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May 28, 2012
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State-funding for 'fare-dodgers' sparks outrage
Society: 3 May 12
The Swedish Arts Council has come under fire for providing public funds to help an organization that encourages Swedes to dodge paying fairs on public transit systems around the country.
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‘Swedish is the world’s richest language’: Swede
Lifestyle: 9 Mar 12
After meeting a Swede who claimed that Swedish was the richest of all the world’s languages, The Local’s Oliver Gee searched a little deeper into how Swedish rates on the world stage.
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Sweden to Denmark subway line suggested
Society: 18 Dec 11
Ever-growing numbers of commuters between Malmö and Copenhagen require new infrastructure solutions. A bold new suggestion currently being investigated involves a subway line connecting the neighbouring countries.
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Immigrant women put Tensta Christmas market on the map
Society: 25 Nov 11
Immigrant women in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta are using language lessons and handicrafts to stitch together an alternative Christmas market experience for the entire Swedish capital, The Local's Clara Guibourg discovers.
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Passengers evacuated from Stockholm metro
National: 19 Nov 11
On Saturday morning, smoke forced passengers to evacuate from a subway train in a tunnel near Fridhemsplan in central Stockholm. Police are still unsure what caused the smoke.
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Cutting through the bull 'sheet' of swearing in Sweden
Lifestyle: 18 Nov 11
While learning Swedish is a common hurdle for immigrants of all stripes, US-native and parent Rebecca Ahlfeldt reflects on how differing definitions of foul language can pose a special challenge for the ex-pat parents of small children.
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'Lazy' pigeons flock to ride Stockholm metro
Society: 10 Nov 11
A flock of Stockholm pigeons are using public transport for their daily jaunt to forage for food in the dumpsters and rubbish bins at a nearby shopping centre.
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Hot guy 'stalker' site divides Stockholmers
Society: 25 Oct 11
A new website featuring attractive Swedish men in the Stockholm metro system allows people to share snapshots of those they think deserve extra attention.
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Google adds Swedish timetable service
Business & Money: 13 Oct 11
Google Sweden has announced the launch of its Google Transit service in the country, offering a nationwide timetable service integrated into its Google Maps navigation tool.
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Two men shot in Stockholm
National: 14 Aug 11
Two men, a 16-year-old and a 25-year-old, have been forced to surgery after a gunman began shooting in Stockholm suburb Brommaplan on Saturday evening.
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How to survive on a Swedish student budget
Lifestyle: 12 Aug 11
The Local's Clara Guibourg comes to the rescue of those struggling to get by on a meagre student loan with a survival guide of almost everything you need to know about living in Sweden on the cheap, without missing out on the fun.
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New theatre group brings Mamet comedy to the Stockholm stage
Lifestyle: 18 May 11
Celebrated playwright David Mamet's comedy of manners Boston Marriage is set to hit the stage in Stockholm this week, thanks to a recently-founded international theatre company based in the Swedish capital, The Local's Clara Guibourg discovers.
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Subway plans massive Sweden expansion
Business & Money: 11 Mar 11
US sandwich chain Subway, recently crowned the largest restaurant chain in the world, is planning an extensive expansion in Sweden, the firm has confirmed.
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Swedish police probe bomber's accomplices
National: 15 Dec 10
Swedish investigators are continuing their hunt for possible accomplices of a suicide bomber who narrowly missed causing serious damage in Stockholm on Saturday afternoon as police boosted their presence in the city.
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Stockholm boosts police presence
Society: 14 Dec 10
More police and security guards were visible in Stockholm on Tuesday as investigators looked for possible accomplices of a suicide bomber who narrowly missed causing mass casualties in the Swedish capital on Saturday.
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Officers charged for assaulting whistleblower
National: 22 Oct 10
Two police officers have been charged for assaulting a young man who used his mobile phone camera to film them roughing up two suspects in a Stockholm metro station.
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Profits return for free paper publisher Metro
Business & Money: 18 Oct 10
Swedish publisher Metro International has returned to profitability, reporting a third quarter net profit of just over €1 million ($1.4 million) on Monday. The company also announced plans to change its tax home to Sweden.
