Saturday, December 22, 2018

Sweden

etymology
- schweden in german

Royalty
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20151220/00180_025.html 社交網近日流傳窮小子與富家女相愛的動人故事，印度一名畫家四十年前在新德里讀書時，邂逅一名據稱是瑞典皇室近親的女留學生，二人墮入愛河，火速成婚。雖然女方之後返回瑞典，令二人被迫分隔異地，但男方展開長達六千四百公里的尋妻之旅，由印度騎單車出發，橫跨歐亞多國，最後成功與愛妻在瑞典團聚。
- jarls
  • In Sweden, members of medieval royal families, such as the House of Stenkil and House of Bjelbo, held the title of jarl before their accession to the throne. Since the early 12th century, there usually was only one holder of the title at a time, second only to the King of Sweden. For special occasions, regional jarls outside of Sweden could be nominated as well. An example of this is Jon Jarl, who allegedly conducted pirate operations against Novgorod in the east. 
    When the House of Bjelbo (alt. Bjälbo) succeeded in becoming the royal family in 1250, the title was subsumed into that of duke and the powers were merged into the kingship soon after Birger Jarl's death in 1266. According to Procopius, the Heruli, after having raided the European continent for several generations, returned to Scandinavia in 512 as a result of military defeats. As their old territory was now occupied by the Danes, they settled next to the Geatsin present-day Sweden. While the Proto-Norse word for this mysterious tribe, erilar,[citation needed] is etymologically near the title "jarl" and "earl" in other places, perhaps implying ' those who can read or dictate ' and it has often been suggested they introduced the runes in Scandinavia[citation needed], no elaborate theory exists to explain how the word came to be used as a title. Arguably, their knowledge in interpreting runes also meant they were gifted in martial arts and, as they gradually integrated, eril or jarl instead came to signify the rank of a leader. As described in the Icelandic sagas, such as Rígsthula, a jarl was a sort of chieftain next in rank to the king in the function of Marshal or Duke of the King's Army. Under any circumstance, when jarls are finally mentioned in medieval documents, it clearly was a title signifying a leader ranked directly under the king. In Swedish history, Jarls are described as either local rulers or viceroys appointed by a king, ruling one of the historical Swedish provinces, such as Västergötland, Östergötland, or Svitjod. In Norway, the jarls apparently kept this role and the kings attempted to introduce one in each Fylke before the title was used exclusively on the Orkney Islands in the 14th century. In Sweden, however, by the mid-10th century the title was used exclusively by a single person[citation needed] and the local leaders were gradually being referred to as dux or duke. Before the title was finally discontinued in the mid-13th century, Swedish jarls were powerful men, such as Birger Brosa, Ulf Fase, and Birger Jarl(actual surname "Magnusson"), often the true rulers of the Swedish kingdom.
- crown jewels
  • The royal jewels that were stolen from a Swedish cathedral in a brazen heist that grabbed global headlines last year may have been found – on top of a bin. The search for both the culprits and the jewels gained international attention after the 17th-century royal crowns were taken from a cathedral in Strängnäs, one hour from Stockholm, with the suspects then seen fleeing the scene on women's bicycles and a motorboat.The crowns were made for the burial of King Charles IX and his wife Christina and date back to the early 1600s. A royal orb was stolen along with them, and the gold jewels are decorated with silver and pearls. July's royal heist was the second to take place in the area around Lake Mälaren in recent years. In 2013, a crown and sceptre used in the funeral of Sweden's King Johan III were stolen from nearby Västerås. Those items were later located in two large rubbish bags at the side of a highway following a tip-off to police. https://www.thelocal.se/20190205/have-swedens-stolen-crown-jewels-been-found-at-last-stockholm-strangnas-trial
- https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/07/europe/swedish-royals-grandchildren/index.html The King of Sweden has reduced the number of family members who will continue to receive taxpayer funds, stripping five of his grandchildren of their royal highness status, according to an official statement. The children will keep their titles of prince/princess and duke/duchess, but won't be expected to perform royal duties, Fredrik Wersäll, marshal of the realm, said in a statement on the Swedish Royal Court's website Monday.The only two grandchildren of King Carl Gustaf who were excluded from the move are the children of Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria -- Princess Estelle and her younger brother, Prince Oscar.The parents of the five, Prince Carl Philip and his wife, Princess Sofia -- father and mother to Alexander and Gabriel -- and Princess Madeleine and her husband, Christopher O'Neill, who are the parents of Leonore, Nicolas and Adrienne, welcomed the change on social media.In 1980, the Swedish monarchy became the first to change its rules of succession so that the first-born child of the monarch is heir to the throne, regardless of gender.
- Prince Carl Philip of Sweden, Duke of Värmland (Carl Philip Edmund Bertil; born 13 May 1979), is the only son and the second of three children of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia.Prince Carl Philip was born on 13 May 1979 at the Stockholm Palace, Sweden. He was baptised at the Royal Chapel on 31 August 1979. His mother is of half German and half Brazilian descent.

  • https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3077583/5-things-know-about-korean-drama-actress-kim-tae-hee-star
- 瑞典女王儲維多利亞及丈夫韋斯特林的么子、王位第三順位繼承人奧斯卡王子前日迎來5歲生日，其Instagram帳戶發布了他與混種貴婦犬的合照，王室粉絲們紛紛留言道賀。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20210304/00180_029.html

Government
- ministry of enterprise and innovation
- Ministry of Health and Social Affairs
- The Swedish Tax Agency (Swedish: Skatteverket) is a government agency in Sweden responsible for national tax collection and administering the population registration. The agency was formed on 1 January 2004 through the merger of the Swedish National Tax Board (Riksskatteverket) and the then 10 existing regional tax authorities (skattemyndigheter). The Swedish Tax Agency (and prior to that, the Swedish National Tax Board) was also formerly the parent agency of the Swedish Enforcement Administration (Kronofogdemyndigheten). Since 1 July 2008, the Swedish Enforcement Administration is an independent agency but with close administrative ties to the Swedish Tax Agency.

  • 瑞典稅務局上周三發布公告，指根據ISO國家代碼進行修改，將對台灣改稱為「台灣，中國一省」，引起台灣當局強烈不滿。台灣的外交部昨日表示，外交部對此高度重視，前日已向瑞典政府表達絕對無法接受的立場，並要求立即更正。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180305/00178_018.html

- Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis http://www.government.se/government-agencies/swedish-agency-for-growth-policy-analysis-growth-analysis/ The overall objective is to strengthen Swedish competitiveness and create conditions for more jobs in more and growing businesses throughout the country. Growth Analysis works on evaluations, analyses and statistics in a broad Swedish and international perspective.
- The Swedish National Audit Office (Swedish: Riksrevisionen) is the agency responsible for oversight of the state finances through financial and performance-based audits of state agencies, state-owned companies and the Government of Sweden. It serves directly under the Riksdag and is therefore independent of the Cabinet. All state agencies are required to submit copies of their annual accounts and reports to this office for review.The independence of the office and the Auditors General is specified in Chapter 13 of the Regeringsformen, which is part of the Constitution of Sweden. The office was founded on 1 July 2003 through a merger of Riksdagens revisorer ("auditors of the Riksdag") and Riksrevisionsverket ("national auditing agency").
- The Swedish Institute (Swedish: Svenska Institutet, SI) is a Government agency in Sweden with the responsibility to spread information about Sweden outside the country. It exists to promote Swedish interests, and to organise exchanges with other countries in different areas of public life, in particular in the spheres of culture, education, and research.
- Sveriges Riksbank or simply the Riksbank, is the central bank of Sweden. It is the world's oldest central bank and the third oldest bank in operation. The first part of the word riksbank, riks, stems from the Swedish word rike, which means realm, kingdom, empire or nation in English. A literal English translation of the bank's name could thus be Sweden's realm's bank. The bank, however, doesn't translate its name to English but uses its Swedish name the Riksbank also in its English communications.  The Riksbank began operations in 1668. Previously, Sweden was served by the Stockholms Banco (also known as the Bank of Palmstruch), founded by Johan Palmstruch in 1656. Although the bank was private, it was the king who chose its management: in a letter to Palmstruch, he gave permission to its operations according to stated regulations. But Stockholms Banco collapsed as a result of the issuing of too many notes without the necessary collateral. Palmstruch, who was considered responsible for the bank's losses, was condemned to death, but later received clemency. On 17 September 1668, the privilege of Palmstruch to operate a bank was transferred to the Riksens Ständers Bank ("Bank of the Estates of the Realm") and was run under the auspices of the parliament of the day. Due to the failure of Stockholm Banco, the new bank was managed under the direct control of the Riksdag of the Estates to prevent the interference from the king. When a new Riksdag was instituted in 1866, the name of the bank was changed to Sveriges Riksbank. Having learned the lesson of the Stockholms Banco experience, the Riksbank was not permitted to issue bank-notes. Nevertheless, in 1701, permission was granted to issue so called credit-notes". Some time in the middle of the 18th century, counterfeit notes began appearing, which caused serious problems. To prevent forgeries, it was decided that the Riksbank should produce its own paper for bank-notes and a paper-mill, Tumba Bruk, was founded in Tumba, on the outskirts of Stockholm. A few years later, the first commercial banks were founded and these were also allowed to issue bank-notes. The bank-notes represented a claim to the bank without interest paid, and thus became a considerable source of income for banks. Nonetheless, security in the form of a deposit at the Riksbank was required to cover the value of all notes issued.

  • hkej 8may19 shum article ikea experiment

Dalarna (English exonym: Dalecarlia), is a historical province or landskap in central Sweden. Another English language form established in literature is the Dales. Historically, Dalarna has enjoyed a rich and unique folk culture, with distinct music, paintings (often centered on Biblical themes) and handicrafts.[citation needed] The province preserved longer than any other the use of the Runic alphabet, a local dialect of which, the so-called Dalecarlian runes or Dalrunes, survived into the 19th century. A famous symbol of the province is the Dalecarlian horse, in Swedish Dalahäst, a painted and decorated wooden horse. Sulky racing is popular in the region. The high level of calcium in the soil favours horse breeding.

  • The carving of Dala horses as a livelihood is thought to have started in the village of Bergkarlås in central Sweden, though the nearby "horse" villages of Risa, Vattnäs, and Nusnäs were also centres of horse-making. The villages were involved in the art of furniture and clock-making, and it is likely the leftover scraps of wood were put to use in the production of Dala horses.[1] Many early Dala horses were not painted at all, but in the beginning of the 19th century painting them in a single color, white or red, became common practice. The decoration of the Dala horse has its roots in furniture painting and was perfected over the years. According to a local tale, a wandering painter in the style of kurbitscame across one of these Dala horses in a farm he was decorating. When asked by one of the children why that horse was not as beautifully painted as the ones in the decorations, he painted the Dala horse in the same style. This tradition was then carried on in order to raise the market value of the Dala horses
Dalby is a locality and short-lived (11th century) former Latin Catholic diocese situated in Lund Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden. Dalby has one of the oldest stone churches in Scandinavia, for which the cathedral in Hildesheim served as a model. In 1060 the Danish King Svend Estridsen initiated the creation of a religious centre in Dalby, and also constructed his royal residence there. From 1060, Dalby was a bishopric, on territory split off from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Roskilde, under the bishop Egino, appointed by the German Archbishop Adalbert of Bremen. But as early as 1066 the English anti-bishop Henrik was enthroned in Lund, probably elected by the people and the clergy. In 1085 Canute the Saint decided to build a new cathedral in Lund and in 1104 Lund became the archbishopric over Scandinavia. Another source holds the diocese was established in 1048 and suppressed in 1060. Until the Protestant Reformation in Denmark in 1536, Dalby retained some importance as the site of an Augustinian monastery and a demesne of the Danish Crown.

Gotland (/ˈɡɒtlənd/; Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɡɔtland] , older spellings include Gottland /ˈɡɒtlənd/ or Gothland /ˈɡɒθlənd/,), Gutland in the local dialect, is a province, county, municipality, and diocese of Sweden. It is Sweden's largest island.The island is the home of the Gutes, and sites such as the Ajvide Settlement show that it has been occupied since prehistory. A DNA study conducted on the 5,000-year-old skeletal remains of three Middle Neolithic seal hunters from Gotland showed that they were related to modern-day Finns, while a farmer from Gökhem parish in Västergötland on the mainland was found to be more closely related to modern-day Mediterraneans. This is consistent with the spread of agricultural peoples from the Middle East at about that time.
- The valknut symbol has its most discovered examples on Gotland.

Halland County (Swedish: Hallands län) is a county (län) on the western coast of Sweden. It corresponds roughly to the cultural and historical province of Halland. The capital is Halmstad.
- bronze figure from glasbacka
  • the eyes, according to some, represent the sun and moon
基律纳Kiruna (Swedish: [ˈkǐːrʉna];[2] Northern Sami: Giron; Finnish: Kiiruna) is the northernmost town in Sweden, situated in the province of Lapland. It had 17,002 inhabitants in 2016 [3] and is the seat of Kiruna Municipality (population: 23,167 in 2016)[4] in Norrbotten County.Esrange Space Center was established in Kiruna in the 1960s.[5] Also in Kiruna are the Institute of Space Physics and Luleå University of Technology's Department of Space Science.
- [situationist int] the SI had addressed a congratulatory telegram to wildcat strikers in kiruna, in jan 1970 and there is an article about the strikes in the danish SI journal

梅拉倫湖The etymological origin of the name Mälarenstems from the Old Norse word mælirappearing in historical records in the 1320s and meaning gravel. The lake was previously known as Lǫgrinn, which is Old Norse for "The Lake".

norbotten
- 哈帕蘭達Haparanda is, despite its small population, for historical reasons often still referred to as a city. Statistics Sweden, however, only counts localitieswith more than 10,000 inhabitants as cities. Haparanda is located at the northerly extreme of the Swedish coastline, and far removed from large cities. Its summers are very mild for a coastal location so far north, and winters are normally not extremely cold in spite of the relative proximity to the Arctic Circle.When Sweden ceded Finland to Russia in 1809, the Finnish–Swedish border was drawn along the Rivers Tornio and Muonio. The town of Tornio, located on the island Suensaari in the river delta became part of the Grand Duchy of Finland within the Russian Empire as demanded by czar Alexander I. (Finland declared independence in 1917).At that time the town of Tornio was dominated by Swedish-speaking merchants and craftsmen, forming a linguistic island in a Finnish-speaking countryside. After the war many of the Swedes started to develop the small village Haaparanta across the border instead (Haparanda and Tornio are within walking distance), eventually leaving Tornio unilingually Finnish. Haparanda was made a market town (köping) in 1821 and received its city charter in 1842.
- 呂勒奧Luleå has the seventh biggest harbour in Sweden for shipping goods.[4] It has a large steel industry and is a centre for extensive research. Luleå University of Technology is one of Sweden's three technology universities (the other two are KTH and Chalmers) and the northernmost university in Sweden. The town's Royal charter was granted in 1621 by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. The original town was situated where Gammelstad (Old Town) is situated today. The town had to be moved in 1649 to the current site,[5] due to the post-glacial rebound that had made the bay too shallow for ships to enter.The town has been plagued by fires in 1653, 1657 and in 1887, and the fire in 1887 was a devastating fire that destroyed most of the town, sparing only a few buildings. The Neo-Gothic Cathedral (originally the Oscar Fredrik church), dedicated in 1893, standing at 67 meters (220 ft), is the tallest building in town.

