The Swedish embassy and Swedish Church has organized a ceremony on the beach at Khao Lak in Thailand on Friday in remembrance of the devastating 2004 tsunami which claimed almost 228,000 lives, including over 500 Swedes.
The tsunami scare that followed an earth quake in the Indian Ocean on Wednesday, measuring 8.7 on the Richter scale, had tourists fleeing the beaches of Thailand and Indonesia for higher grounds.
Several Swedish musicians have agreed to take part in “Jam for Japan”– a Sunday-afternoon jam session being organized to raise money for Japanese earthquake and tsunami relief, contributor <b>Anita Badejo</b> discovers.
A Japanese rock group in Sweden when their homeland was struck by disaster has organised a series of charity concerts across Europe to raise money for earthquake and tsunami relief.
Many Swedes in Japan are trying to leave the country following Friday's earthquake and tsunami, while the Swedish foreign ministry reported on Saturday it had heard from all the Swedes thought to be in the area worst hit by disaster.
Swedish tourists who get caught up in natural disasters and other crises abroad will in future have to pay for their own healthcare and trips home, the government has said.
Swine flu beat out both the June death of Michael Jackson and the Stockholm helicopter heist in September as the top Swedish news story of 2009, according to a new study.
A mysterious bottle that washed up on the shores of Ireland with a cryptic Swedish message inside has a local woman wondering if the note may have been authored by a Swede whose children perished in the 2004 tsunami.
The contentious tapes detailing data traffic from the government offices in connection with the 2004 Asian tsunami are set to be classified for 70 years, according to a new proposal.
The government’s ability to govern, coordinate, and follow up on crisis preparedness is insufficient, according to the annual report of the Swedish National Audit Office (SNAO) released on Thursday.
Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt is faced with a tricky conundrum as his old rival, former state secretary Lars Danielsson, emerges the only relevant applicant for the vacant ambassador post in Brussels.
Sweden said Tuesday it would provide 15 million kronor ($2.5 million dollars) in emergency aid to Burma after tropical cyclone Nargis ripped through the impoverished nation.
The Swedish state should be responsible for evacuating Swedes from major catastrophes which occur outside of the country, like the 2004 tsunami or the war in Lebanon in 2006.
King Carl XVI Gustaf is to present medals to four Swedes for their service during the 2004 tsunami disaster in South East Asia, in which more than 500 Swedes were among the dead.
A number of previously unidentified data CDs have been found at government offices that may have important implications for an ongoing investigation into the then government's handling of the tsunami crisis in 2004.
The Swedish government failed to realize that thousands of Swedish citizens were caught up in the 2004 Asian tsunami until it received a tearful phone call from its ambassador in Bangkok on 27th December, more than 24 hours after the giant wave hit.
The information given by former prime minister Göran Persson's most senior aide about events on the first day after the tsunami on Boxing Day 2004 has been contradicted by details emerging from the Commission into the Swedish government's handling of the crisis.
Security guards on duty at Rosenbad at the time of the 2004 tsunami catastrophe are to be permitted by Government Offices of Sweden to temporarily break their vow of professional secrecy.
The president of Sweden's court of appeal, Johan Hirschfeldt, has called for the recall of the Catastrophe Commission, which investigated the former government's handling of the South Asian tsunami.
Foreign minister Carl Bildt has called for clearer rules governing the assistance that can be given to Swedes who find themselves caught up in disaster situations abroad. Next year a new law could establish the help that Swedes can expect from the state.
A memorial garden for unidentified tsunami victims has been opened in Thailand on the second anniversary of the catastrophe which claimed 5,300 lives in the country, including those of 542 Swedes.
Sweden's government has said money sent in aid following the South Asian tsunami could have been misused. Sweden is one of seven countries demanding an investigation into the way the aid money was spend, according to AP.
