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Top auditors 'at risk' of conflict of interest
Politics: 25 Apr 13
Auditing houses dependent on top Swedish companies for consultancy fees are also employed to make sure their books are in order, setting the groundwork for potential conflicts of interest, a Swedish accountancy group has warned.
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Coffee drinkers have lower breast cancer risk
Science & Technology: 24 Apr 13
Breast cancer patients who drink two or more cups of coffee per day have a lower incidence of relapse than women who shy away the drink, a new study from Lund University in southern Sweden has shown.
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'Dismembered' woman found in Stockholm flat
National: 3 Apr 13
Two men are being held on suspicion of murder after a woman who was reportedly dismembered was found in a flat in south Stockholm on Tuesday night.
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'Why haven't we had a woman prime minister?'
National: 8 Mar 13
Birgitta Ohlsson made waves when she was appointed European Affairs Minister while pregnant, but she still wonders why Sweden lags behind its neighbours in having a woman head the government, the AFP's Camille Bas-Wohlert discovers.
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More Swedish retailers hit by horsemeat scandal
National: 13 Feb 13
Swedish supermarket chains Ica, Coop, and Axfood all confirmed on Wednesday that their lasagne products contain horsemeat, with the retailers' produce all coming from the same French chain that Findus had employed.
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Swedish horsemeat scandal grows
National: 9 Feb 13
After Swedish company Findus' withdrawal of its frozen single-portion lasagne, food retailers Axfood, Coop and Ica have pulled ready meals from supermarkets too, for fear they may contain horsemeat.
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Sweden falls in new globalization ranking
Business & Money: 23 Jan 13
Sweden dropped to seventh place in a globalization survey conducted by consultants Ernst & Young, down two places since 2011.
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TeliaSonera rebuffs minister's 'time-out' call
Business & Money: 9 Jan 13
TeliaSonera will not order senior managers accused of corruption stemming from the Nordic telecom giant's dealings in Uzbekistan to take time off, despite calls by a Swedish minister who called recent revelations "very serious".
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Drivers 'blinded' by bus stop light therapy
Science & Technology: 28 Nov 12
After an energy company in northern Sweden fitted several bus stops with phototherapy lights to combat residents’ winter depression, complaints from 'blinded' bus drivers have led the firm to pull some plugs.
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Depressed Swedes get bus stop light therapy
Science & Technology: 27 Nov 12
An energy company in Umeå, northern Sweden, has installed phototherapy lights in the city’s bus stops to combat the short days, lack of sunlight, and residents’ depression.
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Ikea admits using East German prison labour
National: 16 Nov 12
Ikea apologized on Friday after a report confirmed that East German political prisoners were used in the Swedish furniture giant's factories in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Sweden unveils new 'themed' coin designs
Business & Money: 11 Sep 12
The new designs for three Swedish coins, including the introduction of a 2-kronor coin, were unveiled by the Riksbank on Tuesday, with the coins set to hit circulation in 2016.
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Young Swedish men warned over ‘fake’ Viagra
Science & Technology: 4 Sep 12
Young and fit Swedish men without erectile problems are increasingly abusing potency heightening drugs, erroneously believing they are lust enhancing, according to the Swedish police.
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Introducing... Ernst Kirchsteiger
Lifestyle: 4 Jul 12
Introducing... is The Local's guide to Swedish celebrity. In this instalment Rebecca Martin finds out more about Ernst Kirchsteiger - the softly spoken interior decorator-cum-philosopher who annually invades TV screens all over Sweden.
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Cancer vaccines 'equally efficient': agency
Science & Technology: 28 Sep 11
Cancer vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix offers equally efficient protection against the most common types of cervical cancer, according to a statement from the Swedish Medical Products Agency.
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Cancer vaccine for girls suffers new delay
Society: 22 Sep 11
A vaccination programme to combat cervical cancer has suffered further delays after GlaxoSmithKline appealed a deal agreed between Swedish health authorities and a rival firm.
