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Tuesday, 30.11.2004

US Ambassador to NATO: Finland could join elite forces

Incomes agreement to go now to individual sectors for approval

Sampo CEO Wahlroos opposes union representatives on corporate boards

Study: Tighter winter speed limits for trucks could save 5-10 lives a year

Thieves make off with 45 tons of railway track

Nearly 100 jobs to be cut in Helsinki municipal bus services

Almost half of Finns consider buying flat-panel TV or digibox for Christmas

Monday, 29.11.2004

BREAKING NEWS: Broad-based incomes agreement reached early Monday afternoon

Finns approve of EU combat forces - sharp differences between men and women

Poll: SDP edge slightly ahead of Centre as largest political group

Two Finnish universities on British World University Ranking list

International study: Finns and French have similar values

Retail sector expects five percent growth in Christmas sales

Winter Sports Round-Up: A glittering weekend for Finns on skis

Friday, 26.11.2004

President Halonen responds to critics of Finland's foreign policy line

Finnish MEPs divided in opinion over PM Vanhanen's EU policies

Incomes talks: Blue collar workers' SAK wants 3.1% pay hikes

Social Democrats took hard line on agriculture in working group on globalisation

Supreme Court freezes Appeals Court ruling over custody dispute UPDATED 21.00

Mobiles to be banished from some train compartments

Finlandia Junior prize goes to Riitta Jalonen and Kristiina Louhi

Left Alliance MPs oppose Finnish involvement in EU combat forces without UN mandate

Thursday, 25.11.2004

Helsinki police investigators suspected of telecommunications privacy violation

Two labour union confederations want wage hikes of three percent

MEPs sharply criticise Russia over planned WWII victory celebration

Finnish teens place number one in comparison of math skills

President Halonen inaugurates Finnish Consulate General in St. Petersburg

Car ferry Casino Express runs aground off Swedish coast

Nordic countries to jointly investigate high price of food

Wednesday, 24.11.2004

Thousands to leave work at 63 as retirement age goes down next year

Union leaders slam paper industry for hurting incomes talks

Ukrainians living in Finland also suspect electoral fraud

Police want more effective, safer firepower

President Halonen undertakes personal fitness training programme

Number of employed Finns no longer falling

Correct mobile phone subscription can bring huge savings

Tuesday, 23.11.2004

Top officials in Security Police face charges in telephone surveillance case

Transport strikes cost millions of euros - drivers return to work

Record amount of top Finnish art to be sold in December auction

Paper industry withdraws from centralised incomes talks

Helsinki wants to raise sidewalk maintenance fees

Top Nokia executive named President of Kone Corporation

Head of EU's Ecofin Council to head Research Institute of Finnish Economy

Monday, 22.11.2004

Transport strike over - normal traffic expected by Wednesday

Vanhanen rejects claim that government has no foreign policy

Finnish soldiers could be deployed for EU duties already in 2007

At least four people die in weekend violence around Finland

Aleksanterinkatu Christmas lights turned on in colourful ceremony at Helsinki Cathedral

Helsinki now snowiest place in Finland

Corporations that pay large dividends also receive public funding

Friday, 19.11.2004

UPDATE: Settlement reached in transport strike Sunday evening

Police needed at three strike locations to cool down emotions

Ten tons of confiscated counterfeit Legos to be burned at energy plant

Working group to consider allowing hunting in southern national parks

Government calls for more immigrants

Icy roads bring flood of fracture patients to Helsinki hospitals

Country's largest windmill under construction in Oulu

Thursday, 18.11.2004

Helsinki cargo harbours remain shut down by offshoot of bus strike

Season's first snow cover extends to Southern Finland

Report criticises shortcomings of supervision of police activities

Population decline to begin later than expected

HIV epidemic threatens St. Petersburg - infections may spread to Finland

Finns see 62 as good retirement age

Amer Corporation head Talermo new President of Olympic Committee

Wednesday, 17.11.2004

Expanded bus strike leads to suspension of incomes talks

PM Vanhanen: EU authorisation sufficient for crisis operation

Finnish Broadcasting Company appoints new Director General

YLE gives approval for funding of new Music House

Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize goes to poet Sanna Karlström

