February 13, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Gambling":
National: 16 Nov 11
Charges were filed against 17 men on Wednesday in relation to the July 2010 killing of young Assyriska FF footballer Eddie Moussa and his brother, in what prosecutors believe was a settling of scores between rival gangs.
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National: 3 Nov 11
A man from southern Sweden was apprehended by police after trying to rob a Seven Eleven store with a knife and a hand written note, apologizing in advance for any inconvenience.
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National: 23 Oct 11
Swedish health authorities have criticised the lack of help available in Sweden for gambling addiction, with many municipalities providing no resources at all to deal with the problem.
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National: 14 Aug 11
A 30 year-old shop clerk in Vellinge, in southern Sweden, has been charged with misappropriation of funds, after having gambled away more than 400,000 kronor ($61,000) in the store she worked in - without paying a dime.
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Society: 3 Aug 11
Gambling problems among young men in Sweden have doubled in the past decade, according to a new survey from the Swedish National Institute of Public Health.
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Society: 19 Jun 11
A lottery player from western Sweden is set to receive a payday of more than 105 million kronor ($16 million), Swedish lottery officials announced on Saturday.
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National: 13 Jun 11
A 30-year-old suspected gang leader suspected of ordering the killing of a Swedish footballer and his brother used notes and binoculars to continue giving orders to his gang from within inside a Swedish jail.
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Politics: 25 Apr 11
Sweden’s betting laws could be set to change if the Christian Democrats have their way.
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Society: 6 Apr 11
The Supreme Court in Sweden ruled Wednesday that it is both chance and skill that decide the outcome in the poker game Texas Hold’em.
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Society: 23 Feb 11
An expert poker player gave Sweden's Supreme Court judges a lesson on the art of playing cards on Tuesday in a case examining whether Texas Hold'em is a game of skill or chance.
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Society: 22 Feb 11
Sweden's Supreme Court on Tuesday opened the case of four men convicted for arranging an illegal poker tournament, a ruling which experts believe may allow for more competition for Sweden’s state-owned gambling monopoly.
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National: 13 Jan 11
Nearly a third of passenger trains in Sweden were delayed in December, according to the Swedish Transport Administration on Thursday, as a betting company announced it will start calculating the odds on train delays.
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National: 2 Nov 10
Four people have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the murder of Swedish second division football player Eddie Moussa and his brother in Södertälje in July.
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National: 29 Sep 10
Starting October 1st, no minors under 18 will be able to buy scratch cards from Sweden's state-owned lottery company Svenska Spel.
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Business & Money: 28 Jul 10
Swedish online casino Mr Green announced on Wednesday that it has corrected a technical problem that made it impossible to lose money when gambling on the site.
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National: 9 Jul 10
Sweden's ban on the advertising of online gambling on the grounds of public order was give the backing of Europe's top court on Thursday after two Swedish newspapers challenged fines for publishing gambling ads.
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National: 1 Jul 10
Eddie Moussa, a player with Swedish second division football club Assyriska, was one of the two men shot dead in a gambling club in Södertälje near Stockholm on Wednesday night.
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Business & Money: 23 Jun 10
The board of state-owned gambling enterprise Svenska Spel has sacked its CEO Meta Persdotter, Chairwoman Margareta Winberg announced on Wednesday.
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National: 7 Apr 10
A 52-year-old rail worker reprimanded two years ago for visiting pornographic websites at work has escaped with just a second warning despite repeatedly causing trains to be delayed in eastern Sweden.
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National: 9 Feb 10
79-year-old Ingrid Ståhl of Malmö in southern Sweden found out to her surprise that she had been registered as dead after a mistake by the Swedish Tax Agency.
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Society: 18 Jan 10
Sweden's minorities have more health problems than the population as a whole, according to a new study examining the respective health situations of the country's Jews, Romanies, Sweden Finns, Sami and Tornedalians.
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Business & Money: 28 Dec 09
In a surprising move, a gaming company has agreed to pay back some of the millions of kronor a company in Uppsala in eastern Sweden lost due to an employee’s gambling addiction.
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Society: 19 Nov 09
Surfing for porn, illegal file sharing, and online gambling are common activities for users of municipality-owned computers in Jönköping in central Sweden, a recent analysis shows.
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Society: 27 Oct 09
A 75-year-old Swedish man has a defender from Preston North End in England’s second division to thank for an improbable 10 million kronor ($1.45 million) gambling win.
