid a shrinking European market.
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Business & Money: 20 Oct 11
Swedish telecom giant Ericsson announced on Thursday a 6 percent jump in third quarter net profits, causing its shares to surge in morning trading on the Stockholm stock exchange.
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Sport: 28 Aug 11
Former Swedish international and Arsenal star Fredrik Ljungberg is reportedly set to become the best paid footballer in the Japanese league after signing for Shimizu S-Pulse.
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Science & Technology: 23 Aug 11
Experts who have studied the March 11th disaster in Japan told the World Water Week conference in Stockholm on Monday of the importance of local communities in responding to devastating tsunamis.
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Analysis & Opinion: 28 Jul 11
A far-right that vaunts anti-immigration, Islamophobia and the welfare state has taken hold in Nordic countries, playing on the fears of societies that are less and less blond and blue eyed, AFP's Marc Preel writes.
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Business & Money: 15 Jul 11
Swedish-Japanese mobile phone manufacturer Sony Ericsson posted a net loss of €50 million ($70 million) for the second quarter on Friday, saying that its supply chain had been hit by the disasters in Japan.
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National: 12 Jun 11
A 67-year-old Swedish man was charged with a score of child sex allegations in disaster-struck Haiti where he worked under the guise of an organization that purports to help street children.
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Politics: 28 Apr 11
During a visit to Stockholm on Wednesday, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin offered to enhance Sweden's nuclear safety with Russian technology, which he described as the safest in the world.
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Business & Money: 27 Apr 11
Swedish truck maker Volvo Group reported strong first quarter earnings on Wednesday, although the firm warned that the Japan disaster could impact its second quarter.
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Business & Money: 27 Apr 11
Swedish telecom giant Ericsson reported a whopping 224 percent rise in profits on Wednesday, surprising analysts and sending its stock up almost 7 percent in early trading.
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Business & Money: 19 Apr 11
Swedish-Japanese mobile phone manufacturer Sony Ericsson on Tuesday reported a steep decline in net profits, explained by the impact on sales of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
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Business & Money: 13 Apr 11
The government expects a budget surplus by the end of the year, although Sweden's 2011 growth rate may not be as strong as previously forecast, according to the spring budget bill released on Wednesday.
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National: 10 Apr 11
As the one-month mark approaches, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan thanked Sweden for “all the warm words and contributions" in support of Japan after its pair of colossal natural disasters.
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Business & Money: 10 Apr 11
The German subsidiary of Swedish state owned energy company Vattenfall announced plans to stop payments to a German environmental fund due to the German government’s review of its nuclear policy.
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National: 24 Mar 11
Radioactivity from Japan’s earthquake-hit nuclear power plants has reached Sweden, but the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority says the levels recorded do not pose any danger to people or the environment.
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Lifestyle: 24 Mar 11
Several Swedish musicians have agreed to take part in “Jam for Japan”– a Sunday-afternoon jam session being organized to raise money for Japanese earthquake and tsunami relief, contributor Anita Badejo discovers.
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Science & Technology: 23 Mar 11
Sweden is to follow an EU recommendation to check all Japanese foodstuffs imported after the March 11th earthquake, the National Food Administration announced on Wednesday.
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Business & Money: 21 Mar 11
Swedish-made protective suits and inflatable shelters are being used in the rescue operation at the Japanese nuclear plant Fukushima and surrounding areas to restrict contamination.
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Science & Technology: 19 Mar 11
The ongoing catastrophe at Fukushima nuclear power station in Japan has prompted renewed debate over nuclear power in Sweden, with a new poll indicating that a majority of Swedes are opposed to its expansion.
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Society: 18 Mar 11
A Japanese rock group in Sweden when their homeland was struck by disaster has organised a series of charity concerts across Europe to raise money for earthquake and tsunami relief.
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National: 17 Mar 11
Swedish prime minister said on Thursday the government was working on an evacuation plan for Swedes after the foreign ministry further extended its warning against "non-essential" travel to Japan amid a growing nuclear crisis.
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Business & Money: 16 Mar 11
Ikea and H&M are among a slew of Nordic firms who on Wednesday offered to help their Japanese employees to leave Tokyo and relocate further south due to growing fears of radiation from an earthquake hit nuclear plant.
