May 28, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Regulations":
National: 21 May 12
Viagra and other impotency drugs appear to have replaced cocaine as the drug of choice for Swedish motorcycle gangs looking to profit from the illegal drugs trade.
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Business & Money: 19 May 12
Sweden's work environment watchdog has made ten percent fewer inspections on construction sites over the past seven years, despite twice as many work-site employees since 2007.
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Science & Technology: 11 May 12
Sweden on Thursday passed a law making it easier for police to conduct wiretaps as well as obtain data about the identities of individual computer users, much to the dismay of privacy advocates.
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Society: 10 May 12
A patient at a Swedish psychiatric ward has died after swallowing two surgical implements while visiting a medical facility in Växjö in central Sweden.
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Science & Technology: 8 May 12
A 15-year-old student was allowed to slice into woman's belly without her knowledge during a caesarian section operation at a hospital in Malmö in southern Sweden.
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Science & Technology: 3 May 12
A care home resident in western Sweden who was thought to be asleep on the floor was repeatedly ignored by nurses and eventually declared dead by an on-duty doctor.
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Society: 2 May 12
A Swedish man who received five parking tickets on the same street over the past two years despite being legally parked, has reported the matter despite an apology from city officials acknowledging their repeated mistake.
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Politics: 21 Apr 12
Following an EU rule to allow mercury in some measuring instruments Sweden may be forced to lift the national ban on substance. Minister for the Environment Lena Ek said she was "incredibly irritated" by the ruling.
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Science & Technology: 13 Apr 12
A Swedish night shift nurse has been fired from a Gothenburg hospital for being high on cannabis and failing to notice a patient's rapidly deteriorating condition.
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Business & Money: 28 Mar 12
Swedish telecom operators want to implement technologies that will block mobile phone users in Sweden from making free calls using services like Skype and Viber.
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National: 25 Mar 12
After several drownings at Swedish water parks are believed to be due to park safety flaws, the incidents have prompted an official investigation by the Swedish Consumer Agency.
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National: 24 Mar 12
Sweden has had a quicker liberalisation than any other advanced economy in the world, in terms of privatisation and deregulation, according to conservative American think tank The Heritage Foundation.
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National: 23 Mar 12
Some twenty physicians in northwestern Sweden failed to realize that a patient was suffering from cancer of the larynx until a few weeks before he died.
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National: 16 Mar 12
A Swedish man who had suffered a stroke later died in hospital after staff mistakenly thought he was on drugs, prompting the family to file a police report.
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Politics: 13 Mar 12
Sweden took a step toward a possible lifting of its ban on surrogate motherhood on Tuesday, despite impassioned opposition from political parties on both the left and right.
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Science & Technology: 7 Mar 12
A Swedish hospital has come under fire after it was reported that staff members were storing corpses “head-to-toe”, leaving the undertakers who made the discovery shocked and sickened.
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National: 7 Mar 12
Tuesday’s revelation that the Swedish government has been involved in a project to aid the building of an arms factory in a dictatorship like Saudi Arabia has caused strong reactions both in Sweden and abroad.
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Analysis & Opinion: 6 Mar 12
US citizens living in Sweden, as well as Swedish financial institutions, are grappling with the effects of a recent crackdown by US tax authorities that has left many US expats facing massive penalties, contributor Judi Lembke discovers.
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Politics: 6 Mar 12
The Swedish Defence Research Agency has been involved in a project to help build an advanced arms factory in Saudi Arabia, according to secret documents that have recently been made public.
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Society: 4 Mar 12
The Swedish town of Ånge in northern Sweden held a welcome home celebration on Saturday for the Danielian/Arustamjan family who have returned to Sweden almost three months after being deported to Armenia.
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National: 3 Mar 12
Some 20 people were taken to hospital after a section of stage gave way during a concert at the Globe Arena in Stockholm on Friday evening, with five people sustaining serious injuries.
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Society: 23 Feb 12
A recent court ruling may mean a 45 percent rise in applications for permanent residency based on family relations, according to predictions from the Swedish Migration Board, with most applicants expected to come from Somalia.
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Science & Technology: 22 Feb 12
A patient exiting a Stockholm-area hospital has died after slamming into an automatic door.
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Society: 22 Feb 12
Signs featuring a woman with "perky" breasts and a short skirt are set to be removed from the streets of Uppsala in eastern Sweden following a mix up that has left local officials baffled.
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National: 21 Feb 12
Carina Höglund, mother to 2008’s 10-year-old murder victim Engla, is suing the government for its inability to protect her daughter in what she claimed was a preventable attack.