諾爾蘭Norrland (Swedish: [ˈnɔ̌rːland] , "Northland", originally Norrlanden or "the Northlands") is the northernmost, largest and least populated of the three traditional lands of Sweden, consisting of nine provinces. Although Norrland does not serve any administrative purposes, it continues to exist as a historical, cultural, and geographic region; it is often referred to in everyday language, e.g., in weather forecasts. Several related Norrland dialects form a distinct subset of dialects of the Swedish language separate from those to its south.Historically, Jämtland and Härjedalen belonged to Norway until 1645, and are thus often considered outside of the historical Norrland. Administratively, Sweden is not divided into provinces but into counties (Län). Although Norrland is defined in terms of the historical provinces and not the counties, it roughly comprises the modern counties of Gävleborg, Jämtland, Norrbotten, Västerbotten and Västernorrland.During the industrial revolution, which reached Sweden in the mid-19th Century, Norrland became the source for the important wood and pulp industry. All of the major Norrland rivers but four have been exploited for water power. The rivers in Norrland account for the bulk of hydroelectric power in Sweden – in many countries a limited energy source, but in Sweden hydroelectrical power accounts for approximately 40 percent of Sweden's total production of electricity.Mines for producing precious metals have also been located in Norrland. In older history and still today, the administration in Stockholm viewed Norrland pretty much as a colony consisting of natural resources to be exploited. "In Norrland we have an India within our borders, if only we realize we should be taking advantage of it" (I Norrland hava vi inom våra gränser ett Indien, blott vi förstå att bruka det) is a quote attributed to Axel Oxenstierna that fairly well describes the attitude. In the official history of Sweden not much is written about the northern parts of the country.
- economist 15may2021 "green steel"

stockholm
- Helgö is an island in Ekerö Municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden. Helgö is an island situated in Lake Mälaren.The island is perhaps best known for a major archaeological area. The old trading town on Helgö began to emerge around the year 200 AD, 500 years before Birka at Björkö. The first archaeological dig in 1954 uncovered the remains of the early settlement, including a workshop area which attracted international interest. The most notable finds included a small Buddha statuette from North India and a christening scoop from Egypt, both dating from the 6th century. The Indian Buddha statuette, the Irish crozier and the Egyptian Coptic scoop which were found on Helgö, are presently on display in the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm.The site where Kaggeholm Castle (Kaggeholms slott) is located was first mentioned in a land title document in 1287. During the 1500s the farm was owned by members of the families Grip and Bååt.

  • In the same excavation that they found the Buddha statue, they also found Egyptian tools and Roman coins (of note as the Roman Empire fell two centuries before the viking age began).https://www.quora.com/In-1954-did-archaeologists-excavating-an-8th-century-Viking-settlement-in-Sweden-find-a-Buddha-statuette-from-India
- Östermalm (Swedish pronunciation: [œstɛrˈmalm]; "Eastern city-borough") During the reign of the ruler of all of Scandinavia, king Eric of Pomerania in the early 15th century, a royal cowshed/barn was erected on the lands of the village Vädla. A new town plan presented around 1880 implied a grid of streets and avenues that was to become lined with elegant houses, with 4–6 floors. When the plan was implemented, it ended the rustic appearance of the district. The old official name "Ladugårdslandet" (literal meaning "The Barn Land") was replaced with "Östermalm" (literal meaning Eastern Outer City). Since the Crown had been the owner of parts of the district for centuries, a number of official buildings, museums and higher public educational institutions were located in the area. In the 20th century, a large number of embassies, including those of America, Britain, France, Germany, Poland, Thailand, Norway and Malaysia were established in Östermalm
- Solna municipality has attracted a wide range of businesses and authorities, making it a major place of work in Greater Stockholm. Among the most important employers are the medical university Karolinska Institutet and the Karolinska University Hospital. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) are also located in Solna.
- https://www.thelocal.se/20180516/ten-historic-pictures-that-show-what-life-was-like-in-stockholm

瑟爾沃斯堡Sölvesborg As the water from the Baltic Ice Lake withdrew, the land around present-day Sölvesborg became accessible to settlers from what today is Denmark. The first people to settle were farmers; remains of their presence have been found in the area dating back to the Stone Age, mostly in the area around Gammalstorp, Siretorp and Istaby. The hill in the east, marking the border towards Karlshamn called Ryssberget, was a direct creation of the glacial movements. On the western side of the hill, the different times of ice withdrawal are clearly noticeable. The old, now drained lake of Vesan was also a product of the ice age. The port town of Sölvesborg was founded in the 12th century, between the mountain Ryssberget and the bay to the east (Sölvesborgsviken), but the city itself has grown up around the church, the monastery and later on the castle. The oldest part of the church of Saint Nicholas is from the 12th century. In the 14th century, the church formed part of a Carmelite convent.[2] In 1564 Sölvesborg took over the city charter of Elleholm.At about the same time as the church was built, the castle took shape. The oldest part are slightly younger than the church, and although the earliest days are not well documented,[3] it is supposed that it was originally merely a fortress. The castle came to be extended - both its height as well as the area it covered during the years.The city was granted its charter in 1445 by the Scandinavian king Christopher of Bavaria.The history of Sölvesborg is marked by its location on the main road connecting the then Danish districts of Skåne and Blekinge, therefore a fortress was built as Sölvesborg was the main city in the province of Sölvesborg (called Sölvesborgs län).The origin of the name Sölvesborg is unclear, but is believed to come from the founder of the castle, Sölfwitz or Sölvitz. The name thus means the castle (Borg) of Sölfwitz. Others[4] claim that the mentioned Sölve might be the Norse Viking King Sölve or Salve. Sølv means silver in Danish.


Svealand, Swealand or (rarely or historically) Sweden proper is the historical core regionof Sweden. Historically, its inhabitants were called Svear, from which is derived the English Swedes.The older name of Sweden in Swedish, Svea rike (modern spelling: Sverige) or the "Realm of the Swedes", "Swea Region", originally only referred to Svealand. Other forms are Sweoðeod (Old Norse/Icelandic Svíþjóð), and Sweorice. As the domains of the Swedish kings grew, the name Svealand began to be used to separate the original territory from the new. 《Þiðrekssaga》的15世紀瑞典文版寫道，「wilcina land」原為斯韋阿蘭和約塔蘭的名字。（wilcina land som nw är kalladh swerige oc götaland）斯韋阿蘭的國王在12世紀發動了十字軍東征，征服了埃斯特拉蘭的土地，即芬蘭。 在19世紀初，威姆蘭隸屬於斯韋阿法院。雖然威姆蘭在歷史上隸屬於約塔蘭，但其文化上被是為斯韋阿蘭的一部分。


Umeå
- Umeå is a university town and centre of education, technical and medical research in Sweden, with two universities and over 39,000 students. The city was elected as the European Capital of Culture of 2014.The northern parts of Sweden, including the counties of Västerbotten and Norrbotten, were mostly settled by nomadic Sami people before this time but not necessarily forming any permanent settlement in the city's exact location. The name is believed to be derived from the Old Norse word Úma which means roaring. The name of the town would therefore mean "The Roaring River.the coast came to be permanently settled by Germanic peoples moving upwards on the Bothnian Bay by boat, hence the Germanic names of towns and villages on the Westrobothnian coast. Some Kven people had permanent settlements in northern Westrobothnia (Piteå and Luleå) but were gradually assimilated with the Germanic tribes although some Finnish names of lakes and villages survived. Southern Westrobothnia (Umeå and Skellefteå) has been a permanent Germanic settlement since at least the 14th century, but probably since the Viking ages or earlier.In 1622, a city was again founded by Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. In 1638, it had about 40 houses. It suffered from Russian attacks in 1714 and in 1720 when it was burnt to the ground during the Russian Pillage of 1719-1721. At the close of the Finnish War in 1809 the Russian army under Barclay de Tolly took Umeå and held it from June to August. In 1874 the town improved the plans for its structure after it became a government requirement. Umeå had already started making these changes when on 25 June 1888, a fire devastated the eastern parts of Umeå and at least 2,300 of the 3,000 inhabitants became homeless. In the restoration following the fire, silver birch trees were planted along wide avenues to prevent future fires from spreading. For this reason Umeå is sometimes known as "Björkarnas Stad", the "City of Birches". and the name of the Umeå ice-hockey team, Björklöven, means "The Birch Leaves".

韋姆蘭Värmland (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈvæ̌rmland]) is a landskap (historical province) in west-central Sweden. It borders Västergötland, Dalsland, Dalarna, Västmanland, and Närke, and is bounded by Norway in the west. Latin name versions are Varmelandia, Vermelandia, Wermelandia, Værmalandia, Værmolandia, Virmolandia and Vermillandia. Some of the Latinised forms show the origin of the name to come from the large local lake by the name of Värmeln [sv; ceb; no] (from older *Virmil); others from the river name *Værma, the main outlet of said lake.[5] The province was originally part of Götaland, and became part of Svealand in 1815.

Visby [ˈviːsbʏ] is a locality and the seat of Gotland Municipality in Gotland County, on the island of Gotland, Sweden with 23,880 inhabitants, as of 2014. Visby is also the episcopal see for the Diocese of Visby. The Hanseatic city of Visby is arguably the best-preserved medieval city in Scandinavia.


Association/Institution
- political
  • Stockholm International Peace Research Institute http://www.sipri.org/
- trade
  • http://www.svensktnaringsliv.se/english/ Confederation of Swedish Enterprise
- financial

  • association of swedish financial analysts http://www.finansanalytiker.se/in-english/
  • http://www.aktiespararna.se/english Swedish Shareholders' Association

- environment
  • stockholm environment institute http://www.sei-international.org/ 
- dairy
  • Gasene mejeri
  • One of exhibitors at rbhk15
- Fashion
  • http://www.swedishfashioncouncil.se/
  • Swedish Industrial Design Foundation http://www.svid.se/en/
  • foreningen svenskt mode (represents small fashion designers) http://www.svensktmode.nu/
  • swedish school of textiles http://www.hb.se/en/The-Swedish-School-of-Textiles/
- healthcare

  • Karolinska Institute
  • http://www.alumni.hku.hk/events/dr-li-dak-sum-lecture-nobel-behind-the-scenes lecture by urban Lendahl is Professor of Genetics
  • http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/news/art/20160215/19491718 特首梁振英力推兼促成華人置業集團主席劉鳴煒捐款，在香港成立首間海外科研中心的瑞典卡羅琳醫學院，爆出學術醜聞。瑞典傳媒踢爆，學院一名訪問學者為8名病人移植人工氣管，當中6人死亡，卻在論文中聲稱手術成功。學院委託外部機構調查證實醫生失德，學院卻推翻調查結果；直至最近電視台製作紀錄片詳盡報道，學院始重啟調查，去年來港出席科研中心成立典禮的院長Anders Hamsten，日前就事件辭職。事件源自卡羅琳醫學院訪問教授、外科醫生Paolo Macchiarini，其研究主要涉及把一種高分子聚合物製作成支架，然後讓患者的幹細胞生長在支架上，再製造出人造氣管，並移植病人體內。
  •  https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/06/two-nobel-prize-medicine-judges-fired-stem-cell-doctor-scandal-paolo-macchiarini Two judges are being dismissed from the panel that awards the Nobel prize for medicine as a result of a scandal around a surgeon accused of scientific negligence. Anders Hamsten had previously resigned from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden over the employment of stem-cell surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. Harriet Wallberg, who was president of the university when Macchiarini was hired, was fired from her current job as chancellor of the Swedish higher education authority on Monday. Macchiarini, who denies any wrongdoing, faces numerous accusations of scientific fraud and misconduct resulting in the death of two patients. Swedish prosecutors are investigating Macchiarini on suspicion of gross criminal negligence. Karolinska Institutet’s Nobel assembly consists of 50 professors who decide who will receive the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine. Much of the work is done by the Nobel committee, which is appointed by the assembly.
  •  The Karolinska University Hospital (Swedish: Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset) is a university hospital affiliated with Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, with two major sites in the municipalities of Solna and Huddinge. The present day Karolinska University Hospital is the result of a 2004 merger between the former Huddinge University Hospital (Huddinge universitetssjukhus) in Huddinge, south of Stockholm, and the Karolinska Hospital (Karolinska Sjukhuset) in Solna, north of Stockholm. The new hospital has about 15,000 employees and 1,340 patient beds. The Karolinska University Hospital is closely affiliated with the Karolinska Institutet. It incorporates the Astrid Lindgren Children’s hospital in Solna and the Children’s Hospital in Huddinge. The Karolinska University Hospital in Solna is being replaced by the New Karolinska Solna University Hospital. The New Karolinska Solna University Hospital (NKS) (Swedish: Nya Karolinska Solna), is the new university hospital built in Solna, Sweden, replacing the old Karolinska University Hospital buildings in Solna. In April 2008, the decision was made by the Stockholm County Council to build a new university hospital in Stockholm. To construct a new hospital has been considered to be more cost effective, compared to renovating and refurbishing the present facilities, spread over a large area in more than 40 buildings. In June 2008, it was decided that the new university hospital will be built using the PPP (or PFI) model which includes also financing as well as management of the building after the completion. The project, however, was met with controversy, and the process for planning and building the hospital has been heavily criticized for poor construction planning, execution, management and corruption. The first departments to move into the new hospital building in 2016 were those associated with the cardiovascular theme and the pediatric unit of the children's and women's health theme. All the other departments are expected to move into the new hospital building by the end of 2018.
  • Swedish Medtech http://www.swedishmedtech.se/
  • swecare foundation http://www.swecare.se/, promotes the export of Swedish Health care and life science
- ICT

  • Viametrics www.viametrics.com, count people in/out of shops
- library

  • Swedish library association http://www.biblioteksforeningen.org
- pirate


- India
  • sweden india business council http://sibc.se/
- asia

  • THE ORIENTAL CERAMIC SOCIETY of sweden http://ocssweden.se
  • Kina klubben http://ocssweden.se/?page_id=2 I Sverige bildades 1929 Kinaklubben av samlare och experter i kretsen kring kronprinsen, sedermera kung Gustaf VI Adolf. I denna grupp ingick bl.a. Emil och Richard Hultmark, Holger Lauritzén och Gustaf Lindberg. Ordförande var Johannes Hellner och till sällskapet knöts snart också kännarna Orvar Karlbeck och Hans Öström. Andra framstående medlemmar var bl.a. Carl Kempe, Axel Lagrelius, Nils Palmgren och Sigurd Versteegh. Kinaklubben blev samtidigt en underavdelning till OCS i London. Under andra världskriget tid avtog Kinaklubbens verksamhet för att helt upphöra 1950.
The Church of Sweden (Swedish: Svenska kyrkan) is an Evangelical Lutheran national church in Sweden. A former state church, headquartered in Uppsala, with 6.1 million baptised members it is the largest Christian denomination in Sweden. King Gustav I Vasa instigated the Church of Sweden in 1536 during his reign as King of Sweden. This act separated the church from the Roman Catholic Church and its canon law. In 1571, the Swedish Church Ordinance became the first Swedish church order following the Reformation. The Church of Sweden became Lutheran at the Uppsala Synod in 1593 when it adopted the Augsburg Confession to which most Lutherans adhere. At this synod, it was decided that the church would retain the three original Christian creeds: the Apostles', the Athanasian, and the Nicene. In 1686, the Riksdag of the Estates adopted the Book of Concord, although only certain parts, labelled Confessio fidei, were considered binding, and the other texts merely explanatory. Confessio dei included the three aforementioned Creeds, the Augsburg Confession and two Uppsala Synod decisions from 1572 and 1593. During the 19th and 20th centuries, a variety of teachings were officially approved, mostly directed towards ecumenism:

Company
- relationships between the few big

  • http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/637a82d6-5c4e-11e5-97e9-7f0bf5e7177b.html Swedish jet scandal lifted lid on business clique 

- Vattenfall http://corporate.vattenfall.com/

  • Vattenfall is 100 per cent owned by the Swedish state and is one of Europe's largest generators of electricity and the largest producer of heat. In 2013, operations were conducted in the Nordic countries, Germany, the Netherlands, France and the UK.

