
Vlada Laukkonen Likes to Code, and She Encourages Other Women to Try it Too
According to Vlada, coding “gives creative power.”
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by Paulina Bouzas | Mar 8, 2018 | Headline
According to Vlada, coding “gives creative power.”
Read Moreby Tony Öhberg | Mar 3, 2018 | Headline, News
A family of seven children was about to be deported from Finland to Iraq. Then the small southern city of Loviisa stepped in.
Read Moreby Editorial Team | Feb 28, 2018 | Headline
The Finnish Olympic Team arrived in Finland carrying their hard-earned, shining medals and we caught it on video.
Read Moreby Tony Öhberg | Feb 17, 2018 | Headline, News
The Ähtäri Zoo’s panda house opened to the public today.
Read Moreby Tony Öhberg | Feb 15, 2018 | Culture, Headline, News
Chinese New Year celebrations took over the Helsinki center.
Read Moreby Tony Öhberg | Feb 15, 2018 | Crime, Headline, News
The police are investigating a bomb Bomb threat in the high-rise business district Keilaniemi in Espoo.
Read Moreby Tony Öhberg | Aug 27, 2016 | Crime, Headline, News
According to the customs, the suspects have sold drugs worth of 2 million euros.
Read Moreby Editorial Team | Apr 20, 2016 | Headline, Human Interest, Politics
The number of asylum seekers grew tenfold from 2014, and the debate surrounding the issue saw increasing polarisation, according to a new report by the EMN.
Read Moreby Morgan Walker | Apr 12, 2016 | Headline, Human Interest
We got a glimpse of the daily life of refugees in Helsinki who have been transported from unimaginable conditions.
Read MoreThe statistics reveal the amount of refugees suspected of sexual assaults. My choices for the Athlete of the Year. Clowns cartwheel against bigots in bomber jackets.
Read Moreby Tony Öhberg | Jan 12, 2016 | Headline
As much as 30 centimetres of snow is expected to fall during a snowstorm starting from Tuesday morning. The snowfall, according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute, will last long into Wednesday night.
Read Moreby Elizabeth Catherine Barr | Jan 9, 2016 | Arts, Culture, Headline, News
Here we are. A couple of freezing Canadians out into the frigid temps of a Finnish winter awe-inspired by the Lux Helsinki 2016 Light Festival.
Read Moreby Tony Öhberg | Dec 8, 2015 | Culture, Headline, Human Interest, News
The 98th Independence Day of Finland was celebrated in pouring rain and flying rocks but the guests at the President’s Independence Day reception were left in peace.
Read Moreby Tony Öhberg | Nov 22, 2015 | Boxing, Headline, Human Interest, Long-read
The Finnish heavyweight boxer, Robert Helenius, will fight for the European Championship title in December. I spent a year watching him turn into a true Nordic Nightmare.
Read Moreby Tony Öhberg | Nov 14, 2015 | Crime, Headline, News
Finland adjusts its security posture after the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday night, which left over 150 people killed in massacres around popular nightlife locations around the city centre.
Read Moreby Tony Öhberg | Oct 13, 2015 | Headline, Human Interest, News, Politics
With the aid of the Free Movement Network, about 50 Iraqi asylum seekers gathered to protest against deportation at the Paasikivi square in Helsinki’s Kamppi district on Monday afternoon.
Read Moreby Tony Öhberg | Sep 22, 2015 | Headline, Human Interest, News, Politics
Finland receives hundreds of asylum seekers daily. If the worst comes to worst, the borders may be closed from unruly immigration, according to the interior minister, Petteri Orpo.
Read Moreby Donna Roberts | Sep 11, 2015 | Culture, Headline
With about 70,000 sold tickets, a captivating sound system and well over 100 performers, the director, Tiina Puumalainen, brings the classic horror tale to life.
Read Moreby Alec Kyle Sibbald | Sep 10, 2015 | Culture, Headline, The Naked Cavalier
I know this crisis is bigger than we can comprehend but together people can do something and if we don’t it will be the shame of our grandchildren that we will face when they learn of our complicitness.
Read Moreby Tony Öhberg | Sep 9, 2015 | Headline, News, Politics
Everyone has to carry their responsibility to lift Finland from the economic rut. This is the common theme of the painful cuts planned by the government.
Read Moreby Tony Öhberg | Sep 7, 2015 | Headline, Human Interest, News, Politics
In the light of the number of refugees arriving to Finland daily, the country needs to establish 3-4 reception centres per week.
Read Moreby Donna Roberts | Aug 27, 2015 | Culture, Headline, News
On August 27 2015, HarperCollins will publish a new edition of ‘The Story of Kullervo’, one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s earliest pieces of fiction that was essentially a reworking of a story from The Kalevala and one of the most stunningly unusual and dismally tragic stories in the history of all known folklore.
Read Moreby Alec Kyle Sibbald | Jul 13, 2015 | Culture, Headline, The Naked Cavalier
As a sort of herald of life in Finland it is my duty to put straight the myths and inform of the wonders of the country.
Read Moreby Alec Kyle Sibbald | Jul 9, 2015 | Headline, The Naked Cavalier
For me summer is a time to indulge in a sun drenched, languid apathy. A barbecue here, a white wine spritzer there, nothing too fancy and nothing too potentially stress inducing.
Read Moreby Tony Öhberg | Jul 4, 2015 | Headline, Music
Her live performance was mesmerizing.
Read Moreby Tony Öhberg | Apr 14, 2015 | Headline
Lars Vilks, 68, the Swedish caricaturist who has received more death threats than can be counted by fingers and toes, and who is on the militant Islamist organisation al-Qaeda’s hit list and has been under police protection since 2007, will in spite of the threat arrive in Finland on Tuesday in the name of free speech.
Read Moreby Paulina Bouzas | Mar 8, 2018 | Headline
According to Vlada, coding “gives creative power.”
Read Moreby Tony Öhberg | Mar 3, 2018 | Headline, News
A family of seven children was about to be deported from Finland to Iraq. Then the small southern city of Loviisa stepped in.
Read Moreby Editorial Team | Feb 28, 2018 | Headline
The Finnish Olympic Team arrived in Finland carrying their hard-earned, shining medals and we caught it on video.
Read Moreby Tony Öhberg | Feb 17, 2018 | Headline, News
The Ähtäri Zoo’s panda house opened to the public today.
Read Moreby Tony Öhberg | Feb 15, 2018 | Culture, Headline, News
Chinese New Year celebrations took over the Helsinki center.
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