Turku Ja Pori, Finland News

Finland's first shopping mall claiming to put out zero emissions of carbon dioxide is to be built in Pori.

The environmental impact assessment for a possible second generation biofuel refinery has been concluded in Rauma and Kuusankoski, Finland.

Finnish utilities Fortum and Teollisuuden Voima and Danish conglomerate Moller-Maersk said in a joint statement Tuesday they had struck a cooperation agreement to develop carbon capture and storage.

Nokia plans to furlough to 400 workers through 2010 at its Salo, Finland, despite predictions of a rebound in handset sales next year.

Cap and trade carbon dioxide if you like, but A.P. Moller-Maersk wants to ship it.

Nokia plans to cut jobs through 2010 at its only Finnish plant in the town of Salo, even though the company has forecast the handset market to rebound next year, a spokesman said on Sunday.

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The youth organisations of the Civil Guard had boys aged 10 to 17. Statistics Finland reports that 281 soldiers aged 15 to 19 died at the front.

The Finnish media has given an erroneous image of the Finnish forest industry, says Jussi Pesonen , CEO of the pulp and paper company UPM.

The Finnish Book Foundation on Wednesday awarded its 30,000-euro Finlandia literary prize to Antti Hyry for his Uuni novel.

SOME 2,000 white-collar employees at some of Finland's biggest companies, including Nokia, began a week-long strike on Tuesday after wage talks broke down, unions said.

The Finnish Aviation Academy has contracted with Frasca International, Inc. for two Embraer Phenom Synthetic Training Devices and an avionics trainer.

STX Finland Oy and the South African Department of Environmental Affairs have signed a contract for construction of a Polar Supply and Research Vessel.

South Africa has ordered a euro116 million multipurpose icebreaker from STX Finland, the Finnish shipbuilder said Tuesday.

The former Hanoi Rocks guitarist Andy McCoy and the Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett's group - The Real McCoy Band - split up yesterday after having completed just three gigs in Pori, Tampere, and Helsinki.

Medical officials are urging doctors to prescribe the anti-viral influenza medicines Tamiflu and Relenza to patients with swine flu - even if they are not in a high risk group.

The Finnish Aviation Academy has contracted with Frasca International, Inc. for two Embraer Phenom Synthetic Training Devices and an avionics trainer.

Dublin - Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Analyzing the Wind Power Industry in Finland" report to their offering.

The additional force of about 80 Finnish crisis management soldiers sent to Afghanistan to help ensure security during the Presidential elections in August will definitely be brought back to Finland in October.

To this end, Ruukki Metals is to initiate employer-employee negotiations regarding workforce reductions and temporary layoffs.