February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "National_arena":
Lifestyle: 2 Feb 12
Sweden’s only 'Swenglish' comedian, Ben Kersley, talks to The Local about his latest comedic venture, The Tuesday Chinwag, starring ‘three bespectacled English guys’ and music by Swedish Idol’s Nicholas Perry.
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Business & Money: 24 Dec 11
The Stockholm stock exchange closed up slightly on the Friday before Christmas amid reports of an increase in the number of new companies registered in Sweden in 2011.
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National: 9 Jun 11
A local politician and a Swedish construction magnate are among six people charged with corruption in conjunction with the building of a new national sporting arena in the Stockholm suburb of Solna.
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Society: 23 Jun 10
Lars Nittve, the outgoing head of Stockholm's Moderna Museet and former artistic director of London's Tate Modern, is set to move to Hong Kong to lead a new museum and culture project due to open in 2015.
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Analysis & Opinion: 20 Apr 10
Sweden retains its position as the tenth most attractive country in the world, but its outdated image needs a facelift, writes Liselott Bergman of the Swedish Institute.
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Business & Money: 20 Nov 07
The owner of a large pornography company has vowed to take revenge on the Swedish state.
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Lifestyle: 18 Oct 07
When Stockholm's Mayor donned a t-shirt proclaiming the city 'Capital of Scandinavia', the reaction from the neighbours was predictably indignant. Daniel Boman looks at how Stockholm and Copenhagen are battling to prove who's biggest and best.
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Society: 21 May 07
Saxophonist Sonny Rollins and composer Steve Reich were in Stockholm on Monday to talk about the Polar Music Prize, jazz music and baseball caps, before collecting their gongs from King Carl Gustaf in a ceremony at Konserthuset.
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Sport: 1 Apr 06
Sweden's new national football stadium is to be built in Solna. The Swedish Football Association unanimously agreed on Saturday to back the construction of the new arena, which will be ready by 2011.
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Lifestyle: 24 May 05
Brazilian artist Gilberto Gil is in Stockholm, where on Monday night he shared the increasingly prestigious Polar Music Prize with German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
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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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