- SCA http://www.sca.com/
  • buys Vinda http://issuu.com/scandasia/docs/scnmag131000s/8
  • Tempo is one of the brand under the company
  • http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/13d29236-a15b-11e4-8d19-00144feab7de.html The Swedish economic model has long been admired. In particular, the Nordic country’s system of active ownership of companies by big shareholders has attracted praise for its emphasis on long-termism. But a growing controversy at one of the country’s most powerful business empires — Industrivärden, which has controlling stakes in companies including Volvo, Handelsbanken and Ericsson — is now highlighting some of the model’s weaknesses. The issue centres on the use of private jets at SCA, the Swedish forestry and paper company — and the details make uncomfortable reading in a country famed as a bastion of egalitarianism and social democracy.http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/66e6590c-a206-11e4-bbb8-00144feab7de.html
- Industrivarden AB is a Sweden-based holding company. It is engaged in long-term investment operations and active ownership of middle-sized and large cap listed Nordic companies active in various sectors. The Company operates in around 190 countries and holds sizable ownership stakes. Its portfolio includes: Handelsbanken, a banking business and a decentralized branch network; Sandvik, a materials technology company; Volvo, a provider of commercial transport solutions; SCA, a producer of hygiene products; Ericsson, a supplier of mobile infrastructure; SSAB, a steel producer; Skanska, a construction services company; and ICA Gruppen, a retail company active in the Nordic region.

  • Ft 30aug16 article
- EQT Partners is Scandinavia’s biggest private equity group founded in 1994.[1] Together with a network of industrial advisors, the firm invests in private equity, mid market, infrastructure and credit in Nordic countries, DACH, Greater China and North America, with a focus in industrials, consumer goods, technology, media and telecommunications, health care and services. The company was founded in 1994 by SEB, AEA Investors, and Investor AB, the holding company of the Wallenberg family. EQT AB Group is the investment advisor to all the group's funds.

  • https://www.ft.com/content/8abf815a-de92-11e9-b112-9624ec9edc59 Shares in EQT surged by more than a quarter as the Swedish private equity firm became the biggest buyout group to list for years. The Swedish group saw its shares jump from SKr67 to SKr84.57 in early trading on Tuesday, giving it a market capitalisation of more than €7bn. In a sign of how strong the interest was from investors, EQT had already priced its IPO towards the top of its price range, which in turn was at a valuation well above the €4bn bankers indicated was possible earlier this summer.
  • people
  • Sean Sehoon Ham joined EQT Partners in January 2016. Sean is a Managing Director and Head of Client Relations and Capital Raising Asia based in the Hong Kong office. Prior to joining EQT Partners, Sean worked at The Blackstone Group in Hong Kong where he focused on investor coverage and business development. Before Blackstone, Sean was with UBS and Merrill Lynch where he focused on private funds placement. Sean was also with Cornerstone Equity Partners and Vogo private equity fund where he focused on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments.https://www.eqtgroup.com/Organization/Professionals/Investor-Relations/sean-sehoon-ham/


-  Hexagon AB is a global technology group headquartered in Sweden. The operation is focused on precision measuring technologies and is divided into three business areas: Geospatial Measuring (Surveying and GPS), Industrial Metrology (Hexagon Metrology) and Technologies. The company markets its products and services under more than 35 different brands worldwide. The Group employs about 16,000 people in 46 countries. Hexagon's operations encompass hand tools, fixed and portable coordinate measuring machines, GPS systems, construction machine control systems, level meters, laser meters, total stations, sensors for airborne measurement, aftermarket services and software systems, such as PC-DMIS. Hexagon’s macro products are used within construction and engineering industries, while micro products are used primarily by automotive and aerospace industries, medical industries and design industry. Hexagon's other operations focus on supplying components primarily to the heavy automotive industry as well as key components for industrial robots. Hexagon held its first annual conference Hexagon 2011 which combined Intergraph®, ERDAS, Leica Geosystems and Hexagon Metrology groups.

- Nordea

  • http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/cdf05980-abb2-11e4-8070-00144feab7de.html A Swedish private jet scandal has intensified after attracting the attentions of prosecutors and financial regulators as well as ensnaring the Nordic region’s largest bank and one of the world’s biggest auditors. Sweden’s Financial Supervisory Authority is also investigating whether the chief executive of Nordea Bank acted improperly by going on a jet to the SCA hunting lodge. SCA is a customer of the Nordic lender.
  • Activist investor Cevian Capital has built a stake of 2.3 percent in Nordea, the Nordic region’s largest bank, Cevian said on Friday. “Cevian sees significant value potential in Nordea,” co-founder Christer Gardell said in a statement. “We will work with Nordea’s owners, board of directors and management to realize this value potential without unnecessary time delay.” Cevian also said it intended to join Nordea’s nomination board. https://www.reuters.com/article/nordea-investment-cevian/activist-investor-cevian-flags-23-pct-stake-in-nordea-idUSL8N1YQ15D

- IKEA

  • http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1548113/ikea-paid-millions-romanias-communist-secret-police-1980s
  • ikea builds its china business into top 10 spot http://www.chinadailyasia.com/business/2014-08/20/content_15157876.html
  • sweden's ikea unpacks first store in indonesia http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/69b70498-5386-11e4-929b-00144feab7de.html
  • http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/fe494ed2-6f32-11e4-8d86-00144feabdc0.html Google and Ikea have doubled down on green energy with each unveiling a new wind farm deal in the other’s home region. Ikea, the Swedish furniture retailer, has taken its biggest plunge in renewable power to date by buying a 55-turbine wind farm in Texas, the leading US state for wind energy production. 
  • http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/11239462/Ikea-takes-over-Texas-windfarm-project.html Ikea has made its biggest ever investment in wind energy, buying a windfarm in Texas to help fuel its efforts to produce as much green power as it consumes worldwide by 2020. The Cameron windfarm in Texas will have a capacity of 165MW once it is fully operational late next year. Current owner Apex expected to have 80 turbines onsite. Ikea’s British arm invested in seven turbines in Aberdeenshire in 2011, which at 12.3MW was enough to power 30pc of its UK stores at the time.
  • http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2014-11/20/content_18946395.htm
    The Inter Ikea Centre Group is hoping to expand its appeal to Chinese families by opening moresites in the country's top 10 cities. Jointly owned by the Inter Ikea Group and Ikea Group, the commercial property operator said itplans to open its first shopping center in North China in Beijing on Dec 19. Located near the South Fifth Ring Road, in the Xihongmen area, the center will cover 210,000square meters of space and offer more than 400 retail brands.
  • http://m.rbth.com/business/2015/06/02/russian_retail_market_still_attractive_to_foreign_investors_say_expe_46567.html- Lundin The Swedish home furnishing giant IKEA has decided to invest about 200 million euros in the expansion of its retail centers in Moscow, according to an announcement made by General Director of IKEA Centers Russia Armin Mikaeli, reports the Kommersant business daily. According to Mikaeli, the expansions will see the two IKEA hypermarkets increase in size by 30 percent by 2018. Earlier, in the middle of May 2015, despite the recession in Russia's economy, one of the leaders of world retail, the French hypermarket chain Carrefour, announced its return to the Russian market. "Despite the constantly increasing level of competition in the sector in the last years, the penetration of modern commercial formats in Russia is about 25 percent less than the average indicator in developing countries," says Timur Nigmatullin, an analyst from Finam Investment Holding.
  • http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20150807/PDF/b6_screen.pdf 全球最大的家居用品商宜家家居（IKEA）將於本月二十七日在陝西西鹹新區灃東新城開業。這是宜家在西北地區第一家宜家商場、在中國的第18家門店。宜家西安店經理關煒寧並透露，宜家開始在電子商務領域佈局，未來消費者將通過網路購買宜家的產品，以滿足更廣範圍的消費需求。　關煒寧在新聞會上介紹説，該店將是宜家在中國的旗艦店，商場將有8000多種傢具及家居用品出售，其中4000多種商品價位低於100元（人民幣，下同）。商場還擁有57間充滿家居解決靈感的傢具展間，884個免費停車位，633個座位的瑞典特色餐廳及188平米的免費兒童樂園。　宜家西安店所在的灃東新城三橋商業街，位於西安和咸陽兩座古城之間，屬於西安主城區的一部分。灃東新城招商局負責人士表示，灃東新城組建以來，在規劃的三橋商圈範圍內，已有宜家、華潤、保利等11家大型地產和商貿業的巨頭進駐，目前建成和在建的商業面積達450萬平方米，總投資額超過400億元，未來這裏將成為西安地區最大的城市商業圈。
  • http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/10/news/companies/ikea-russia-ruble/ Many companies scaled back their Russian operations, as real wages declined and the economy started to shrink because of low oil prices and Western sanctions. Not so IKEA, which said Russia was its second fastest growing market last year, beaten only by China. That's because Russians started to worry a lot more about their money. The ruble plunged over 50% in 2014. Russian shoppers swamped Ikea and other western retailers in anticipation that prices would rise sharply as a result.IKEA, which is privately owned, has been in Russia for 15 years and is now the leading furniture retailer with a 20% share of the market, according to Euromonitor data. It operates 14 stores and is looking to open a new one in Moscow, its fourth in the Russian capital.
  • http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20151101/00180_019.html 但原來他在近四十二年來，因為居於外地，並沒有向瑞典政府繳付個人入息稅。他近日返國定居後，首次向瑞典報稅，繳上約五百多萬港元巨額稅款。瑞典傳媒報道，現年八十九歲的坎普拉德申報入息為一千七百七十萬克朗（約一千六百萬港元），其中一百二十萬克朗（約一百零九萬港元）收入來自工作，他需要繳付約六百萬克朗（約五百四十五萬港元）的入息稅。坎普拉德自一九七三年離開瑞典後，便沒有交過瑞典的入息稅。他與妻子長期居於瑞士，妻子二○一一年去世後，坎普拉德決定返瑞典居住。
  • people
  • furniture leasing
  • https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6664123/IKEA-lease-flatpack-furniture-businesses-month.html 
  • india
  • https://www.ft.com/content/482a07b4-6b0e-11e8-8cf3-0c230fa67aec After struggling for years with the country’s complex foreign investment rules and then with Indian building standards, Ikea will be ready to open the store next month, according to its deputy country manager Patrik Antoni. The long-awaited opening is the culmination of more than a decade of lobbying as Ikea pushed New Delhi to relax its strict controls over foreign investment, which would have prevented the company from having full control over the business. Ikea first applied to open a store in 2006, but was frustrated for years in its attempts to persuade New Delhi to ease rules forbidding foreign companies from operating retail stores without a local partner.

  • china
  • 從東莞市投資促進局最新獲悉，東莞市沙田鎮、濱海灣新區與宜家家居完成宜家華南總部項目投資合作協議的簽約，項目總投資約10億元（人民幣，下同），2022年建成投入使用。項目將擬建設9萬平方米綠色智能倉庫，將採用綠色建築評估體系(BREEAM)建設成綠色倉庫。項目建成後將輻射華南、香港、澳門、西南以及東南亞約二十家宜家門店，預計每年直接或間接帶動當地採購100億元人民幣。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2019/08/28/b03-0828.pdf

- h&m
  • Swedish clothing brand H&M said it would launch an online store in Russia this fall to boost already rising sales in the country. In a report of its results over the first 9 months of this year, Stockholm-based H&M said year-on-year sales in Russia had risen by 15 percent to 2.6 billion Swedish krona ($312 million). In ruble terms, sales increased 56 percent during the period. The Russian currency has weakened sharply over the past year, making imported goods more costly in rubles. H&M, which specializes in cheap clothing, is scooping up business as Russians are forced to reign in spending by a recession that has seen real incomes fall sharply. Inflation was running at 15.8 percent in August, far higher than wage growth, leading to a decrease in retail sales across Russia of more than 9 percent compared to the same month in 2014. H&M said in the report it had opened 15 new stores in Russia since the beginning of the year, taking the total to 86 stores spread across the country. It said it planned to open online stores in Russia and Switzerland this fall. H&M's online shops are currently available in 21 countries. The company first set up shop in Russia in 2009.
  • H&M Foundation together with a research institute (HKRITA) in Hong Kong made a huge breakthrough in how to recycle fiber from cotton and polyester. https://www.va.se/nyheter/2017/09/12/hm-gjorde-just-ett-enormt-genombrott-for-miljon--som-inget-annat-kladbolag-lyckats-med/

- http://www.indutrade.com/en Indutrade is an international industrial group that sells high-tech products and solutions helping customers to improve their own products as well as streamline their own production processes.
- volvo

  • http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2016-10/13/content_27044293.htm Majority owner of Shandong machinery exporter also has tech center in Jinan As the chief of a leading Swedish construction machinery maker with strong linksto China, Volvo Construction Equipment President Martin Weissburg saidcontinuous investments in innovation were continuing to pave the way for asustainable construction industry.
  • http://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-volvo-china-idUSKBN12X06M Swedish car maker Volvo announced on Wednesday moves deepening cooperation with its Chinese parent Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co - a tie-up that's shaping up to show that China can make a success of buying consumer brands.
  • 吉利汽車(00175)母公司吉利控股，繼一○年收購富豪汽車（Volvo Cars）後，周三再宣布，與歐洲基金Cevian Capital達成協議，向對方購入瑞典富豪集團（AB Volvo）8.2%股份，並成為富豪集團第一大股東。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20171228/00202_025.html
  •  DMCC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the China Gems and Jade Exchange (CGJE) creating a strategic alliance with China's official trading platform for gemstones and jade.The partnership is set to create new trading opportunities between the UAE and China by connecting buyers and sellers of gemstones and jade from the two countries. Additionally, the collaboration will see both parties promote ethical and responsible business practices to their members.Feryal Ahmadi, chief operating officer, DMCC, and Yuk Chan, co-founder and executive vice president, CGJE, signed the agreement during a high-level official trade visit of the Shanghai Municipal Government to the UAE. The signing ceremony was attended by Xu Kunlin, the vice mayor of Shanghai and a number of senior representatives from the Shanghai Municipal Government.https://www.khaleejtimes.com/dmcc-signs-mou-with-china-gems-and-jade-exchange
- lundin petroleum
  • http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/5001c62a-ac49-11e4-af0e-00144feab7de.html Swedish oil explorer Lundin Petroleum is bucking the trend among its peers and pledging to continue drilling in the Arctic despite the tumble in oil prices since last summer. Lundin, the second-largest explorer off the coast of Norway, said it would keep scouring the Barents Sea for new fields after it found the one big find last year in the Norwegian Arctic. Its move defies the gloom enveloping much of the oil industry as the majors announce multibillion-dollar cuts to their exploration and development budgets.
- millicom

  • http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/87296d88-3092-11e5-8873-775ba7c2ea3d.html Millicom intends to become the second-largest telecoms group in Latin America after Carlos Slim’s América Móvil as part of an ambitious investment programme in cable and mobile services. Mauricio Ramos, chief executive of the Stockholm-based group since April, plans to extend its cable network to more than 10m homes in the region to offer customers bundles of television, internet and mobile services.

