Japan, Finland affirm cooperation on North Korea, Arctic policy
The foreign ministers of Japan and Finland agreed Wednesday to work together in tackling North Korea's development of nuclear weapons, including through the full implementation of U.N. sanctions. "I want us to closely coordinate with each other to deal with North Korea and other international ...
Finland prevails over Olympic Athletes from Russia to claim women's bronze medal
For the third time in six Olympic women's hockey tournaments, Finland is the best of the rest. With the United States and Canada maintaining their stranglehold on the sport, the Finns claimed the third spot on the podium — the only one on they realistically ...
Yarns, stitches, loops and purls, instead of spins, flips and slides ... the Finnish team in Pyeongchang is using the soothing effects of knitting when Olympic pressure becomes too great. "It has become something of a hobby for me," said a smiling snowboard coach Antti ...
The Canadians are playing on their favorite stage at the Olympics, and their top line of captain Marie-Philip Poulin, Megan Agosta and Melodie Daoust is peaking at just the right time. Agosta and Daoust each had a goal and an assist, and Canada beat Finland ...
Finnish broadcaster targets youth vote with anime-inspired video
On Jan. 27, the day before Finland’s presidential election, a Finnish social media news and current affairs service called Kioski released an election video that caused a stir online, receiving over 700,000 views since its release. While President Sauli Niinisto’s landslide victory with 62.7 ...
Finland observes silence in honor of stabbing victims, quizzes wounded suspect
Finland has observed a minute of silence for the victims of a stabbing attack in the western city of Turku that left two people dead and eight injured. Hundreds of people gathered in Turku's central market square on Sunday to leave flowers and candles at ...
Finnish stabbings treated as terrorism; suspect targeted women
Finnish police said on Saturday that an 18-year-old Moroccan man arrested after knife attacks that killed two people in the city of Turku appeared to have specifically targeted women and that the spree was being treated as terrorism-related. The suspect arrested on Friday after ...
Finnish police say they are 'quite certain' they know Turku terrorist attacker's identity
Finnish police raided an apartment in the southwestern city of Turku on Friday evening and said it was "quite certain" it had identified the attacker who killed two people and wounded eight during a stabbing rampage earlier in the day, local media reported. The raid ...
Re-imagining Japan? Focus on the youth
It must have been in 2007 or 2008, during my graduate studies at a business school in Helsinki, Finland. I was sitting in a classroom with 30 fellow students when one of them asked us to raise our hands if we were considering a ...
Arctic's indigenous Sami fete national day, centenary of first congress
The indigenous people of Europe's Arctic north are celebrating their national day this week with hundreds of events across Nordic lands. Monday's start to weeklong festivities marks the centenary of the Sami people's first congress in Trondheim, Norway, in 1917. Seventy-five years later, the Sami ...
Finnish police detain six Cuban volleyball players in rape case
Finnish police have released two members of Cuba's national men's volleyball team but are holding six others on suspicion of aggravated rape, an investigator said Monday. Police will request that a regional court on Tuesday order the six men to be remanded in custody to ...
Microsoft to pare 1,850 more jobs in ailing smartphone sector
Microsoft said Wednesday it will cut up to 1,850 jobs and take a $950 million hit to its books as it attempts to salvage its rocky entrance into the smartphone market. The company acquired Nokia's phone business in 2014 for $7.3 billion, hoping to expand ...
