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A business man from Finland travelling in Kampala. The 40-year-old was found dead in a hotel room in the capital of Uganda. The man was in the country to sell Patria arms to the local defence force.
The Taxpayers Association of Finland (TAF) has released their annual calculations consumption taxes in selected products. When a consumer buys products they pay mostly Value Added Tax (VAT), but some products also have production taxes.
Helsinki Police discovered two dead bodies in Kallio district this week. Investigators suspect the cause of death is the potent drug Fentanyl. This drug is a new to the Finnish market.
Healthcare systems in the Lahti, Finland are unavailable - grinding health care services to a halt. According to the city officials the system outage is caused by malware mining cryptocurrency Bitcoin. The malware has not yet been identified.
Finland has a long history in shipbuilding. Even amids the global competition, the shipyards have managed to stay competitive. With strong know-how in niches like icebreakers as building high profile vessels for caribian cruiseline operators, Finns are known world wide.
Finland is a country with vast forests. Currently it is estimated there are around 22 billion trees in the country, supporting a significant industry. Produce from chemical and mechanical forest industry makes for a fifth of exports of the country, a number that has steadily decreased from the 1960's.
Alipay is a Chinese mobile payment application from the world's largest eCommerce company Alibaba. The payment method is making it's way to Finland and the nordic country will become the first "all Alipay" travel destination for Chinese.
Talks of a tunnel connecting the cities of Helsinki and Tallinn is something that continues to be a topic of discussion. The planned 100 kilometer undersea tunnel connecting the two capitals would be unsustainable as a business. Government officials say the boost to both economies would make up for operating losses.
There are plenty of jobs for developers in Finland. Large cities like Helsinki, Oulu, Tampere and Turku all have plenty of open jobs for software professionals. This can lead to some (positive) trouble, as it can be hard to choose between companies that seem identical from the outside.
A London court has ruled not to extradite Finnish-British hacker Lauri Love from the United Kingdom to the United States. The ruling was given at one o'clock finnish time. Love was present at the ruling and has earlier stated he will "only go to the US in a bodybag".