Government is clamping down on Finland’s gun law but does not plan to ban semiautomatic weapons. An investigation board set up to review the Kauhajoki school shooting has recommended banning the weapons. In 2008, ten lives were taken in a school...

Professions in Finland are still clearly split down gender lines. Finland ranks fourth in Europe for having the most gender-divided labour market. The division of men’s and women’s work also explains wage differences for the genders.

Several Finnish politicians on Monday demanded churches to break the strict confidentiality of confessions in order to reveal cases of paedophilia. Politicians feel that priests should be obliged to break confidentiality so as to avoid leaving children...

A former worker at AC drives manufacturer Vacon is suing the company over a dismissal resulting from smoking during working hours. The employee was fired from the company in the autumn of 2007.

The Service Union United (PAM) has left a strike warning affecting retail clerks and security guards. The one-day strike would take place on April 16th.

Half of 600 students interviewed for a study say they’ve been stalked by someone over a longer period of time. A doctoral dissertation finds there is little awareness on stalking in Finland. Victims are often familiar with their stalkers. Satu...

Greece’s fiscal crisis is responsible for the recent depreciation of the European single currency, the Bank of Finland said. The euro has been “impacted by the risks related to growing indebtedness and debt management among euro area countries,...

The 35-year-old Aaltonen drives her flatbed lorry up a narrow road to the mountain, where a rolling landscape opens up. There is even a volcano in the distance. A large litter of chihuahuas comes out. “We are not in any trouble here. We have a...

Rantamaki gave the Finns their second women’s hockey bronze when her centring pass ricocheted off a skate in a crowd in front of the Swedish net past Sara Grahn. The goal decided an ill-tempered contest between the Nordic rivals which feature...

Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Paavo Väyrynen has decided today, 24 February, for the third time to grant assistance from humanitarian aid funds to the earthquake victims in Haiti. The 400,000 euros now granted in assistance is directed at...