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The passenger count of on the recently opened Länsimetro extension to the Helsinki region metro line has not met expectations regarding passengers count. The number of daily passengers is around 10 percent lower than expected.
The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) research ship Aranda has been under repairs at the Rauma Marine Constructions ship yard since 2018. The ship was thoroughly repaired, but also extended by some seven meters.
The Varsinais-Suomi region in Finland has four new lottery millionaires as the winners of the 90 Million Eurojackpot finally claimed their win. The group waited for three months until cashing in their win, and plan to keep a low profile.
The Helsinki Outlet construction is well under way next to the Kehä 3 ring road close to Vantaa and Helsinki Border. Now the company building the outlet village has confirmed the stores that will be in the facility opening in 2019.
The United States embassy in Finland issues security alert in the whole of this Nordic country. According to a security alert on the embassy website the US government believes citizens are under threath.
The Finnish Communication Regulatory Authority has been mapping unprotected automation systems from networks in Finland. The 2018 results match those from previous years, with over 2,000 vulnerable systems being discovered.
The Finnish Border Guard suspects that a Zimbabwe woman was involved in human trafficking at the Helsinki-Vantaa airport. It is suspected that the woman was trying to take two 7-14 year old illegally through Finland onwards to Ireland.
Finnish police is worried about the increasing number of drivers under the influence of drugs. Drunken drivers are an increasingly rare incidents, but the number of drugged drivers is increasing. Drugs also play a part in more accidents.
Sisä-Suomi police reports of unusual events in Finland. A fifty year old man urinated on children's diapers and stole a knife.
Air quality in Finland is the best in the world according to a report from the World Health Organisation (WHO). The country has the smallest fine particle density on the planet.