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Business & Money: 16 May 13
The first Ikea store to open in India may not be ready for years, with the India head of the Swedish furniture giant prepared to wait until the the perfect location is found for the first of the 25 planned stores.
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Lifestyle: 14 May 13
With Ireland's Eurovision entry something of a dark horse for pop glory, The Local's Patrick Reilly talks to the one Irishman in town who is guaranteed to light up the stage in Malmö Arena.
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Business & Money: 8 May 13
The European Commission has approved the merger of Sweden's Volvo Trucks and China's Dongfeng Motor, in what will create the biggest truck maker in the world.
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Society: 7 May 13
Best-selling Swedish book The 100-year-old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared will be made into a Disney movie by the end of the year.
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Lifestyle: 3 May 13
Celebrating Antipodean military history may seem an odd crowd-puller at the Swedish horse races, but not only has the Täby Gallop Racing Club for Anzac day seen visitor numbers surge 20 percent every year, it has reunited families.
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Business & Money: 3 May 13
Ikea, Sweden's budget furniture giant, cleared a key hurdle on Thursday when the Indian cabinet said yes to its planned $2-billion push into the vast emerging market.
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Politics: 1 May 13
On May Day, Social Democrat leader Stefan Löfven promised to put all young Swedes to work and to scrap the centre-right coalition government's programme for the long-term unemployed.
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Analysis & Opinion: 16 Apr 13
As debate rages in Sweden about the role of private firms in the country's publicly-financed healthcare system, liberal commentator Nima Sanandaji suggests Swedes may find a solution inspired by an innovative heart surgeon from India.
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Lifestyle: 27 Mar 13
Sweden is a comparatively expensive place to live compared to the rest of Europe, but it delivers an exceptional standard of living. Expats too are entitled to receive the same healthcare, education, and welfare benefits as the native population.
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Business & Money: 27 Mar 13
Swedish cash carries more bacteria than banknotes from almost any other country in Europe, according to a new study from researchers at Oxford University.
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Sport: 23 Mar 13
Sweden's prospects of making it to Brazil in 2014 are looking bleak after Friday's goalless World Cup qualifier against Ireland at Stockholm's Friends Arena.
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Politics: 22 Mar 13
The Centre Party's pingpong battle over a controversial ideas programme that saw its voter support shrink could be nearing its end as members rally for a "future conference" and leader Annie Lööf heralds a "green and liberal" stance.
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Society: 21 Mar 13
US megastar Beyoncé has donned her bathers to market a new line of swimwear for Swedish clothes makers H&M.
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Society: 19 Mar 13
Children suspected of serious crimes and held in Sweden's remand centres are rarely afforded any human contact and subject to isolation akin to torture, according to a new report.
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Education: 18 Mar 13
Students in Sweden, especially foreign students, can be left struggling when looking for extra work to support their studies. For this week's JobTalk, we find out why it's a problem and how it can be tackled.
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Business & Money: 14 Mar 13
Apartments are more expensive than ever and while demand continues to rise, there are fewer options on the market for home buyers.
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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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Travel: 8 Mar 13
Sweden came first in a rating of the gay-friendliest countries in the world, published on Thursday by the Spartacus International Gay Guide.
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National: 5 Mar 13
Today The Local Spain is throwing open its doors, bringing locally-sourced Spanish news to English speakers – both in Spain and abroad.
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Education: 4 Mar 13
Three Swedish universities have reputations among the top 100 in the world, but each institution has seen its position fall since last year according to a new Times Higher Education ranking published on Monday.
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Business & Money: 4 Mar 13
One percent of Swedes live in material poverty, according to a new annual Eurostat review that lists Sweden as having the lowest poverty level in the EU.
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Business & Money: 21 Feb 13
Volvo Cars owner Geely plans to create a research centre in Gothenburg, western Sweden, to capitalize on advanced European technology without harming Volvo's brand.
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National: 29 Jan 13
Two Migration Board employees in Malmö were arrested on Tuesday morning on suspicions they sold residence permits to asylum seekers.
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Science & Technology: 23 Jan 13
Meteorologists are warning that next month in Sweden will be even colder than January, with temperatures set to plummet across the entire Nordic region.
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Science & Technology: 21 Jan 13
Swedish MEP Anna Maria Corazza Bildt and tech industry experts on Monday warned that draft legislation updating the EU's outdated data privacy protection rules pose a threat to Europe's competitiveness.
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Society: 18 Jan 13
The Swedish children’s rights organization Bris has abandoned its use of the term “child poverty” after an investigative news report sparked a heated debate about the topic.