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Analysis & Opinion: 16 Mar 11
Swedish nuclear safety expert Frigyes Reisch from the Royal Institute of Technology speaks with The Local's Gabriel Stein about how the situation in Japan may impact the nuclear energy development in Sweden.
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National: 16 Mar 11
Sweden has no plans in place to follow France and evacuate nationals from earthquake-hit Japan and recommends that all follow the advice of the Japanese authorities.
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Business & Money: 15 Mar 11
Swedish truckmaker Volvo is shuttering operations of its Japanese subsidiary amid fears of radiation leaking from nuclear plants damaged in last week's devastating tsunami, the company said on Tuesday.
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Business & Money: 15 Mar 11
Västerbotten county in northern Sweden has received a request from Tokyo to examine the possibilities for the supply of simple Swedish wooden homes and shelters to earthquake and tsunami hit areas of Japan.
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National: 13 Mar 11
The Swedish foreign ministry on Sunday issued a recommendation against "non-essential" travel to the earthquake-hit areas of Japan.
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National: 12 Mar 11
Many Swedes in Japan are trying to leave the country following Friday's earthquake and tsunami, while the Swedish foreign ministry reported on Saturday it had heard from all the Swedes thought to be in the area worst hit by disaster.
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National: 22 Feb 11
The Swedish foreign ministry believes that around 100 Swedes were in Christchurch, New Zealand at the time of a major earthquake, but confirmed that there are currently no reports of any injuries.
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Business & Money: 11 Feb 11
Pär Kjellin, the CEO of a leading Swedish travel package operator, has argued that travel and tourism to countries with authoritarian regimes helps to undermine them.
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Science & Technology: 6 Jan 11
After ten years of digging, the archaeologists of the Swedish Pompeii project are now homeward bound.
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National: 11 Dec 10
A Swedish businessman has been kidnapped in Pakistan after travelling to the country to get married, newspaper Expressen reported on its website on Saturday.
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National: 30 Nov 10
An earthquake hit Härnösand in northern Sweden on Monday, measuring between 2.5 and 3 on the Richter scale.
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National: 18 Oct 10
Six Swedes and an American successfully escaped from Haiti's largest prison after they were taken hostage when prisoners staged a revolt on Sunday.
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National: 16 Jun 10
An earthquake measuring 3.8 on the Richter scale shook homes in parts of Västerbotten in the north of Sweden late Tuesday evening.
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Politics: 4 Mar 10
The foreign ministers of Sweden and Britain joined forces on Thursday in directing a sharp rebuke at Baroness Catherine Ashton over a lack of transparency in the recruitment process for EU diplomats.
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National: 1 Mar 10
More than 100 Swedes are reported to be missing after the massive earthquake that hit Chile on Saturday. The foreign ministry has received unconfirmed reports of one Swede among the more than 700 dead.
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National: 23 Jan 10
Robbers broke into a the premises of the Red Cross in Laholm, western Sweden, and made a swift exit with the safe containing around 20,000 kronor ($2,762) collected for earthquake victims in Haiti.
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Society: 20 Jan 10
More than 200,000 Swedes joined a Facebook group claiming to be collecting donations to help earthquake victims in Haiti before it was revealed as a hoax by the “Swedish Necrophilia Association”.
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National: 19 Jan 10
Sweden plans to donate 180 million kronor ($25.6 million) in financial aid to help Haiti recover from last week’s devastating earthquake, the foreign ministry said on Monday.
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National: 16 Jan 10
Swedish businessman Roger Akelius is to donate 100 million kronor ($14.1 million) over a 25-year-period to help children in Haiti following the devastating earthquake that hit the country.
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Society: 14 Jan 10
The floor of a Weight Watchers clinic in Växjö in south central Sweden collapsed on Wednesday night beneath a group of about 20 participants in the diet programme.
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National: 13 Jan 10
Swedish disaster assistance groups were mobilizing on Wednesday to participate in international relief efforts in Haiti after the country was hit by a devastating earthquake. Three Swedes are also missing following the tremor.
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National: 2 Oct 09
Two young Swedes are reported to be missing after the tsunami which swept across the South Pacific islands of Samoa on Tuesday evening.