- SKF http://www.skf.com/group/splash/index.html, known as a bellwether for global industry as its products are used by nearly every manufacturing sector

  • johnstone to step down as skf chief http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f9bbb30c-2944-11e4-baec-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3B5UvqPPa
- Gekås Ullared
  • http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/edbca364-89c9-11e4-9dbf-00144feabdc0.html Gekås Ullared’s superstore welcomes more than 4.5m shoppers annually in this country of 10m people. It has expanded each year since it opened more than half a century ago.
- Scandinavian Airlines, usually known as SAS, is the flag carrier of Sweden, Norway and Denmark, which together form Scandinavia.[3] SAS is an abbreviation of the company's full name, Scandinavian Airlines System[4] or legally Scandinavian Airlines System Denmark-Norway-Sweden.The airline was founded in 1946 as a consortium to pool the transatlantic operations of Swedish airline Svensk Interkontinental Lufttrafik, Norway's Det Norske Luftfartselskapand Det Danske Luftfartselskab of Denmark. The consortium was extended to cover European and domestic cooperation two years later. In 1951, all the airlines were merged to create SAS. SAS has been described as "an icon of Norwegian–Swedish–Danish cooperation".When established, the airline was divided between SAS Danmark (28.6%), SAS Norge (28.6%), and SAS Sverige (42.8%), all owned 50% by private investors and 50% by their governments. On 27 June 2018, the Norwegian government announced that it had sold all its shares in SAS.

  • scmp remember a day on a 19aug1979 report - Scandinavian Airline System requested a court in New York to prohibit a sexual encounter group from using its internationally known SAS insignia. The airline asked the Manhattan Supreme Court to grant an injunction barring Sexual Awareness Seminars Inc from using the SAS trademark. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3023890/recycled-pacemakers-sales-mind-bending-drug-and-disco

- Blueair

  • http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2015-01/12/content_19291934_2.htm Bengt Rittri, founder and CEO of Blueair AB, says China is one of its fastest-growing markets, with annual growth rates of more than 50 percent
- ASSA ABLOY AB is a Swedish conglomerate whose offerings cover products and services ranging from locks, doors, gates and entrance automation. This also includes controlling identities with keys, cards, tags, mobile and bio-metric identity verification systems. [4] assa abloy was formed in 1994, when Assa AB was separated from Swedish security firm Securitas AB. Shortly thereafter, the Finnish high security lock manufacturer Abloy Oy (a subsidiary of the Finnish company Wärtsilä) was acquired. The company was introduced to the Stockholm Stock Exchange later the same year. assa abloy has since made over 200 acquisitions.[5] A few of these are Yale lock, Chubb Locks, Sargent Manufacturing, and the high security lock firms of Medeco in the United States, Mul-T-Lock in Israel, Fichet-Bauche in France, and VingCard Elsafe International in Norway. Its two largest shareholders are Latour and Melker Schörling AB.

- bank

  • Swedbank AB (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈsvɛdbaŋk], [ˈsvɛdbæːŋk] or [ˈswɛdːbæːŋk])[1] is a Nordic-Baltic banking group based in Stockholm, Sweden, offering retail banking, asset management, financial, and other services. The first Swedish saving bank was founded in Gothenburg in 1820. In 1992, a number of local savings banks merged to create Sparbanken Sverige ("Savings Bank Sweden"). In 1995, this bank was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and in 1997, it merged with Föreningsbanken under the combined name FöreningsSparbanken (abbreviated FSB). During the late 2000s global financial crisis, Swedbank accepted government assistance due to its losses from loans made to neighboring Baltic economies. On 8 September 2006, Föreningssparbanken AB changed its name to Swedbank AB. The name change took place in the afternoon local time, after the Swedish Companies Registration Office registered the changes in the company's articles of association. On the same date, the subsidiary AB Spintab changed its name to Swedbank Hypotek AB ("Swedbank Mortgage AB") and FöreningsSparbanken Jordbrukskredit AB changed its name to Swedbank Jordbrukskredit AB ("Swedbank Farm Credit AB"). Other subsidiaries will change their names at later dates.
  • On 20 February 2019 Swedish broadcaster SVT has uncovered in their investigation that Swedbank is under investigation for alleged link in money laundering scandal by Estonian authorities due to suspicious transactions to Danske Bank which is being investigated in Denmark, Estonia, Britain, France and the United States. Estonian authorities confirmed findings by SVT.[4] At least 40 billion Swedish crowns (£3.3 billion) had been transferred between accounts at Swedbank and Danske in the Baltics between 2007 and 2015, SVT's Uppdrag Granskning investigative programme reported.

- media
  • TT News Agency (TT) – former Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå – is a Swedish news agency, the largest in Scandinavia, owned jointly by the country's newspapers and the media groups behind them. TT's services are used as the exclusive source of national news by many local media outlets. TT also produces daily radio news programmes. Founded in 1921.
  •  SVT is the Swedish national public TV broadcaster, funded by a television licence fee payable by all owners of television sets, and set by the Riksdag. Sveriges Television AB (Swedish: [ˈsværjɛs tɛlɛvɪˈɧuːn]), Sweden's Television is a public limited company that can be described as a quasi-autonomous non-government organisation. Together with the other two public broadcasters, Sveriges Radio and Sveriges Utbildningsradio, it is owned by an independent foundation, Förvaltningsstiftelsen för Sveriges Radio AB, Sveriges Television AB och Sveriges Utbildningsradio AB, The foundation's board consists of 13 politicians, representing the political parties in the Riksdag and appointed by the Government. The foundation in turn appoints the members of the SVT board. SVTs regulatory framework is governed by Swedish law. Originally, SVT and Sveriges Radio were a joint company, but since 1979 they and Sveriges Utbildningsradio are sister companies sharing some joint services. SVT maintained a monopoly in domestic terrestrial broadcasting from the start in 1956 until the privately held TV4 started broadcasting terrestrially in 1992. It is barred from accepting advertisements except in the case of sponsors for sporting events. Until the launch of the Swedish language satellite television channel TV3 in 1987, Sveriges Television provided the only Swedish television available to the public. SVT is still the biggest TV network in Sweden, with an audience share of 36.4 percent. When radio broadcasting was organized in the 1920s, it was decided to adopt a model similar to the one of the British Broadcasting Company in the United Kingdom. The radio would be a monopoly funded by a license fee and organized as a limited company, AB Radiotjänst ("Radio Service Ltd."), owned by the radio industry and the press. The transmitters were owned by the state through Telegrafverket and the press held a monopoly on newscasts through Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå. AB Radiotjänst was one of 23 founding broadcasting organizations of the European Broadcasting Union in 1950.
    Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå lost its monopoly on newscasts de jure in 1947 and de facto in 1956, but otherwise the same model would be applied to television.
  • swedish media group
  •  http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/swedish-media-group-sells-pay-tv-businesses-to-comply-with-russias-media-law/540389.html?utm_source=email_tmt-editorial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=55-issue-2015-10-27&utm_content=title_3 Swedish media company Modern Times Group has sold its Russian and international pay television businesses to comply with a law restricting ownership of Russian media by foreigners, the company said in a statement Monday. The Russian pay television service, which operated under the brand Viasat, was bought by a Russian company, Sinerdzhi, while the international business was sold to Sabiero Holdings Limited, a subsidiary of international private equity company Baring Vostok. The deals were worth $45.5 million, the statement said. The news comes a month after Modern Times Group sold its stake in CTC Media, Russia’s largest non-state broadcaster, to investors including Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov. The sales were prompted by a law passed last year, at the height of tensions with the West over the Ukraine crisis, that bars foreigners from owning more than 20 percent of Russian media companies. The legislation comes into effect on Jan. 1, 2016.
  • Bonnier AB (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈbʊnˈniːr]; also the Bonnier Group)[3] is a privately held Swedish media group of 175 companies operating in 15 countries. It is controlled by the Bonnier family.
- nordic cinema

  • http://www.scmp.com/business/article/2064917/wang-jianlins-amc-pays-us930-million-nordic-cinema AMC Entertainment Holdings, the US theatre chain under Wang’s Dalian Wanda Group, has announced a US$930 million purchase of Stockholm-based Nordic Cinema Group, according to a statement. The purchase gives AMC control of 664 screens in 118 cinemas in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, according to the Chinese company’s statement.
- telecom
  • Tele2 AB is a European telecommunications operator headquarters in the Kista Science City, Stockholm, Sweden. It is a major telephone operator in the Nordic and Baltic countries and an alternative provider in many others, with about 14 million customers in 9 countries.
    Tele2 started as a telecommunications company in Sweden in 1993 by the company Industriförvaltnings AB Kinnevik. Tele2 operates in Sweden, Croatia, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Germany. In 1981, a mobile phone provider called Comvik started as an alternative mobile phone operator to Televerket (today known as Telia Company). The cable television provider Kabelvision AB started in 1986. Comvik changed its name to become Comviq when the company got a GSM license in 1988 and started operating in 1992. In 1991, Sweden's first commercial ISP was started with the Swedish IP Network (SWIPnet, AS1257) by Industriförvaltnings AB Kinnevik, later known as Tele2, and in 1993 with telephone liberalisation in Sweden, Tele2 started to offer international calls. The three companies of Comviq, Kabelvision, and Tele2 came together as the Tele2 brand on fixed-line services and Comviq on mobile services in Sweden in 1997. International growth came in the form of acquisitions in Estonia, Latvia, Russia & France. 
  • Com Hem Aktiebolag of Sweden supplies Triple Play services that include Cable Television, Broadband Internet, Telephone. Founded in 1983 as Televerket Kabel-TV as part of the former state-owned Televerket, the company has been successively named Svenska Kabel-TV AB and Telia InfoMedia TeleVision AB, before becoming 'Com Hem' (a play on the Swedish phrase Kom hem, "come home"). Today the company has 135+ TV channels available to its TV customers. Digital TV was introduced in 1997. A broadband service that uses the company's proprietary Cable Network was launched in 1999. In 2004 VoIP Telephone was introduced and the company became Sweden's first nationwide Triple Play Service Provider.

- Kinnevik AB (Swedish pronunciation: [ɕɪnɛˈviːk]) is a Swedish investment company that was founded in 1936 by the Stenbeck, Klingspor and von Horn families. Kinnevik is an active and long-term owner and its investments are made primarily in technology-based services aimed at consumers. Kinnevik holds significant stakes in about 30 companies operating across five continents in more than 80 countries, with a particular focus on growth markets. The largest holdings are Zalando, Millicom, Tele2, Global Fashion Group and MTG. Kinnevik’s largest shareholder is Verdere S.á.r.l., which is jointly owned by Cristina Stenbeck and the Estate of Max Stenbeck.

  • ft 4jun19 Global Fashion Group, the emerging markets-focused online fashion retailer, is planning to go public as early as next month

- payment
  • Klarna
  • When Klarna’s three founders presented their digital invoicing idea to the cream of Swedish industry and the country’s king in 2005, they suffered rejection. “Look, this is never going to work; the banks are going to do this,” Klarna’s chief executive, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, remembers as the message of the jury — consisting of a member of the Wallenberg family and Hennes & Mauritz’s chairman among others. As a self-described “cocky” 23-year-old, Mr Siemiatkowski did not take the knock-back too seriously, but instead thought: “One day, we will be a bank.” That day came on Monday, when Klarna finally received its banking licence, 12 years after the spurning of its idea at the Stockholm School of Economics. https://www.ft.com/content/4b376e58-54f6-11e7-9fed-c19e2700005f
    - city planning
    • Sweco www.sweco.se, one of the exhibitors of 2014 ICT expo, provided consulting services to cities worldwide including Skolkovo, Western Harbour in Malmo, Toronto Waterfront revitalization project, Tallinn Old City Harbour 
    - energy

    • coal
    • Sweden has closed the country’s last coal-fired power station two years ahead of schedule. It becomes the third European country to exit coal completely after Belgium closed its last coal power station in 2016, and Austria ended its final coal-fired energy operations earlier this month. The plant at Värtaverket, in Hjorthagen in eastern Stockholm is owned by Stockholm Exergi, a company part owned by the City of Stockholm and which described the closure as “a milestone” for clean energy in Sweden.https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-coal-power-sweden-fossil-fuels-stockholm-a9485946.html
    - Swedish Match AB is a Swedish company based in Stockholm that makes snus, moist snuff, and chewing tobacco (with its Red Man brand). These products are known as moist smokeless tobacco. The company also makes machine-made cigars, matches, and lighters and sells batteries, light bulbs and disposable razors. The operations of Swedish Match originate from two companies: Svenska Tobaksmonopolet, a tobacco monopoly owned by the Swedish state and founded in 1915, and Svenska Tändsticks Aktiebolaget (STAB), a match manufacturing company founded in 1917 by Ivar Kreuger (also known as the ”Match King”) in connection with the acquisition of Jönköpings Tändsticksfabrik.[3][5] In 1992, the tobacco and lights operations were joined in the Procordia Group. Two years later, they were merged into an independent company named Swedish Match, which became publicly listed in 1996.During parts of its existence, most recently between 2010 and 2015, the company has been headquartered in the so-called Matchstick Palace, commissioned by Ivar Krueger in the late 1920s.In 1917, Ivar Kreuger founded Svenska Tändsticks Aktiebolaget (STAB) in Jönköping (also known as "City of the matches").[3][5] It was a merger between Aktiebolaget Förenade Tändsticksfabriker and Jönköpings & Vulcans Tändsticksfabriksaktiebolag.[3] A year later, STAB was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.[3][8] By expanding through acquisition of government-created monopolies by lending money to the governments, and through mergers with for instance the British match company Bryant and May in 1927, it became the world's largest match manufacturer. In 1930, the company controlled 60 percent of the world's match production and was the sole owner of match companies in 33 countries.Following the death of Ivar Kreuger in 1932, the ownership structure in STAB changed and a number of factories were liquidated. During 1938, STAB's share of the world's matchmaking fell to 20 percent.[3] When the match market declined sharply in the 1950s, STAB looked for new business ventures and acquired more than 50 companies between 1968 and 1976.In 1980, Svenska Tändsticks AB changed its name to Swedish Match to create unity throughout the group.[3] In 1988 the company was acquired by Stora AB and was sold two years later to Nederlight. After another two years, Procordia acquired Swedish Match.
    - employer branding
    • http://universumglobal.com/
    - machinery

    • DeLaval is a producer of dairy and farming machinery, with a head office in Tumba, Sweden, and is part of the Tetra Laval group.  From the 1870s Gustaf de Laval (1845–1913) developed machines for the dairy industry, including the first centrifugal milk-cream separator and early milking machines. His first separator was patented in 1887, and his first milking machine in 1894. From the early 1880s, De Laval's cream separator, was promoted internationally. For example, the London-based Dairy Supply Co presented the cream separator at the 1891 Dairy Show in London.
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    - toys
    • Viking toys ab











