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Like other industries, policing is facing changes due to digital technology. The response of the Finnish police to this is the Cybercrime Center of the National Bureau of Investigation. The unit is seeking new employees to fight high tech crime.
The Finnish government is proposing a subsidy of 400 € for purchases of electric booster bikes. If the proposal passes it will come into effect on July 1st 2018. The final decision will be made soon and punters could buy discounted e-bikes already this spring, just in time for the prime cycling season.
Over 50,000 people's initiative to remove inheritance and gift taxes. The initiative to change the tax legislations is still available for signing on the Kansalaisaloite site. The Finnish parliament will process initiatives that receive over 50,000 signatures within the first six months of it being published.
The tax officials in Finland offer customer services businesses in Chinese. The company has translated some of their content into Chinese, but the key is the China Desk customer service. The officials are expanding this service to the popular mobile messaging service WeChat.
The North Korean official Choe Kang-il landed in Helsinki-Vantaa Airport on Sunday March 18th 2018 at 14:07. According to sources the man is in charge US relations and is in the country to discuss about Nuclear Weapons.
Financial newspaper Kauppalehti reports that the Finnish Antti Herlin has bypassed United States president Donald Trump on the list of the richest people in the world. He is the former CEO and current chairman of the board for Kone.
Swedish companies Skanska and IKEA will start building the first wooden five story apartment block in Finland in the summer of 2018. The site is located in Vantaa's Koivuhaka area and will also host two smaller apartment buildings.
The foreign ministry of Finland confirms that a North Korean official will be visiting the country on Sunday March 18th 2018. Neighboring Sweden also got a visitor from the communist state earlier this week.
An Italian man who went on a photographing trek in Finnish Lapland. The man got lost, but the local police found the man using a remote controlled drone, which guided him to safety.
The Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant in Finland is the second most expensive building in the world. It is second only to the luxury hotel complex Abraj al-Bait in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.