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Monday, 30.4.2007
 VAPPU/MAY DAY
 Tallinn memorial: Vanhanen emphasises non-interference, Kanerva calls for EU solidarity
 Oil spill detected from Russian freighter in Archipelago Sea
 Thousands march in Argentina against pulp mill in Uruguay
 Few Helsinki restaurants apply for two-year transition period over smoking
 Foreign Minister Kanerva invited to Washington
 Kone opens up sales and service outlet in Tibet
 Stora Enso planting forest in China
 World Championships only really start on Tuesday: Finnish Lions face Russian test

Friday, 27.4.2007
 No broad-based labour contract expected this year
 Soviet memorial in Tallinn moved after night of rioting
 Section of Mikonkatu in downtown Helsinki to be covered with glass roof
 Suspended sentence for cancer charity fraud
 Ex-army bicycles auctioned off to benefit veterans' charities
 Särkänniemi dolphins shun new pool
 One tree - 40 apple varieties

Thursday, 26.4.2007
 Foreign Minister Kanerva: This government will not apply for NATO membership
 Racist crime rarely leads to conviction in Finland
 Interior Ministry to let employees work one day a year for voluntary organisation
 Court rejects Alpo Rusi call to publish Stasi lists
 Eurovision Song Contest brings hundreds of events to Helsinki streets
 Siemens chief executive resigns
 Danish family uses horse-drawn wagon to travel around Baltic Sea region
 Head coach Westerlund looking to Jere Lehtinen on eve of Hockey World Championships

Wednesday, 25.4.2007
 Niinistö chosen as new Speaker of Parliament
 Security Police spending more money on fighting espionage
 Thailand holiday packages bring out overnight lines at tour operator office
 Paulo Cello Competition goes to favourite, Andreas Brantelid of Sweden
 Antti Jokinen directs Lordi video for Eurovision
 TeliaSonera announces more spending cuts
 Finland wants to apply for 2011 Yachting World Championships

Tuesday, 24.4.2007
 Boris Yeltsin remembered as leader who promised to stop interfering in Finnish affairs
 Record pace of organ transplants continues this year
 Northern city of Kemi to lay off all municipal workers for two weeks
 Sea Life Helsinki to transfer two of its sharks to Germany
 About 35,000 people commute to Helsinki region from outside area
 Sulake buys out virtual community IRC-Galleria

Monday, 23.4.2007
 Katainen wants to reassess Presidential participation in EU summits
 Openness to NATO sets tone of meeting of Finnish and Swedish foreign ministers
 Greater Helsinki local authorities overwhelmed by dental care backlog
 Minister Sarkomaa reluctant to put cap on class sizes in comprehensive schools
 Teemu Selänne to face charges over 2006 boat accident
 Upwardly mobile move to Lohja and Riihimäki, poor people move to east of Finnish Lapland
 Bulk of summer strawberry pickers will come from abroad
 Finland’s largest IKEA outlet to be built in Tampere

Friday, 20.4.2007
 Confirmation that Lappeenranta mass graves date back to 19th century, not Continuation War
 Police investigate claims of discrimination against women clergy in Hyvinkää
 Helsinki City Transport seeks leaseback deal for troubled Bombardier trams
 Estonian man remanded over large cocaine case
 Thesis says Security Police protected President Kekkonen without his knowledge
 Airport-level security arrangements at Helsinki Arena
 Finnish eco-city idea sparks interest in China

Thursday, 19.4.2007
 Finland's new government takes office
 First sex purchase court case ends in acquittal in Salo
 Nokia Q1/2007 results show slight year-on-year decline, no real surprises
 Baby girl declared millionth resident of Helsinki region
 Couple charged with violation of bird flu precautions last year
 Radiation levels in thousands of Finnish bore wells exceed recommendations
 Helsinki Police Department wants to have patrol van windows netted
 Experts: New administration tentative with regard to EU policy
 Tampere-based Palmroth shoe manufacturers file for debt restructuring

Wednesday, 18.4.2007
 Women hold majority in Centre Party ministerial group
 Ahtisaari hopes UN will make decision on Kosovo soon
 Almost every second minister is female in Greater Helsinki Lutheran congregations
 Overheated sauna wall panels thought to be cause of yesterday’s hotel fire
 Controversy in Estonia over easy prescriptions for Finns
 German energy giant wants to build nuclear facility in Finland

Tuesday, 17.4.2007
 Greens vote on Cronberg appointment, Kanerva becomes Foreign Minister
 Experts: new government has freer hands in foreign policy
 Potentially threatening fire destroys top floor sauna of Helsinki hotel
 Second person remanded in human trafficking case
 Record number of people infected by norovirus and rotavirus in 2006
 Idea of Finnish top university generates heated debate
 Minea Blomqvist in and out of form on LPGA Tour

Monday, 16.4.2007
 Government negotiators agree on allocation of portfolios; administration to stress energy and entrepreneurship
 Tarja Halonen intends to hold on to presidential powers in foreign policy
 Räikkönen dissatisfied with third place in Bahrain
 Man remanded on suspicion of aggravated human trafficking
 Finland and Sweden ready to participate in NATO Response Force
 Heavy road construction continues in area near Eurovision Song Contest
 Sami Kero’s image of Eurovision winner Lordi Press Photo of the Year

