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Friday, 28.9.2007

Union of Practical Nurses accepts municipal pay deal

Fate of Finnish sugar factory to be decided in spring

Biofuel buses introduced in Helsinki public transport

Police bust massive drug ring in Helsinki region

Captain and chief engineer of British vessel questioned over Archipelago Sea oil spill

Refugees from Myanmar living in Finland fear looming bloodbath in home country

National Opera appoints a GD with a sharp eye for money matters

Finnish x-rays could soon be analysed in India

Thursday, 27.9.2007

EU decision endangers sugar production in Finland

Halonen calls UN climate meeting a success

Customs consider closing border to curb lorry queue

Ban on incandescent lamps discussed by Finnish Parliament

Finnish women use physical discipline on children more often than men

New HIM album enters Billboard 200 at #12

Finland again among least corrupt countries - in Russia corruption runs rampant

Nasdaq and Borse Dubai get backing of large owners of OMX

Officials acknowledge that organising of Olympic Games completely beyond Finland’s means

Wednesday, 26.9.2007

Poll: Finns willing to curb consumption to slow climate change

Finns to put forward own candidate for EU "group of wise men"

Finland to send small group of soldiers to Chad

Defence Forces sell off obsolete tanks at auction

Warm weather set to continue in Finland

Finnish woman living in Myanmar is not afraid of unrest

Alvar Aalto's Maison Louis Carré near Paris opens to public today

Finnish sugar production gets no support from European Union

Tuesday, 25.9.2007

Study: companies managed by women more profitable than those run by men

Hospitals charging local authorities record-high fines this year

Elevated levels of caesium hamper export of prized matsutake mushrooms to Japan

Helsinki could ban driving on days of poor air quality

Elderly Finnish man seeks return of family property in Vyborg

Finland is net payer to European Union

Nelonen to get early pay-per-view web access to Disney shows

Food producer HK Ruokatalo shuts down Tampere operations - 124 to lose jobs

Monday, 24.9.2007

Helsinki lags behind other large cities in discouraging use of cars in centre

Helsinki needs clinics for aged people with dementia

Stora Enso pulls out of North America after massive losses

Backlog of trucks causes congestion at Nuijamaa and Imatra border-crossing points as well as Vaalimaa

Green chair Tarja Cronberg opposes participation in NATO Response Force

Poll: slight decline in support for Centre and National Coalition parties

Stowaway found on ferry from Germany seeks asylum

Cirque du Soleil on its first-ever visit to Finland

White collar union leader wants more flexibility in municipal pay levels

Bad publicity can stigmatize people who are not guilty of any crime

Friday, 21.9.2007

Prime Minister Vanhanen to visit USA, President Halonen to Russia

Nursing students appalled by minister's call to expel substance abusers

Estonia rejects Nord Stream’s application to survey seabed in its economic zone

Russia admits violation of Finnish airspace

Moscow-affiliated Russian Orthodox church grows in Helsinki

Surprise candidate to lead Finnish National Opera

Qatar makes surprise move in OMX ownership arrangements

Start up of Metsä-Botnia pulp mill in Uruguay set to be postponed

Muurinen returns to HJK Helsinki

Thursday, 20.9.2007

NATO issue splits Centre Party

Planned Baltic Sea gas pipeline poses a political challenge to Estonia

President Halonen: Afghanistan more risky than before for peacekeepers

Five U.S. citizens seek asylum from Finland

Muggings of prostitutes rare in Finland

Zero tolerance campaign against speeding on Highway 51 proves effective

Study: Finland has ten most efficient hospitals in Nordic Countries

China Center in Kouvola opens today

Wednesday, 19.9.2007

OECD study: Finland has least mandatory classes in comprehensive school

Kids propose floating neighbourhoods and residential islands for area vacated by shipyard

Helsinki opens doors to the public

Helsinki prostitutes targeted with assault and battery

Vanhanen backs Halonen's views on foreign and security policy running order

Commander in Afghanistan: roadside bomb attack no cause for new measures

HIM single fails to make it into British Top 40 on release

Finnish FA mark centenary with Blatter and Platini

Tuesday, 18.9.2007

Paavo Väyrynen sparks criticism over immigration comment

Kaskeala wants leaner defence force

Shortcomings found in recycling system for old cars

Study argues that Finns are not in bad mood on Mondays

Three men face charges of criminal discrimination against woman pastor in Hyvinkää

Finnair changes Airbus order to twin-engined A330 model

Unemployment rate slides under 6% in August

Monday, 17.9.2007

Majority of Lutheran vicars ready to defy law to help asylum seekers

Vanhanen seen to take background role in foreign affairs

Double rally world champion Marcus Grönholm to quit WRC after this season

Some 15 Finnish towns have twinned with friendship cities in China

Helsinki Metropolitan Area Council campaigning for better waste sorting

Finland giving more support to Afghanistan

Helsinki passes Eurovision Song Contest torch to Belgrade

Chinese chemical industry to open office in Helsinki

Finnish-rules baseball titles go to Hyvinkää and Jyväskylä

Räikkönen takes convincing victory in Belgian Grand Prix

Volleyball men just miss out on medal

Friday, 14.9.2007

Poll: Finns oppose expansion of involvement in international crisis management

Turku - the special friend of Putin's St. Petersburg team

Accomplished researcher to be appointed to Bank of Finland Board

Supreme administrative court suspends deportation of Sudanese asylum seeker

Illnesses and marginalisation seen as worst substance abuse problems

Finnish trading enterprises showing sharp growth in Russia

Thursday, 13.9.2007

Lutheran bishops call for more humane legislation on foreigners

Russia's likely new PM familiar to many Finns

Sensational volleyball team sweeps Belgians aside and heads for European semi-finals