  • Participated in 2016 hktdc toy fair
    • - baby product
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  • Participated in 2016 hktdc baby product fair
    • - food
    • Findus is a frozen food brand which was first sold in Sweden in 1945. Findus products include ready meals, peas and Crispy Pancakes, the latter of which were invented in the early 1970s.[1] The Swiss food company Nestlé owned the Findus brand from 1962 to 2000; it sold the rights to the brand in most of Europe in 2000 whilst retaining ownership in Switzerland. Through a number of acquisitions, the brand in Scandinavia, France, Spain and the United Kingdom came to be owned by the Findus Group, owned by Lion Capital LLP, Highbridge Capital Management and JPMorgan Chase. In Italy, it was owned by Iglo Group, which marketed a similar range under theIglo and Birds Eye brand. In June 2015, Iglo Group was purchased byNomad Foods. Nomad followed this in November 2015 with the purchase of Findus' European business, with the exception of Findus UK and Young's, which remain under the ownership of Lion Capital and its partners.Young's confirmed in February 2016 that it intended to rebrand Findus in the UK.
    • The Daim bar (formerly Dajm in the Nordic Countries and Dime in the British Isles) is a Swedish candy bar made from crunchy almond toffee covered in milk chocolate. It is similar to Hershey's Heath and Skor bars. Daim was created by Marabou in Sweden in the 1950s. Marabou originally wanted to produce a version of the American Heath Co.'s bar; its vice president Lars Anderfelt inquired about licensing Heath's exact recipe. The Heath Co. refused but gave Anderfeldt a list of their ingredients. From this, Marabou created their own recipe, testing it in Stockholm in 1952 with great success. It was launched under the name "Dajm" throughout Sweden and Norway the next year, Finland in 1963, and Denmark in 1971. It was renamed "Daim" in most countries in 1990, although it continued to be marketed in the British Isles as "Dime". The brand was purchased by Kraft Foods in 1993 and is now held by Mondelez International, which Kraft spun off in 2012.[2] The same year, its British and Irish factories began to use the spelling "Daim" as well.
    - liquor
    - auction

    • bukowskis

    - university

    • The Karolinska Institute (KI; Swedish: Karolinska Institutet; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English[3) is a medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden. The Karolinska Institute was founded by King Karl XIII on 13 December 1810 as an "academy for the training of skilled army surgeons" after one in three soldiers wounded in the Finnish War against Russia died in field hospitals. Indeed, a report of the time came to the conclusion that "the medical skills of the army barber-surgeons are manifestly inadequate, so Sweden needs to train surgeons in order to better prepare the country for future wars." Just one year later, in 1811, the Karolinska Institute was granted license to train not only surgeons but medical practitioners in general.
    • Georg klein (from hungary) served on the institute and is a renowned immunologist
    Trade and investment environment
    - monetary

    • https://www.ft.com/content/0e37795c-ab33-11e6-9cb3-bb8207902122 Sweden’s Riksbank is debating whether to become the first significant central bank to issue a digital currency as it responds to an increasing move away from cash in the Scandinavian country.

    industry
    - aviation

    • https://www.thelocal.se/20200211/era-of-electric-flight-ready-for-takeoff-in-sweden-swedavia-tlccu Electric aircraft are preparing to take flight but first they need to undergo a period of rigorous testing. And Sweden’s largest airport operator is getting ready to provide the test arena - and airspace - required to get eco-friendly planes off the ground.


    People
    - royalty

    - Count Carl Gyllenborg (7 March 1679 in Stockholm – 9 December 1746 in Uppsala) was a Swedish statesman and author. After serving in the Polish War, he was sent to London as secretary of legation. There, he married the Jacobite Sara Wright. In 1715, he was made minister plenipotentiary, and two years later was imprisoned for five months because of his participation in the plot to reinstate the House of Stuart. In 1723, he was appointed Councilor of State, and in 1738 Chancery President (Swedish: Kanslipresident), that is both Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. While in this office, he founded the Hattparti or Hattar (‘Hat’ Party), which instigated the disastrous Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743), resulting in the loss of Kymmenegård. He was successively chancellor of the universities of Lund (1728) and Uppsala (1739), was a patron of letters and art, and wrote several poems and the first Swedish comedy, Den svenska Sprätthöken (1740). His Letters . . . Relating to a Design to Raise a Rebellion on His Majesty's Dominions, to be Supported by a Force from Sweden, were published in French and English (1717).
    - olof palme
    - Nils Daniel Carl Bildt (born 15 July 1949) is a Swedish politician and diplomat who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994. He was the leader of the Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999. Bildt served as Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs from October 2006 to October 2014.
    He had been noted internationally as a mediator in the Yugoslav wars, serving as the European Union's Special Envoy to the Former Yugoslavia from June 1995, co-chairman of the Dayton Peace Conference in November 1995 and High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from December 1995 to June 1997, immediately after the Bosnian War. From 1999 to 2001, he served as the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Balkans. Bildt was born on 15 July 1949 in Halmstad, Halland, to an old Norwegian-Danish-Swedish noble family traditionally domiciled in Bohus county.Bildt's father Daniel Bildt (1920–2010) was a former major in the reserves of the now defunct Halland Regiment and a former bureau director in the now defunct Civil Defense Board's Education Bureau.As an MP in the early eighties, he became noted as an incisive and combative debater on foreign affairs. He was a member of the Submarine Defence Commission investigating the 1982 incursions of foreign submarines in the Stockholm archipelago and naval base areas, and often found himself pitted against prime minister Olof Palme. Bildt was elected leader of the Moderate Party in 1986, succeeding Ulf Adelsohn. In 1991, the Social Democrats were defeated by a four-party coalition led by Bildt's Moderate Party.

    - nobel family
    • Claes Nobel (/noʊˈbɛl/; Swedish: [nʊˈbɛl]; born 1930), a native of Sweden, is grandson of Ludvig Nobel and grand nephew to Alfred Nobel, who established the Nobel Prizes. Founder of the National Society of High School Scholars,[4] Nobel is an advocate of humanitarian and environmental causes, and was honored at the Artivist Film Festival in November 2007 for his work in these areas. He is also Chief Mentor to Cogent EMR Solutions, a company dedicated to research and development of Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) safety products and services. In 1974 he drafted The Nobel Laureates Declaration on the Survival of Mankind, signed by 78 Nobel Laureates advocating support for environmental protection and humanitarian leadership. 
    • met with lui chi wo singtao 16apr17

    - Wallenberg family
    • Raoul wallenburg is known for saviour of holocaust victims in budapest, coined snake slayer
    • Jacob Wallenberg Investor head with more influence than money
      http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/58cf92ee-fd46-11e3-96a9-00144feab7de.html#axzz365TK44Vl, Jacob Wallenberg troubled by Sweden’s ‘shift to the left’ http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/49a6d93a-ff7b-11e3-9a4a-00144feab7de.html#axzz365TK44Vl
    • http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/0fdf33c6-9fcd-11e4-aa89-00144feab7de.html death of Peter Wallenberg (20jan15)
    • http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/3dd61f1a-a70c-11e4-8a71-00144feab7de.html Sweden’s Wallenberg family is shaking up the management and structure of its main investment vehicle, only days after its biggest rival did the same. Investor, which owns controlling stakes in businesses such as SEB, Electrolux, ABB and Saab, will split off all the companies it owns into a unit to be headed by its current chief executive, Börje Ekholm. He will be replaced after a decade at the top of Investor by Johan Forsell, a 20-year veteran of the Wallenberg empire who is at present a director at Atlas Copco and Saab. The move comes days after Industrivärden, the other big Swedish holding company that together with Investor controls more than half of the Stockholm stock exchange by value, changed its chief executive and chairman after a private jet scandal.
    • http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8662c054-0a11-11e5-a6a8-00144feabdc0.html One of Europe’s leading business families is warning that the UK leaving the EU would be more damaging than Greece leaving the euro as it would rob Europe of its leading advocate of open trade. Sweden’s Wallenberg family — which controls a business empire with a market capitalisation of €250bn and revenues of SKr1.3tn ($156bn) through companies from Ericsson and Electrolux to Nasdaq and Saab — told the Financial Times that a “Brexit” would be “very negative for Europe”.
    • http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/4f407796-0a35-11e5-a6a8-00144feabdc0.html Together, brothers Jacob and Peter junior and their cousin Marcus are the public face of the fifth generation of the Wallenbergs, the Swedish dynasty that can arguably be called Europe’s pre-eminent business family. Others may be older or richer but none can combine the Wallenbergs’ longevity with the breadth of their holdings. Their company stakes range from drugmaker AstraZeneca and white-goods manufacturer Electrolux to defence group Saab and telecoms-equipment maker Ericsson. Together, they add up to an empire that controls businesses worth €250bn. Even the mine they are standing in today is a test facility for equipment belonging to their biggest holding in monetary terms, industrial group Atlas Copco. Rather incongruously, you reach the mine’s labyrinthine tunnels using a lift from the main entrance to Atlas Copco’s headquarters. Back above ground the three Wallenbergs are similarly jovial. As Jacob struggles to coax coffee out of a high-tech device, his brother and cousin crowd around to help. “How many Wallenbergs does it take to work a coffee machine?” I ask. Jacob, the eldest at 59 and chairman of Investor — the listed holding company that is their main investment vehicle — raises three fingers as the others giggle. But they soon become serious, convening for a brief huddle in their almost matching dark suits before heading into a small and anonymous meeting room for this, their first joint interview. In keeping with the Swedish bent for modesty, the Wallenbergs prefer to stay out of the limelight and so getting all three of them on the record is big news, and not just in Sweden. “The Wallenbergs are one of the principal families of the business world, not just in Europe but globally. There is almost no industry they do not have an interest in,” says a German chief executive who knows them well. Their holdings add up to a third of Sweden’s entire stock exchange.
    • http://www.economist.com/news/business/21694555-lessons-100-years-familys-industrial-empire-nordic-pyramid The foundations were laid for the dynasty’s fortunes 160 years ago when André Oscar Wallenberg, the globe-trotting son of a Lutheran bishop, returned from America with a book on how to set up a bank, and founded Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB). The bank flourished, and began buying chunks of distressed industrial firms, leading the family to set up a holding company, Investor, 100 years ago. At the height of the Wallenbergs’ pre-eminence, in the 1970s, their various firms together employed 40% of Sweden’s industrial workforce and represented 40% of the total worth of the Stockholm stockmarket. Like most modern manufacturers, the industrial firms in their portfolio, including ABB and Atlas Copco (engineering), AstraZeneca (drugs) and Electrolux (appliances), are no longer huge employers. But Investor, plus SEB and the other listed firms in Investor’s portfolio, still account for about a third of the stockmarket’s value. And they generally do better than the rest: in the past decade, Investor’s shares have doubled, whereas the OMX Stockholm 30 Index rose by just 40%. Swedes often talk about the collection of companies as Wallenbergsfaren, “the Wallenberg sphere”, and to its smaller local rivals as “systems”. One of the largest systems is Industrivarden, whose portfolio includes Handelsbanken and the maker of Volvo Trucks. It has passed through several hands down the years, including those of Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of the IKEA furniture stores; its leading investor nowadays is Fredrik Lundberg, the son of a construction magnate. The Wallenbergs and Industrivarden both have large stakes in Ericsson, a maker of telecoms equipment.
    • astrazeneca
    - Cecilia Rydinger Alin of KMH http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20140327/PDF/a20_screen.pdf
    - eva nilsson bagenholm, government's coordinator for elderly care, ministry of health and social affairs https://twitter.com/mestsjukaaldre
    - Sven Anders Hedin, KNO1kl RVO, (19 February 1865 – 26 November 1952) was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer,photographer, travel writer, and illustrator of his own works. During four expeditions to Central Asia, he made the Transhimalayaknown in the West and located sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus and Sutlej Rivers. He also mapped lake Lop Nur, and the remains of cities, grave sites and the Great Wall of China in the deserts of the Tarim Basin. In his book Från pol till pol (From Pole to Pole), Hedin describes a journey through Asia and Europe between the late 1880s and the early 1900s. While traveling, Hedin visitedConstantinople (Istanbul), Caucasus, Tehran, Mesopotamia (Iraq), lands of the Kyrgyz people, India, China, Asiatic Russia, and Japan. The posthumous publication of his Central Asia Atlas marked the conclusion of his life’s work

    • Hedin met Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing, who thereupon became a patron of the expedition. The Sino-Swedish Expedition was honored with a Chinese postage stamp series which had a print run of 25,000. The four stamps show camels at a camp with the expedition flag and bear the Chinese text, "Postal Service of the Prosperous Middle Kingdom" and in Latin underneath, "Scientific Expedition to the Northwestern Province of China 1927-1933". A painting in the Beijing Palace Museum entitled Nomads in the Desert served as model for the series. Of the 25,000 sets, 4,000 were sold across the counter and 21,500 came into the possession of the expedition. Hedin used them to finance the expedition, selling them for a price of five dollars per set. The stamps were unwelcome at the time due to the high price Hedin was selling them at, but years later became valuable treasures among collectors.
    • One aspect of the geography of central Asia which intensively occupied Hedin for decades was what he called the “wandering lake” Lop Nur. In May 1934, he began a river expedition to this lake. For two months he navigated the Kaidu River and the Kum-Darja to Lop Nur, which had been filled with water since 1921. After the lake dried out in 1971 as a consequence of irrigation activities, the above-mentioned transportation link enabled the People’s Republic of China to construct a nuclear weapon test site at Lop Nur. His caravan of truck lorries was hijacked by the Chinese Muslim General Ma Zhongying who was retreating from northern Xinjiang along with his Kuomintang 36th Division (National Revolutionary Army) from the Soviet Invasion of Xinjiang. While Hedin was detained by Ma Zhongying, he met General Ma Hushan, and Kemal Kaya Effendi. Ma Zhongying's adjutant claimed to Hedin that Ma Zhongying had the entire region of Tian-shan-nan-lu (southern Xinjiang) under his control and Sven could pass through safely without any trouble. Hedin did not believe his assertions. Some of Ma Zhongying's Tungan (Chinese speaking Muslim) troops attacked Hedin's expedition by shooting at their vehicles. For the return trip, Hedin selected the southern Silk Road route via Hotan to Xi'an, where the expedition arrived on 7 February 1935. He continued on to Beijing to meet with President Lin Sen and to Nanjing to Chiang Kai-shek. He celebrated his 70th birthday on 19 February 1935 in the presence of 250 members of the Kuomintang government, to whom he reported interesting facts about the Sino-Swedish Expedition. On this day, he was awarded the Brilliant Jade Order, Second Class. At the end of the expedition, Hedin was in a difficult financial situation. He had considerable debts at the German-Asian Bank in Beijing, which he repaid with the royalties and fees received for his books and lectures. In the months after his return, he held 111 lectures in 91 German cities as well as 19 lectures in neighboring countries. To accomplish this lecture tour, he covered a stretch as long as the equator, 23,000 kilometres (14,000 mi) by train and 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by car—in a time period of five months. He metAdolf Hitler in Berlin before his lecture on 14 April 1935.
    •  徐旭生担任了中国史上首个中外合作科学考察团─“中国西北科学考察团”的中方团长，当徐旭生1929年与斯文赫定（瑞典籍的世界著名探险家）一道返回，受到学术界空前热情的欢迎。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20180102/PDF/a15_screen.pdf

      - margareta van den bosch
      • http://www.bodw.com/#!margareta-van-den-bosch/c1ld9
      - Anna Kerstin Erica Lindstedt (born April 6, 1960) was the Swedish Ambassador to Beijingfrom 2016 to early 2019. She was recalled when it is believed she might have overstepped her authority, possibly making her guilty of a crime. Without consulting with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, organised negotiations, unbeknownst to the Ministry, aimed at securing the release of detained Chinese-Swedish publisher Gui Minhai.Concurrent with her post in China, she served as Ambassador of Sweden to Mongolia. She also served as Ambassador of Sweden to Mexico (2006–2011) and Vietnam (2003–2006). Prior to joining the Foreign Service, she worked as a journalist and teacher.

