Evira: Don’t use datura-laced SOK veggies
The Finnish Food Safety Authority Evira has warned consumers not to use a frozen vegetable product sold by the SOK group that was found to be laced with seeds from the highly toxic datura plant.
The Finnish Food Safety Authority Evira has warned consumers not to use a frozen vegetable product sold by the SOK group that was found to be laced with seeds from the highly toxic datura plant.
One man died and another was seriously injured on Wednesday morning when they fell from a fifth-floor balcony in the Töölö district of Helsinki.
The state mail delivery and logistics company launched retrenchment talks in mid-April with the aim of cutting 350 jobs.
A meteorologist and storm chaser says that the kind of tornado that recently killed dozens of people in Oklahoma in the USA, is also possible in Finland. Finland suffered extensive destruction in a series of massive twisters that struck in 1932.
Finland’s Consumer Ombudsman has taken the manufacturer of the well-known Lotus brand of toilet tissue to court for aggressive marketing. The company has offered consumers who buy its toilet paper a chance to win a 100,000-euro jackpot prize. However the chances of actually winning are paper-thin: just one in 2.4 billion.
Research shows that small children don’t have an inherent tendency to bully their peers, but learn the practice from others.
This spring, tax badges became obligatory for builders -- and cleaning staff could be next.
The mine has been involved in a string of environmental mishaps -- and PR fiascos -- for more than six months.
Police say that housewares depicting the denizens of Moominvalley are in high demand -- including among thieves.
Finland ranks among the EU’s top 10 countries when it comes to purity of bathing waters – but just barely.
The unemployment rate in Finland declined slightly in April to 8.8%, down from March, but still higher than a year previously.
Work-safety inspections this year at about 20 small and medium-sized cleaning companies that employ immigrant workers have discovered problems at every firm checked. Yle has found that the City of Helsinki is considering contracting services from a company that was determined to have employment rules violations.
Five of eight Spanish nurses recruited to work in Vaasa's city hospital have decided to quit the jobs they took up in October and leave the country. The reasons they cite include the high cost of living, the cold climate, and the difficulty of the Finnish language.
A chemical discharge into Helsinki's Mätäjoki River has killed fish and possibly wiped out years of efforts to revive spawning grounds for endangered species.
Managing diversity in Finnish workplaces is raising new issues for employers, unions and workers themselves. One Sikh bus driver in Vantaa is currently fighting to set a precedent allowing him to wear a turban.
Bus drivers working for the Veolia company will return to work on Tuesday, bringing their week-long work stoppage to an end.
Several contestants in the Gumball rally were stopped for speeding on Monday, on the Turku-Helsinki leg of their unorthodox race. Police say that despite their concerns, the drivers are likely to escape Finland’s hefty income-based fines.
Yle News is building up a database of freelance journalists for occasional work in radio, television and online news production.
A mobile firm founded by former Nokia employees is set to put a new smartphone on sale by the end of the year. The company, Jolla, was set up to continue working on an open source Linux-based smartphone when Nokia announced it was switching to the Windows Phone operating system.
In order to cope with decreasing membership, the Evangelical Lutheran Church will be forced to reduce its staff significantly in coming years. Many congregations are facing dire financial circumstances due to the reduction in the tax revenue that flows as a result of membership.
Both male and female representatives of the Finns Party claim that both their party and its leader are in favour of gender equality.
Bus engines at the Veolia depot in Vantaa have been quiet for nearly one week, as bus drivers continue their work stoppage on Monday.
A fire on Kankurinkatu in central Helsinki's Punavuori district attracted more than a dozen emergency rescue units. Residents were evacuated due to the rooftop blaze, which broke out around 5:00 am Monday.
Finland’s men’s ice hockey team lost the World Championship bronze match to the U.S. in a thriller that went into overtime and a shootout.
A son and father went fishing on Näsijärvi Lake in the Pirkanmaa region on Friday. The son was later found drowned, while the father is still missing.
At present, Finnish legislation on rape is more lenient than in neighbouring countries such as Sweden and Norway.
Turning to the electronic gaming industry, more and more foreign companies are interested in setting up branch offices in Helsinki. Finnish firms also employ many foreigners, with about one-third of workers at major gaming companies from abroad.
As this is also Whit Sunday or Pentecost, many shops are closed.
The Social Democratic Party’s recent ministerial changes, which tipped the gender balance and created a female-majority cabinet, brought strong criticism from Finns party leader Timo Soini. He claimed the party had abandoned working-class men. Soini's comments provoked a strong response from the SDP.
The ESC title remains in the Nordic region, but the Finnish entrant failed to attract much support.
The Danish pre-contest favourite believes that this could be Scandinavia’s year, while Finnish contestant Krista Siegfrids promises to celebrate whether she wins or not.
Finland’s men's ice hockey team lost 3-0 in their World Championship semi-final against arch-rivals Sweden on Saturday in Stockholm. The Lions will play in the bronze medal match on Sunday.
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 line-up.
A group of hard-boiled food enthusiasts cooked up the ninth Restaurant Day, which took place Saturday. The originally Finnish idea has been to feed a grassroots movement celebrating food, fellowship and community.
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.
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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.
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.
Five of eight Spanish nurses recruited to work in Vaasa's city hospital have decided to quit the jobs they took up in October and leave the country. The reasons they cite include the high cost of living, the cold climate, and the difficulty of the Finnish language.
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.
The ESC title remains in the Nordic region, but the Finnish entrant failed to attract much support.
