Fri, 21 Jun, 2013 03:15:30 AM No bonfire at Inari and Utsjoki
Markets, shopping malls to remain close until Sunday Finnish people from all walks of life have been poised to celebrate the Juhannus, one of the largest traditional festivals, as the festivity set to begin on Friday evening.
They will be thronged to ... details
Fri, 21 Jun, 2013 12:00:04 AM A court on Thursday sentenced a criminal gang member to life term imprisonment on charge of killing a person and wounding another with fire arm in Joensuu on the ... details
Fri, 21 Jun, 2013 03:22:44 AM The authority on Thursday suspended chief director of North Ostrhobotnia Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (ELY Centres) Matti Räinä on charge of breaching rules during a seminar abroad.
Räinä and Tapani Pöyry, another former chief director of ELY in Lapland, reportedly remained absent from most of sessions while they were in a five-day conference in Mexico.
They were present in the conference for only two days while during the rest three days they were in vacation, it was reported. But they denied the charge.
They claimed that they worked in the conference in different ways.
Following ... detailsFri, 21 Jun, 2013 12:00:33 AM The Minister of Labour, Lauri Ihalainen, on Wednesday called on the world community to upgrade the standards of work and to ensure basic rights of workers, said a press release ... detailsFri, 21 Jun, 2013 03:53:09 AM Six proposals were chosen from more than 250 proposals for the second and final stage of the Winter War Memorial Art Competition, said a government press release on Thursday.
The objective of the art competition is to obtain proposals for a national memorial for the Winter War to be located in the Kasarmitori square in Helsinki.
The unveiling of the memorial is scheduled for March 13, 2015, marking the 75th anniversary of the end of the Winter War.
The proposals chosen are those of Abel Groenewolt, Pekka Kauhanen, Olli Mantere, Kai van der Puij, Timo Ripatti and ... details |
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