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Friday, 30.1.2009

Government unveils stimulus package

FBI expert: school killers hard to identify in advance

Arajärvi: early language education essential for integration of immigrants

Finnish CO seeks asylum in Belgium

Police find stolen crowns of Finnish beauty queens

Sharp decline in tax revenue forces Espoo to slash spending

Madonna to play in Helsinki in August

Finland to produce service robot for future experimental fusion reactor

Marimekko has confidence in future regardless of economic uncertainties

Jyväskylä’s fate as World Rally event organiser about to be determined

Thursday, 29.1.2009

Costs of delay in construction of Olkiluoto III approaching price of new reactor

Motorway E18 between Helsinki and Turku is finally completed

Helsinki Administrative Court rejects appeals over electronic voting glitch

F-Secure: Finland manages to cope with Downadup worm

Opponents of Lex Nokia to launch TV advertising campaign on MTV3

Neighbours not panicked by prospect of refugee reception centre

New companies set up at brisk pace

Wednesday, 28.1.2009

Government agrees on “gigantic” support package for corporate finance

Number of available jobs plummets in Helsinki region

Interior furnishings find buyers as consumer confidence perks up a little

International Organization for Migration denies having taken stand on deportation of Somalis

Malmi Airport to host two-day air display in August

Millions spent on anti-graffiti project

Police investigate suspected tax fraud scam in wood sales

TVO seeks EUR 2.4 billion in damages for Olkiluoto nuclear reactor delays

Tuesday, 27.1.2009

Helsinki ready to expand reception facilities for asylum seekers

Endangered species of plants and animals illegally imported as souvenirs from far-off countries

Ourvision Singing Contest to have 139 participants

Breaking News: Police officer in Kauhajoki shooting case to be charged with negligence

Environmental assessment of proposed undersea gas pipeline to be assessed by adjacent countries

Rush for Springsteen ticket sales causes online system to crash

Tina Turner booked for two dates in Helsinki in April

Subscription newspapers continue to be most important sources of news in Finland

Siemens to give up nuclear joint venture with Areva

Monday, 26.1.2009

Government to borrow billions to avert mass unemployment

Defence policy report: Finland “strongly” considering NATO

Laura Lepistö wins European title in front of ecstatic home audience

Intensive language studies may expedite granting of citizenship

Finnish man suspected of making millions out of seriously ill children

Centre Party and Swedish People’s Party may both lose one seat in EU Parliament

Vanhanen: no run for Presidency in 2012

Ahtisaari emphasises role in ending apartheid

Finnish economists share experiences about recession with Icelandic entrepreneurs

Markku Koski takes big air world title in Korea

Friday, 23.1.2009

Finland could give refuge to freed Guantanámo inmates

Economic crisis casts a long shadow on Nokia fourth-quarter result

Ministry threatens total ban on smokeless tobacco: Eckerö Line threatens to reflag another ship in Sweden

Report calls for nearly 5-year increase in retirement age

Russians again bought record number of Finnish properties

Tourism in Lapland more successful than anticipated

Two Helsinki hotels to be converted into refugee reception centres

Estonia to withdraw forces from Iraq

Joubert regains European title; Nurmenkari 14th

Nieminen and Bopanna progress in men's doubles in Melbourne

Pentti Kouri (1949-2009)

Thursday, 22.1.2009

Helsinki to propose study on possible municipal merger in capital region

Slump puts damper on surge in shopping mall construction

Nokia result plummets in fourth quarter

Ari Puheloinen to be new Chief of Defence

Bird hits Finnair plane’s engine; passengers to Thailand spend extra day in India

Fledgling birdwatcher President Halonen recognises common merganser near her official residence in Helsinki

Agreement reported on removing employers’ national pension contribution

Finns continue to take short-term consumer loans

Nurmenkari lands in tenth place after short programme

Wednesday, 21.1.2009

Closer scrutiny planned for election financing disclosures

Anti-torture committee criticises Finnish prison conditions again

Sauli Niinistö scores at opening of European Figure Skating Championships

Mayor Jussi Pajunen continues to believe in Helsinki-Tallinn railway tunnel

Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band to play Tampere in June

