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Published 9.2.2010. Next update on Wednesday 10.2.2010 at c. 13:00 (GMT +2)
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BUSINESS & FINANCE
Class-action suit filed against Nokia in New York
The mobile telephone giant Nokia faces a class-action suit in the United States. The suit was filed on behalf of investors on Friday last week in a US district court in New York. It concerns statements given out by the company in January and September of 2008 on the production numbers of mobile telephones. Nokia issued a statement on the lawsuit, saying that the accusations are without merit. The company plans to fight the demands by all means available.
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MP Kaikkonen got more EUR 42,000 from foundation in 2008
Centre Party Member of Parliament Antti Kaikkonen received more than EUR 42,000 in payments of various kinds from the Youth Foundation (Nuorisosäätiö) in 2008 alone. The amount is more than EUR 20,000 more than he has admitted so far. Kaikkonen has served as the chair of the foundation itself, as well as that of the foundation’s building maintenance company and of the boards of various buildings it holds. Housing Finance and Development Centre of Finland issued a report on Monday criticising what it sees as excessively lavish spending by the foundation.
CULTURE
Kaija Saariaho wins Sonning Prize
Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, 57, will receive the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2011, which carries with it a cash award of DKK 600,000 (roughly EUR 80,600). One of the most outstanding contemporary composers, Saariaho has won almost all significant international composition prizes from the Grawemeyer Award (2002) to the prestigious Wihuri Sibelius Prize (2009). The award will be made in Copenhagen in May 2011.
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 Baltic Sea commitments contain something old, something new, and something borrowed
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Criminal police investigate possible malfeasance by Matti Vanhanen
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Police bust big cocaine smuggling ring
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Crafty diesel thieves benefit from defective fuel pump in Eastern Finland
FOREIGN
Dropped sea container held raw material for detergent
CULTURE
Kiasma to cancel Isaac Julien exhibition
BUSINESS & FINANCE
Viking Line cancels shipbuilding contract with Spanish yard
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Updated 9.2. Next update on Tuesday 16.2. at c. 17:00 (GMT +2)
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SPORT
One more season: Finnish sports icons stubbornly hang on in there
When the veteran ice hockey center Janne Ojanen suits up in the Tappara locker-room this season, it is likely that a good many of the other team members present were not even born when he scored his first adult international goal against the Soviet Union in March 1987. What do the Tampere players in their early 20s have to talk about with a 42-year-old whose oldest kids are well into their teens? And yet Ojanen is talking about turning out for Tappara next season, too. And he is not alone - there are a whole squad-full of Finnish athletes who have discovered that it is hard to quit, even when the body is starting to cry "enough already", and very easy to be tempted into a comeback if you do walk away.
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Killings just tip of honour violence iceberg
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Niinistö’s secret
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Zeus summoned to help break archipelago ice
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New engineering students’ challenge: build your own mobile phone
METRO
Smoking ban for city workers could close smoking room used by Helsinki tram drivers
METRO
You wouldn't believe it today, but snowy winters are no novelty in Helsinki
CULTURE
Ateneum Picasso exhibition stole visitors from Helsinki’s other art museums
BUSINESS & FINANCE
Poker advertising stumbles over the law
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