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Immigrants vote against Sweden Democrats
National: 19 Sep 10
Stockholm's heavily immigrant suburb Rinkeby was busy on Sunday as campaigners warned voters about the possible consequences of a strong showing of Sweden's far-right Sweden Democrats.
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Tempers flare in final party leader debate
Politics: 17 Sep 10
Mona Sahlin accused Fredrik Reinfeldt of spreading lies as the two traded jabs in a heated Thursday night debate pitting the leaders of Sweden’s seven Riksdag parties against each other just four days before election day.
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Animals dumped when summer comes
Society: 18 Jul 10
Sweden’s zoos and wildlife parks have been inundated this summer with unwanted pets found abandoned in woods, flower beds and subway trains.
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Reinfeldt dismayed by transport freeze
National: 22 Feb 10
Swedish prime minster Fredrik Reinfeldt has expressed disappointment at the inability of the country's infrastructure to cope with snow and cold weather. "Winter is after all one of the four seasons in this country," he said.
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Driver in shock as drilling crushes subway train
National: 11 Dec 09
The red line in Stockholm’s subway was stopped for one hour on Thursday after a work team drilled right down through the subway tunnel and damaged a stationary subway train.
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Beyond the insults: Swedish Model 2.0
Analysis & Opinion: 16 Sep 09
As Sweden takes a battering in the US health care debate, Swedish Institute chief Olle Wästberg examines two of the insults most frequently flung: that Sweden is rampantly socialist, and that it's the poster child for neo-liberal market excesses.
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Fire stops traffic on Stockholm metro
National: 5 Sep 09
A fire broke out near the Stockholm subway’s central station late Saturday morning, shutting down large portions of the city’s metro system.
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Young Swedish film director takes Hollywood by storm
Analysis & Opinion: 28 Jul 09
Even though there’s an ocean between Per Hanefjord and Hollywood, the budding Swedish film director explained to The Local’s Lydia Parafianowicz that tinsel town honours aren’t out of reach.
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Prison for Stockholm casino shooter
National: 22 Jul 09
The 23-year-old man charged for shooting in the entrance of Casino Cosmopol in Stockholm on Christmas Eve has been sentenced to ten years in prison for attempted murder.
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Smoke bomb attack in Stockholm subway
National: 29 Jun 09
Commuters on the Stockholm subway are not expected to experience any delays in their Monday morning commute despite a smoke bomb attack at a station south of the city.
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Second man targeted by suspected rapist
National: 25 Jun 09
A man who raped another man at knifepoint early Sunday morning may have struck again, according to Stockholm police.
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'God probably doesn't exist': Swedish humanists
Society: 10 Jun 09
The role of religion in public life in Sweden has been brought into sharp relief by a provocative ad campaign questioning the existence of God.
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Students' art subject to legal review
Society: 20 Apr 09
Sweden's University College of Arts, Craft and Design has decided to have lawyers review projects prepared by final-year students for this year’s spring exhibition.
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Winner chosen for Stockholm's New Slussen project
Society: 17 Apr 09
Representatives from the city of Stockholm on Friday announced the winning design for a planned redesign of the city’s Slussen transit hub.
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Court denies appeal to overturn Stockholm metro contract
Business & Money: 17 Apr 09
A bid by France’s Veolia Transport to contest its loss of a contract to operate the Stockholm metro has been rejected by a Swedish court.
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Gothenburg hit by spate of morning bomb scares
National: 24 Mar 09
Shoppers in Gothenburg suffered disruption on Tuesday as the city was hit by a spate of bomb scares. Police have not ruled out a connection between the incidents.
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Arts college admits error in approving faked psychosis project
Society: 3 Mar 09
Sweden's University College of Arts, Craft and Design plans to introduce new ethics guidelines in the wake of two controversial student art projects.
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Riksdag to hear from art school head over vandalism video
Society: 20 Feb 09
The Riksdag’s education committee said on Thursday it plans to call in the head of Sweden's University College of Arts, Craft and Design in the wake of a controversial art project.
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Police to investigate Swedish art student's metro graffiti
Society: 18 Feb 09
Stockholm's transit authority has filed a complaint with the police against a student who filmed the vandalizing of a subway carriage, amid revelations that the incident wasn’t the first time the student recorded vandalism for an art project.
