May 28, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Sword":
National: 4 May 12
A Swedish court sentenced a man to six months in prison on Thursday after for using a samurai sword to try and intimidate a friend into giving him two cats.
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Society: 18 Apr 12
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, who has "democratized music" according to a citation by actor Aston Kutcher, is one of two Swedes who made Time magazine's ranking of the world's most influential people this year.
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National: 17 Apr 12
On Tuesday it was the 25-year-old kidnapping victim’s turn to tell his version of events in the abduction drama which took place in Uppsala at the end of last year.
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National: 5 Apr 12
A cat-sitter in Sweden was recently arrested by police after threatening the owner with a samurai sword when he wanted to retrieve his pets.
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Society: 27 Mar 12
A woman from northern Sweden who had her mobile phone stolen at the weekend was later horrified to find naked pictures of herself posted on her own Facebook page.
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National: 8 Mar 12
A 19-year-old man in southeastern Sweden went on a rampage with a sword on Wednesday night, shattering the windscreen of a flabbergasted young couple’s car.
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National: 7 Mar 12
A man who attacked his girlfriend with a samurai sword in northern Sweden last year has had his sentence reduced by the Swedish Supreme Court.
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Science & Technology: 23 Feb 12
Thousands of porn surfers in Sweden may have been exposed after over one million passwords and email addresses from an online porn site have leaked out on the internet.
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Business & Money: 17 Nov 11
Comments from a European court official on a Swedish court case regarding the release of customer details by internet service providers should be welcome news for file-sharers, according to some Swedish researchers.
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Science & Technology: 16 Nov 11
Divers have discovered what is believed to be the 17th-century Swedish royal warship Svärdet off the coast of the Baltic island of Öland, researchers revealed on Wednesday.
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Science & Technology: 8 Nov 11
An increasing number of unauthorized data access cases are being reported in Sweden, not in the least due to spurned IT-savvy exes wanting to keep tabs on their former partners.
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Science & Technology: 26 Oct 11
A password hacking scandal which on Tuesday exposed login details of 90,000 Swedes, including several journalists and celebrities, has widened to include 180,000 users on nearly 60 websites.
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Politics: 25 Oct 11
Sweden Democrat leaders have been accused of hacking into the email accounts of Swedish journalists and political opponents by someone claiming to be former party member William Petzäll.
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Society: 6 Oct 11
Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, who was on Thursday named the 2011 Nobel Literature Prize laureate, has published a relatively small body of work, often addressing themes of death, history and nature.
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Business & Money: 28 Sep 11
Swedish music retailer and streaming service Spotify has defended its decision to require Facebook membership from all new users, explaining that the tie in is "all about creating an amazing new world of music discovery".
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Society: 18 Jul 11
While no Captain Sparrow or men with swords were in sight, another celebrity from the popular "Pirates of the Caribbean" films has been in Stockholm over the weekend - the good ship Bounty.
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Science & Technology: 21 Apr 11
Online computer game World of Warcraft (WoW), long maligned as an addictive and dangerous escape for introverted teens, can actually benefit players' social lives, a new Swedish study has found.
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National: 13 Apr 11
A man has been arrested in the proximity of his home in Hörnefors in northern Sweden on Wednesday morning on suspicion of having seriously injured his girlfriend with a samurai sword.
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Lifestyle: 11 Apr 11
Being a native English speaker is not always the advantage you would expect when you are giving a presentation in English to an international audience. But there are ways to improve.
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Science & Technology: 7 Apr 11
Two Swedish children who got carried away playing the Smurfs' Village game on their iPads during a recent road trip ended up billing their parents tens of thousands of kronor.
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Society: 6 Apr 11
The Stockholm Cemetery Administration wanted to broadcast funerals online, but have run in to unexpected trouble – mounting a camera would be in breach of Swedish surveillance law.
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Lifestyle: 22 Dec 10
Looking for something to keep you busy on the longest night of the year? Contributor Tom Callen offers a guide to reading the stars above Sweden during the winter solstice.
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Analysis & Opinion: 22 Oct 10
As Malmö police warn the immigrant residents to exercise caution after a spate of apparently random shootings, The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson talks to local leaders about fear, caution and how residents are reacting to the situation.
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Sport: 18 Oct 10
Swedish footballer and AC Milan star Zlatan Ibrahimovic has leveled a new attack against his former coach at Barcelona, comparing him to disgraced golfer Tiger Woods.
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Science & Technology: 12 Oct 10
A Swedish man hanged himself during a live broadcast on the internet on Monday morning, a phenomenon that police described as rare in Sweden.
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National: 16 Sep 10
The first case tried since the passage of Sweden's anti-file sharing law in April 2009 is heading for the EU Court of Justice after a decision by the Supreme Court.
