Latest Sweden News
RSS-
Greenpeace drops item on Swedish reactor from glider to make point
STOCKHOLM - Environmental pressure group Greenpeace on Tuesday said it flew a paraglider over a nuclear reactor building in south-western Sweden and dropped an item upon it from the air to show how vulnerable the facilities ...
-
Dave Bidini Unlike Stockholm Toronto is infected by misguided ideas about time money and space
STOCKHOLM -- Ah, Europe. Sure, it's easy to make fun of things like the Eurovision song contest (staged in nearby Malmo during my stay here and won by Danish pixie Emmelie De Forest); man purses on flat-capped bearded dads pushing strollers (a phenomenon in Sodermalm, Stockholm's trendiest neighbourhood); the worst potato chips in the world; and those silly gold helmets handed out to ...
-
Ericsson Software Automates Wi-fi Vs. Cell Choice in Mixed Networks
IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau) - New network software from Ericsson is designed to make sure mobile users get the best possible connection when there is both a Wi-Fi and a cellular network available. The software, which Ericsson introduced at the CTIA Wireless trade show on Tuesday, is an enhancement to its platform for mobile operators that use Wi-Fi to supplement their cellular ...
More Sweden News
RSS-
Former Saab Execs Arrested on Tax Charges
Three former executives of Swedish carmaker Saab Automobile were in custody Tuesday on suspicion of tax-related accounting fraud prior to the company's bankruptcy at the end of 2011. The suspicions centred on "aggravated attempts to avoid tax controls" through accounting procedures during the period 2010 to 2011, chief prosecutor Olof Sahlgren told Swedish media. The ...
-
2nd day of riots in Stockholm suburb shakes Sweden
Some 200 youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze in a largely immigrant suburb of Stockholm on Tuesday, the second day of rioting triggered by the fatal police shooting of a man wielding a ...
-
NW books First-person stories of Nordic immigrants
Books of Seattle-area interest: "Goodbye for Now," "Gameboard of the Gods," "North of Hope" and "Voices of Ballard and ...
-
Seven arrested over Stockholms Husby riots
Four of the suspected rioters arrested were detained, two were later released and a third person turned out to be under 15, the age of criminal responsibility in Sweden, according to local police chief ...
-
Second day of riots shake Sweden
SOME 200 youths have hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze in a suburb of Stockholm in the second day of rioting triggered by an incident in which police shot and killed a man wielding a knife. Dozens of windows were smashed, 10 cars and several containers were set on fire, and seven police were injured. Cars and containers were also set ablaze in another Stockholm suburb, Fittja, although ...
-
UPDATE 1-Sweden detains ex-Saab executives in tax investigation
Tue May 21, 2013 11:26am EDT * Prosecutors probes tax crimes at bankrupt car maker * Former CEO, others detained, questioned, set free * Saab collapsed in late 2011 STOCKHOLM, May 21 (Reuters) - Swedish prosecutors have questioned the former head of bankrupt car maker Saab and two others in an investigation into suspected tax offences relating to the running of the company, officials said on ...
-
Youths set cars ablaze in Stockholm suburb
09/11/2012 11:10 CET Youths have thrown rocks and other missiles at police for a second night running in a suburb of Stockhom. Around 100 of them came out on the streets and targeted officers and their cars. The unrest was in Husby, a low income neighbourhood, home mainly to first or second generation immigrants where around a third of school children leave education with low grades. Ten ...
-
Ericsson shuts telecom cable manufacturing facility
copper cable had declined while fiber cable demand had grown over the last years, with production shifting towards Asia. "There is overproduction on the cable market in Europe," Tomas Qvist, head of Special Products in business unit Networks, said in a statement. "Unfortunately, our production has not been operating at full capacity for a long time and has struggled with ...
-
The future of freedom on the internet is at stake
Internet policy experts gather in Stockholm this week to grapple with online data protection and surveillance issues that everyone who surfs the web should care about, reports technologist Stefan ...
-
Verizon Wireless to Enhance 4G LTE Network Using Ericsson Small Cell Product
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN--(Marketwired - May 21, 2013) - * Small cells provide a cost effective means to increase LTE network capacity * Small cell deployment is a key part of Ericsson's heterogeneous network Strategy * Continues Ericsson's long-standing LTE vendor relationship with Verizon Ericsson ...
