Asian disaster &quot;national trauma&quot; for Sweden: FM
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With some 1,500 Swedes remainingmissing in Thailand, Swedish Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds has called the disaster in Asia a &quot;national trauma&quot; for Sweden, Radio Sweden reported on Tuesday.
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BANGKOK, Thailand - The extraordinary loss of life from Sunday&#39;s earthquake and tsunami waves is prompting Asian governments to consider developing a more comprehensive and effective warning system.
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The tsunami that swept away so many lives in Asia has carried waves of grief to Sweden, with the country confronting what one government official described yesterday as ''Sept. 11 levels of casualties." The ...
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By Channel NewsAsia&#39;s Indochina Correspondent May Ying Welsh. PHUKET, Thailand : The Thai government will set up an inquiry into why the public was not given early warning of the tsunamis, which smashed into the kingdom&#39;s southern provinces.
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Scandinavian countries are preparing themselves for national tragedies as realization dawns that most of the Europeans missing after the south Asian tsunami are from Sweden and Norway.
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Sweden greeted the new year with a day of mourning Saturday to honor 59 Swedes confirmed dead and 3,559 missing, while Italy raised its death toll from the earthquake and tsunami disaster to 18 and said more ...
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In Thailand the leaders of Canada, Sweden, Norway and Finland, which all lost citizens in the tragedy, were discussing reconstruction and efforts to identify the dead, while non-governmental organisations said ...
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More than a week after Asia's deadly tsunami, Sweden has revised the number of dead and missing Swedish, according to Radio Sweden on Monday.
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WASHINGTON - The US government is offering to help Asian nations struck by a massive earthquake and devastating tsunamis. At least three Americans were among the more than 13,000 people killed.
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THE prime ministers of Sweden, Norway and Finland will next week visit Thailand, where most of the northern European nationals missing or killed in the tsunamis were vacationing, officials said today.
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Sweden holds a memorial service for victims of Asia's tsunami today, seeking to deal with what may be its worst loss of life for 200 years.
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STOCKHOLM  - At least 1,600 Swedes were still missing Tuesday in Thailand following the giant tidal waves that devastated coastal resorts in the country, according to estimates from tour operators.
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The Swedish government lowered today the number of Swedes confirmed killed by the Asian tsunami to 52 from 59 earlier, and said the number of missing was now 2,915, down from 3,686. Foreign Ministry State ...
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The first Swedish dead from the Asian tsunami came home Wednesday to a nation which fears it may have suffered its worst loss of life for 200 years.
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The Swedish National Police released the names Wednesday of most of the 522 Swedes still missing and the 43 confirmed dead after the Indian Ocean tsunami struck popular beach resorts in December &#151; reversing an earlier policy of keeping the names secret.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (27/12/04) - Some 14â000 people have been reportedly killed, many more missing and over a million displaced in south and southeast Asia after a powerful earthquake triggered off giant tidal waves or Tsunami slammed the coastal areas
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Sweden said Thursday more than 1,000  Swedes may have been killed in the Asian tsunami, the worst  death toll for any foreign country.