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National: 19 Jun 10
Today's the day that Crown Princess Victoria will get her man of the people. We'll be following the whole thing live - with reporters around Stockholm providing the latest news, reactions and (hopefully) informed speculation from the Royal Wedding.
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Business & Money: 17 Jun 10
A Swedish web will service that allows people to customise the way in which they wish their online accounts to be handled after their offline death has gone international.
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Science & Technology: 4 Jun 10
The first case tried since the passage of Sweden's anti-file sharing law in April 2009 looks destined for the EU Court of Justice after a decision by the Supreme Court.
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Science & Technology: 20 Jan 10
Sweet-toothed Swedes are happy to trade their internet passwords for bars of chocolate, according to a poll carried out by an appalled computer magazine.
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Analysis & Opinion: 15 Dec 09
It's not really the government that runs Sweden. Nor is it the police, the Royal Family or the largely interchangeable bearded dudes from Abba. It is the people who print the little best-before dates on all food and drink items, writes Paddy Kelly.
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Business & Money: 3 Dec 09
The international consortium Crown, which includes former Volvo head Roger Holtback, has submitted a revised offer to buy Volvo Cars.
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Science & Technology: 15 Jul 09
Swedish broadband provider ePhone has said it will appeal a controversial court ruling obliging it to hand over information about its customers to five publishers looking into copyright violations.
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Science & Technology: 25 Jun 09
A group of audio book publishers has prevailed in the first case tried since the passage of Sweden’s anti-file sharing law, forcing an ISP to hand over information about its customers.
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Science & Technology: 15 May 09
A pilot scheme in western Sweden will allow residents to take photographs of suspected skin problems and send them via mobile phone to the local health authority for analysis.
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Science & Technology: 8 May 09
Marine archaeologists in Sweden have discovered what they believe to be the wreck of a Viking ship at the bottom the country's largest lake. Never before has a Viking vessel been found in Swedish waters.
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Analysis & Opinion: 15 Apr 09
Cautious? Self-confident? Dull? The Local’s Christine Demsteader peers behind the covers of a selection of books on getting to know the Swedes.
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National: 3 Mar 09
A 64-year-old woman has been arrested in Uppsala on suspicion of theft. The woman stole up to ten newspapers twice a week - to do the crossword, winning more than 10,000 kronor ($1100).
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Science & Technology: 19 Jan 09
Fish products from unsustainable sources remain on sale in many Swedish retail outlets, a new report shows. "Unsustainable double standards", according to the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SNCC).
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National: 10 Dec 08
A prisoner in Gävle in eastern Sweden made several calls home to his girlfriend from his cell after police in the town failed to detect that he had smuggled in a mobile phone in his sock.
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Lifestyle: 23 Oct 08
An American magazine dedicated to salvaging “the best lost, tossed and forgotten items from around the world” is about to bring its acclaimed live show to Sweden, writes Jennifer Heape.
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National: 10 Sep 08
A man under the influence of drugs and armed with a sword was shot twice in the leg by police on Hisingen in Gothenburg on Tuesday night.
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Analysis & Opinion: 30 Jul 08
David Bartal comes out of the closet to acknowledge his fondness for knights, witches, elves, and other mythological creatures.
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Analysis & Opinion: 24 Jul 08
David Bartal looks for a place to sit down after a harrowing stroll down one of Stockholm’s main thoroughfares at the height of the tourist season.
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Travel: 27 Jun 08
The curious tourist can find many fine attractions along Skåne’s coastline – the region is home to a varied collection of charming towns and cities, impressive nature reserves, beautiful and artistically-designed parks, and sites of historical interest, writes Matt O’Leary.
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Society: 23 May 08
A 15-year-old boy has been fined for posting a pornographic picture on a social networking page belonging to his former girlfriend without her consent.
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Lifestyle: 8 May 08
Weekend art exhibition tips from Kalendarium.
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Society: 5 May 08
A four-year-old girl has been attacked and bitten by a beaver near Östersund in northern Sweden.
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National: 11 Apr 08
A 16-year-old con artist who used nude pictures to empty his victims’ bank accounts has been sentenced to community service.
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Society: 13 Mar 08
Members of Greenpeace have spent much of Thursday clearing supermarket shelves across Sweden of species of fish threatened with extinction.
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National: 27 Jan 08
The Anti-Piracy Agency (APB) shut down several file-sharing groups last week.
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National: 27 Jan 08
Information on nearly one million students may have been compromised.
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National: 3 Jan 08
Three victims ended up in the hospital following a scuffle between two families.
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National: 18 Dec 07
The launch of Sweden's most expensive-ever movie was a family occasion, with father and son actors Stellan and Gustaf Skårsgård turning up for the world premiere of Arn - The Knight Templar.
