News from Finland

This is an experimental news service that offers news from Finland in English. A venture from Malloc Enterprises, Inquiries by email: [email protected].

TAMK begins exports of education services to private university in Egypt

Tampere University of Applied Sciences, TAMK, has made an agreement to start offering education in Egypt. The first students will begin studies in January of 2019. The contract is made with a new private university in t…

Helsinki-Vantaa Airport voted as best in North Europe in SKYTRAX awards

Helsinki-Vantaa has been voted as the best airport in Northern Europe. The news come from Finavia, the organisation developing, maintaining and operating Finnish airports. The result comes in from the 2018 Skytrax World…

Yle open sources bot that writes ice hockey match reports automatically

Finnish national broadcasting company, Yle, today released their news writing robot's source code as open source. The robot writes complete articles from ice hockey reports. The "Lätkä-Voitto" robot is one of the experi…

A dog that raised a paw on the word "Hitler" infuriated the Nazis in 1941

A dog owned by a Finnish business man infuriated the Nazi officials during World War two. Documents show that months before Germany attacked the Soviet Union in 1941 the Nazis were spending time investigating a dog imit…

Telecom operators in Finland starting to block web sites with illicit content

Telecom network operators in Finland will start blocking access to web site with illicit content. The Swedish operator Telia already started applying the blacklist of sites with child abuse materials. Others are conside…

BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz drivers top speeding ticket charts

Finnish national broadcasting company Yle created a list of all car makes that received the most speeding tickets out of the top 30 brands. When put into proportion to the number of cars on roads in Finland, three Germa…