(VOVworld) - Sweden's state-owned train operator SJ is to stop services to and from Denmark because it cannot carry out identity checks demanded by the government to stem the influx of refugees. Under a new Swedish law, transport companies will be fined if travelers to Sweden do not have valid photo ID. SJ said it would not have time to check people traveling between Copenhagen and Malmo over the Oresund bridge. Sweden has received about 150,000 asylum applications already this year. The government has secured a temporary exemption from the European Union's open-border Schengen agreement, in order to impose border controls. SJ said all services between Denmark and Sweden would be suspended from 4 January when the new law takes effect.