Houston Film Critics Society, HFCS, nominated the Swedish film Border (Swedish: Gräns) as one of five movies to the Best Foreign Language Film of 2018. Honorary Consul General Astrid Marklund attended the Houston Film Critics award show representing the Swedish film Border that was nominated. Customs officer Tina is known for her extraordinary sense of […]
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TV series Great Swedish Adventure
Meter Television are searching for Americans with Swedish ancestry for a reality TV-show. A nationwide casting for season 9 is now being conducted. Previous seasons was beyond successful, and broke records in viewings. The search is for Americans who badly want to find out more about their Swedish heritage and come over and be a part […]
Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2018
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has decided to award the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation”.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018 with one half to Frances H. Arnold “for the directed evolution of enzymes” and the other half jointly to George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter “for the phage display of peptides and antibodies”.
The Swedish Government after the election.
The Swedish Government offices has published an update on The Government after the election on this homepage government.se. More information about the 2018 election and forming a new government is available on the Riksdag website.
After Harvey
After Harvey – The Consular Corp of Houston visited the Shelter at George Brown Center and donated money to the relief fund.
Scandinavian Scholarship Foundation
Are you Swedish, Danish or Norwegian and want to study in the United States? There is now an option to apply for founds from The Scandinavian Scholarship Foundation. Also open for American students in Scandinavian languages. Visit www.scandinavianfund.org to learn more.
Swedish Bestseller on Kindle
The Swedish sisters Astrid, Lena and Sandra have struggled to get along since childhood. Astrid’s predictable world is shaken by the return of her ex-boyfriend Michael, an American who abandoned her—and their infant son—years earlier. The Heart Echoes was the most borrowed book in the Swedish library system the year it came out.
End renewal of Swedish driving licences.
Under a bill before the Riksdag, new rules will come into force that will affect people who are permanently resident abroad and who wish to renew their Swedish driving licence. Read more here.
Sweden is on track to become the worlds first cashless society
Sweden is on track to become the world’s first cashless society Sweden is set to become the first cashless society in the world, researchers report, crediting the shift towards electronic-only transactions to a new mobile payment system called Swish, which facilitates real-time deposits with no minimum spend. “Cash is still an important means of payment […]