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.
According to Statistics Finland, output of total industries adjusted for working days was 1.3 per cent higher in July 2011 than twelve months earlier. In June, output decreased by 0.5 per cent. In the January to July period, industrial output adjusted for working days grew by 3.6 per cent from twelve months back.
According to Statistics Finland, the value of new orders in manufacturing was 3.5 per cent higher in July 2011 than twelve months earlier. In the January to July period, new orders in manufacturing increased by 19.4 per cent year-on-year.
During the second quarter of 2011, the year-on-year increase in rents was 2.4 per cent. The rents of non-subsidised rental dwellings went up by an average of 2.4 per cent in the whole country. In the Greater Helsinki Area the rents of non-subsidised rental dwellings went up by 3.6 per cent and in the rest of Finland by 1.8 per cent. The rents of government subsidised dwellings rose by 2.5 per cent in the whole country. Compared to the previous quarter, the rents of non-subsidised dwellings increased by an average of 0.2 per cent and the rents of government subsidised dwellings by 0.8 per cent.