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Lifestyle: 17 Jan 13
She’s a familiar face on Swedish television, but it was her venting blog post about a homeless man's mobile phone that caught the nation’s attention this week. Laila Bagge Wahlgren is The Local's Swede of the Week.
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Analysis & Opinion: 16 Jan 13
The UK has taken a page out of Sweden's textbook and is surging ahead with the free school movement. The Local’s Christine Demsteader looks at the lessons that can be learned from Sweden's system of publicly-financed, privately-managed schools.
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Business & Money: 12 Jan 13
Swedish product design company Teenage Engineering made a splash at the CES fair in Las Vegas this week after presenting its latest innovation - the world's first 'cloud speaker'.
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Business & Money: 9 Jan 13
Swedish fashion giant H&M is launching a chain of stores featuring a new clothing brand targeting women in cities across Europe, including Stockholm, the company said on Wednesday.
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Business & Money: 19 Dec 12
The head of Volvo Cars warned in an interview on Tuesday that it would be "very difficult" for the company to avoid losing money this year and next.
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Society: 18 Dec 12
A woman in eastern Sweden wants to take legal action after film officials translated the name of a dwarf in The Hobbit into her own “noble” Swedish name.
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Society: 18 Dec 12
A Colombian-Swedish family about to celebrate Christmas with their 78-year-old grandmother fear the senile woman will be deported before the New Year despite appeals on health grounds against the Migration Board decision.
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Business & Money: 14 Dec 12
Volvo Cars said on Thursday that it had received a loan of €922 million ($1.2 billion) from the China Development Bank in a move to refinance Volvo's other loans.
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Society: 4 Dec 12
With tickets to the 2013 Eurovision finals in Malmö selling out in a flash last week, music fans across Europe have flooded resale sites at levels on par with the Euro 2012 football tournament.
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Business & Money: 4 Dec 12
Swedish carmaker Volvo hopes smart functions in its vehicles will result in zero deaths or injuries in new Volvos by 2020, a top manager said on Monday.
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Business & Money: 3 Dec 12
Volvo Cars will spend almost half of a multi-billion investment on its production in Sweden, the company said in a statement on Monday.
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Business & Money: 28 Nov 12
Assets belonging to Sweden’s "most wanted man" have been found in a European tax haven, as the Swedish bankruptcy administrator for the infamous Trustor investment scandal continues his pursuit of missing funds.
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Education: 27 Nov 12
Sweden failed to make an appearance in a list of the top 20 countries worldwide ranked by education quality, a review which coincided with the Finance Minister claiming that Swedish kids need to study more.
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Lifestyle: 13 Nov 12
As temperatures plunge in northern Sweden, ex-Londoner Paul Connolly discovers that wearing shorts and t-shirts while everyone else pulls on their hats and gloves betrays a past spent in more temperate climes.
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Politics: 7 Nov 12
Leading politicians in Sweden of all political stripes rejoiced early Wednesday morning over the re-election of US president Barack Obama, but cautioned he has a tough road ahead.
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Lifestyle: 6 Nov 12
As the 23rd Stockholm International Film Festival draws back the curtain this week, Peter Vinthagen Simpson explores this year’s theme of “power” to find out what Robert Redford and Pussy Riot have in common.
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Business & Money: 6 Nov 12
Overweight jobseekers have a hard time finding work in Sweden, new research shows, with potential employers often ruling out tubby candidates over concerns about their productivity.
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Education: 30 Oct 12
With policies changing on charging foreign students in Sweden, there is greater need for the country's universities to build on their already glowing international reputations. Some of the most helpful indicators of academic excellence are the various international university rankings.
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Lifestyle: 19 Oct 12
Jane Andersson, Sweden’s very first lady detective, talks to The Local’s Rebecca Martin about stakeouts, honey trapping, and the exciting work day of a stealthy private eye.
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Science & Technology: 16 Oct 12
An ex-employee from an animal park in southern Sweden has spoken out about how zookeepers mistreated the animals, on some occasions beating them to death to save money on veterinary care.
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Business & Money: 15 Oct 12
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to US economists Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley for the research that helps explain market processes, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Monday.
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Society: 15 Oct 12
The winners of the 2012 Nobel Prizes are being announced this week in Stockholm. The Local brings you all the latest news, reactions, and details surrounding the winners and why they won.
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National: 14 Oct 12
Swedish banks report having seen a boost in foreign investors seeking safer investments away from the troubled eurozone.
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Science & Technology: 10 Oct 12
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka for research that helps explain how cells in the human body "sense" their environment.
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Science & Technology: 8 Oct 12
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for research into stem cells.