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Science & Technology: 20 Aug 09
The Local has discovered that Chinese readers are unable to access "Sweden's News in English" as the site has been banned in the Asian country.
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Business & Money: 14 May 09
A Swedish appeals court on Thursday sharply reduced the sentences for four men convicted for arranging an illegal poker tournament, a ruling which experts believe may open the door to more competition for Sweden’s state-owned gambling monopoly.
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Society: 17 Apr 09
Hemska Spel, a treatment centre for gambling addicts in southern Sweden, has beaten state gambling monopoly Svenska Spel in a naming dispute.
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National: 12 Mar 09
Rade Kotur, the infamous Swedish gangster known as in the Swedish press as “Spelkungen” (The Gambling King), was sentenced to 14-years-in prison in Gothenburg on Thursday.
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Society: 6 Feb 09
As Swedes struggle to make it through the final throes of a dark and dreary winter, millions are hoping to forget their troubles at the weekend with the start of this year’s installment of the Melodifestivalen, that shining spectacle of musical magic which inexplicably lifts the country’s forlorn spirits.
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National: 5 Jan 09
A 29-year-old Swedish gambler has been charged with aggravated fraud after a security failure allowed him to play, and lose, 700,000 kronor ($90,000) of his bank's money.
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National: 17 Nov 08
A poker player from Sweden has won an important decision against the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket), freeing him from paying taxes on a portion of his online poker winnings.
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Business & Money: 4 Sep 08
The government commission examining gambling in Sweden wants to allow foreign gaming companies to operate in the country.
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National: 14 Aug 08
One of Sweden's most notorious gangsters, currently on trial for instigating murder, was indicted on Thursday on charges of financial crimes and illicit gambling.
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National: 6 Aug 08
Prosecutors’ hopes of convicting gambling baron Rade Kotur suffered a setback on Tuesday after one of their star witnesses recanted.
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National: 4 Aug 08
A huge police presence was on hand as the trial of gambling baron Rade Kotur got underway in Gothenburg on Monday.
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Business & Money: 22 May 08
The government is open to selling off parts of the Svenska Spel gaming monopoly to other actors in the market.
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Society: 29 Apr 08
Two men have been jailed by a court in western Sweden after they were found guilty of organizing an illegal million-kronor poker tournament.
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Travel: 21 Apr 08
After a gruelling day in the saddle Bernie Friend looks forward to a beer at the Swedish Tourist Association (STF) hostel in Åsa. But the proprietor has other ideas.
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National: 26 Jan 08
An armed gang of 15 men hit a gambling den in Gothenburg, making off with 100,000 kronor.
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National: 24 Nov 07
Police in London have arrested a Gothenburg businessman suspected of masterminding several violent crimes, including murder.
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Society: 13 Nov 07
Police made multiple arrests on Tuesday in connection with nationwide raids on suspected illegal gambling operations.
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Lifestyle: 8 Nov 07
To an outsider, Sweden would seem an unlikely place to find rising gang crime. But the problem has snowballed since the nineties, leaving police clamouring for better tools to deal with the problem. Daniel Boman reports.
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Business & Money: 8 Nov 07
Sweden's state-owned gambling monopoly, Svenska Spel, has been forbidden from expanding its net-poker services - for the time being at least.
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National: 1 Nov 07
The Swedish head of online betting firm Unibet on Thursday called for an end to the French state's gaming monopoly, attacking the laws under which he is being investigated for illegal activities as "obsolete."
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National: 1 Nov 07
Unibet's Swedish CEO Petter Nylander has slammed Dutch authorities for treating him like a serious criminal after his arrest last week. "The whole thing felt life a major abuse of justice," he said.
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National: 1 Nov 07
The Swedish CEO of betting company Unibet was released on bail by a French court on Wednesday. Commenting on his release, Petter Nylander said that Unibet had "always stayed within the law".
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National: 24 Oct 07
The Swedish CEO of Unibet is to be handed over to French authorities next week, a Dutch court has ruled. But the court in Amsterdam said that Petter Nylander could be released from police custody.
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National: 24 Oct 07
The Swedish CEO of betting company Unibet is to appear before a Dutch court on Wednesday afternoon. Unibet's head lawyer described his client's arrest and detention as "Guantanamo treatment".