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Saab cash boost after property sale
Business & Money: 28 Jun 11
Saab has signed an agreement to sell 50.1 percent of the shares in its property arm for 255 million kronor ($40 million), providing much needed cash for the crisis-hit Swedish car maker.
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Swedish bosses open to bribes: study
Business & Money: 26 May 11
Every fifth business leader in Sweden could consider paying a bribe to win advantages in business and to retain clients, a new survey shows.
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Flats for the needy given to the aristocracy: report
Business & Money: 4 Apr 11
A Stockholm-based foundation providing apartments for the less well-off, is under investigation after having allowed a number of wealthy politicians, church officials and members of the aristocracy to benefit.
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Ikea owner 'distressed' over Russian expansion
Business & Money: 11 Dec 10
Iconic Swedish furniture giant Ikea's founder, Ingvar Kamprad, is "distressed" by the company's troubled expansion into Russia after a review of its operations in Russia revealed major shortcomings.
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First arrest made in Gothenburg bribe probe
National: 7 Sep 10
A contractor with a municipal housing company became the first suspect arrested in connection with a bribery scandal that rocked Gothenburg earlier this year, a prosecutor announced on Tuesday.
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Support for new nuclear reactors grows: survey
Politics: 10 Jul 10
A decision in Sweden's parliament, the Riksdag, to allow old nuclear reactors to be replaced has broad support among Swedes, according to a survey presented by the Liberal Party.
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Municipalities call for swine flu inquiry
National: 28 Jun 10
The Swedish taxpayer spent 1.4 billion ($181 million) in connection with the mass vaccination programme against the swine flu last autumn and the Association of Local Authorities and Regions has called for an inquiry.
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'Firms report recession corruption increase'
Business & Money: 24 May 10
Fraud and corruption has increased during the recession with Swedish firms harder hit than the global average, a new survey shows.
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Man unscathed after high-speed Ferrari crash
National: 17 May 10
A man driving a Ferrari on a racetrack at an estimated 250 km per hour walked away from the car virtually unscathed after it flipped over about 10 times and caught fire.
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Auditors critical after Gothenburg review
Politics: 10 May 10
An independent report commissioned by the municipality of Gothenburg to audit the accounts of the city's sports and clubs division amid allegations of bribery, has stated that the material submitted is incomplete.
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Royal wedding stamps and coins to go on sale
Society: 10 May 10
Sweden Post and Sweden's central bank, the Riksbank, have unveiled new stamps and coins commemorating the wedding of Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling on June 19th.
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Ikea and Google top student career wish list
Business & Money: 18 Mar 10
Swedish students have named Google, Ikea and the foreign ministry as their dream places of work, according to a new survey.
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More Moderates resign over internal vote fraud
Politics: 19 Feb 10
Two Moderate Party politicians in Stockholm have handed in their resignations amid an ongoing internal vote-rigging probe. Stockholm mayor, Sten Nordin expressed his 'disappointment'.
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Swine flu vaccine suffers delay
National: 22 Nov 09
A delivery of 500,000 doses of the swine flu vaccine has been delayed. Swedish health authorities now expect supply shortages during the week as demand continues to outstrip supply.
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The Year of the Rodent: Allsvenskan 2009
Lifestyle: 3 Nov 09
As the Swedish championship gold medal makes its way to Solna, Nic Townsend looks back at another eventful season in Sweden’s premier football competition.
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AIK takes home Swedish football league title
Sport: 1 Nov 09
Stockholm’s AIK football club reversed a one-goal deficit to defeat IFK Gothenburg 2-1 in a dramatic title-deciding match, claiming the Allsvenskan championship for the first time in eleven years.
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Top researcher 'too old' to work in Sweden
Science & Technology: 22 Sep 09
Award-winning professor Jan Åke Gustafsson of the world-renowned Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm is set to quit Sweden due to rules that force him to retire at 67.
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Pirate Bay to seek Dutch retrial
National: 10 Aug 09
The operators of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay are to launch a legal challenge to a Dutch court order temporarily banning the site's activities.