      - jorgen halldin, cg in hk

      • hkej interview 25nov14 c3
      - Anders Lindstrom
      • http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1794741/swedish-transport-executive-anders-lindstrom-convicted
      - arts and culture
      • Richard Dybeck (1 September 1811 – 28 July 1877) was a Swedish jurist, antiquarian, and lyricist, and today is mainly remembered as the author of the lyrics to what is now the de facto Swedish national anthem, Du gamla, Du fria. Dybeck was born in Odensvi Prästgård just outside the town Köping, in Västmanland. He was the son of a clergyman, went to gymnasium in Västerås, and later matriculated at Uppsala University in 1831. He completed his civil service degree in law (hovrättsexamen) in 1834 and entered the Svea hovrätt appeal court. He held a number of positions in the court system during the following years, but eventually began to spend all his time on his antiquarian and historical research. Dybeck wrote many poems. He was known to be keenly interested in Asian culture, as was seen by his collection of historic prints and lithographs which originated from places like Myanmar and China.
      - china link?

      • Emil Fredrik Gottfrid Hultmark, född den 15 december 1872 i Skeda socken, Östergötland, död den 31 december 1943 i Stockholm, var en svensk konsthistoriker, samlare och mecenat. Hultmark skapade en av Sveriges största privata konstsamlingar. Som samlare intresserade han sig först för svenskt måleri från främst 1600- och 1700-talen, senare utökat med en rad verk från 1800-talet och några från det moderna genombrottet 1909. Samlingen kompletterades också med europeiskt måleri och med ett mindre antal skulpturverk. Utsökta möbler och konsthantverksalster fyllde också hemmen i Stockholm och egendomen Sjögestabro i Östergötland. Särskilt kan nämnas hans samling av svenskt silver och 1700-talsfajans. Från 1920-talet blev han en passionerad samlare av östasiatiskt konsthantverk och orientalisk konst.

      politics
      - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sweden-politics/swedish-parliament-rejects-center-right-pm-candidate-as-deadlock-drags-on-idUSKCN1NJ10Z Sweden’s parliament rejected center-right Moderates party leader Ulf Kristersson as new prime minister in a vote on Wednesday, leaving no end in sight to the political deadlock that has gripped the country since a September election.

      Foreign policy
      - http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1855039/northern-exposure-sweden-ponders-abandoning-neutrality-amid-fear

      immigration
      - https://www.thelocal.se/20190521/whats-the-difference-between-being-a-resident-and-a-citizen-in-sweden

      Foreigners in sweden
      - https://www.thelocal.se/20180319/heres-where-swedens-foreign-residents-live-and-where-they-come-from

      war prep
      - A booklet containing advice on how to cope with the outbreak of world war is set for a re-release after 30 years. An updated version of the pamphlet Om kriget kommer (If War Comes) will be sent to Swedish homes in May or June, reports newspaper Aftonbladet. First released in the 1940s during the Second World War, the booklet contains tips for citizens on what to do should Sweden become involved in a war. The most recent version of the war advice book was produced in the 1980s. But with regional security considered to have worsened in recent years, and terrorism also having emerged, authorities have decided to re-issue the book with new content to reflect today’s national security circumstances. https://www.thelocal.se/20180114/sweden-to-re-issue-booklet-of-world-war-precautions


      Housing bubble
      - http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8961b57c-3872-11e6-a780-b48ed7b6126f.html it is a rare crisis that combines negative interest rates, the huge numbers of migrants entering Europe and the travails facing technology companies. But the drama roiling Sweden’s housing market features all three. Some fear Sweden is already in a housing bubble. Others worry it will complicate efforts to settle hundreds of thousands of migrants and even prod big-name start-ups such as Spotify to leave the country. All agree the situation is not sustainable.

      The Göta Canal (Swedish: Göta kanal) is a Swedish canal constructed in the early 19th century.The idea of a canal across southern Sweden was first put forward as early as 1516, by Hans Brask, the bishop of Linköping. However, it was not until the start of the 19th century that Brask's proposals were put into action by Baltzar von Platen, a German-born former officer in the Swedish Navy. He organised the project and obtained the necessary financial and political backing. His plans attracted the enthusiastic backing of the government and the new king, Charles XIII, who saw the canal as a way of kick-starting the modernisation of Sweden. Von Platen himself extolled the modernising virtues of the canal in 1806, claiming that mining, agriculture and other industries would benefit from "a navigation way through the country." The project was inaugurated on 11 April 1810 with a budget of 24 million Swedish riksdalers.[5] It was by far the greatest civil engineering project ever undertaken in Sweden up to that time, taking 22 years of effort by more than 58,000 workers. Much of the expertise and equipment had to be acquired from abroad, notably from Britain, whose canal system was the most advanced in the world at that time. The Scottish civil engineer Thomas Telford developed the initial plans for the canal and travelled to Sweden in 1810 to oversee some of the early work on the route. 
      - 約塔運河於1832年正式啟用，而波爾查·馮·普拉頓在運河啟用前3年就死了。然而，這運河並沒為經濟帶來好處。瑞典鐵路運輸在1855年出現後，運河的地位就被取代了，因為火車既可以更快攜帶更多乘客和貨物，又毋須在冬季的五個月間停駛。1870年代時，使用運河的只剩下三種不須快速運送的貨物：林木產品、煤炭和礦石。運貨量自此減少，而且從沒有復元過。興建運河的其中一個原因是，使所有通過瑞典和丹麥之間的厄勒海峽的船隻，都能免除丹麥-挪威徵收的昂貴費用（厄勒海峽通行費，Öresundstullen）。運河落成後，往返波羅的海的船隻可以繞過厄勒海峽，不用再被丹麥徵費。1851年，富豪安德烈·奧斯卡· 瓦倫貝里（André Oscar Wallenberg）成立新公司，通過運河運送貨物往返英格蘭和聖彼得堡。但是，這公司只來回過聖彼得堡和赫爾兩次，不久英俄就因爆發克里米亞戰爭而中止貿易。戰後，歐洲強國迫使丹麥停止徵收厄勒海峽通行費，使約塔運河立時失去代替厄勒海峽的用途。 約塔運河建造期間，穆塔拉工場（Motala Verkstad）在穆塔拉成立，以生產開鑿運河所需的起重機和蒸汽動力挖泥船。這工場有時被稱為「瑞典工程業的搖籃」。運河啟用後，穆塔拉工場為新興的鐵路運輸生產儀器、機車和車輛，開始鐵路工程的傳統，流傳至今日的瑞典鐵路工廠股份公司（Aktiebolaget Svenska Järnvägsverkstäderna，ASJ）。

      social class
      - https://www.quora.com/What-screams-Im-upper-class-in-Scandinavian-culture
      - https://www.quora.com/What-screams-Im-lower-class-in-Sweden


      Nobel prize
      - http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21707555-protests-reveal-nimbyism-mixed-indifference-past-nobel-unprized
      - kiv

      • http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20161002/PDF/a24_screen.pdf據《自由時報》報道：日本文豪村上春樹近來多次叩關諾貝爾文學獎，卻屢戰屢敗，每年皆鎩羽而歸。今年村上春樹依舊來勢洶洶，不過在諾貝爾獎尚未揭曉時，中文《維基百科》的界面卻顯示村上春樹已獲獎，讓人不禁懷疑到底是支持者一廂情願；抑或是在無意間泄露天機。
      •  http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2016/10/07/a20-1007.pdf本年度諾貝爾經濟學獎結果下周一才公佈，但昨日網上已經流傳得主可能是世界銀行首席經濟學家、以提出「內生增長理論」聞名的羅默。有網民昨日發現，羅默任教的美國紐約大學商學院上載一則日期為「10月10日」的新聞稿，邀請傳媒當日早上出席羅默的得獎記者會，有關網頁隨後被刪除，暫時未知這到底是該校公關「未雨綢繆」，抑或是校方已提早知道諾獎結果。
      Traditional events
      - Midsummer celebration

      •  https://vimeo.com/57062110 Swedish Midsummer for Dummies

      - lucia https://sweden.se/culture-traditions/lucia/
      - christmas

      • The TV-program ‘From All of Us to All of You’ (Kalle Anka och hans vänner önskar God Jul) featuring Donald Duck has been broadcast on Swedish television since 1960. It is broadcast at 3pm as part of the channel’s traditional Christmas Eve program. Watching Donald Duck has become more or less a Swedish Christmas tradition. The program attracts around 3.5 million Swedish audiences every year. (sweden cg hk facebook)

      Kyrkoval avser ett demokratiskt val som hålls i ett kristet samfund för att rösta fram lekmannaföreträdare, också kallade kyrkopolitiker. Som sådana val räknas bland annat de val i Svenska kyrkan som hålls var fjärde år.

      snus is a moist snuff packet (imagine a tobacco teabag the size of a piece of chewing gum) that you wedge between your lip and teeth. Well, maybe you don't, but the Swedes do. A lot. If you think a snus packet sounds familiar, it's probably because you've seen one dangling from a Swede's upper lip mid-conversation, or perhaps you've seen a used one in the gutter or in the toilet, spat out and forgotten.  
      https://www.thelocal.se/20170426/top-ten-expat-complaints-to-their-swedish-partners

      Education
      - lessons in store http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/dc8bb3b4-29f2-11e4-914f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3BeRSvbL5]
      - https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-school-week-look-like-in-Sweden

      children's literature
      - pippi longstocking

      folk art
      - scherenschnitt - papercutting art

      Swedish red paint
      - http://falurodfarg.com/eng/falun-red-paint/the-start/





      christianity
      - Carl Gustav Boberg (16 August 1859 – 7 January 1940) was a Swedish poet and elected official, best known for writing the Swedish language poem of "O Store Gud" (O great God) from which the English language hymn "How Great Thou Art" is derived.He was the editor of a weekly Christian newspaper, Sanningsvittnet(Witness of the Truth), from 1890 until 1916. Boberg served in the Riksdag for 20 years from 1912 to 1931. He published more than 60 poems, hymns, and gospel songs,[a] including a collaboration with Swedish hymnist Lina Sandell.

      • "How Great Thou Art" is a Christian hymn based on a Swedish traditional melody and a poem written by Carl Boberg (1859–1940) in Mönsterås, Sweden, in 1885. It was translated into German and then into Russian. It was translated into English from the Russian by English missionary Stuart K. Hine, who also added two original verses of his own. It was popularised by George Beverly Shea and Cliff Barrows during the Billy Graham crusades. Cover version by elvis presley in 1967.



      Muslim
      - http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/63382ebe-91c8-11e4-bfe8-00144feabdc0.html Sweden suffered its third arson attack on a mosque in a week amid an intensifying debate about immigration in the Nordic country.

      ethnic group
      - sami

      • https://www.thelocal.se/20200123/how-a-sami-village-girjas-won-a-major-court-battle-against-sweden 

      - romani
      • A ban of Romani immigration was introduced in 1914 and remained in effect until 1954. Romani people seeking to escape the industrialized genocide campaigns in fascist Europe were denied entry. When the Swedish Red Cross sent the White Buses to rescue Scandinavians and Jewish people from the Nazi concentration camps, Romani people were excluded. Some Romani people saved their lives by claiming Jewish identity, some by claiming to be Polish. Romani families, at the time typically named “tattare” (Tatars, lowlives), “zigenare” (Egyptians/Gypsies) or “resande” (Travelers), living inside Sweden’s closed borders became of increasing concern to the state and the good-and-decent citizens. In the 1923 government official report Tattare och zigenare (Tatars and Gypsies), the commissioner saw the integration of Romani people as an “unsolvable problem”. Therefore, the “only solution is to have them out of the country, one way or another”, possibly by “imposing such strict limitations on their freedom of movement that that they themselves find it to their own advantage to leave the country”. During the 1930s, the press ran headlines such as Tattar Terror, Tattar Plague, The Final Solution of the Tattar Problem, and editorials called for the authorities to “liberate the country from these asocial elements”, and a “humane extermination of the tattar race”. https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/mattias-gardell/swedens-dirty-little-secret
      • romani and sami were forced to integrate

      History
      - 公元1100年前後，瑞典開始形成國家。從1397年起是受丹麥控制的卡爾馬聯盟成員，1523年重獲獨立，自1611年至1718年期間，曾晉身歐洲列強之一，在兩次世界大戰中都宣佈中立，是永久中立國。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2017/04/08/a20-0408.pdf- The Battle of Poltava (Swedish: Slaget vid Poltava;Russian: Полта́вская би́тва; Ukrainian: Полта́вська би́тва) on 27 June 1709 (8 July, N.S.)[e] was the decisive victory of Peter I of Russia, also known as Peter the Great, over the Swedish forces under Field Marshal Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, in one of the battles of the Great Northern War. It is widely believed to have been the beginning ofSweden's decline as a Great Power, as the Tsardom of Russia took its place as the leading nation of north-eastern Europe. The battle also bears major importance inUkrainian national history, as Hetman Ivan Mazepa sided with the Swedes, seeking to create an uprising in Ukraine against the tsardom. Charles and Mazepa escaped with about 1,500 men to Bendery, Moldavia, then controlled by the Ottoman Empire.[12]:710 Charles spent five years in exile there before he was able to return to Sweden in December 1715.[15]:295 During which time, even handicapped, he retained his magisterial calm demeanor under fire, fighting his way out of several situations. The high vizier of the Turks was eventually paid off, much intrigue and espionage involved, plots within plots, at one point involving a ransom of the Russian crown jewels, according to Charles's prison translator.
      - The Battle of Svensksund (Finnish:Ruotsinsalmi, Russian: Rochensalm) was anaval battle fought in the Gulf of Finlandoutside the present day city of Kotka on 9 and 10 July 1790. The Swedish naval forces dealt the Russian fleet a devastating defeat that resulted in an end to the Russo-Swedish War of 1788–90. The battle is the biggest Swedish naval victory and the largest naval battle ever in the Baltic Sea. This defeat encouraged Russia to negotiate with Sweden, eventually signing the Treaty of Värälä on 14 August 1790. Neither side gained any territory, however all provisions in the peace treaty of Nystad from 1721 that formally infringed upon Swedish sovereignty were cancelled. After the war the Russians started a massive fortification programme on the eastern, Russian, side of the Kymi river, building the sea fortresses Fort Slava, Fort Elisabeth and the land fortress Kyminlinna. The forts later grew into the port city of Kotka.
      - The Swedish East India Company(Swedish: Svenska Ostindiska Companiet or SOIC) was founded inGothenburg, Sweden, in 1731 for the purpose of conducting trade with theFar East. The venture was inspired by the success of the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company and grew to become the largest trading company in Sweden during the 18th century, though its European influence was marginal, until it folded in 1813.

      NATO
      - https://www.ft.com/content/8b83d6e2-aff9-11e6-a37c-f4a01f1b0fa1 The arguments in favour of Sweden’s joining Nato have grown stronger since Donald Trump won the US presidential election, according to the frontrunners to head the Scandinavian country’s next government. Apart from Russia, Sweden and Finland are the only two countries bordering the Baltic Sea that are not members of Nato. Stockholm depends on its bilateral defence agreement with the US for security but Mr Wallmark fears that this agreement will probably be weakened under Mr Trump. “Now we have to rely on a person that is very tricky to read. The arguments for Swedish membership are therefore even higher today. It’s better that we seek the strength in co-operating with 28 countries rather just one nation,” Mr Wallmark said.
      - https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21729554-vladimir-putins-mock-attacks-scandinavia-could-make-swedes-end-200-years-neutrality

      EU
      - https://www.ft.com/content/320a03b8-6d16-11e7-bfeb-33fe0c5b7eaa Nordea said on Thursday it had postponed a decision on whether to move the headquarters of the Nordic region’s biggest lender out of Sweden until September, pending the country’s deliberations on joining the EU’s banking union.

      netherlands
      - [tr berg] after christian ii, king of denmark-norway took control of sweden in 1520, gustav vasa asked swedish archbishop olaus magnus to participatevin negotiations with merchants in lubeck and the netherlands regarding access to swedish ports.