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Education: 5 Oct 12
University hospital Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm scored best among Nordic centres of higher learning, in new rankings by British newspaper The Times
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Business & Money: 3 Oct 12
Hacktivist network Anonymous followed through on threats to direct a cyber attack against Sweden’s Riksbank on Wednesday night in retaliation for Monday's raid on PRQ - previous hosts to The Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks. Many other sites were also hit.
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Lifestyle: 26 Sep 12
With football officials still reeling from a match in southern Sweden in which supporters called for the death of an opposing player, contributor Patrick Reilly takes a first-hand look at football hooliganism in Skåne.
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Business & Money: 20 Sep 12
Despite a stable Swedish economy, Finance Minister Anders Borg fears that the country’s growth may prove weaker than the government has hoped for in the budget, set to be presented on Thursday.
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National: 19 Sep 12
Both the thief and the victim in last week’s shocking subway track robbery spoke out on Tuesday, with the thief offering apologies for leaving his target to be hit by a train.
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Analysis & Opinion: 18 Sep 12
With a new film once again turning Swedes' attention toward Olof Palme, historian and political commentator David Linden argues the assassinated Swedish Prime Minister was, in many ways, more of an American politician than a Swedish one.
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Politics: 18 Sep 12
Sweden's parliament officially opened on Tuesday with sombre remembrances, royal reflections, and a promise from Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt that the goverment would "invest in Sweden".
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Business & Money: 14 Sep 12
Volvo Cars cut 400 consultant jobs on Friday and warned suppliers they would have to cut prices by 20 percent by 2015 if they wanted to be a part of the Swedish automaker's plans to expand production.
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Education: 7 Sep 12
Sweden should use some of its foreign aid budget to pay for scholarships that would cover tuition fees for students from developing countries who want to study at Swedish universities, a new report argues.
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Business & Money: 3 Sep 12
The new owners of bankrupt Swedish automaker Saab plan to launch their first model in 2014, they announced on Monday, and while the cars can be called Saabs, they will lack the brand's famed griffin logo.
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Education: 31 Aug 12
With foreign student enrollment down after the introduction of tuition fees, Swedish universities are urging the government to provide more scholarships to help attract non-European students to Sweden.
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Business & Money: 16 Aug 12
An American model is suing Swedish carmaker Volvo for $23 million over claims that she was made to look like an escort in a recent ad campaign.
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National: 13 Aug 12
Two dog owners have been remanded in custody on the suspicion of torturing two puppy dogs to death, in what is believed to have been an attempt for an insurance payout.
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Business & Money: 10 Aug 12
Swedish high street fashion chain Lindex has been hit by an online storm after a woman’s complaint about their “hooker-like” clothing range for young girls went viral.
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Business & Money: 8 Aug 12
After reports of poor conditions and violence have plagued Sweden’s migrant berry pickers, contributor Jacob Sommer heads to one of their picking campsites in eastern Sweden to find out more.
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National: 7 Aug 12
A man in southern Sweden, busy mowing the lawn, was shocked to see what appeared to be an explosive shell sticking out of the ground of his private garden.
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Society: 3 Aug 12
A Swedish newspaper has revealed that it has been banned from reporting on a ongoing criminal case in the UK after being sent notice of a so-called super-injunction.
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Business & Money: 27 Jul 12
The Swedish Armed Forces will have to cut back on billions of kronor by next year to afford putting the new super jet JAS Gripen into production, according to a report in Swedish media.
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Sport: 24 Jul 12
Sweden striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic is set to claim his favoured number 9 jersey at his new club PSG on one condition - that he asks for it in French.
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National: 24 Jul 12
A fire broke out on Tuesday morning in a house in Ystad in southern Sweden, the fifth of a spate of suspected arson attacks in the past week which have raised fears of a new "dusk and dawn" pyromaniac.
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Sport: 13 Jul 12
AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi told Italian media on Thursday that he had sold Swedish football megastar Zlatan Ibrahimiovic to French club Paris Saint-Germain, however this has yet to be confirmed by the footballer’s agent.
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Analysis & Opinion: 2 Jul 12
As Almedalen, the Swedish political pow-wow held annually on the Baltic Island of Gotland, gets into full swing, correspondent David Lindén uses his first dispatch to explain what it is and how it came to be.
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Society: 29 Jun 12
Swedish pop star Robyn was joined by some 70 naked Norwegians last summer for a long-delayed music video that has finally seen the light of day.
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Business & Money: 27 Jun 12
Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad is using some of the fortune he made helping people furnish their homes to help a small town in Switzerland build housing for elderly people.
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Politics: 24 Jun 12
Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr said on Sunday that he had received "no hint" that the US would seek the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange were he to come to Sweden.