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Pandemic fears prompt new flu guidelines
Science & Technology: 15 Jul 09
Swedish health officials have revised their strategy for dealing with a swine flu pandemic, arguing that it is no longer realistic to focus resources on preventing a major outbreak that is becoming increasingly inevitable.
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More safety concerns for Vattenfall reactor in Germany
Business & Money: 10 Jul 09
Sweden’s Vattenfall suffered another setback on Thursday as the company announced it would carry out additional checks of suspected faulty fuel rods at a nuclear power station it operates in Germany.
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Publishers begin hunt for Swedish file sharers
National: 1 Apr 09
With the new anti-file sharing IPRED law fresh on Sweden's law books, five book publishers have applied to the courts to trace a suspected illegal file sharer.
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Art exhibitions you mustn't miss
Lifestyle: 20 Mar 09
From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Danish surrealists, art critic Katarina Wadstein MacLeod samples the season's most eye-catching exhibitions in Sweden and Denmark.
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Swedes approved secret Nazi loan: report
National: 15 Feb 09
New documents have emerged indicating that Swedish finance minister, Ernst Wigforss, approved secret Swedish bank credits to Nazi Germany in 1941.
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Coffee can make women's breasts smaller: Swedish study
Science & Technology: 16 Oct 08
Women who drink a lot of coffee may see their breasts become more petite, according to the results of a new Swedish study.
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Swedish artist designs Thai village
National: 12 Jul 08
Swedish artist Ernst Billgren has designed a housing project north of the resort island Phuket in Thailand.
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Clients find IT consultants need a reboot
Business & Money: 9 Jun 08
Lawyers and accountants in Sweden are praised by their clients while IT consultants promise more than they can deliver, according to a new survey.
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Ica beats new meat retreat
National: 6 Apr 08
Supermarket chain Ica has recalled 16 tonnes of beef mince following tests that showed high levels of bacteria.
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'End pharmaceutical monopoly'
Society: 8 Jan 08
A government inquiry has proposed the dismantlement of Sweden's state-owned pharmaceutical retail monopoly Apoteket.
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Female road sign rejected
Society: 15 Dec 07
A local authority which wants to erect road signs featuring female characters in the interests of gender equality has had its initiative vetoed by national authorities.
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Man 'raped girl in laundry room'
National: 6 Dec 07
A man has been arrested in a Stockholm suburb accused of raping a 14-year-old girl in a laundry room.
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Forbidden names: identity and the law
Analysis & Opinion: 26 Nov 07
Combining your name with that of your spouse seems like a perfectly natural thing to do in a modern society. But things can be complicated if you live in Sweden, says Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius.
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Couple 'will divorce' if son can't take mother's name
Society: 16 Oct 07
A couple from southern Sweden are saying they will divorce if authorities don't let their son take both his father's and mother's names.
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Authorities slam Apoteket prescription plans
Business & Money: 8 Oct 07
Plans by Sweden's state-owned pharmacy, Apoteket, to start a joint venture with American prescription management company Medco have been slammed by the Swedish Competition Authority as a potential abuse of Apoteket's monopoly.
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DIY sector enjoys record summer
Business & Money: 31 Aug 07
Swedish DIY enthusiasts seem not to have been put off by the poor summer weather with sales well up on the same period last year.
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Swedish tobacco farmers welcome harvest
Society: 29 Aug 07
Two cigar enthusiasts from Tromtösunda in southeastern Sweden are currently bringing in the last of this year's tobacco harvest.
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Obituary: Ingmar Bergman
Society: 30 Jul 07
Ingmar Bergman was the master of turning tales of anguished love and loneliness into films that made him one of the leading directors of the 20th century.
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Kirchsteiger defects to TV4
National: 16 Jul 07
Popular barefoot home improvement presenter Ernst Kirchsteiger has been poached from SVT by commercial rival TV4. "I want to try something new," the star says.