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Society: 24 Oct 07
With Turkish hackers resuming their attacks on Swedish websites this week, Sweden's IT security agency is urging domestic hackers to keep their cool.
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Science & Technology: 16 Oct 07
Swedish hackers have retaliated against their Turkish counterparts following an attack earlier this month on some 5,000 Swedish websites.
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Science & Technology: 31 Aug 07
A Swedish IT consultant has published a list of secret log-in details belonging to 100 embassies, public authorities and political parties around the world.
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Lifestyle: 10 Aug 07
Fiona Basile dons her tunic and watches Gotland turn back the clock hundreds of years for Visby's Medieval Week.
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Society: 11 May 07
File-sharing site The Pirate Bay has been hacked. The unauthorized entry via a bug in the code resulted in the theft of the usernames and passwords of all 1.6 million registered users.
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Politics: 28 Apr 07
A schoolboy prank that got out of hand, or the low point of Swedish political debate? Sweden's newspapers are divided over the convictions of three people following the attempt by Liberal Party officials to access the Social Democrats' computer network.
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Politics: 11 Apr 07
Per Jodenius and Niki Westerberg should be given suspended sentences, according to the public prosecutor. Speaking at the end of a two day-trial for the Liberal Party spying scandal, the prosecutor called for four further defendants to be fined.
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Lifestyle: 16 Mar 07
Sweden's top interviewer Stina Lundberg Dabrowski tells Christine Demsteader about asking awkward questions of Madonna, discovering Margaret Thatcher's sense of humour and her 20-year pursuit of Fidel Castro.
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Lifestyle: 9 Feb 07
They provide homes to one in four of the Swedish population, but the brutalist architecture of Sweden's 'Miljonprogram' suburbs has long had a bad press. Yet now the impossible seems to be happening: the suburbs are becoming cool. Christine Demsteader reports.
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Lifestyle: 22 Jan 07
They're best known for their slicked back hair, pressed pink shirts and consumption of copious volumes of champagne. This week, Introducing... looks at the fascinating phenomenon of the Stureplan Brats.
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Lifestyle: 3 Nov 06
He was Sweden's most successful king, a hero of Napoleon's, who started the country's postal service and newspapers. But in Gothenburg Gustaf II Adolf is celebrated simply as the man who brought the city into being, writes Janelle Larsson.
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Politics: 30 Sep 06
The scandal surrounding the Liberal party's unauthorised access of the Social Democrats' computer network continues to grow. Now even a Social Democrat is under investigation.
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Politics: 25 Sep 06
Johan Jakobsson, the Liberal party's former secretary, says that no other senior members of the party knew of the unauthorised access to the Social Democrats' computer network.
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National: 6 Sep 06
Customers of Swedish broadband supplier Bredbandsbolaget have been told they must change their internet password after the company sent out the details as part of a direct mail campaign.
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National: 16 Jan 06
A man accused of posing as 'Alexandra' to persuade teenage girls to send him nude photos and meet for sex, has insisted in court in Malmö that there was a real woman behind the name.
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: 28 Sep 05
Last week: Does Swedish punishment fit the crime?
Where I come from, nobody questions a babysitter, builder or private teacher who offers a lower price for cash. Will I be exposed and excluded from my community if I do the same here, or are Swedes all at it themselves? Answers please.
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: 21 Sep 05
Last week: Am I paranoid?
The punishments handed down for serious crimes seem very light in Sweden compared to most other countries. What's the thinking behind this? Does an enlightened approach to rehabilitation of criminals actually work? Answers please.
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: 14 Sep 05
Last week: Why does living in Sweden feel so good?
It seems that you can find out anything about anyone in Sweden if you know their personal number. Earnings, tax paid, address, criminal record, property value, family, debts - is it too easy or am I just paranoid? Answers please.
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: 7 Sep 05
My Swedish salary is less than 60% of my UK salary last year. Sweden is more expensive and I pay more tax - but somehow I feel better off. Am I missing something in the calculation? Answers please.
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Lifestyle: 3 Sep 05
Swedish director Lasse Hallström presents a modern take on the loves of Casanova at the Venice Film Festival. The romantic comedy with Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller and Lena Olin wins over the critics.
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: 31 Aug 05
Having just been interviewed (again) for my three year residence permit I'm considering seeking Swedish citizenship. What are the pros and cons of wielding the blue and yellow passport? And how hard is it to get one? Answers please.
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: 24 Aug 05
Last week: How do I make a difference in Sweden?
While the state of the country's hospitals are a big issue in my home country, it doesn't seem to be on the agenda here. Is the health service perfect? What are other readers' experiences of Sweden's medical care? Answers please.
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: 17 Aug 05
Last week: How bad is Swedish unemployment?
As a foreign citizen I cannot vote in the next election or stand as a member of parliament. But I love Sweden and want to help make it a better place. How should I go about this - and will my contribution be welcomed? Answers please.
