protests in Sweden

The protest, so far, has been sporadic at best. And there might be a risk that the government will try to rush the decisions through parliament before the next election in September. The hope now is for the Swedish media and civil society to wake up and make sure that, rather than sneaking through in silence ...

Swedish Tax Office Skatteverket (Image from Flickr user Magnus D). TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – On March 12, the tax agency in Sweden officially implemented the order ISO 3166, which will erroneously reclassify Taiwan as a “Province of China.” Two weeks after the official announcement was made on Feb.

Brussels, March 10 (CNA) The Swedish-Taiwanese Parliamentarian Association (STPA) called the Swedish Tax Agency's announced name change ... Taiwan's representative office in Sweden has lodged an official protest with the Swedish government against the name change and expressed its thanks ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Turkey had delivered a protest note to Sweden demanding to arrest the former leader of Syria's Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) Saleh Muslim, the CNN Turk broadcaster reported. According to Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Saleh ...

China on Friday rejected a Swedish complaint that it did not allow a Swedish doctor to see a detained Swedish book publisher saying he had ... FILE PHOTO: Members from the pro-democracy Civic Party carry a portrait of Gui Minhai (L) and Lee Bo during a protest outside the Chinese Liaison Office in ...

Millions of women gathered across the world to strike, protest and party to mark International Women's Day on Thursday. Trains stopped in Spain as female ... The Swedish foreign ministry said: “Knowledge is power and Wikipedia has the potential to colour our view of the world. But there is great imbalance ...

Brussels, March 8 (CNA) Taiwan's representative office in Sweden said Thursday that it has filed an official protest with the Swedish government against its recent ... In Taiwan's letter of protest, it said the name change was not only against historical facts, but had also hurt the people of democratic Taiwan.

They have both called workers to stage two two-hour strikes to protest wage inequities between men and women. According to a Metroscopia poll, the feminist strike has the support of 82 percent of all Spaniards, who believe that there are sufficient motives for women to protest discrimination in the home ...

On Friday, February 9, hundreds took to the streets in Gothenburg, Sweden, in protest of the policies that the EU has adopted. ... In spite of severely cold winter weather, hundreds of people came to Gustaf Adolf Square to speak up against the EU for taking Swedish jobs, as well as power, away from citizens ...

The Iranian Foreign Ministry says it has summoned the Swedish ambassador to protest over the country's granting of citizenship to a Stockholm-based scientist who is being held in Tehran and faces a death sentence. Iran's official IRNA news agency quoted ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi as saying ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) -- Bowing to pressure from China, the Swedish Tax Agency on Feb. 28 changed the name of Taiwan on its website to "Province of China," drawing a swift protest from the Taiwanese government and Taiwanese netizens. In an announcement released on its website on Feb. 28, the ...

Taiwan protests against name change by Swedish agency ... In its protest, MOFA said, it called for the designation "Taiwan" to be maintained. ... The foreign ministry has directed its representative office in Sweden to tell the Swedish government that such a change is unacceptable to the government and ...