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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.
The vandal tormenting swimmers in Oulu attacked again on Thursday morning. The big pool in the Raksila swimming hall was closed after excrement was detected at 09:40. The incident is fourth in the facility in a short period of time.
A survey done by the Technology Industries of Finland indicates that the country needs over 53,000 new workers by the year 2021. There is a serious shortage in the horizon. Education in the field is not attractive, especially to girls. Also many who start, soon drop out due to lack of interest.
Finnish game studio Remedy will unveil it's latest production at the E3 industry fair in Los Angeles in mid June. Little is known of the project, code named P7, but Remedy has confirmed that is not a sequel to Alan Wake.