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Science & Technology: 3 Jun 09
The eastern Swedish town of Östhammar has seen off rival bidder Oskarshamn and secured a lucrative deal to store nuclear waste for the next 100,000 years.
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Analysis & Opinion: 2 Jun 09
Two towns in eastern Sweden are competing to be the first in the world to store nuclear waste for hundreds of thousands of years, writes AFP's Pia Ohlin.
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Science & Technology: 13 Jan 09
Data gathered during Sweden’s mid-December earthquake shows that cows in Skåne barely noticed the shaking beneath their feet, disappointing researchers who suspected the animals had an innate ability to detect natural disasters.
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Lifestyle: 31 Dec 08
As 2008 draws to a close, The Local takes a look back at some of the stories that caught our attention over the last twelve months.
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National: 17 Dec 08
The earthquake which rattled southern Sweden on Tuesday morning wasn’t as powerful as initially thought, according to new data about the tremor.
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National: 16 Dec 08
Fear, panic, and surprise gripped residents across southern Sweden on Tuesday morning as a rare 4.7 magnitude earthquake rumbled across the region, causing Malmö's signature high rise to sway.
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National: 16 Dec 08
Southern Sweden was rocked by an earthquake early on Tuesday morning which caused a flood of phone calls to emergency services operators from alarmed residents.
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National: 17 Oct 08
An earthquake rumbled through northern Sweden on Thursday night, according to local media reports.
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Sport: 6 Aug 08
With the official opening of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games just days away, The Local offers readers a quick guide to some of Sweden’s medal hopefuls.
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Lifestyle: 28 May 08
He may not be able to back it up with hard science, but David Bartal is willing to wager that Sweden has probably the best sunshine in the world.
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Lifestyle: 25 Aug 07
So you never knew that a small island in the West Indies was once a Swedish colony? Apparently, not that many Swedes do either. But the story, which has been largely wiped from school history books, is now being told to a new generation. Christine Demsteader reports.
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National: 25 Mar 07
Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia have begun their almost week-long state visit to Japan - on the same day that an earthquake struck off the Honshu coast.
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Lifestyle: 27 Nov 06
She's the 91-year-old former dentist who for decades has been Sweden's glamour queen. But underneath the wigs and feather boas, there's more to Alice Timander than meets the eye.
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National: 3 Nov 06
Irish police believe they have found the body of a Gothenburg man who disappeared on honeymoon in County Kerry in 2004.
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Society: 21 Jul 06
A Swedish tourist has told of the agonizing 24 hours he spent looking for his two sons after Monday's tsunami. "They were very lucky," says Peter Damareau.
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National: 18 Jul 06
A Swedish man was among more than 300 people killed in a tsunami which hit the Indonesian island of Java, the Swedish foreign ministry said on Tuesday. But two Swedish boys missing since Monday have been found.
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Smörgåsbord: 17 Jul 06
Two Swedish children are missing in Indonesia after a tsunami strick the island of Java, the foreign ministry has said. The children's father is in hospital.
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Business & Money: 25 May 06
Pakistan's cabinet has given the green light for the purchase of an Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) from Sweden at a cost of one billion dollars, officials said on Thursday.
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National: 25 May 06
A seismologist has confirmed that rumbling heard overnight in Stockholm, which prompted hundreds of residents to call SOS Alarm fearing a mysterious explosion, was in fact an earthquake.
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National: 26 Dec 05
Sweden, which suffered more deaths in the Indian Ocean tsunami than any nation outside Asia, remembers the 543 Swedish victims in ceremonies at home and in Thailand. Foreign minister Laila Freivalds did not attend.
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National: 25 Dec 05
The natural catastrophes of 2005 dominated King Carl Gustaf's traditional Christmas Day speech. But he pointed out that the misery and chaos was not without hope.
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Society: 24 Nov 05
Four out of ten Swedish Muslim organisations have been threatened, while three out of ten have been attacked or vandalised. Muslim women with veils are particularly likely to be harassed.
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National: 6 Nov 05
Queen Silvia has asked the Swedish people to give money to help victims of the Pakistan earthquake, where 3.5 million people have no shelter as winter approaches. "The situation is desperate", the Queen says.