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Politics: 14 Feb 12
The Swedish Government has penned a new terror strategy, upgrading Sweden’s risk status since the last plan four years ago, calling for an ‘inter-agency cooperation’ in the fight to counter terror in Sweden.
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National: 10 Feb 12
A doctor in central Sweden who broke the neck of an infant during a 55 hour long delivery, is being investigated by the National Board of Health and Welfare.
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National: 9 Feb 12
Swedish emergency response service SOS Alarm has reported the death of a teenage boy to the National Board of Health and Welfare after the ambulance never turned up and his parents had to drive him to hospital.
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Business & Money: 7 Feb 12
The Swedish National Police Board has called for new international laws to catch hackers on the internet, after US internet service providers refused to divulge information on the weekend's attack on government websites.
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Science & Technology: 4 Feb 12
The "hacktivist" group Anonymous claimed responsibility for a cyber attack on the websites of the Swedish government on Saturday as part of protests against anti-piracy regulations.
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National: 4 Feb 12
Swedes took to the streets of Stockholm and other major cities on Saturday to protest against the ACTA anti-piracy legislation which is set to go before the Riksdag later this year.
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Business & Money: 3 Feb 12
Volvo group, the world's second-largest truck maker, posted a 63-percent hike in its 2011 net profit on Friday, boosted by record sales, as well as a 43-percent hike in the fourth quarter.
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Business & Money: 2 Feb 12
Swedish finance minister Anders Borg warned that Europe's financial sector was headed for a decade of tough reforms that would leave it much smaller, but more robust.
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Business & Money: 31 Jan 12
Sweden will participate in the eurozone pact on fiscal discipline, according to prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, who claims that all Sweden's demands for joining have been met.
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Education: 24 Jan 12
As students in Lund get ready to compete for a chance to live in Sweden’s ‘coziest’ dwelling, the housing commission claim the bijoux cottages are simply ‘too small’.
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Society: 23 Jan 12
Swedish furniture retailer Ikea has put off plans to open stores in India due to local sourcing requirements despite a recent loosening of rules about foreign ownership of single brand retailers.
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National: 5 Jan 12
The Öresund bridge has long been known to be an important route for weapons smugglers to get their wares into Sweden. Despite this, only seven illegal weapons were seized there over the course of 2011.
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Science & Technology: 5 Jan 12
Zealous file-sharing enthusiasts in Sweden can now take their beliefs to the next level and join the Church of Kopimism, as the widespread practice has now officially been recognized as a religion.
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Science & Technology: 3 Jan 12
A prematurely born baby, being treated in a Swedish hospital, died after being subjected to multi resistant bacteria, according to a new report.
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National: 2 Jan 12
After the latest incident where a 15-year-old died from shot wounds to the head and chest on Sunday evening, police say that the situation in Malmö is “strained” due to a steady rise in violence in the area.
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Politics: 31 Dec 11
Tobacco users in Sweden will have to dig deeper into their wallets as another tax increase comes into force in the new year, while parental leave benefits as well as housing allowances are set to increase starting on January 1st.
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Science & Technology: 27 Dec 11
A patient who was forced to wait for nine hours in the emergency room at a hospital in Gothenburg in western Sweden died just fifteen minutes after finally being admitted.
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Analysis & Opinion: 13 Dec 11
European leaders have failed to help solve the current debt crisis, and Sweden shouldn't think of signing on to a plan that amounts to an attempt to remake Europe into a super-bureaucratized dream, argues Swedish liberal commentator Johan Norberg.
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Business & Money: 9 Dec 11
Sweden was one of four European Union member states to scupper hopes of a 27-country agreement to help strengthen the euro, but nevertheless plans to participate in the creation of a European bailout fund.
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Analysis & Opinion: 28 Nov 11
Swedish society is failing its "immigrants", many of whom, such as football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic, are forced to look elsewhere to build successful careers, social commentator and author Tove Lifvendahl argues.
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Business & Money: 25 Nov 11
Sweden on Friday announced plans to beef up the capital adequacy requirements for the country's four largest banks to help protect the Swedish banking system amid the ongoing eurozone debt crisis.
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Society: 9 Nov 11
A charcuterie in northern Sweden, which offers several sausage varieties purporting to contain up to 125 percent meat, has defended its labeling by arguing it is simply “following the law”, despite consumer complaints.
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Business & Money: 3 Nov 11
Sweden's state-owned energy giant Vattenfall is reportedly planning to file suit against the German government over the closure of its nuclear power plants.
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National: 19 Oct 11
More than half the pilots in the Swedish Airline Pilots' Association admit to having fallen asleep in the cockpit during flights, according to a new independent study.
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Lifestyle: 18 Oct 11
While perhaps best known as the home of Absolut vodka, Sweden also boasts a growing selection of wineries, food blogger Maia Brindley Nilsson discovers.
