Siegfrieds hopes for Eurovision success
The Danish pre-contest favourite believes that this could be Scandinavia’s year, while Finnish contestant Krista Siegfrieds promises to celebrate whether she wins or not.
The Danish pre-contest favourite believes that this could be Scandinavia’s year, while Finnish contestant Krista Siegfrieds promises to celebrate whether she wins or not.
Finland’s mens ice hockey team lost 3-0 in their World Championship semi final against Sweden on Saturday in Stockholm. The Lions will play in the bronze medal match on Sunday.
A group of hard-boiled food enthusiasts has cooked up the ninth Restaurant Day, which takes place Saturday. The idea has been to feed a grass roots movement celebrating food, fellowship and community. Today’s festival of culinary delights involves more than 1,500 so-called pop-up restaurants in Finland and beyond.
Summer has finally arrived in Finland, with warmer than average temperatures and some lively bursts of thunder expected. That means the south and east of Finland are set for warm weather—and rain—this weekend.
Social Democratic Party chair and Finance Minister Jutta Urpilainen has rejected calls to appoint a new Foreign Minister, saying that incumbent Erkki Tuomioja is “the right man” for the job. The demands followed Urpilainen’s decision Friday to shake up the party's cabinet lineup.
Bus drivers who shut down their engines and walked off the job at a Vantaa bus depot last Tuesday will continue their work stoppage through the weekend. The drivers are protesting plans to introduce a new shift system, which they say provides inadequate rest periods. Employer and employee representatives have had no success resolving the impasse.
One of the world’s largest search engine providers has announced plans to fast track construction of a server centre in Mäntsälä, in southern Finland. Yandex, also known as the “Russian Google” says Finland is an ideal location for a server hub, partly due to competitive energy prices.
The SDP cabinet reshuffle announced Friday has transformed the makeup of Finland’s cabinet, tipping the balance in favour of women. The government’s ministerial lineup now features ten women and nine men. Finland was previously led by a majority female government during Matti Vanhanen’s second term and by his successor Mari Kiviniemi.
Thousands of supporters gathered in the Georgian capital Tblisi for a major gay rights demonstration in support of the Eurovision song contest and in honour of this year’s International Day against Homophobia. The backdrop to the demonstration has been outrage caused in the traditionally conservative country by a girl-on-girl kiss in the climax of the performance of Finnish Eurovision competitor Krista Siegfrids.
SDP chair and Finance Minister Jutta Urpilainen thanked her party’s ministers for their efforts following the announcement of a re-assignment of portfolios Friday. The new ministers are to be confirmed in their posts by the President next week. Urpilainen said that other changes are in the offing for the party's ministerial group.
Last year, Tieto announced the elimination of 1,300 jobs in a large scale restructuring programme. This time around the Finnish IT company is looking to downsize its consultancy and integration services and plans to cut nearly 200 jobs in Finland.
The Social Democratic Party on Friday announced changes in its line-up of cabinet ministers. Two are to be replaced while one will take over a new portfolio.
Warm temperatures nationwide and the chance of thunder showers in southern and central regions are making it look a lot like summer again.
Krista Siegfrids sang her way into the finals of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Mälmö, Sweden on Thursday night with this year's Finnish entry "Marry Me".
Physicians warn that many Finnish couples may be leaving it too late to bring offspring into the world.
The Finnish men's ice hockey team has blazed its way into the medals round with a 4-3 win over Slovakia.
Two Finns, Atte and Leila Kaleva, who were kidnapped in Yemen last December and held hostage for 140 days, appeared before the Finnish media Thursday for the first time since their release last week. Atte Kaleva said there were times when he feared one or both of them would be killed.
Parliament's Remuneration Committee says that although the salaries of MPs have lagged behind general wage development, this is not the right time for a raise.
With domestic sales slipping, the 62-year-old design firm is again tightening its belt.
The latest annual review of the human rights situation for sexual and gender minorities in Europe ranks Finland in 14th place, well behind the other Nordic countries and two spots down from last year. The evaluation looks at both equality legislation and its implementation.
Preliminary data from Statistics Finland indicates that the county's total greenhouse gas emissions have fallen dramatically, and last year were at their lowest level since 1990.
The Vantaa bus strike continued on Thursday, with 400 drivers at the Veolia company still off the job after they walked out in the early hours of Tuesday.
The popular video game Angry Birds by Finnish mobile gaming company Rovio, will jump off smart phones and onto the big screen in a new animated 3D film due to be released in 2016 by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
This summer promises to be another record-breaker for Helsinki when it comes to welcoming cruise ships.
Four military observers were released unharmed -- but with little clue as to why or by whom they were captured.
A couple held for 140 days in Yemen -- and freed under unclear circumstances -- will answer reporters' questions on Thursday.
A Helsinki court has dismissed bribery charges against three Finns in a long-running case that led to convictions of top officials in Costa Rica.
The Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle successfully printed and fired a shot with the "Liberator", the first 3D-printed plastic handgun.
Helsinki could yet become home to a new Guggenheim museum, despite an apparently decisive defeat at the city council last year. Yle reports today that a Helsinki communications firm is still lobbying for the project.
According to the Trade Union of Education in Finland (OAJ), threatening situations and violence in schools have increased in recent years. The union says more than 5,300 incidents were recorded in Finland’s 18 largest towns in 2012.