      Turkey
      - historical links

      • https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/01/swedish-meatballs-turkish-sweden-says/ King Charles XII used food as a way to help boost the relationships between the two countries. After losing a war with Russia in the early 1700s, the king was exiled in the Ottoman Empire near Bender Moldova for five years before coming back to Sweden. Along with meatballs, he brought coffee and stuffed cabbages, specialities from Istanbul.

      - http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160219/00180_003.html 安卡拉遭遇汽車炸彈襲擊同日，瑞典斯德哥爾摩市郊的土耳其文化中心發生爆炸，幸無人傷亡；其後土耳其東南部迪亞巴克爾省亦有軍方車隊遭受炸彈襲擊，造成至少六人死亡，一人重傷。兩宗襲擊都被指與庫爾德族武裝有關。
      - http://www.sweden.mfa.am/en/news/item/2016/04/12/Turkishassociation/ When the Turkish National Association’s Vice Chairman, Barbaros Leylan held a speech at Sergels square in Stockholm he called Armenians ”dogs that should beware” Barbaros Lylani is now being reported to the police. The speech is very concerning says Armenian Ambassador to Sweden, Artak Apitonian to Dagen.  Many have reacted strongly to the speech. Barbaros Leylani also says to TT that he does not mean peaceful Armenians. But the speech has upset many people especially Armenians in Sweden.On Monday afternoon it was announced that Leylani now resigns from his position as Vice President of the Turkish National Association. The association’s board writes in a statement that Leylani “leaves all his assignments in the union” according to TT.
      - http://www.thelocal.se/20160418/swedens-housing-minister-quits-after-row Stefan Löfven told a press conference in Stockholm on Monday that his minister for housing, urban development and information technology would be leaving his position on the government. "I have received Mehmet Kaplan's resignation request and I have approved it," said the Prime Minister. "I've come to know Mehmet Kaplan as a man of humanistic and democratic values, but a minister should be able to represent Sweden in an unquestionable way." The press conference comes on the back of a week of controversies, which has seen Kaplan accused of being too closely affiliated with members of radical organizations. Speaking after Löfven, he rejected those claims. "I have always worked against extremism of all kinds," he told reporters, but said he had chosen to resign because his position as minister had become "untenable" following the past week's media storm.- A Turkish association risks having to pay back millions of kronor it received in government grants as an investigation looks in to where the group can be considered to uphold democratic values, Swedish Radio reports. http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=6418423

      chinese
      - 赴歐洲的中國遊客近年劇增，但未必是開心之旅，來自中國的曾先生一家就遭遇一場噩夢。曾男本月初偕父母到瑞典斯德哥爾摩旅遊，未料甫抵埗，卻被酒店職員羞辱趕走，更遭當地警察暴力毆打，甚至將他們扔到遠離市中心的墳場。中國外交部及駐瑞典大使館已就此事多次向瑞典提出嚴正交涉，並對中國公民發出旅遊安全警告，惟瑞典警方態度強硬，表示已結案，不會就事件展開調查。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180916/00178_001.html

      China
      - diplomatic row


      - association

      • http://beijing.swea.org/

      - csr cooperation

      • http://csr2.mofcom.gov.cn In June 2007, during the visit to Sweden by Mr.Hu Jintao, the then President of China, the two countries signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Corporate Social Responsibility. In 2008, in order to implement the MOU, China and Sweden jointly launched the Sino-Swedish CSR Website (www.csr.gov.cn), which aims to introduce ideas, connotations and trends of CSR, to propagate related laws, regulations and standards, to carry out experience sharing and discussion, and to present the cooperation results on CSR between the two countries and held the first Sino-Swedish CSR Workshop.
      - nuclear



      - airport

      • The Swedish airport operator Swedavia and Capital Airports Holding Company (CAH), the largest airport operator in China, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the Establishment of A Sister Airport Relationship in Beijing on 24th February 2016. The MOU establishes extensive collaboration between Stockholm Arlanda Airport and the biggest airport in Asia, Beijing Capital International Airport. http://www.mynewsdesk.com/swedavia/pressreleases/swedavia-and-cah-establish-sister-airport-relationship-1324551

      - technology

      • http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2017-04/21/content_29020725.htm Chinese scientist Yao Tandong received the 2017 Vega Medal in Stockholm onWednesday, for his contribution to research on glaciers and the environment on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf gave the award to Yao at the Royal Palace of Stockholm andcongratulated him personally for his outstanding achievements.
      • A Swedish defence agency has warned that the country is facing a growing security challenge from China, saying one of its satellite stations could be serving the Chinese military.Claims about the station in Kiruna, northern Sweden – which was built by China in 2016 – add to controversy over increasing Chinese influence in the country, partly fuelled by rising global scrutiny of such projects involving China. The Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), under the Ministry of Defence, on Sunday told broadcaster SVT that the nominally civilian cooperation with China could ultimately be controlled by the military.https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2182026/swedish-defence-agency-warns-satellite-station-could-be-serving
      •  Silex Microsystems AB is ultimately owned by beijing firm navtech
      - environment

      • china daily 20jun19 swedish jesper jos olsson's chinese sustainable development project

      - sweden china entrepreneur association matchmaking seminar  http://hk.hkcd.com/pdf/201711/1121/HZ23B21CHBB.pdf
      - sweden ngo case

      • http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1903305/swedish-ngo-worker-detained-criminal-coercive-measures A Swedish NGO worker detained on the mainland has been accused of setting up a non-profit organisation – that is registered in Hong Kong as a company – with a Chinese rights lawyer to carry out activities that “endanger state security” – including helping the teenage son of a detained lawyer flee abroad. State security organs and police authorities jointly “smashed an illegal group which worked under the name of Chinese Urgent Action Working Group that received long-term overseas funding to train and fund many agents to carry out criminal activities that harmed state security,” state news agency Xinhua said. It said Peter Dahlin, 35, a co-founder of the group, had been detained on “criminal coercive measures”.

      - ip event

      • 12sep2016 sino swedish investment seminar at rosenbad, participated by china green companies alliance, group of 30 chinese major investors, li shufu of geely  (dragon news no4 2016)

      - investors from sweden

      • http://www.chinadailyasia.com/business/2015-12/03/content_15353580.html Tetra Pak, the Swedish food processing and packaging giant, and its dairy-products sister company DeLaval International, have signed a national-level agreement with the Dairy Association of China to train 150 senior farm managers from across the country. The move comes as China's dairy consumption and national awareness of food quality and safety both continue to soar, making the introduction of modern dairy farming methods a government priority. Just under half of China's dairy herd is currently housed in what are considered medium- to large-scale farms, but China hopes to raise that to 60 percent by 2020. As a member of China's dairy industry for more than 30 years, Tetra Pak has been actively providing support for the industry throughout different stages of its development, said Tetra Pak's top executive. To help that effort, over the next five years Tetra Pak and DAC will work closely in bringing some of the world's best dairy farming managers to the country, to help improve productivity and safety, said the Swedish company's President and CEO Dennis Jonsson.
      • http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2016-09/08/content_26732692.htm Tetra Pak, the Swedish food processing and packaging giant, recently committeditself to increase its use of renewable electricity from 20 percent to 100 percentacross all of its global operations by 2030. One of Tetra Pak's packaging plants inChina has been playing a leading role in reaching this ambitious goal for sevenyears - thanks to the rapid development of two dairy companies, Yili and Mengniu,in Inner Mongolia autonomous region. Tetra Pak launched its fourth Chinese factory in Hohhot, the capital city of theregion. The plant is the most productive in the company, expecting to manufacture40 percent of Tetra Pak's total output in the country this year. The facility relied entirely on renewable energy by 2009, the first in China to achievethis. The estimated 20 million kWh of green power consumed on the site annuallyis supplied primarily from wind turbines.
      •  Sweden-based paperpacking giant TetraPak used to hold about 90 percent of the bacteria-free paperpacking market in China, and now its market share is decreasing to about 60 to 70 percent, according to industry projections. On July 28, TetraPak closed its factory in Foshan, Guangdong province. The factory had been running for 26 years and once dominated the market in southern China. Now, the manufacturer owns three factories in China: Kunshan, Jiangsu province, Huhhot, the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, and Beijing. TetraPak said in a statement that it is difficult for the Foshan factory to maintain its sustainable operations, and the company will assign its production tasks to its three other factories in China. Besides, the government had conducted an investigation for more than four years into the alleged monopoly of TetraPak. In 2016, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce issued a penalty on its monopoly and fined TetraPak a total of 668 million yuan ($100.5 million).http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2017-09/01/content_31400831.htm
      • http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2016-02/17/content_23512583.htmLocal microbreweries are on the rise, creating premium drinks out of indigenousflavors for a thirsty nation with a taste for the unusual Swedish-born Thomas Gaestadius, brewmaster and co-founder of Beijing-basedmicrobrewery Arrow Factory Brewing, works surrounded by stainless steel tanksfilled with his latest concoctions, which release a thick and pleasant malty scent. The small brewing facility next to Liangmahe in eastern Beijing opened to thepublic in January, serving food and craft beer.
      • syntronic (design house) office in chengdu (dragon news no4 2016)
      • psu acquired a company in jiangsu province  (dragon news no4 2016)

      - confucius institute

      • http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1677976/swedish-university-severs-ties-confucius-institute, hket 13jan15 a19
      - archaeology

      • Johan Gunnar Andersson (安特生; pinyin: Ān Tèshēng; 3 July 1874 – 29 October 1960)[1] was a Swedish archaeologist, paleontologist and geologist, closely associated with the beginnings of Chinese archaeology in the 1920s. After studies at Uppsala University, and research in the polar regions, Andersson served as Director of Sweden's National Geological Survey. He participated in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901 to 1903 (on the ship Antarctic). His work on the Falkland Islands and the Bjørnøya, where he first coined the term solifluction, influenced Walery Łoziński create the concept of periglaciation in 1909. In 1914 he was invited to China as mining adviser to the Chinese government. His affiliation was with China's National Geological Survey (Dizhi diaochasuo) which was organized and led by the Chinese scholar Ding Wenjiang (V.K. Ting) and his colleague Wong Wen-hao (Pinyin: Weng Wenhao). During this time, Andersson helped train China’s first generation of geologists, and also made numerous discoveries of iron ore and other mining resources, as well as discoveries in geology and paleontology.Andersson paid his first visit to Zhoukoudian in 1918 drawn to an area called "Chicken Bone Hill" by locals who had misidentified the rodent fossils found in abundance there.[3] He returned in 1921 and was led by local quarrymen to Dragon Bone Hill where he identified quartz that was not local to the area. Realising that this may indicate the presence of prehistoric man he set his assistant, Otto Zdansky, to work excavating. Zdansky returned for further excavations in 1923 and a great deal of material was shipped to Uppsala for analysis. Eventually in 1926, on the occasion of a visit by the Swedish Prince to Beijing, Andersson announced the discovery of two human teeth. These were later identified as being the first finds of the Peking Man. In collaboration with Chinese colleagues such as Yuan Fuli and others, he then discovered prehistoric Neolithic remains in central China’s Henan Province, along the Yellow River. The remains were named Yangshao culture after the village where they were first excavated, in 1921. This too was a highly important breakthrough, since the prehistory of what is now China had not yet been investigated in scientific archaeological excavations and the Yangshao and other prehistoric cultures were completely unknown (they had never been mentioned in any historical documents, and had never before been recognized and investigated). In the following years, 1923–24, Andersson, in his capacity as a staff member of China's National Geological Survey, conducted archaeological excavations in the provinces of Gansu and Qinghai, again in collaboration with Chinese colleagues, and published numerous books and scientific papers on Chinese archaeology, many in the Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, which he founded and launched in 1929, and where he published his most significant scientific reports on his own work. Andersson's most well-known book about his time in China is Den gula jordens barn, 1932, translated into several languages, including English (as Children of the Yellow Earth, 1934, reprinted 1973), Japanese, and Korean. For an extensive bibliography of Andersson's works, and a comprehensive discussion of his and his colleagues' archaeological research in China, see M. Fiskesjö and Chen Xingcan, China before China: Johan Gunnar Andersson, Ding Wenjiang, and the Discovery of China's Prehistory. Stockholm: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities [Östasiatiska museet], 2004. In 1926, Andersson founded the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm, Sweden (in Swedish: Östasiatiska museet), a national museum established to house the Swedish part of the collections from these first-ever scientific archaeological excavations in China. Andersson served as the director of the MFEA until he was succeeded in 1939 by the famous Swedish Sinologist Bernhard Karlgren.
      - sinologist

      • Göran Malmqvist was born on 6 June 1924 in Jönköping, Sweden. Following introductory studies of Chinese under Sinologist Bernhard Karlgren at Stockholm University, Malmqvist studied in China in 1948–1950. He then returned to Stockholm, taking a Licentiate of Arts degree in 1951. His international research career started shortly thereafter with a lectureship in Chinese at the University of London in 1953–1955. He was then appointed Swedish cultural attaché in Peking and worked in China in 1956–1958.After his years in China he moved to Australia in 1958, where he worked for seven years at the Australian National University in Canberra. After some important essays on Chinese language history he was appointed Professor of Chinese at the university in 1961. During his professorship at the Australian National University, Malmqvist published academic articles on both old Chinese and modern Chinese. The articles concerned e.g. phonological issues and literary dialects during the Han dynasty, the syntax of bound forms in Sïchuanese and western Mandarin phonology.
      • 瑞典學院院士馬悅然(Göran Malmqvist)於當地時間上周四逝 世，享年 95歲。馬悅然為著名漢 學家高本漢的弟子，是諾貝爾文 學獎終身評委，亦是唯一懂得且 精通漢語的評委。馬悅然曾翻譯 過《西遊記》、《水滸傳》等中 國古典著作，以及魯迅、沈從文 等當代作家的作品，致力提升中 國文學的國際地位。馬悅然於 1924年 6月 6日出生，是著 名瑞典漢學家，曾將中國古典名著 《水滸傳》、《西遊記》譯為瑞典 文，並向西方介紹中國的《詩經》、 《論語》、《孟子》、《史記》、 《禮記》和《莊子》等先秦諸子著 作。他還翻譯了辛棄疾的大部分詩 詞，組織編寫了《中國文學手冊： 1900——1949》。他對中國古代典籍 的譯註和評介，幾乎遍及中國整個古 代各個時期和所有的文類馬悅然的兩任 妻 子 均 是 中 國 人 ， 他 於 1948年大學畢業後，到四川考察當地 方言，於教育家陳行可家中居住，在 幫助陳可行女兒陳寧祖補習英文時墮 入愛河，兩人一年後在香港道風山教 堂舉行婚禮。陳寧祖於 1996年在瑞典 斯德哥爾摩病逝。 馬悅然第二任妻子陳文芬是台灣傳 媒人，兩人 1998年於台灣結識，2005 年在山西宣佈婚訊，兩人年齡相差 43 歲。陳文芬說，在結婚前 5、6年，兩 人往來 2,000多封電郵，透過信件了解 彼此的生活和想法，形容她和馬悅然 的關係是「文字因緣骨肉親」。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2019/10/20/a15-1020.pdf


      Hong Kong
      - royalty visit
      • 特首林鄭月娥昨日在禮賓府與瑞典王子卡爾．菲利普會面，歡迎他訪港啟動首屆#SwedenTalks_HK，推動香港與瑞典在創新、創意、設計、文化、社會價值等方面的合作和交流。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2017/12/08/a11-1208.pdf
      • https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2175097/swedens-king-carl-xvi-gustaf-pulls-out-trip-mainland Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf has pulled out of a trip to mainland China and Hong Kong this month, at a time when the Nordic country has been pressing Beijing to release its citizen, Causeway Bay bookseller Gui Minhai, who went missing in 2015 and later appeared in custody.

