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Tue, 02 Feb, 2016 12:07:51 AM

Railway operations to continue on all routes
  A controversial decision to suspend railway traffic on several routes has been retracted in favour of continuing the operations.    The decision made last year to stop purchasing rail traffic at ... details
Tue, 02 Feb, 2016 12:09:44 AM
Provincial polls
Parties dump proportional representation
  A proposal for using the party-list proportional representation voting system in provincial elections is not going to be implemented.    The secretaries of several political parties told the news agency STT that the proposal ... details
Tue, 02 Feb, 2016 01:02:44 AM
  Toxic waste leaked out at a power plant on Monday in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, hospitalizing five persons, local media reported. The leak was caused by a fire caught at the Salmisaari power plant. Five people with symptoms of severe intoxication were sent to hospital, according to the Finnish national broadcaster Yle. Toni Fohlin, fire chief of the Helsinki Rescue Department, told Yle that the burning made the substance more toxic. Fohlin did not disclose what the poisonous substance was. He said that the fire has been extinguished, and the cleaning of the ... details
Tue, 02 Feb, 2016 12:08:39 AM
  About 60 per cent of the applications made last year to the national social insurance institution Kela were online.    The number of online applications saw a 15 per cent increase over that ... details
Tue, 02 Feb, 2016 12:03:43 AM
Symposium on intelligent transport systems held in Muonio
  Ministers from Nordic countries and Estonia at a meeting in Finland on Monday underlined the need for constructive cooperation in digitalisaiton of services in the transport sector, said a press release.   “If we want to turn mobility into a true service, we need a mindset that is innovative, forward looking and forward thinking and we also need constructive cooperation across borders,” Finnish Minister of Transport and Communications Anne Berner said at the Aurora Symposium on intelligent transport systems and services held in Muonio.   Berner met her minister colleagues from the neighbouring countries at the Symposium. She sees ... details
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