Friday, 13.4.2007
 Vanhanen welcomes prospect of Estonian alcohol tax hike
 One child in ten belongs to non-traditional family with step-parent
 Kärpät return to the top in Finnish ice hockey
 Social Democratic MPs ponder implications of election setback
 Speaker of Parliament sees no abuse in Parliament’s spending
 Construction of new Music House to begin in summer
 Finland renews its representation at OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration
 Soile Isokoski recording voted Disc of the Year by BBC Music
 YLE postpones introduction of mobile phone TV

Thursday, 12.4.2007
 Serb officer to serve war crime sentence in Finland
 Ministry to allow analogue cable TV to continue
 Parliament’s Chancellery Commission to resolve potential violation of administrative laws
 Finland grants residence permit to victim of human trafficking
 Number of tourists visiting Helsinki hit all-time high in 2006
 Commission urges airlines to improve passengers' rights
 Tallink orders large cruise ferry from Aker Yards
 Flextronics ODM plans to lay off half of its workforce

Wednesday, 11.4.2007
 Immigrants say child welfare officials lack cultural understanding
 Millions of kilos of food thrown away in capital area each year
 Intense bargaining over taxation expected in government talks
 Experts concerned about collapse of wild forest reindeer population
 President Halonen to make May state visit to Germany
 TeliaSonera not to compensate private customers for e-mail problems
 Finnish Scandic hotels not to remove copies of Bible from rooms

Tuesday, 10.4.2007
 Routing Baltic undersea gas pipeline to be reconsidered
 Poll: Majority would upgrade parental rights of same-sex partners
 Municipal personnel under growing threat of violence
 Finland holds Rwandan man suspected of involvement in genocide
 Easter 1963: a marine collision that never saw the light of day
 Sacked executives get millions in severance benefits
 Räikkönen believes Ferrari will return to top in Bahrain

Thursday, 5.4.2007
 EASTER
 Struggle over ministerial portfolios begins among parties
 Railway station most frightening place in downtown Helsinki
 Seventy-five years since the end of Prohibition in Finland
 Special guides for gay tourists who visit Helsinki
 Finland's portion of development aid falls in EU comparison
 Finnish-run operator to offer free phone calls to young Britons
 Elcoteq to close Lohja plant, 242 to lose jobs

Wednesday, 4.4.2007
 Finland getting centre-right government with a shade of green
 UN Security Council begins debate on Ahtisaari Kosovo plan
 Easter traffic may run into wintry weather in most of Finland
 Young boys call helpline to discuss sex more often than girls
 More than a thousand new hotel rooms in prospect in Helsinki
 Centralised digital decoders to be allowed in cable TV apartment houses
 Nordea Bank to get back into real estate

Tuesday, 3.4.2007
 Centralised digital decoders to be allowed in apartment houses
 Prime Minister Vanhanen meeting with Parliamentary groups
 Nokia Siemens Networks get going amid reduced market expectations
 Labour union warns new government over interference with right to strike
 Seagulls again being monitored at Helsinki's Market Square
 Aker Yards wins EUR 900 million order for another giant cruise liner
 Foreign companies in Finland grow faster than Finnish-owned companies
 Finnish citizen one of 10 World’s Most Influential Chinese

Monday, 2.4.2007
 Poll: About half of Finns prefer centre-right government
 Most parties oppose tougher rules on disclosing campaign financing
 Ministries want to increase occupational immigration into Finland
 Finnish net contribution to EU over EUR 440 million
 Argentina to demand that pulp mill be moved
 Ice hockey: And then there were two...
 Time penalty dashes Grönholm's chances in Rally of Portugal




Weekly Articles


Tuesday, 24.4.2007
 An increasingly influential minority
 TV series breathes new life into Finland's northernmost city
 COMMENTARY: Should the new metropolis be blowing its trumpet quite so loudly?
 Finnish forces in Afghanistan face vicious opponents
 International film producers look to Finland for movie locations
 How voting became TV entertainment
 Penny-pinching professor leaves EUR 22 milllion to humanities researchers

Tuesday, 17.4.2007
 On the trail of a genocide
 COMMENTARY: Rwanda genocide case tests international reach of Finnish law
 Beer, sex, and tattoos in Helsinki
 COMMENTARY: Linguistic S/M
 Newspaper editors charge that political elite has been given a soft ride on NATO issue
 Antti Piippo of Elcoteq highest-paid corporate board chairman

Wednesday, 11.4.2007
 Exhibit #213: One Frozen Mozzarella Pizza, c. 2000 AD
 The historic choice of Matti Vanhanen
 Stability of the Balkans in danger
 Writing a video postcard from Finland
 Donald Duck holds his own in the north
 COMMENTARY: How I became a free-speech fundamentalist
 It was the customers that toppled Alko

Tuesday, 3.4.2007
 Who remembers 2nd Secretary Ivanov?
 A positive surprise
 Helsinki looks to become a location for movies and commercials
 Explosion in Finnish industrial design
 Finnish electronic game studio operates with US funding
 Finland relatively unconcerned about use of mobile telephones by children
 Sequins and a rapper’s attitude part of children’s fashion today

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