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Disturbances hit Stockholm suburb
National: 17 Feb 09
Police responded on Monday night to several reports of a brawl involving 40 to 50 young people in Tensta north of Stockholm.
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Veolia appeals Stockholm metro contract
Business & Money: 30 Jan 09
A Swedish court has suspended a decision awarding the running of the Stockholm metro to Hong Kong company MTR after French rival Veolia appealed the decision, Veolia said on Friday.
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Hong Kong firm wins contract to operate Stockholm's subway
Business & Money: 21 Jan 09
Stockholm Public Transport (SL) on Tuesday announced that a €1.9 billion ($2.45 billion) eight-year contract to run the Stockholm Metro had been awarded to Hong Kong's subway operator, MTR.
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Police in firing line as turbulence continues
National: 29 Dec 08
Swedish police experienced the latest in a series of busy nights on Sunday as gangs of youths created disturbances in the suburbs of Stockholm and Malmö.
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Swedes: hard workers or hardly working?
Analysis & Opinion: 15 Dec 08
Doug Lansky takes a look at how Swedish tradition, technology, sick leave, vacations, public holidays and a new management style mean many 'full-time' Swedish workers get 130 days off per year.
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English-language theatre group stages comedy double bill
Lifestyle: 30 Oct 08
The Stockholm Players are veteran performers on the Swedish stage. Jennifer Heape meets the group as they put the last preparations in place for the autumn season.
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Stockholm - the rat capital of Scandinavia?
Lifestyle: 8 Oct 08
Sleek design, spotless sidewalks and vast colonies of rats: It can only be Sweden, as Christopher Seymour finds out.
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Death in the forest
Lifestyle: 25 Aug 08
Mortal sins of fashion abound as David Bartal takes a trip to a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the suburbs of Stockholm.
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Stockholm bus strike looms
National: 30 Jun 08
Buses in Stockholm County will come to a standstill at midnight on Monday as bus drivers plan to follow through on their threat to go on strike.
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Going underground at Tech Noir
Lifestyle: 4 Jun 08
David Bartal wanders into a subterranean night club and discovers a realm where Belgians rule the roost and latex is more rule than exception.
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Gamla Stan needs a shopping mall
Analysis & Opinion: 7 May 08
It's time for Stockholm to brush off the cob-webbed cobblestones of nostalgia and build a state of the art shopping mall in the historic old town, David Bartal argues.
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Electrocuted rat brings trains to a halt
National: 5 Apr 08
Rail traffic at Stockholm Central Station was seriously disrupted on Saturday morning by the untimely death of a large rat.
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Rival girl gangs in violent clash
National: 2 Apr 08
A fight between two rival gangs of teenage girls at a subway station in Stockholm on Tuesday evening left one girl needing hospital treatment.
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Stockholm night life: Thursday to Sunday
Lifestyle: 26 Mar 08
Check out this weekend’s club and concert tips from Kalendarium.
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Three arrested for suspected gang rape near Stockholm
National: 20 Mar 08
A 19-year-old woman suffered a suspected gang rape on Wednesday in the suburb of Hässelby, northwest of Stockholm.
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Bauer serves up seriously fun food
Lifestyle: 13 Mar 08
Charlotte West savours the Disneyesque design and Spanish-inspired menu of a new Stockholm restaurant.
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Young Swedes trapped by SMS loan debt
National: 12 Mar 08
The simplicity of obtaining SMS loans in Sweden is increasingly luring youths into debt.
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Girl made up story about abduction
National: 28 Feb 08
A girl who claimed she was kidnapped and then pushed into the water in central Stockholm has admitted she was lying.
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Something for the weekend: Footloose, electro and a Pulitzer nominated play
Lifestyle: 22 Feb 08
Something for the weekend: Footloose runs in Stockholm, British electro band Client play Malmö and the Pulitzer-nominated play Blue Surge opens in Gothenburg.
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Travellers' body heat to warm Stockholm office block
Science & Technology: 2 Jan 08
The body heat from hundreds of thousands of hot and bothered people passing through Stockholm's Central Station each day is to be used to heat a new office building.
