Finnish hockey forward Jarkko Ruutu has signed with Helsinki club Jokerit for the new SM Liiga season. It will be Ruutu’s first season in Finland since he played for HIFK Helsinki during the 2004-05 NHL lockout.
The Defence Forces and Sisu Auto have settled their dispute over faults in the company’s all-terrain vehicles. Conciliator Jorma Eloranta says that Sisu will correct the detected faults, along with any yet to be discovered, according to the terms of the warranty.
A 15-year-old boy left a backpack with bomb-making materials at the Vaisaaren koulu middle school in Raisio, near Turku, on Friday morning. Police picked up the pupil in the town centre mid-morning.
Angry Birds developer Peter Vesterbacka is not overly concerned about illegal copying of his brand in China, despite news this week that a theme park in Hunan had erected an unlicensed life-size version of the game.
A campaign to clean up the lively Helsinginkatu area in Helsinki’s Kallio district has had little overall impact. Police say alcohol-fuelled trouble continues to disrupt the neighbourhood.
STX shipyard in Rauma on Finland’s west coast has landed a giant order from a Norwegian firm. The yard will construct two oil well intervention vessels for Eide Marine Services.
Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen is to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel next Tuesday in Berlin. The visit was announced on Thursday evening by the online version of Verkkouutiset, the newspaper of his conservative National Coalition Party.
The world’s first-ever mobile apartment building began a sea voyage from the south-western Finnish port of Turku on Thursday. The completed three-storey block of flats is being delivered by sea to its future location on an island.
Austrian president Heinz Fischer is on a two-day state visit to Finland, coinciding with visits by Nordic cooperation ministers and the foreign minister of Mozambique.
In an address to Parliament on state finances on Thursday, Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen said Finland is entering a period of slower growth. He said he expects the Finnish economy to grow by no more than two percent in the coming years.