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: 10 Aug 05
Last week: Why are there so many pregnant women about?
I've just started looking for a job in Sweden. But I hear that unemployment is far worse a problem than the rate suggests and that it's not how many jobs you apply for but how many friends you have that matters. Is this true? If so, why?
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: 3 Aug 05
Last week: Is Sweden's age of consent too low?
I've just moved to Gothenburg and the buses, cafes and shops seem to be full of pregnant women or new parents pushing their newborns around in fancy baby buggies. Why the boom? And is it the same elsewhere in Sweden? Answers please.
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: 27 Jul 05
As the mom of a couple of teenagers in Sweden, the age of consent is a lot nearer than it would have been where I grew up. Unsurprisingly, they seem pretty relaxed about it - but is 15 too young? Answers please.
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: 21 Jul 05
I've lived in Sweden for five years, eat herring and sing along with Allsång på Skansen. I like sport, but I just can't bring myself to support Sweden in international competitions. Is this normal? When will I begin to 'heja Sverige'? Answers please.
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: 13 Jul 05
For the next month the transport system is reduced, police stations are closed, shops are understaffed and offices are empty. Time with the family is all well and good, but is the big Summer Shutdown good for Sweden? Answers please.
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: 6 Jul 05
I find more and more that the Swedish language is becoming redundant and being replaced by English. Why is this happening? Answers please.
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: 29 Jun 05
I've been in Sweden for a year now, but realise that I've hardly ever watched Swedish television. What Swedish programmes will give me a good insight into Sweden? Answers please.
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: 22 Jun 05
Sweden's state-owned Apoteket pharmacies could be on the way out after a European Court judgement. But are they a bastion of the nanny state or a vital safeguard to ensure dangerous drugs aren't abused? Answers please.
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: 15 Jun 05
Last week: Who is the greatest ever Swede?
Sweden is tough on prostitution, users of soft drugs are considered morally suspect, you can't buy booze after 7pm or drink in many parks, and more and more hotels refuse to show porn. Why is Sweden considered liberal? Answers please.
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: 8 Jun 05
For its size, Sweden has churned out many highly influential people over the centuries, covering science, literature, music, politics and commerce. But of all the Swedes who have sprung from this fair land, who is "the greatest"? Answers please.
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: 1 Jun 05
Sweden has banned smoking in bars and restaurants and shut down a power station in a move away from nuclear power. What will - or should - Sweden ban next? Answers please.
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: 25 May 05
The Swedish government says it is committed to phasing out nuclear power, with the Barsebäck 2 plant closing on Tuesday. But recent surveys show Swedes to be in favour of keeping nuclear power. Who is right? Answers please.
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: 18 May 05
Sweden is sophisticated, stylish and one of the most musically advanced countries in the world. And yet, without a trace of irony, the country adores the Eurovision Song Contest. Why? Answers please.
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: 11 May 05
Whether I'm queuing at a supermarket checkout, waiting to be served in a restaurant or calling a bank, utility or technical support line, I find I have to wait longer in Sweden than any other country I've lived in. Is it just me? Answers please.
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National: 10 May 05
A 16 year old boy from Uppsala is at the centre of an international investigation into a major spate of hacking attacks on the US military, NASA and IT companies.
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: 4 May 05
I want to rent a flat in central Stockholm so apparently I have to join a three year waiting list, rent 'second-hand' with little security, or find a place on the black market - because there is no free rental market. Why? And who benefits? Answers please.
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: 27 Apr 05
Last week: What will it take to stop jobs leaking out of Sweden?
Sweden joined the EU late, declined to adopt the single currency, supports blockades against workers from other EU countries and tries to block private alcohol imports. Will Sweden ever come to terms with Europe? Answers please.
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: 20 Apr 05
Last week: Is Sweden really a good place to have children?
Every week it seems we read news of big Swedish companies cutting jobs in Sweden and moving their operations to low-cost countries like the Baltics or India. What can be done to stop the exodus? Answers please.
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: 13 Apr 05
As a pregnant American the benefits of having children in Sweden seem obvious, with free hospital care and long parental leave. But what downsides can I expect to face? Answers please.
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: 6 Apr 05
My 19 year old son, who is a Swedish citizen, will soon be starting his period of conscription. He seems perfectly happy about it - but what's the point of a country like Sweden having forced military service? Answers please.
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Smörgåsbord: 5 Apr 05
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: 30 Mar 05
I live in Malmö, and next week I have a morning meeting in Stockholm. My train doesn't leave until the evening. How should I spend the afternoon? Answers please.
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: 23 Mar 05
I have an opportunity to move Sweden from the US to set up a new office for my company. My impression of the country is very positive but foreigners living there seem to find a lot to complain about. Should I stay or should I go? Answers please.
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