A recent design conference in Bangkok has boosted Thai-Danish relations in a creative fashion. Read the full story

A Swedish couple have died after apparently being electrocuted while taking a shower together in a hotel room in Thailand. Read the full story

Finland’s minorities ombudsman has said the recruitment of Thai berry pickers has characteristics resembling human trafficking. Eva Biaudet said Thai citizens to who come to Finland’s forest to pick wild fruit during the summer are exploited and their treatment should be looked into. Read the full story

A group of language students from Thailand are recovering in a Swedish hospital after making a home cooked meal with poisonous mushrooms. Despite consulting a book about the dos and don’ts of mushroom picking in Sweden, the 10 students still proceeded to make the mistake of picking poisonous fungi, possibly including the potentially-deadly death cap mushrooms while foraging for their dinner. Read the full story

“We are proud of being half Thai and half Icelandic,” say the young women who have just founded the Siam Samakom organisation. Their organisation’s goal is to promote cultural understanding between their joint motherlands to avoid conflict. Read the full story

An open letter from Freedom Against Censorship Thailand (FACT) to Iceland’s parliament about internet censorship: Read the full story

Icelanders, and people all over the world, have often asked whether those on low wages really earn enough to properly support themselves and their families. Iceland’s Directorate of Immigration has now unwittingly answered the question. Read the full story

Swedish authorities have failed to punish a 29-year-old summer camp counsellor who secretly filmed naked children. Read the full story

Police forces in Thailand and Sweden teamed up in a major sting operation aimed at bringing down suspects involved in sex crimes against children in Thailand. Among the people taken into custody were two “late middle-aged” Swedish men who were caught in the popular ‘sex-destination’ Thai beach town of Pattaya. Read the full story

Three Swedish peace activists from the group Avrusta (Disarm), whose mission is to stop Sweden from exporting weapons, have been sentenced to prison for their attempt to destroy three warplanes in March. According to Sveriges Radio (SR), the would-be saboteurs were given between four and six months in jail and ordered to pay Saab 150,000 kronor in damages. Read the full story