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National: 17 Oct 11
Local authorities should be able to ban vests bearing symbols associated with known motorcycle gangs in order to fight organised crime despite constitutional protections, a leading Social Democrat has suggested.
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Politics: 14 Oct 11
Prosecutors said Friday they were dropping an investigation into improper reimbursements claimed by Håkan Juholt as the Social Democrats' executive committee announced it still had confidence in the embattled party leader.
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Politics: 14 Oct 11
The Social Democrats' powerful executive committee will meet at 9am on Friday, for what has been described as "judgement day" for embattled leader Håkan Juholt.
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Society: 13 Oct 11
Lead-footed motorists are escaping fines despite breaking the speed limits on Swedish roads due to a recently discovered bureaucratic oversight.
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Business & Money: 13 Oct 11
A Chinese chef who collapsed from exhaustion on the streets of Gothenburg after being forced to work under 'slave-like' conditions has received a large indemnity after a Swedish union intervened on his behalf.
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Politics: 11 Oct 11
Embattled Social Democrat leader Håkan Juholt remained defiant on Tuesday amid calls for him to step down, and conflicting reports over when he was made aware that he had spent years pocketing reimbursements he wasn't entitled to.
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Politics: 11 Oct 11
Under-fire Social Democrat leader Håkan Juholt has come under further scrutiny over his expenses after revelations that he declined to repay some of a Riksdag travel grant despite having cut short a trip to Belarus in 2006.
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Politics: 10 Oct 11
Social Democrat leader Håkan Juholt is to be probed on suspicion of fraud in connection with revelations that he has spent years pocketing accommodation reimbursements he wasn't entitled to, the prosecutor has announced.
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National: 3 Oct 11
Ralph M. Steinman, one of the three researchers jointly awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for discoveries related to the immune system, died last week at the age of 68.
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Science & Technology: 1 Oct 11
Despite stricter rules, Swedish hospitals still struggle to avoid overcrowding and any institution caught breaking the rules will now face heftier fines, after previous measures have shown only limited effects.
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Business & Money: 22 Sep 11
Sweden has been told by the European Union to repay 870 million kronor (€94 million, $127 million) in agricultural subsidies, a third of which will be paid by farmers, an industry body said Thursday.
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National: 13 Sep 11
Photographer Terje Hellesö, has been stripped of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency's Nature Photographer of the Year award after admitting that he manipulated a number of his pictures of predatory animals.
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Business & Money: 12 Sep 11
A high-ranking manager at Swedish bank Handelsbanken has been arrested on suspicion of having lent out millions of kronor to several companies in violation of the bank's regulations.
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National: 10 Sep 11
Personal care assistants cannot be forced to help their patients to buy sex while on vacation, concluded Sweden's National Board for Health and Welfare.
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Education: 1 Sep 11
Several Swedish universities and colleges have been rebuked by the Ombudsman for Justice for demanding that applications for employment be submitted in English.
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National: 1 Sep 11
An Uppsala resident has been convicted of file sharing after having downloaded 2,880 songs from the internet, according to reports in Swedish media.
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Society: 31 Aug 11
Swedes are increasingly using mobile phone cameras to document their contact with the healthcare system, prompting authorities to act to curb the practice.
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Sport: 29 Aug 11
A 15-year-old boy was killed in during a motocross competition in Sweden on Sunday afternoon in Västerås in central Sweden, marking the fourth motor sports fatality in Sweden in the last year.
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Society: 26 Aug 11
Three Gothenburg police officers who parked illegally during a coffee break have managed to beat their fines after appealing their case all the way to the Swedish Supreme Court.
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National: 24 Aug 11
A man in his forties was found dead in his cell at a prison in Gothenburg on Tuesday morning, with the authorities confirming that he had taken his own life.
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Society: 23 Aug 11
Suicides among patients within the Swedish healthcare system are increasing, new figures from the National Board of Health and Welfare reveal
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National: 13 Aug 11
This year has seen a significant drop in the number of berry pickers coming to Sweden from countries outside the EU, since requirements and regulations have been sharpened for companies employing foreign berry pickers.
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Science & Technology: 8 Aug 11
Artificial insemination costs vary widely across Sweden, forcing some same-sex couples to pay significantly more than heterosexual couples who save thousands of kronor by bringing their own sperm.
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National: 4 Aug 11
A furious Swedish family has blasted a Ryanair cabin crew after a passenger slipped into cardiac arrest and was just offered a sandwich and soda.