-
Former Saab CEO arrested in Sweden
Police in Sweden said they have arrested former Saab Automobile chief executive officer Jan Ake Jonsson on suspicion of concealing funds from tax authorities. The Swedish news agency Tidningarnas Telegrambyra reported Tuesday that Jonsson was detained along with two other "top level colleagues." The three were held for questioning in separate rooms "because the risk is that they ...
-
Rage erupts in Swedish town for a second night
(1 hr 7 mins ago) Seven people were arrested as violence flared up for a second night in a deprived neighborhood outside Stockholm and showed signs of spreading to other parts of the city, police said today. Four of those arrested in the suburb of Husby were detained, two were later released and a third person turned out to be under 15, the age of criminal responsibility in Sweden, according ...
-
Sweden probes former Saab executives in tax investigation
STOCKHOLM | Tue May 21, 2013 8:55am EDT STOCKHOLM May 21 (Reuters) - Swedish prosecutors have detained the former chief executive of bankrupt car maker Saab and two others in an investigation into suspected tax offences relating to the running of the company, officials said on Tuesday. In documents released by Vanersborg court in western Sweden, home to the former car maker, the ...
-
Swedishness must be split from being white
Sweden needs a new story better equipped to deal with and include today's demographic diversity and create a new Swedishness that is separate from whiteness, write representatives from ...
-
Body parts found in missing woman search
Human remains were found in a military building in northern Sweden on Monday night during the search for a 20-year-old woman who has been missing for two ...
-
The absolute truth about tacos in Stockholm
Unable to find good Mexican food after moving to Stockholm to study in 2008, Monterrey native David Licona now finds himself running La Neta, one of the most popular Mexican eateries in the Swedish capital. The Local finds out ...
-
Cannes U.K.s Rainmark Films Partners With Germanys Beta for Nordic Crime Thriller
Cannes: U.K. to Get 'Sake-Bombed' The novel follows 82-year-old widower and ex-Marine Sheldon Horowitz who, having grudgingly moving to Oslo with his granddaughter and her Norwegian husband, witnesses the murder of a woman in his apartment complex. He rescues her six-year-old son and goes on the run, fearing that the Balkan gang responsible for the murder will return. Chased by the ...
-
Borg Tells Swedish Banks 12 Capital Requirement May Be Raised
Sweden 's banks need to prepare for even stricter capital rules than those due to be enforced from 2015. A requirement that Sweden's four largest banks hold at least 12 percent core Tier 1 capital of their risk-weighted assets by 2015 may be too lax, Borg said today ...
-
4 arrested after more riots in Stockholm suburb
HUSBY, Sweden (AP) -- Police have arrested four people after a second night of escalating riots in a Stockholm suburb, during which some 200 youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze in anger over the police shooting death of an elderly ...
-
Volvo Philippines launches luxury 5-door 5-seater hatchback
The All-New Volvo V40, a modern expressive car, with characteristics from larger Volvos wrapped in a sleek, compact package, is now in the Philippines. This 5-door, 5-seater luxury hatchback combines trendsetting design with class-leading driving ...
-
Slander charges for Instagram slut-shaming
The 15-year-old has admitted she set up the account on the picture-sharing website Instagram, where she encouraged other users to publish photographs of "sluts" with claims of their sexual activities. The girl claimed she clicked "OK" on most of the posts, more or less in panic, reported the local newspaper ...
-
Gotland Oil merges with Gripen Gas
Three reasons to go Premium! 1. Unlock details of over 3,000 companies 2. Have access to 11,000 oil industry people profiles 3. Full address details of over 5000 ...
Stockholm Feature
-
Much thought put into new crematorium for Stockholm
A new crematorium being built on a famous UNESCO World Heritage Site had an imposing reputation to live up to, for it is being built in a woodland cemetery planted and designed by two of Sweden’s greatest architects.
Stockholm is a city renowned for developing beautiful buildings, the city is regarded as one of the most beautiful in the world with its historical architecture preserved and blended in with the modern, displaying the legacy and the current status of the city as the heart of what was once a kingdom and is now Sweden. It is no wonder then a new crematorium being built in the city will combine state-of-the-art design with seamless beauty. Read more
News from around our Network
