Lottery player wins record jackpot
A national lottery contestant in Helsingborg in southern Sweden hit the jackpot on Saturday evening with a record 214.6 million kronor ($29.5 million) win. thelocal.se |
Editor resigns over 'racist' press subsidy
Martin Ahlquist, editor-in-chief of Swedish news weekly Fokus, has resigned his post on the Press Subsidies Council after a decision to award state funds to an extreme-right newspaper. thelocal.se |
Fi plans 100,000 kronor bonfire for 'fair pay'
Gudrun Schyman has announced that Feminist Initiativ (Feministisk initiativ - Fi) is to hold a Tuesday morning bonfire, with plans to burn 100,000 kronor in 20 kronor notes as a demonstration for equal pay between the sexes. thelocal.se |
Migrationsverket cuts asylum seeker estimates
The National Migration Board (Migrationsverket) believes that the number of asylum seekers in Sweden will decline to 29,000 in 2010 and 27,000 next year. thelocal.se |
Surprise rise in Swedish bankruptcies
Bankruptcies rose 15 percent in September, snapping the streak of declining bankruptcies observed so far this year. thelocal.se |