Ondine Records' Saariaho CD wins Midem Classical Award

Finnish fur producers fear that fur farming may no longer be profitable

Reuters survey anticipates markedly weaker last-quarter figures from Nokia

Amin Asikainen to continue professional boxing and perhaps change weight class

Tuesday, 20.1.2009

Mass job cuts at Metso cap grim day for job news

Minister Hyssälä calls time: National Agency for Medicines to be moved to Kuopio

Silver-Washed Fritillary spreads northwards with warming climate

Puska: fats and carbohydrates are not alternatives for each other

Security Police to offer spy recruitment resistance training

WHO study: Finnish school is not so black as it is painted

More than a hundred die in fires in 2008

Peddling vote over Internet proved costly

Choir conductor Professor Erkki Pohjola dies at 78

Monday, 19.1.2009

Finland to offer sanctuary to 50 Palestinians fleeing Iraq

More immigrants coming to Helsinki region from Asia

Sex used to recruit UN personnel as spies

Beware thin ice!

Support for Centre Party slips below 20 per cent

Government not ready to boost Greater Helsinki metropolis

Barroso invites Vanhanen to brief Commission on Finnish economic policy

Russia continues to ignore agreement to remove Siberian overflight charges

Nieminen forced to retire from Australian Open with leg injury

Friday, 16.1.2009

Swedish PM says Finland and Sweden do not need to apologise to each other over common history

Proportion of women growing in leading state jobs

Government plans to replace Russian anti-aircraft missiles with NATO version

Recession not yet being felt in Helsinki tourism

MP Pekka Haavisto named Foreign Minister’s Africa envoy

International Sibelius Conductors’ Competition to be postponed

Elcoteq to cut 5,000 jobs worldwide

Finnair cuts over 120 jobs

Supreme Court hands down prison sentences for insider trading by TJ Group owners

Thursday, 15.1.2009

Vanhanen proposes state investment programme for next decade

Fortum holding back nuclear application

Record number of voles found in Eurasian pygmy owls’ nesting boxes

Civil servant wants to use ferrets to trap Helsinki's wild rabbits

Espoo already envisions metro link through Suurpelto to Suvela

Vantaa fish finger episode causes lively debate

Israel promises report on destroyed Gaza clinic

Educated women in south of Finland most avid book readers in Finland

New York Philharmonic taking Magnus Lindberg to Asia

Speaker Sauli Niinistö to skate at opening of European Championships

Wednesday, 14.1.2009

Economic slowdown expected to keep food prices down

Baltic Sea creatures to get health checkup

Confiscated pirate products perhaps to be recycled in near future

Fraudsters cash in by selling non-existent puppies online

Pro-Israel march draws 2,000 in Helsinki

Police list of blocked child porn sites published online

Helsinki diplomats pay only a fraction of their parking fines

Dip in value of interest funds surprises investors expecting secure yield

Tuesday, 13.1.2009

Gaza conflict taken up in Finnish history classes

Satu Mäkelä-Nummela voted Sports Personality of the Year

Finnish government to pay undisclosed sum to Italian hydraulic car lift manufacturer

Astrid Thors wants companies to help train immigrants

No EU funding forthcoming for Helsinki-Tallinn train tunnel

50 stores held up by robbers in Helsinki last year

Finnish inventor suspected of fraud suddenly receives funding worth millions from USA

Support for Finance Minister’s stock option proposal from both management and labour

Former TV boss: Ice hockey violence should not be shown on television

Monday, 12.1.2009

FEEDBACK

Few parties put emphasis on immigration policy

Finns least aware of EU Parliament election

Surge of asylum seekers portends new record year

Transtech and Alstom interested in construction of rail carriages for Finnish Railways

MEP Ville Itälä wants national front to be formed to support Olli Rehn

Finnish inventor suspected of fraud

Katainen wants to put brakes on corporate incentive programmes

Sailas believes that many stimulus proposals by HS readers will be implemented

Friday, 9.1.2009

Kirsti Paakkanen sells her remaining Marimekko holding

Remorseful Somali man awaiting deportation fears return to former home country

Stuart Baxter signs on for the long haul; new contract extends to 2012 European Championships