Brown dog tick spreading around Finland

Professor says allegations of President Halonen’s GDR activism are untrue

Estonia considering ban on night-time alcohol sales

Defence Minister Jyri Häkämies: Foreign buyer was also interested in Kemira stock

Finland 0 Poland 0: a more encouraging showing, but a bitterly disappointing result

Wednesday, 12.9.2007

Price of food set to rise sharply next year

Copterline facing partial defeat at court hearing in USA

Finns must attack in crucial EURO 2008 encounter

Cities of Helsinki and Turku taking serious action to improve state of Baltic Sea

Municipal mergers to accelerate in coming years

Finnish vehicle damaged in explosion in Afghanistan

Finnish volleyball team crush 2006 World Championship finalists in Moscow

Tuesday, 11.9.2007

Minister of Interior calls for police investigation into Thai massage parlours

Poll: Finns increasingly uncertain over NATO; no increase in fear of Russia

Vanhanen does not reject Estonian hopes of buying into Finnish nuclear plant

Finns have confidence in police and army

Liikanen: lending slump slows growth

36,500 fans, two prime ministers, and maybe an eagle-owl...

Monday, 10.9.2007

Häkämies says Washington speech in line with Finnish policy

Court blocks forced repatriation of Iranian Kurdish woman

Serbia 0 Finland 0: Hodgson's men got what they came for

Security Police want to retain telecommunications data for two years

Porvoo Cathedral arsonist and accomplice denied appeal

Municipalities in Southern Finland consider recruitment of skilled workers from China

Maritime Administration rejects Russian icebreaker

Finnkampen brings narrow win for men and crushing defeat for women

McLaren celebrate first one-two finish in Monza; Räikkönen third

Friday, 7.9.2007

Häkämies in Washington: Russia Finland's greatest challenge

Security Police will not release Stasi list

Branding Jean Sibelius

Fewer operations to fix damage from "female circumcision" at public health clinics

Moves made to establish Islamic party in Finland

Police investigating use of insulin in Lehtimäki death

Refusal of Finnish authorities to register forename ”Axl” brings claim for damages

President Halonen urges China to improve workers’ rights

"HS Council" seeks to open up new perspectives on topical debates

Thursday, 6.9.2007

Copterline to resume service to Tallinn

Police suspect homicide in insulin death of disabled person

HJK sack manager Keith Armstrong

Fyodorov: Finnish leaders knew about Karelia project

20th Helsinki International Film Festival takes audiences to distant lands

Karelian Trains orders express Pendolinos from Alstom for Helsinki-St. Petersburg route

Stora Enso reorganisation may lead to lay-offs

Wednesday, 5.9.2007

Yeltsin's Russia secretly calculated price for Karelia

Bodies exhumed in connection with poisoning investigation

Cost estimates for Espoo Metro soaring

Laboratory study shows no firm evidence of harm caused by mobile phones

Appeal submitted over Lieksa YouTube video defamation case

One in ten primary school pupils bullied every week

Iraq seminar: US forces seen as impediment to peace

Slight downward trend observed in Finnish housing market

Tuesday, 4.9.2007

Interior Minister wary of publication of Security Police Stasi list

Smash ASEM protests bring charges for 86 demonstrators

Iranian Kurd protected by church to be deported

School bullies prime candidates for crime and mental problems as an adults

Russian-speaking upper secondary schools in Estonia to introduce Estonian as main language of instruction

Producers put stop to movie production

ILO: Finland catching up with USA in productivity

Monday, 3.9.2007

Ex-President Koivisto urges publication of Security Police Stasi list

Pitkämäki rises to the occasion and takes gold in Osaka

Kaisaniemi Park second most feared place in central Helsinki

Helplines congested as Finland switches over to digital television

Three female and 18 male applicants seeking post of Finnish Security Police Chief

Government parties disagree on participation in crisis management

Opposition SDP leader wants bigger Finnish commitment to Darfur

Around 20 Iraqi participants in CMI seminar

Finnish pair win inaugural Eurovision Dance Contest

Grönholm takes Rally New Zealand by narrowest of margins

Weekly Articles

Tuesday, 25.9.2007

The right is still wrong in Finnish art

Big and bigger in Japan

COMMENTARY: Companies entering wage talks to pay for Katainen gaffe

Forest-owners fighting a losing battle against hungry elk

NEWS ANALYSIS: Foreign policy family squabbles over power and inheritance

Nightwish release Finland's costliest-ever album

Sibelius - an erotic symbolist

Norway’s Princess Märtha Louise shows off her new children’s book

Tuesday, 18.9.2007

The unreal world of North Korea

Church good, immigration authorities bad

COMMENTARY: Smiling Halonen lets go with both barrels

Car batteries from nearby gas station rescue television news transmission

Sex work is no dream job

COMMENTARY: Finnish Foreign policy decisions coming late

HIM serve up their heaviest album yet

Nearly all public subsidies for music go to classical music

Open wireless networks can be freely accessed

Tuesday, 11.9.2007

Our friend, the GDR

COMMENTARY: Awkward practical problems over the "Karelia Purchase"

Häkämies speech: Difficult talk about actual issue

The authentic national costume

HIFK coach Paul Baxter not getting stressed out over upcoming season

Finnish women heading off to Russian ice hockey league

Tuesday, 4.9.2007

Finnish inventors step up and show off proposed innovations

Advancing step by step toward NATO

COMMENTARY: No end in sight for Defence Forces' helicopter fiasco

Lovelorn lemmings on the move, but not overly friendly

Baggy-trousered Helsinki boys denounce American law banning low-slung legwear

What to do with the idle frequencies?