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Society: 3 Aug 11
The mayor of the Lithuanian capital Vilnius has has been filmed driving an armoured vehicle over a parked car as both a prank for a Swedish TV show, and as a blunt warning to drivers to observe the city's regulations.
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Society: 1 Aug 11
Sweden's long summer days pose problems for Muslims fasting for Ramadan, which starts on Monday, with rules over the hours of the fast under discussion across Europe.
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Business & Money: 28 Jul 11
If you’re an expat who uses your bank to transfer money abroad, you’ll know that extortionate fees and bad exchange rates can leave a big hole in your pocket. Using a currency specialist can cut these costs dramatically. Here is how.
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National: 28 Jul 11
A nurse formerly employed at emergency services operator SOS Alarm has been charged with aggravated manslaughter for refusing to dispatch an ambulance to a dying 23-year-old, the prosecutor has confirmed.
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Politics: 26 Jul 11
A core ingredient for the bomb which ripped through the government buildings in Oslo, Norway last Friday was bought in Sweden, while the government has proposed a review of the sale of fertilizer, another ingredient in the bomb.
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Science & Technology: 22 Jul 11
Music streaming service Spotify may be in breach of Swedish marketing laws, according to claims in a report published on Friday, with many finding that the quality of the music does not match company promises.
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National: 21 Jul 11
A 22-year-old man died when he crashed his motorcycle in Stockholm late Wednesday following a police chase at speeds of up to 250 kilometres/hour.
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Science & Technology: 19 Jul 11
A woman who had her breast removed in a Swedish hospital after being told that she had cancer, has since discovered that she was in fact cancer-free and her breast had been removed for no medical reason.
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Society: 18 Jul 11
A surge of copper thefts have left Sweden's churches reeling, as 26 thefts have already been reported in 2011, costing churches a hefty 1.8 million kronor ($274,000).
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National: 15 Jul 11
A Swedish aid organization is criticizing the government for using aid money to pay off old debts the countries owe Sweden, but the minister for development cooperation defends the practice saying it is in line with international regulations.
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National: 14 Jul 11
An investigation into the suicide of the man suspected of murdering and dismembering a Örebro professor in March has been dropped with staff cleared of any suspicion of breach of duty.
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National: 13 Jul 11
Anti-abortionists from a youth movement are recruiting children by asking them to sign a petition to get a glass of juice, according to a Swedish media report.
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Education: 26 Jun 11
All Swedish teachers will soon have a professional certificate. But this new requirement is posing difficulties. Students may have to switch teachers, be taught from a distance, or even see their school shut down.
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Politics: 21 Jun 11
The Swedish government spent 119 million kronor ($18.6 million) to public relations consultants between 2007 and 2010, with significant sums going to help simplify language about financial policies.
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National: 14 Jun 11
A woman from northern Sweden died after four calls placed over a four day period requesting to have an ambulance sent to her home were ignored.
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National: 14 Jun 11
Stockholm politicians are arguing that the city’s cyclists be allowed to run red lights and cycle against one-way traffic to avoid congestion and improve the situation for those who chose to travel by bicycle.
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Education: 9 Jun 11
A number of Swedish schools are violating the law by charging students high fees for expensive class trips, according to the Sweden's schools inspectorate.
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Society: 1 Jun 11
A Swedish woman died in hospital after being forced to call for an ambulance four times, according to a report filed with the National Board of Health and Welfare.
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Society: 31 May 11
The head of a Danish sperm bank has warned that Swedish women are "most likely" to be among those inseminated with defective sperm donated by a man with a rare genetic disease.
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Analysis & Opinion: 30 May 11
While applications to start privately-run, publicly-funded free schools are on the rise in Sweden, there is nevertheless gathering unease about the suitability of schools being run by private companies, The Local's Geoff Mortimore explains.
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Society: 25 May 11
Despite the potentially lethal consequences of a misplaced injection, Botox and other acid fillers can be injected by anyone in Sweden today, according to revelations in a new report.
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National: 24 May 11
The Swedish government has declined to comment on Monday’s revelation in the Swedish press that the Swedish Security Service had exposed two American undercover agents in Sweden in 2009.
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Politics: 23 May 11
Sweden plans to reduce the number of locations patients can receive care for certain types of cancer, in the hope of improving the overall quality of the care provided.
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Society: 23 May 11
Following several complaints about sexual abuse committed by its pastors, the Church of Sweden has announced plans to launch an investigation into how widespread the problem is.
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Business & Money: 20 May 11
Former post office head Lars G Nordström has been proposed as the new Vattenfall head, when the company elects its third chairman in as many years.
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Politics: 20 May 11
Sweden has expelled two diplomats working at the Libyan embassy in Stockholm, confirming that Libya no longer has any diplomatic ties with Sweden.
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