The Finnish Defence Forces plans to recruit Somali men and women living in Finland to serve as interpreters in the Atalanta crisis management operation in Somalia. In addition to language skills, the recruits must have military training and be able to...

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced that it will install a new server and infrastructure in India for messaging and push e-mail services. This step was taken to abide by the Union Government’s current stance to help the Indian law...

Tuija Brax (green), Finland’s justice minister, criticised working group proposals to ban organised begging, regional daily Turun Sanomat reported on Tuesday. During the summer, the interior ministry’s working group presented a preliminary...

Around 24,000 households were still without electricity in Finland on Monday morning after Sunday’s severe thunderstorms, utilities Vattenfall and Fortum told the Finnish News Agency (STT). Electricity to as many as 70,000 households was cut by...

Henna Virkkunen (cons), the Finnish education minister, told the Finnish News Agency (STT) that Sweden’s foreign student quota, introduced earlier this year, was discriminatory. “When students are divided into different categories they are...

Finnish military officials have begun training Somali security forces as part of an EU operation in Uganda. A total of 2,000 soldiers are to be trained during two six-month sessions, which are being carried out in Bihanga, Uganda for security reasons.

Finland has become the first country in the world to give its citizens the legal right to broadband internet access. Telecom suppliers will now be forced to provide all Finns with broadband connections.

Finland’s Ombudsman for Minorities dealt with nearly 500 discrimination complaints last year. About 50 of the reported cases were for discrimination at restaurants and bars. Officials believe that many cases of discrimination go unreported.

The opposition’s Left Alliance is starting its three-day party conference in Jyväskylä, central Finland, on Friday. Paavo Arhinmäki MP, the current chairman, looks sure to continue at the helm of the party as no other candidates for the post...

Team Russia crushed the Finnish Lions at the hockey world championships in Germany on Tuesday in a 5-0 shutout. Russia triumphed over Finland in the second group stage of the world championship, thus becoming the leader in the “E” group.