      - leaders visit

      • http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201706/28/P2017062800282.htm The Chief Executive, Mr C Y Leung, met the visiting Minister for EU Affairs and Trade of Sweden, Ms Ann Linde, at the Chief Executive's Office this morning (June 28) to exchange views on issues of mutual concern.
      - parliament

      • 立法會議會聯絡小組委員會主席葉建源（左），近日喺社交網站上載咗一張同瑞典國會議員嘅合照，望真啲背景，唔多似係立法會入面喎。葉建源話，其實嗰度係瑞典商會嚟嘅，由於秘書處話立法會嘅會議室，依家唔方便用嚟同外國嘅代表團見面，所以今次就係首次喺立法會大樓以外嘅地方，接待外國國會代表團，同佢合照嘅就係瑞典國會財務委員會代表團嘅團長，對方有七位國會議員來港，大約見咗不足一小時，對方都好關注香港嘅情況咁話。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20190910/00176_073.html

      - association

      • swedish culture association
      • organised swedish movie night with different universities https://www.facebook.com/swedishculture.org/photos/a.295334710599483.1073741826.178298588969763/712104375589179/?type=3, https://www.facebook.com/swedishculture.org/photos/a.295334710599483.1073741826.178298588969763/712009108932039/?type=3
      • http://hongkong.swea.org swedish women education association


      - scmp supplement

      • 28oct15
      - delegation to hk

      • https://www.facebook.com/ConsulateGeneralOfSwedenInHongKong/photos/pcb.963872260378967/963871673712359/   Last week the Consulate General and Business Sweden arranged a 2-day program “Smart ICT & Security Roundtable Discussions in Hong Kong”. The delegation headed by our Consul General Helena Storm, Deputy Consul General Wictoria Amandustin Weinstock and Trade Commissioner Van Hoang, together with Swedish security companies visited the backstage operation of Hong Kong Airport, met with representatives from Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department and different government department, and discussed safety situation in Sweden and in Hong Kong. During the two-day program, the delegation laid focus on areas such as IoT and video surveillance, cyber security, air traffic control and communication technologies during operations; and brought up efficient solutions for issues such as controlling the flow of passengers into security control and strengthening protection at power stations.
      - port
      • 俄罗斯卫星网13日报道称，一家中国香港企业家控制的公司Artmax AB买下了位于瑞典波罗的海哥得兰岛的一个民营潜艇港口。而参与竞标的瑞典海军虽然失利，却松了一口气，因为瑞典海军获得了中企给予的可以自由使用该港口的承诺。　　据当地媒体援引Artmax AB公司发言人的话说，他们买下了这个港口及设施，并愿意让瑞典海军免费使用港口。俄媒称，对于瑞典武装部队而言，这成为一件意想不到的好事。瑞典武装部队最高司令米凯尔．比登宣称，国防部将“确保对该港口的使用权和控制权”。　　报道称，该港口始建于1938年，最初是造船厂，由于靠近斯德哥尔摩群岛，而具有战略意义，并成为冷战期间瑞典最重要的港口之一。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170415/PDF/a9_screen.pdf
      - immigration

      • 北歐國家常佔據全球幸福指數的前列，而北歐面積最大的國家瑞典，同樣有着高稅收、高福利的特點。專家表示，移民瑞典可以近乎零成本，但亦有可能至少要用上20萬歐元（約175萬港元），視乎你符合哪項移民方案。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20191112/00269_001.html

      - human trafficking

      • https://www.facebook.com/ConsulateGeneralOfSwedenInHongKong/photos/a.232792190153648.38107.232775043488696/715290905237105/?type=3 Today our Consul General and our Consul had a courtesy visit with Roger and Albert from the Hong Kong Police
      - working holiday

      • http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201706/28/P2017062600619.htm  Hong Kong and Sweden today (June 28) signed an agreement to mark the establishment of a bilateral Working Holiday Scheme for young people of the two places. The scheme will commence operation on January 1, 2018.    The agreement was signed by the Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Mr Stephen Sui, and the Minister for EU Affairs and Trade of Sweden, Ms Ann Linde, at the Central Government Offices, Tamar.
      - reindeer meat

      • In talks with fhb to export to hk https://m.facebook.com/svenerik.bucht/photos/a.564484493683881.1073741830.559253864206944/1025819704217022/?type=3&theater

      - healthcare
      • visit to HK: 2014 http://www.mva.org/hong-kong-gateway-china, http://www.swedishmedtech.se/nyheter/konferenser/2014/5/7/delegationsresa-till-hong-kong-1.aspx, http://www.swecare.com/calendar/2014/05/health-care-delegation-to-hong-kong; 2013: http://www.sca.com/en/china/media/News/2013/SCA-in-Swedish-Health-Care-Delegation-to-China/
      • http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1699807/top-medical-university-set-first-overseas-research-centre-hong-kong One of the top medical universities in the world, the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, is planning to set up its first overseas research centre in Hong Kong. The university - which has awarded Nobel laureates in medicine or physiology since 1901 - is establishing the centre after local businessman Lau Ming-wai, chairman of Chinese Estates Holdings, made a donation of about HK$400 million to the project. Professor Anders Hamsten, the university's president, said it was exploring several possible locations for the centre, including the Science Park in Pak Shek Kok. He said the centre, which aims to lure international talent in the field of stem-cell technology, would focus its research on three major disease areas - heart failure, liver diseases and neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia. http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/news/art/20150218/19046954 行政長官梁振英被揭懷疑以權謀私，推介富商劉鳴煒豪捐四億元予瑞典卡羅琳學院，卻未有公開其兒子梁傳昕剛於去年獲得該學院取錄為博士後研究生。卡羅琳回覆本報證實，在該學院獲四億捐款的十三個月之前，梁傳昕開始與院方討論博士後研究事宜。 卡羅琳學院新聞主任Claes Keisu覆稱，梁傳昕於二○一○年入讀卡羅琳，留學一年，當時院方已經知道他是香港特首的兒子。今年一月，梁傳昕開始在錢肯轄下的實驗室工作，由裘槎基金會資助。錢肯有份參與劉鳴煒捐款在香港成立的「劉鳴煒再生醫學中心」，未知梁傳昕會否參與中心研究工作，Claes Keisu形容他在科學領域上太初級（too junior level），現時來說不符合該中心的研究範疇。梁振英前日已經否認為兒子梁傳昕鋪路，至於頒發獎學金予梁傳昕的裘槎基金會，總監David Foster表示，在過去三十五年來，基金會從未有在任政府官員任職審批獎學金的小組。基金會一旦發現審批過程中出現利益衝突，會即時向小組主席及董事局主席匯報。
      • http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20160426/PDF/a5_screen.pdf 由香港特別行政區政府、深圳市政府及瑞典卡羅琳醫學院組成的三方專責小組昨日成立，旨在利用香港和瑞典在再生及先進醫學研究以及深圳強大工業生產力的優勢，探討合作機會。　　深圳─香港─卡羅琳醫學院三方專責小組首次會議今日舉行，出席者包括食物及衞生局局長高永文、創新及科技局局長楊偉雄、深圳市副市長艾學峰及卡羅琳醫學院負責國際事務的副院長Maria Masucci教授。　　與會者就再生醫學的科研及發展交換意見，並按三方的專長制定合作策略框架。　　食物及衞生局發言人説：“我們期待三方就生物醫學及生物科技領域的合作能為治病帶來嶄新的治療方法，為醫學發展帶來貢獻，促進人類健康。”
      •  有網媒報道瑞典國家審計署的報告，稱不能確定卡羅琳醫學院是否獲得瑞典政府正式授權在香港營運，有瑞典國會議員對事件表示關注，要求瑞典國會的憲法小組跟進事件，據報瑞典國會的憲法小組最快本月底決定是否展開調查。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20180102/00176_034.html; http://www.riksrevisionen.se/sv/rapporter/Rapporter/R/2016/Oklarhet-i-regelverk-om-etablering-utomlands-donation-till-Karolinska-Institutet-fran-givare-i-Hongkong/
      • mou with cityu news reports 25jun18 

      - design
      • 設計營商周12月舉行攜手瑞典分享創意的商業價值
        • http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20140916/PDF/b19_screen.pdf, http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2014/09/20/a26-0920.pdf, http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20141129/PDF/a25_screen.pdf
      - tech

      • 創業集團控股(02221)宣布，以代價約2.1億瑞典克朗，相當於約1.96億港元，收購瑞典Vimab Holding AB全部股權。該集團將透過發行代價股份支付代價。Vimab Holding AB為來自瑞典的高技術工業服務集團，擁有先進的科技專業知識及尖端機器及產品，專為核電廠、石化及醫藥行業等重工業板塊提供實地閥門服務及維修。http://www2.hkej.com/instantnews/announcement/article/1732644/%E5%89%B5%E6%A5%AD%E9%9B%86%E5%9C%98%E8%BF%912%E5%84%84%E8%B3%BC%E7%91%9E%E5%85%B8%E9%AB%98%E6%8A%80%E8%A1%93%E5%B7%A5%E6%A5%AD%E6%9C%8D%E5%8B%99%E5%95%86
      • 美國政府早前因香港實施《港區國安法》而終止香港的特殊待遇地位，瑞典科技公司Micro Systemation AB（MSAB）昨宣布，決定不再向香港警察網絡安全及科技罪案調查科，提供破解手機數據的技術，會結束所有在港業務。本港警方發言人回應指，裝備細節屬行動部署不會公開，強調警方一直依照既定政策、程序及守則採購合適的裝備，以配合實際行動需要。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20200925/00176_036.html

      - innovation

      • http://www.swedcham.com.hk/events/sweden-innovation-forum/ Sweden Innovation Forum on the Swedish National Day, 6th of June! Sweden Innovation Forum will take place at Metta in California Tower, Lan Kwai Fong, Hong Kong. On this day, we will celebrate Swedish innovation together with the National Day of Sweden. The Forum will include interactive sessions with inspirational speakers like Fredrik Härén and panel discussions about Sustainability, Internet of Things and Healthy Livable Cities. Sweden Innovation Forum ends with an official National Day Reception hosted by the Consulate General of Sweden in Hong Kong including cultural and culinary highlights. 
      • nordic innovation house est in hk https://www.facebook.com/nordicinnovationhousehongkong/photos/pcb.2481728688509120/2481722788509710/
      - nev

      • https://www.reuters.com/article/nevs-electric-ma-everg-health/chinas-evergrande-health-buys-51-pct-of-swedish-ev-firm-for-930-mln-idUSL3N1ZG1E8 Evergrande Health Industry Group Ltd said it would buy a 51 percent stake in National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB (NEVS) for $930 million, as the Chinese healthcare service provider continues to diversify into new energy automotive industry.

      - education
      • swedish edtech industry and hked city cooperation, probably a deliverable of learning and teaching expo 2017 which opens on 13dec17


      - smart city

      • https://www.facebook.com/ConsulateGeneralOfSwedenInHongKong/photos/a.232792190153648.38107.232775043488696/928616453904548/?type=3&theater KTH Royal Institute of Technology is now an official academic partner of Smart City Consortium in Hong Kong. In order to assist in developing Hong Kong as a leading smart sustainable city, KTH will provide academic support in areas such as waste management, transportation and urban planning.
      - sports

      • the cooperation between the Swedish Ice Hockey Association and the Hong Kong Academy of Ice Hockey was launched.https://www.facebook.com/ConsulateGeneralOfSwedenInHongKong/photos/pcb.1371959056236950/1371959006236955


      - environment

      • https://www.facebook.com/ConsulateGeneralOfSwedenInHongKong/photos/a.232792190153648.38107.232775043488696/793041210795407/?type=3&theater Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, yesterday co-arranged a sustainability lunch with address by, amongst others, Christine Lo, Under Secretary for Environment. In true sustainable fashion, the lunch was served in recyclable containers. 
      - csr

      • Yesterday, Acting Consul General Joakim Ladeborn attended a reception on sustainable development which was organized by the Consulate General of Sweden in Hong Kong, the CSR Centre of the Embassy of Sweden in Beijing and the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. The reception provided an opportunity for Swedish companies and the Efficiency Unit in Hong Kong to learn more about the CSR Centre in Beijing and the Swedish strategy on sustainable business and human rights. The reception was organized in advance of today’s Shared Value Forum 2017 organized by the HKSAR Government where a breakout session will discuss the Swedish Model.https://www.facebook.com/ConsulateGeneralOfSwedenInHongKong/photos/pcb.1195564333876424/1195564013876456



      - DTA
      • Swedcham HK letter to Ministry of Finance to support DTA http://www.swedcham.com.hk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/SwedCham-CDTA-Sept-2013-FINAL.pdf, and reply at http://www.swedcham.com.hk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Communication-re-CDTA.pdf (google translation below)

      Regarding the issue of tax treaties, the Ministry of Finance is currently unable to 
      prioritize negotiations with Hong Kong. Department's resources in this area are 
      limited and there are currently other agreements that are more eager to negotiate or 
      renegotiate. 
      Sweden negotiation work with information exchange agreements conducted since 2006 within the framework of a 
      joint Nordic project. The Nordic Group is negotiating jointly, but the agreements are concluded on a bilateral 
      basis. These agreements are intended to ensure an exchange of information based on the global standard 
      which is the basis for the work of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information 
      (GF). As a member of the GF, Hong Kong has adopted the global standard, so it comes naturally 
      that the countries included information exchange agreements.

      - swedish in hk
      • Anders nelsson
      • From 1976 to 1979 he worked for EMI (HK) Ltd as Artist & Repertoire Manager and in 1979 started his own group of Companies, The Melody Bank which became a successful production and publishing house, and The Entertainment Company, which managed several successful Hong Kong artists, including Rowena Cortes and Louie Castro. 10 years later he sold The Melody Bank to BMG Pacific Limited and joined this newly emerging ‘major’ in the music industry as Managing Director. In this role he set up BMG’s music publishing operations in the Asian Region as well as running the record company in Hong Kong. After completing his three-year contract Nelsson was headhunted by the well-known Hong Kong Swaine family (patriarch of this family, Sir John Swaine QC was at the time chairman of both the Royal HK Jockey Club and the Legislative Council.) A new company called The Media Bank was set up under the Chairmanship of elder son John Swaine Junior, with Nelsson as MD. Through Nelsson’s music industry contacts the company acquired representation of several indie labels and publishing catalogues. Nelsson left the company shortly after the Handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997 to pursue China-related opportunities as a consultant.

      - Hong Kong people in Sweden
      • 父子拍住上　二人圓了一個夢http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/supplement/food/art/20140609/18747816, 
      • http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/news/art/20170618/20059844
      • http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/supplement/travel/art/20170813/20118542 本來於旅行社任職的Cecilia，1996年帶團到瑞典時與當地人Lucky邂逅，隨即移居斯德哥爾摩，2006年兩人結婚。
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