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National: 23 Jun 12
Ecuador on Friday recalled its ambassador to Britain to discuss the political asylum application filed by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at its London embassy this week.
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National: 22 Jun 12
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange launched a verbal attack at Australia and Sweden on Friday, speaking for the first time since he turned up at the Ecuadorian embassy in London to file a request for political asylum.
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Society: 21 Jun 12
Half a million bees from northern Sweden checked into a flight bound for Greenland on Wednesday, destined to start a new life contributing to the very exclusive local honey production.
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Society: 15 Jun 12
Art thieves in Stockholm escaped police but left their loot behind after a brazen burglary left a man in his sixties without his multi-million kronor paintings.
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Analysis & Opinion: 13 Jun 12
As Eurovision 'Euphoria' gives way to Euro 2012 football fever, US-native and parent Rebecca Ahlfeldt reflects on how embracing Melodifestivalen is like walking through Sweden's secret cultural door.
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Sport: 10 Jun 12
England's Lee Westwood held his nerve to cruise to a first tournament victory in over a year at the Nordea Scandinavian Masters at Bro Hoff Slott on Saturday.
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Society: 4 Jun 12
The beheading of a golf club manager by a Swedish citizen in the UK has prompted a letter to Swedish justice minister Beatrice Ask inquiring why the man was allowed to leave Sweden despite being charged with a crime.
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Lifestyle: 31 May 12
With summer just around the corner, Sweden's festival season is only weeks away and The Local's Joe Lynskey provides a round up of the most mouth-watering line-ups in the country.
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Society: 25 May 12
The Paradise Wildlife Park in the UK has pledged their allegiance to Sweden in the Eurovision song contest by making their own film version of Loreen’s “Euphoria” – complete with dancing animals.
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Society: 17 May 12
Swedish police on Wednesday launched a new search operation for a 26-year-old Czech man believed to have gone missing near Jokkmokk in northern Sweden after apparently abandoning his white Ford Mustang.
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National: 14 May 12
Police remain baffled as to the whereabouts of the driver of white Ford Mustang rented in the Czech Republic and found abandoned near the side of a road in northern Sweden with the keys still inside.
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Science & Technology: 29 Apr 12
The research team behind the project to translocate a 100 short-haired bumblebees in a bid to re-establish a population in the UK, has insisted that it has the full backing of the Swedish authorities despite widespread criticism.
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Business & Money: 25 Apr 12
A plethora of deals were signed by Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao and Swedish companies during his visit to Sweden, including agreements between carmaker Volvo and telecom giant Ericsson.
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Business & Money: 24 Apr 12
When Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao visited Sweden on Tuesday, it was to sign a series of trade deals, including a major investment with car manufacturer Volvo, according to media reports.
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Business & Money: 17 Apr 12
Swedish furniture giant Ikea is set to enter the cutthroat home electronics market, putting other electronics retailers on edge.
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Lifestyle: 5 Apr 12
Are you new to Sweden, love football, but unsure about which Swedish club to support? The Local's Joel Linde offers up some tips on figuring out which Allsvenskan club is right for you.
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Business & Money: 30 Mar 12
Swedish high street fashion giant on Friday confirmed that new “luxury” line called “& other stories” will be launched in Europe in 2013.
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Society: 12 Mar 12
A new high-speed railway in northern Sweden has already claimed the lives of 200 reindeer since it opened three months ago, forcing the farm owner to move to safer pastures.
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Business & Money: 6 Mar 12
Indian carmaker Tata Motors have placed a bid for bankrupt Swedish Saab Automobile, according to a financial paper report citing unamed sources close to the deal.
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Business & Money: 23 Feb 12
Swedish automaker Volvo Cars has placed a bid for large parts of its bankrupt counterpart Saab Automobile.
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Business & Money: 22 Feb 12
Geely Holding Group, owners of Swedish brand Volvo, will begin distribution of vehicles outside the Chinese borders as domestic demand continues to slow, the company said on Wednesday.
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Analysis & Opinion: 17 Feb 12
Although parenthood is never simple, US-native and parent Rebecca Ahlfeldt finds that being a stay-at-home-mum might be just that bit easier if you're an ex-pat than amid your peers at home.
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Education: 15 Feb 12
Stockholm beat out Helsinki and Copenhagen, as well as several other university towns in northern Europe in a ranking of the “Best Student Cities in the World” published this week.
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Sport: 12 Feb 12
Finnish driver Jari-Matti Latvala claimed the Rally of Sweden title near Hagfors in western Sweden on Sunday, the sixth win of his career.
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