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National: 23 Oct 07
The Swedish CEO of betting company Unibet has had French charges against him dropped, according to reports. Reuters says Petter Nylander remains in Dutch custody, but that France has dropped plans to prosecute.
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Business & Money: 23 Oct 07
Sweden's state-owned gambling monopoly, Svenska Spel, made profits of nearly 1.4 billion kronor ($215 million) in the third quarter, the company announced on Tuesday.
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Analysis & Opinion: 23 Oct 07
New Swedish companies are bursting with ideas in IT and biotech. It's time for international investors to sit up and take notice, says leading entrepreneur Johan Staël von Holstein.
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National: 23 Oct 07
The European Commission has said it is 'concerned' about the arrest of the Swedish chief executive of international online betting firm Unibet, who was picked up on a warrant issued by French authorities.
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National: 23 Oct 07
The Swedish CEO of betting company Unibet has been arrested in the Netherlands on orders of French authorities.
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Society: 1 Oct 07
Six men have been formally charged under Swedish gambling laws after they organized an illegal million-kronor poker tournament involving 700 people.
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Politics: 4 Sep 07
The Social Democrats' own betting company, A-lotterierna, has accused the gambling monopoly and state-owned betting companies of squeezing non-governmental organizations out of the market.
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National: 7 Jul 07
Sweden's tax board is to launch a special programme targeting hundreds of web sites earning money from poker and gaming. The board expects to recover millions of kronor in undeclared revenue.
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Business & Money: 6 Jul 07
Despite the prosecutions against ten media bosses for publishing gambling ads, the Swedish media earned almost 700 million kronor from the illegal promotions last year, according to new statistics.
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Society: 27 Jun 07
The European Commission has threatened to take Sweden to the European Union's highest court if it fails to satisfy concerns about restrictions on sports betting.
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National: 25 Jun 07
The European Commission will censure Sweden this week for restrictions it has put on sports gambling, sources close to the matter said Monday.
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Politics: 20 Jun 07
The Swedish government has announced that it is preparing to reform the Swedish gambling market. Aggressive marketing is to be prohibited but Svenska Spel is expected to retain a dominant position.
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Society: 19 Jun 07
A job centre in southern Sweden has agreed to pay sickness benefits to a 42-year-old man with a heavy metal lifestyle. Roger Tullgren tells The Local of his ten-year struggle to have his heavy metal addiction classified as a disability.
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National: 8 Apr 07
Sweden's state-owned gambling company, Svenska Spel, has been accused of targeting people living in poor areas. Poorer suburbs of Stockholm have high numbers of gaming machines, while richer areas have none.
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Society: 24 Mar 07
Swedish state gambling operator Svenska Spel has said it is closing its Limbo game after it was reported that organized groups were cheating, winning hundreds of thousands of kronor.
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Business & Money: 8 Mar 07
Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet has said it intends to publish an advertisement for Maltese gambling company Expekt, despite a court ruling authorizing stiff penalties if it goes ahead.
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Business & Money: 6 Mar 07
A new ruling in the European Court of Justice has put further pressure on national gambling monopolies in EU member states.
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National: 25 Jan 07
A bank manager in Gothenburg has admitted to taking 6.6 million kronor from customers' accounts to fund his gambling addiction.
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Business & Money: 22 Jan 07
Ladbrokes PLC has acquired Sponsio Ltd, its online betting and gaming partner in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, in a deal worth up to 40 million sterling (565 million kronor).
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Business & Money: 22 Jan 07
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Society: 8 Jan 07
Inhabitants of Sweden's most sparsely populated regions lead more unhealthy lifestyles than people in the rest of the country, a new study shows.
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Business & Money: 1 Jan 07
Despite tough competition from online gambling firms, Swedish horse racing organisation AB Trav och Galopp returned record results in 2006.
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Society: 6 Dec 06
Sweden's gambling monopoly Svenska Spel takes its public responsibility very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that it has introduced group toilet breaks for its online poker games.
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National: 24 Oct 06
He murdered one man and tried to kill nine other people, all of whom had immigrant backgrounds. But after 14 years behind bars, John Ausonius says he now views immigrants as his fellow humans.
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Society: 7 Oct 06
Foreign companies could be allowed to enter the Swedish gambling market when the state-run monopoly is dismantled, says Sweden's new minister for financial markets, Mats Odell.
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Society: 2 Oct 06
The opening of a new state-owned casino in Malmö contributed to a doubling in the number of gambling addicts in the city, a new survey will claim.