European Court of Human Rights cites Finland for violating freedom of expression

Regulation by authorities promises 20-40 percent reduction in costs of broadband connections

Tuesday, 16.11.2004

Workers to expand bus strike; Port of Helsinki cargo operations under threat

Tuomioja doubts Powell's influence on White House while in office

Snowploughs put on alert in Helsinki - freezing weather expected

Court acquits Green MP on cannabis charge - prosecutor may appeal

Boys at centre of custody dispute tell court they want to live in Finland

Russia expresses concern over Chechen website operating out of Sweden

Copenhagen Stock Exchange merges with OMX

Monday, 15.11.2004

Turkish EU candidacy divided Finnish foreign policy leadership in 1999

Helsingin Sanomat journalist reports on unrest in Chinese provinces

SAK leader Ihalainen fails to open negotiations on bus strike

Most Finns see family crisis as good excuse for staying home from work

Hundreds of people remember Yasser Arafat in Helsinki

Plans drafted to bring seasonal ice rink to liven up Helsinki's central railway station square

Working group to consider reform of Finland’s Act on Peace Support Operations

Journalists complain of blow to Finnish freedom of expression; Chechen website back online

Finnish company sells US licence for drug claimed to reduce obsessive behaviour

Victory over Sweden brings Finnish Lions European Hockey Tour tournament win

Friday, 12.11.2004

Bus strike spreads to local traffic in five cities outside Helsinki region

Gales bring down power-lines and keep fast Tallinn craft in port

Minister Pekkarinen claims climate goals unreachable by EU alone

FRIDAY, 14.00: Multinational air force exercise to be held over Finland in May 2005

Police clearing up series of Internet scams in Central Uusimaa

Additional training grants on the table for those made redundant

Underground parking beneath Kasarmitori square to be completed by summer 2005

Renovation of Finnish National Opera House to cost millions of euros

Thursday, 11.11.2004

President and Foreign Minister express condolences on death of Arafat

Labour Court finds bus strike illegal; stoppage set to expand on Friday (UPDATED 14:00)

Minister Lehtomäki to improve Finland’s image in China with karaoke

Finland and European Commission agree on farm animal subsidies

MP Sasi accuses President of deviating from official policy in UN speech

Protest stoppage silences Finnish shipyards

Price war breaks out among Finnish mobile operators

Wednesday, 10.11.2004

Prime Minister and President disagree on globalisation policy

Aker Yards warn of dismissals for 700 staff in Finland

Finnish average temperature likely to rise by 4 - 7 degrees this century

Finland to recruit professional soldiers for rapid deployment special force

Bus companies managed to run some departures on strikebound lines; dispute continues

EVA wants Finland in EU vanguard

President Parvanov of Bulgaria hopes depressed trade with Finland will pick up

First roofing elements for Olympic Stadium lifted into place

Tuesday, 9.11.2004

Drivers of three bus companies begin strike in Helsinki region

Norwegian Orkla Group buys Åland snack food manufacturer Chips

Exceptional solar activity produces Northern Lights further south than usual

Restaurant suspected of using food from garbage bin to face charges

Bulgarian president remembers Finns who fought in the Balkans

US Assistant Secretary of State praises Finland’s role in peacekeeping

Nearly 900 sugar beet farmers meet to discuss EU plans to bring down sugar price

Monday, 8.11.2004

Prime Minister Vanhanen rejects European Union border guard force

Twenty restaurants, with total of around 3,000 seats, planned for new Kamppi Center

UN Human Rights Committee criticises Finland over Sámi Issue

Private contractors provide one quarter of municipal health care and social services

