News from Finland

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Bottle cap turns tap water into drinks with alcohol: Mohito, Gin & Tonic…

EasySoda designs and manufactures bottle caps that turns water into soft drinks. Now the company is rebranding it's products to QAP and extends offerings to alcoholic drinks. Currently the company is designing and produ…

Low-cost airline Flydubai to start flights between Dubai and Helsinki

Dubai low-cost airline Flydubai announced that it is starting direct flights from Dubai to Helsinki. Daily flights are expected to begin later this year and also provide good connecting flights for passengers flying to …

Kuopio bioproduct mill plans inch forward as Hengan International purchases stake in Finnpulp

Plans to construct a major pulp and bioproduct factory to Kuopio moved forward on Monday as Finnpulp announced that is has started the designing the plan. This is driven by an investment by a Chinese company, Hengan Int…

Popular Finnish online store Verkkokauppa.com site hacked

Finnish tabloid Iltalehti reports that the popular online store Verkkokauppa.com was hacked in the weekend. When following the the Extra publication link, an unexpected banner was shown. It had an image of a shrouded fa…

The plastic Futuro "ufo house" was the 1960's vision of the future of living

The Futuro is a plastic house designed by architect Matti Suuronen in 1968. The world's only Futuro house open to the general public is located in Espoo, Finland. The fifty year old eccentric building is located in the …

Homeless man lives on a ferry on route between Finland and Sweden

Swedish Björn Mattson should have moved to by 330 kilometers to a new location. He hesitated and was thrown to the streets. Now he is living on a ferry boat traveling between Stockholm and Mariehamn indefinitely, until …