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Society: 1 Oct 06
State-owned gambling monopoly Svenska Spel has denied that moves to increase age limits on certain games in a step to try to protect its control of the Swedish gambling market.
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Society: 20 Sep 06
The Christian Democrats, the smallest of the four Alliance parties, now says it is open to the idea of allowing foreign competition into the current gaming monopoly in Sweden.
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Politics: 13 Sep 06
Sweden's state monopolies on alcohol, pharmacies and gaming were created decades ago to promote social justice and public health, but now they are under threat from the European Union and a possible change of government.
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Society: 10 Sep 06
As the Lotto balls fell into place on Saturday evening it slowly dawned on a Trelleborg man that he had just won a cool 93 million kronor - tax-free.
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Analysis & Opinion: 3 Aug 06
Do Internet gaming and European law mean that Sweden's gambling monopoly is approaching the last roll of the dice? And can Svenska Spel's existence be justified, asks Paul O'Mahony.
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National: 21 Jul 06
Swedish gambling monopoly Svenska Spel is upsetting the EU by pushing east into the Baltic. Sweden is currently under investigation for discriminating against private betting companies.
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Politics: 5 Jul 06
The Centre Party wants Sweden to hold a national convention to look at bringing the 2018 Winter Olympics to Östersund and Åre in 2018.
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Business & Money: 15 Jun 06
Four editors, including those of Metro and Expressen, have been reported to the police for publishing adverts for foreign gambling ads.
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Society: 25 May 06
It will soon be a year since Sweden banned smoking in bars and restaurants, and opinion is now overwhelmingly in favour. The restaurant industry says it has not lost out, and only 21 percent of smokers are opposed.
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Lifestyle: 30 Mar 06
Sweden gets its first home-grown poker web site on Thursday, amid allegations that security failings could lead to customers' bank account details being accessed by fraudsters.
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Business & Money: 27 Jan 06
An official inquiry into the gambling market concludes that there is no feasible way of gambling which is run from abroad. Instead, it recommends a licencing system. Unbelievably positive, says Ladbrokes' Swedish MD Douglas Roos.
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National: 1 Dec 05
This year Swedes are expected to spend some 48 billion kronor on Christmas shopping - and, with internet poker surging in popularity, the gift of the moment is a poker set.
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Politics: 24 Nov 05
Swedish state gambling monopoly Svenska Spel is allowed by the government to start an internet poker service. But deputy PM Bosse Ringholm says no to internet casinos.
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National: 10 Oct 05
A 36 year old man from Gotland becomes Sweden's biggest-ever lottery winner, picking up a tidy 122.9 million kronor. Now he says he wants to buy Swedish football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic for his local team.
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Analysis & Opinion: 23 Sep 05
We should be relieved that media-trained, airbrushed politicians don't believe all the rehearsed clichés they trot out in public: a good dose of hypocrisy is healthy for democracy.
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Politics: 20 Sep 05
Sweden's Deputy Prime Minister, Bosse Ringholm, thought he had hung up the phone after an interview with TV4. But he hadn't, and after praising the police in the interview, his real views slipped out.
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National: 21 Jun 05
Sweden's highest administrative court throws out a challenge to the state's gambling monopoly. But British company Ladbrokes accuses the judiciary of doing the government's bidding.
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Business & Money: 15 Apr 05
Swedish online gambling company Ongame is to launch interactive poker for mobile-phones. The company, which already has a database of 3.8 million players around the world, claims it is the first in the world to offer such a service.
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Smörgåsbord: 17 Mar 05
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National: 28 Nov 04
As the prosecutor files the case against two prisoners who were on the run for four days in September, the police report reveals the dramatic manner in which their hostage escaped their clutches.
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Smörgåsbord: 28 Oct 04
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Science & Technology: 27 Oct 04
Sweden's health minister wants to protect children from scary pictures on cigarette packets designed to protect them from dying prematurely.
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Society: 14 Oct 04
Another myth shattered: Swedes aren’t having that much sex. What's more, men are having an identity crisis, thousands are playing online poker all night and 1 in 9 has a social phobia. Spot a connection?
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Society: 24 Jun 04
Prostitution has been swept off Sweden's streets - but now it's more dangerous than ever. Meanwhile, police expect a surge in rape attacks and HIV is making a comeback.
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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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