Veterinary students get antibiotics after autopsy of cow thought to have anthrax

Record lottery jackpot of over EUR 5.6 million to coastal city of Kokkola

Bus strike planned in Helsinki metropolitan area for Tuesday

Friday, 5.11.2004

PM Vanhanen pushes for economic reform in EU at Brussels summit

Nokia to cut R&D expenditure - expects to save hundreds of millions by 2007

Finnish President and Prime Minister congratulate Bush

Åland representative in Nordic Council removed for verbal attacks on Finland

Vietnamese woman gets seven-year sentence for drug trafficking

Finnish industry takes cautious view of future

Additional income sources add considerably to wages of civil servants

Thursday, 4.11.2004

President Halonen interested in impact of US elections on Iraq

Americans living in Helsinki disappointed by Kerry defeat

Finland decides to take part in German-Dutch EU battle group

National Bureau of Investigation to examine State Provincial Office of Lapland

Prosecutor refers ruling on Matti Nykänen’s stabbing incident to Court of Appeal

Pilots cautioned also in Finland about ash cloud from Iceland

Solidarity strike stops UPM paper mills

Wednesday, 3.11.2004

Incomes talks begin - Prime Minister Vanhanen pleased

Halonen’s comments on second term catch her office off guard

Nokia to bring digital television to mobile phones by 2006

Alcohol abuse catching up with coronary disease as cause of death among Finnish men

Rainy summer reflected in number of visitors to Finnish festivals

Change in corporate credit legislation could make getting certain information more difficult

Highly-paid women still relatively few and far between in Finland

Tuesday, 2.11.2004

US Embassy warning: Prime Minister Vanhanen sees no reason for alarm

Taxation of highest incomes has decreased more than national average

Strikes to hit forest company UPM today and Thursday

Building permit for Finland's tallest residential tower runs into trouble

Hybrid power plant brings electricity to remote island of Tunhamn

Finnish MP reports election observers turned away from Florida Republican office

Tuomioja feels dispute over naming of European Commission was unnecessary

Westerlund takes over at the helm of Finnish national hockey team

Monday, 1.11.2004

US Embassy urges Americans in Nordic and Baltic region to be vigilant

Finnish small and medium-sized companies reluctant to seek growth

PM Vanhanen says that crisis looms if no Commission is found soon

Pictures of drunken youth published on Finnish-Swedish Internet site

Newly gilded dome rises on top of Uspenski Cathedral

Foreign Minister Tuomioja attributes foreign policy criticism to Presidential politics

MyPa take Finnish FA Cup with last-minute winner

Weekly Articles

Tuesday, 30.11.2004

EVA - strong arm of Finnish business community - rides again

Lotta Svärd women volunteers had to overcome fear during wartime perils

Pikkujoulu is here again, bringing glitter, gigs, a lot of empties, and uncomfortably long lines for a taxi

Stag-party Brits discover Old Tallinn bars and nightclubs

Finnish POWs were relatively privileged, claims recent doctoral thesis

In California, yearning for the socialist hell hole

Finnish company to translate book of Turkmenistan dictator into Finnish

Play it differently, Sam: Jussi Jääskeläinen at Bolton

New Strategy Officer feels Nokia long-term strategy is spot-on

Tuesday, 23.11.2004

H.I.M. and The Rasmus: Trying to break in America

Bush II and Europe

New head of Finnish Broadcasting Company would not have competed for the job

Finnish art forgeries are typically clumsy copies

Defenders of women become Sweden's new idols

Bush supporters in America send feedback to a God forsaken socialist hell hole

Faruk Abu-Chacra: Spreading Arabic around the world, from Helsinki

Tuesday, 16.11.2004

New York Philharmonic arrange a "Suomi Week"

The young, the restless, and plenty of work gone to waste

Money talks - people listen

Disco pop now rings out in former Lutheran church

Museum of Cultures looks beyond borders of Europe

Prospect of Turkish EU membership divided Finnish foreign policy leadership in 1999

Where the fist ends and the tip of the nose begins

Tuesday, 9.11.2004

Reindeer meat is the tender, tasty, and nutritional fare of the North

American-sized terrorists

Leftist- and Euro-nationalism?

Erik Mickwitz: Language law came at convenient time

USA and Europe: Intolerance cuts both ways

Wages of job-cutters rise handsomely

Police salary sufficient for an ordinary everyday life

Tuesday, 2.11.2004

Estonia's six months in EU have brought no massive changes for Finland

Divorced parents argue longer and harder over child custody

Over 70,000 children sent to Sweden to avoid war sixty years ago

History: Dismantling barbed wire and clearing mines behind the new border

Writer behind the "Demolished Helsinki" series enjoys staring at buildings

GOFREP to reduce danger of ships colliding in Gulf of Finland

Miikka Kiprusoff looking to spend spring at Timrå