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Politician banned for wearing 'underpants' to meeting
Politics: 7 May 07
A local politician was shut out of a council meeting in southern Sweden after he turned up in what were described by another councillor as 'tricot underpants'.
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Lindh killer faces uncertain future
National: 20 Jan 07
Mijailo Mijailovic wants to serve his sentence for the murder of Anna Lindh in Serbia. But Swedish authorities will not permit a transfer until Serbia decides on the length of his sentence.
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Filmmaker tells of Russia bear attack
National: 27 Oct 06
Swedish wildlife filmmaker Erik Fernström tells The Local about being attacked by a bear while shooting a new documentary in Russia. "He was pushing the limits - so were we," he said.
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The Importance of being Ernst
Lifestyle: 12 Oct 06
He's the smooth-talking, suntanned, barefoot embodiment of the Swedish new man. Ernst Kirchsteiger talks to The Local about the provocative side of sewing, life as a sex symbol and drinking port on an outside toilet.
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Swedes rush after Ikea paintings
Business & Money: 20 Sep 06
A move by Swedish furniture giant Ikea to sell paintings by well-known Swedish artists has gone down a storm with shoppers. Some artists' work sold out in 12 minutes in Stockholm.
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20 injured as Stockholm trains collide
National: 8 Jul 06
Two suburban trains crashed head-on at Märsta station, north of Stockholm, on Saturday night. Over 20 people were taken to hospital following the accident.
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The Englishman who took Sweden to the World Cup Final
Lifestyle: 19 Jun 06
England will be hoping Sven-Göran Eriksson can have the same impact on their football team in his swansong at the World Cup as an Englishman had on the Swedish team in 1958 - the sole difference being that they win it.
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The Social Democrats' dilemma
Analysis & Opinion: 29 May 06
The economy is growing well, official unemployment is falling, and the welfare state is still supported by most Swedes. Are Social Democrats a victim of their own success, asks David Stavrou.
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Valborg violence mars celebrations
National: 1 May 06
In most areas across Sweden the traditionally raucous Valborg celebrations were peaceful, but a series of assaults and gang fights cast a shadow over the evening.
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Hundreds evacuated as Tyresö fire rages
National: 26 Mar 06
Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes overnight in Tyresö outside Stockholm after a massive blaze broke out on a nearby industrial estate. A high risk of explosion is obstructing the work of the fire service.
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Swedish giants rush to snap up foreign firms
Business & Money: 3 Feb 06
Large Swedish companies are buying up more and more foreign firms, according to a report published on Friday.
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Garbomania at the Swedish Film Institute
Lifestyle: 19 Sep 05
The Swedish Film Institute is joining in the Greta Garbo centenary celebrations over the next month, with a complete programme of her films.
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Salmonella scare as ICA recalls meat products
Science & Technology: 13 Jul 05
Swedish supermarket chain ICA has recalled eight tons of Danish pork loin from stores across the country after a random test revealed traces of salmonella bacteria .
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Bengtsson suspect arrested in Vienna
National: 9 Feb 05
A week after the release of kidnapped Siba chief executive, Fabian Bengtsson, Austrian police arrest a suspect in Vienna. As the net appears to tighten around the gang, fascinating details of Bengtsson's captivity begin to emerge.
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Missing billionaire "can be declared officially dead"
Smörgåsbord: 21 Oct 04
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Zlatan steals the headlines as Sweden march on
Sport: 14 Oct 04
While Sweden's football team chalks up a couple of victories in their World Cup qualifiers, the press are fixated with Zlatan Ibrahimovic - even though he barely played.
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Breast is best for women predisposed to breast cancer
Science & Technology: 27 Aug 04
For women who have a genetic predisposition to breast cancer, the old adage, 'breast is best' has found new significance: best for baby, but now, it seems, also best for mother.
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Radio Ga Ga
National: 9 Jul 04
The townsfolk of Varberg in the west of Sweden celebrate in their thousands as an old radio transmitter is given world heritage status.
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