Tag: sweden
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Track of the Swedish figures and those from your home country during the COVID 19 pandemic
WORLD / COUNTRIES / SWEDEN Last updated: April 11, 2020, 12:55 GMT Sweden Coronavirus Cases: 10,151 Deaths: 887 Recovered: 381 Source: WorldOmeters.info
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I learned in 2 days what I hadn’t after 12 years. Lagom.
As the Swedish proverb goes, ‘Lagom är bäst’ (The right amount is best). I went to Lola’s book mingle on Thursday, unwittingly with one of the contributors I connected to the author and met so many interesting people supporting the book launch. I got my hands on a hard copy of the book [I have…
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Away is good but home is better
What a joy it was to leave rainy England to arrive in warm and sunny Sweden to visit family and friends and meet the latest edition to our family. Nothing brings the family together like food. And there is nothing better than seeing the sea and my Swede calls this part of Sweden paradise. As…
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Lola Akinmade Åkerström of Slow Travel Stockholm says the Swedish capital is an androgynous eco-paradise
An urbanist’s guide to Stockholm: ‘Find your own secret space and own it’ My name is Lola Akinmade Åkerström. I was born in Nigeria, studied and worked in the United States, and moved to Stockholm for love many moons ago after giving up my life as a system architect working with Geographic Information Systems (GIS).…
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Nice things that happen to me in Sweden
Very rarely do I blog about anything personal whether it is here or on the BlackExpat.com site, Black Women in Europe Blog, EurObama Blog, JobsinStockholm.com Blog or Women of the African Diaspora website. I have always figured that my personal life is (1) personal, and (2) not more interesting than anyone else’s personal life. I…
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The Swedes have several challenges ahead
By Stefan Fölster The world, including Sweden, is heading towards a serious business downturn. Firings, bail-outs and postponed investments feature daily in news reports. At the same time, other challenges face us, pre-dating the finance crisis’s icy breath on the world’s future hopes and including everything from how we all tackle climate change to Sweden’s…
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Globalisation feeds jobs in Swedish heartland
Globalisation feeds jobs in Swedish heartland Globalisation | Everyone has seen the writing on the wall – low wage countries will suck jobs away from Sweden. But the reality is different. GARO, a company in Sweden’s industrial heartland producing electrical installation material, has suppliers in China and a facility in Poland. Expansion has resulted in…
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Thanks for joining my live election coverage!
From Stockholm, I would like to thank Kathrin in the US, Zhana in the UK, Daphne in Sweden for participating in the discussion and Ryan and Yobachi in the US for their comments while the votes came in to elect Barack Obama President of the United States. In thanks I want to share with you…
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