Shooting in Jyväskylä apparently involved internal disputes between Roma people

City of Helsinki not offering housing or health services to itinerant Roma

Finnish nurse speaks of “sad atmosphere” at Gaza hospital

State Pension Fund ready to invest hundreds of millions into corporate bonds

Finns not overly eco-friendly in their holiday choices

Thursday, 8.1.2009

Radiation authority advises moderation in use of mobile phones by children

Companies announce hundreds of job cuts

Espoo Blues' dream of CHL final ends in home defeat

Breaking News: Three dead in Jyväskylä shooting incident

Fewer Finnish researchers are working abroad than before

Finnish man dies from infected wound in Thailand

Study: Foreign Roma panhandlers earn about EUR 10 a day

Finland sending aid to Gaza

Finland’s dependence on natural gas among lowest in Europe

National Opera to offer severance pay to seven soloists

Wednesday, 7.1.2009

Opening of last stretch of Turku-Helsinki motorway postponed further

Helsinki to expand its service lines operated by minibuses

Mobile phone courtesy campaign urges lower voices on public transport

Proposal for coercive treatment of pregnant substance abusers gets mixed reception

With enough food, birds can generally survive cold temperatures

Cold weather causes trains to fail in Vuosaari Harbour tunnel

Russia-Ukraine gas conflict could boost Nord Stream gas pipeline project

Transport permits in Russia can be prohibitively expensive

Monday, 5.1.2009

Foreign Minister Stubb calls for immediate Gaza ceasefire

Kuitunen and Saarinen score 1-2 victory in Tour de Ski

Coercive treatment to be proposed for pregnant substance abusers

Domestic help credit expanded and increased from January 1st

Speaker of Parliament announces surprise marriage

December 2008 was warm but unusually dark

More than 300 pupils will have to be located elsewhere after school fire in Tuusula

Companies lax on investigating abuses by subcontractors

Paakkanen “shocked” at state of Marimekko

Koivuranta caps yet another Nordic Combined World Cup event in Schonach

Friday, 2.1.2009

In New Year speech, President calls for further measures to reduce violence

Economic optimism plummets among consumers and industry

Emergency food for lorry drivers stuck in border queues during Christmas sparks controversy

Poll: Fighting unemployment seen as increasingly important goal

Security Police open older archives

EU Commission curbs use of Finnish flag and national appeal in marketing food

National Coalition Party spends ten times more on local election campaign than True Finns in Helsinki region

Weekly Articles

Tuesday, 27.1.2009

Pastor shares pain of factory workers facing redundancy

EDITORIAL: Shortage of candidates for Presidential Election 2012

COMMENTARY: Models of regional decentralisation

DEBATE: “Finland should accept prisoners from Guantánamo”

Spa and pampering businesses thrive in spite of recession

Chief of Defence-designate worried about poor physical condition of conscripts

Architects want polar bears on Korkeasaari

Suburban youths on their way to art history

Fashion: Marimekko reveals next autumn collection

Tuesday, 20.1.2009

Sufficient deterrence?

EDITORIAL Finland and Sweden - closer than ever on bicentenary of separation

COMMENTARY: Who'd want to move to the boondocks?

Parents complaining against schools more and more often

Helsinki sees demonstrations almost every second day

NEWS ANALYSIS: Finland building relations with Obama from reasonable position

Kovalainen wants to challenge Hamilton

Sápmi - a pale blue winter's dream in the far north

Tuesday, 13.1.2009

Destroying ghettoes in Gaza

Measuring common responsibility

Attempting to avoid the problems of Europe's immigrant suburbs

Self-censorship hit fast in early 70s

Helsinki Icepark is the hottest meeting point in town

When things looked bad for the National Coalition Party

Adam Malysz comes to Finland in search of extra metres

The Latte Calculator

Monday, 5.1.2009

Smoking ruins behind, thick mists ahead as the economy enters a new year

St. Petersburg families enjoy winter holiday at Punkaharju

COMMENTARY: Little red number trumped by wedding out of the blue

Security Police evaluated Finns’ intelligence and sex habits

Shoplifters have developed taste for tenderloin in Helsinki

COMMENTARY: Mournful Mideast fireworks usher in new year

Finnish harbours fear sharp decline in work

Scrapping of Finnjet advances at fast pace in India