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Business & Money: 20 Oct 05
Pakistan signs a contract with two Swedish companies for a land surveillance system that could have been useful in emergency operations arising from the earthquake in Kashmir.
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National: 14 Oct 05
The Swedish government has authorized an extra 82 million kronor of aid for victims of the South Asian earthquake. It is the duty of the international community to help, says Sweden's development minister Carin Jämtin.
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National: 10 Oct 05
SEE ALSO: SWEDES MISSING AFTER ISLAMABAD QUAKE
Sweden is to send blankets and tents to Pakistan in response to President Pervez Musharraf's appeal for international assistance following Saturday's devastating earthquake.
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Smörgåsbord: 8 Oct 05
A Swedish woman and her three small children are still missing after the earthquake in Islamabad on Saturday morning which has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
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National: 23 Jul 05
The Swedish foreign ministry warns travellers to cancel any planned trips to the Sinai peninsula following bombings in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh that killed at least 88 people.
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Smörgåsbord: 14 Jun 05
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National: 1 Jun 05
A Swedish man feared dead in the Indian Ocean tsunamis in December is confirmed alive more than five months after the disaster.
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Smörgåsbord: 19 May 05
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National: 26 Apr 05
The identification of people killed in the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster last December has been slowed by the poor condition of DNA samples sent to labs around the world for analysis, says a Swedish scientist.
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Smörgåsbord: 22 Apr 05
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National: 14 Apr 05
While the total number of Swedes lost after the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster remains 544, the proportion of those who can be confirmed as dead is slowly rising.
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National: 31 Mar 05
Personnel from the Swedish embassy in Jakarta win back a little credibility for the foreign office after a successful helicopter search on the Indonesian island of Nias turns up two Swedes and nine other foreign tourists.
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National: 29 Mar 05
Two young Swedish holidaymakers are missing as the west coast of Indonesia suffers its second huge earthquake in three months. There was no tsunami this time, but many hundreds are still feared dead. It looks like the Swedish government have learned from their mistakes, however, as they give a textbook response.
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Smörgåsbord: 20 Jan 05
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Politics: 18 Jan 05
Sweden’s Prime Minister and his Nordic colleagues extract a promise from Thai authorities to help find their countrymen in the wake of the tsunami disaster, while Swedish lawmakers move to speed up the process of death declarations.
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Politics: 12 Jan 05
The prime minister says civil servants are to blame for his failure to act quickly after the South East Asian disaster. But critics ask why he needed a fax from Bangkok to realise the situation was serious.
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National: 31 Dec 04
As injured Swedes begin to leave the hospitals in Phuket and head for home, the Swedish government urges the Thai authorities not to cremate the bodies of Swedes who perished in the disaster.
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National: 30 Dec 04
The prime minister acknowledges in public what many have been fearing for days: the giant wave that crashed through Thai tourist resorts on Sunday could have claimed over 1,000 Swedish lives.
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National: 30 Dec 04
This page has moved. The collection of articles about the catastrophe in Asia is now here.
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National: 29 Dec 04
The Prime Minister declares New Year's Day a national day of mourning and warns that the death toll "will increase significantly".
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Smörgåsbord: 29 Dec 04
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National: 28 Dec 04
Sweden's foreign minister begins preparing the country for the worst as she sets off for the disaster zone and Göran Persson expresses his "deep sympathy for those who are still living with the anxiety" of uncertainty about loved ones.
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National: 28 Dec 04
"Evacuation planes" have begun bringing Swedes home from the disaster-struck region of Phuket in Thailand. Crisis teams are in place at airports across the country.
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National: 28 Dec 04
As the overall death toll from Sunday's earthquake spirals above 50,000, Swedish government officials say that any speculation about the numbers of Swedish tourists who have died in Thai resorts is meaningless. But Tuesday's Expressen reports that "several hundred Swedes" are among the dead.
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Smörgåsbord: 27 Dec 04
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National: 27 Dec 04
At least ten Swedes are confirmed dead, 80 are injured and many more are still missing after tsunami triggered by a massive earthquake rip through tourist resorts popular among Scandinavians.
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Smörgåsbord: 23 Sep 04
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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 »
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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