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Christmas Eve stabbings in Stockholm
National: 25 Dec 07
A brawl involving several young people resulted with three men in the hospital and several questions as to what caused the violence.
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Murder suspected in subway death
National: 2 Nov 07
Police are investigating reports that a man who died after being run over by a subway train on Friday may have been pushed.
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Swedes turn out to back Burmese
Politics: 28 Sep 07
Demonstrations are planned in Stockholm and Gothenburg on Friday in support of protesters in Burma, with some members of the public turning up to work in red to express sympathy for the Burmese monks.
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Paedophiles scour net for holiday snaps
Society: 4 Jul 07
Parents are being advised by police not to put their holiday photos on the internet as as there is a major risk that they will be accessed by paedophiles.
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Brawl affects Stockholm subway
National: 24 Jun 07
A mass brawl between two gangs of youths in the centre of Norsborg, a suburb south of Stockholm. Trains were prevented from stopping at Norsborg station, on the subway's red line.
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Veolia wins court battle with union leader
Business & Money: 13 Jun 07
The Swedish Labour Court has ruled that Veolia acted within its rights when it fired train driver and union leader Per Johansson in 2005.
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Stockholm's Abba museum moves closer
National: 22 May 07
Sweden's first museum dedicated to Abba has found a location in the middle of Stockholm, organizers say. The interactive exhibition is expected to be a major draw for visitors.
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SL learns its ABCs
Lifestyle: 2 Apr 07
Stockholm Transport (SL) has changed its ticketing system again. Whether you're a perplexed resident or just in the city on a visit, Charlotte West can tell you how it all works.
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Royals enjoy Japanese countryside
National: 28 Mar 07
King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden have been taking in the Japanese countryside on the third day of their state visit. The royal couple have now been joined in Tokyo by Carl Bildt.
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Free papers carve out a niche in Sweden
Business & Money: 6 Mar 07
Free daily newspapers have reshaped the European media market, with Sweden's Metro in the vanguard. Meanwhile, the Swedish market for freesheets has reached maturity, reports Delphine Toitou.
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Storm leaves Colombian Embassy in flames
National: 21 Aug 06
The Colombian Embassy in Stockholm was on fire on Monday evening after being struck by lightning. Heavy storms caused disruption across the capital.
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Three rapes reported in Stockholm
National: 27 Jul 06
Three women reported being raped on Wednesday night and early Thursday morning in different parts of the Stockholm area.
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Preachers, fascists and cartoonists
Lifestyle: 15 Feb 06
Freedom of speech or the right not to be offended? Sweden, with large immigrant groups and a liberal free-speech culture, has been wrestling with these issues long before the Muhammad cartoons burst onto the international scene.
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Technical fault behind train fire - police
National: 17 May 05
The fire which broke out on a subway train in Stockholm yesterday was caused by a technical fault, and was not started deliberately, police have said.
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Stockholm gets congestion charge go-ahead
National: 28 Apr 05
Drivers will have to pay to take their cars into the centre of Stockholm from January. And after months of wrangling, the residents of Sweden's capital just hope that the traffic runs more smoothly than the project itself.
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Hostage in Stockholm ?belt bomb? drama
National: 15 Dec 04
Three men are on the run after taking a hostage, strapping a 'bomb' to him, and making away with 1.3 million crowns from a Stockholm bureau de change.
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Dead baby mystery: DNA offers hope
Smörgåsbord: 10 Nov 04
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Meet Sanna, 9 years old
Sanna is one of 2 million people in Sweden under the age of 18. Sweden is seen as a good place to grow up. The law makes sure children are well-protected and defends their rights and any organizations work with children's well-being. Read more »
Strindberg, king of drama
August Strindberg's plays shocked society, dazzled audiences and revolutionized drama. A century after his death, Strindberg, with his powerful, timeless themes, is celebrated around the world. Read more »
The story of K Composite Magazine »
"I’m working on a couple long articles which will be posted here soon. While those are in the works, I thought I’d share this article and interview about my magazine, K Composite, which was recently published on the site Design-Milk.com. Enjoy! Scott Ritcher launched his now digitally glossy mag, K Composite, back when Macs were used..." READ »
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