A co-founder of the Pirate Bay, a torrent site that enables users to share files, has announced plans to stand in the 2014 elections to the European Parliament in Finland.
The Finnish Lions struggled against Latvia in their final group game of the men's Ice Hockey World Championships, but eventually overcame their opponents with an overtime goal from Antti Pihlström.
The Arctic Council will hold its biennial Ministerial Meeting in Kiruna in the north of Sweden on Wednesday. Government representatives from Finland and the other Nordic countries, Russia, the U.S. and Canada will discuss, amongst other issues, whether or not to welcome in new members as observer states. Among the aspiring are the EU, China, Japan and India.
Twice as many packages sent to Finland are subject to Customs taxes than they were at the start of the year, due to a change in the law that lowered the minimum value of deliveries that fall under Customs jurisdiction.
Finland's Supreme Administrative Court has ordered the prompt release of a secret deal between Finland and Greece regarding collateral for Greece's bailout loan. The order to make the documents public comes after demands from a number of media outlets, including Yle.
Over 9,000 foreigners received Finnish citizenship in 2012, according to Statistics Finland. The figure is twice as many as last year and makes history as the most permanent foreign residents ever to be naturalised by the Finnish state.
A government agency has decreed an end to a 42-year-old partnership between two state-owned companies.
Energy issues are at the forefront as President Sauli Niinistö begins a two-day state visit to Lithuania on Tuesday.
Veolia bus company drivers have gone on strike on Tuesday morning in Vantaa, just north of Helsinki, throwing the morning commute into disarray for many.
The number of Russian speakers resident in Finland could match the size of Finland's Swedish-speaking minority within 40 years. Russian could replace Swedish as the nation's second-most widely spoken mother tongue.
A walkout by Veolia bus company drivers will disrupt services in Vantaa on Tuesday, with an estimated 150 bus departures being cancelled.
A Helsinki teacher fired after pushing a disruptive, abusive student out of a cafeteria, then reinstated with a warning, will not return to the school where the incident took place.
A Russian military aircraft did not violate Finnish airspace on Monday, according to a spokesman for Russia's Western Military District. Earlier in the day, Finnish officials said a Russian plane made a brief unauthorized entry into Finnish airspace.
The Austrian media reported on Monday that apparently 50 million dollars was paid to free the two Finns and one Austrian who were taken hostage in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on December 21st.
The Talvivaara Mining Company resumed ore production at the company's Sotkamo mine on Monday after heavy rains and leaks of process waste water forced it to halt operations in September.
The direct costs for managing alcohol-related problems in Finland are estimated annually to be 1.3 billion euros, according to the National Institute for Health and Welfare THL.
A Russian military aircraft violated Finnish airspace over the Gulf of Finland around mid-day on Monday.
The south can expect balmy breezes at the end of the week.
Starting Monday, Yle will broadcast TV news in English every day of the week at 3:05 pm on Yle TV1. Meanwhile, Yle1 will air its first Russian language TV news broadcast, Novosti, today at 4:50pm.
The popular Finnish pop band PMMP has decided to call it a day. Their summer and autumn touring calendar is already fully booked as they promote their latest album, but this new tour will be their last.
A new online trip planner will allow customers to calculate the cost of their journey in advance.
Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, will meet with Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen and President Sauli Niinistö on Monday.
Every year dozens of under-18-year-olds get married in Finland, according to the newspaper Karjalainen. The Ministry of Justice is the body that grants minors special permits to marry.
President Sauli Niinistö decorated 34 mothers with the Order of the White Rose of Finland medals in honour of their service to parenthood on Mother’s Day, celebrated on Sunday 12 May.
Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja and the Ministry of Defence deny claims by an Austrian newspaper that there were problems in Finland’s and Austria’s cooperation in the Yemen hostage crisis.
Each weekday, we broadcast a five-minute television bulletin of news from Finland and beyond seven days a week at 3.05pm.
You can find older broadcasts at Yle Areena. Listen to radio broadcasts here.
Yle News can be heard on the radio on weekdays at 3.30pm on Yle Mondo (3.29pm on weekends) and at 3.55pm on Yle Radio 1.
In the Helsinki/Uusimaa region, Yle Mondo can be heard at 97.5 FM, with Yle Radio 1 at 87.9 FM.
A comparison by Save the Children has found that Finland is the best country in the world in which to be a mother. Nordic countries topped the rankings, while those in sub-Saharan Africa propped up the list.
Former Nokia workers employed by the Indian IT services firm Tata Consulting Services (TCS) have walked off the job. The workers are facing the axe as TCS looks to downsize its workforce in Finland.
Thousands of supporters gathered in the Georgian capital Tblisi for a major gay rights demonstration in support of the Eurovision song contest and in honour of this year’s International Day against Homophobia. The backdrop to the demonstration has been outrage caused in the traditionally conservative country by a girl-on-girl kiss in the climax of the performance of Finnish Eurovision competitor Krista Siegfrids.
Finland’s Eurovision hopeful Krista Siegfrids says there's no secret political angle in her pop hit "Marry Me" -- apart from a call to avoid imposing gender-based limits on love.
The Indian IT services company Tata Consulting Services TCS announced Tuesday that it was launching negotiations aimed at shedding nearly 300 jobs in Finland.
