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Coronavirus

'DELIVERY DIFFICULTIES'

Finland to face shortage of Covid-19 vaccines next week

Foreigner.fi 1/15/21

Business

AIRLINES

Budget carrier Norwegian Air to drop long-distance routes

Foreigner.fi/dpa 1/15/21

National

INVESTIGATION

Sweden moves to allow diving at M/S Estonia ferry wreck

Foreigner.fi/dpa 1/15/21

Work & Study

HIGHER EDUCATION

Kela warns of surcharges to 164,000 students who didn't pay health care fee

Foreigner.fi 1/15/21

World

MILITARY PARADE

North Korea marks end of congress with display of ballistic missiles

Foreigner.fi/dpa 1/15/21

Nordics

RECORD

Batman comic from 1940 auctioned for 2.2 million dollars

Foreigner.fi/dpa 1/15/21

Entrepreneurs

Who should take YEL insurance and when?

Foreigner.fi 1/15/21

Coronavirus

CORONAVIRUS

Finland to further tighten border traffic against new Covid-19 variant

Foreigner.fi 1/14/21

Coronavirus

EPIDEMIC

Decrease in number of Covid-19 cases

Foreigner.fi 1/14/21

Business

CONSUMER PRICES

Inflation 0.2% at the end of 2020

Foreigner.fi 1/14/21

Cigarettes, dwellings, telephone services and medical examination and treatment raised prices in December.

Album - Galleries

Gallery: Snowfall in Finland

World

PRISON SENTENCE

Algerian delivery driver to be deported from France for anti-Semitism

Foreigner.fi/dpa 1/15/21

Coronavirus

CORONAVIRUS

Nursing home cases drive Sweden's Covid-19 deaths over 10,000-mark

Foreigner.fi/dpa 1/14/21

Coronavirus

CORONAVIRUS

Norwegian king and queen vaccinated against Covid-19

Foreigner.fi/dpa 1/14/21

National

Slovenian foreign minister to visit Finland

Foreigner.fi 1/14/21

Coronavirus

VACCINATION

British prime minister announces round-the-clock vaccine centres

Foreigner.fi/dpa 1/13/21

World

BALTICS

Estonian Prime Minister resigns over party corruption allegations

Foreigner.fi/dpa 1/13/21

Moving to Finland

ESPOO, VANTAA

Migri cuts 525 places for asylum seekers in Helsinki region

Foreigner.fi 1/6/21

Moving to Finland

MOVING TO FINLAND

Citizenship applications are more expensive in 2021

Foreigner.fi 1/4/21

Moving to Finland

MOVING TO FINLAND

Migri says specialist permit processing time cut to less than half

Foreigner.fi 12/28/20

Moving to Finland

MOVING TO FINLAND

Applying for a visa on the basis of family ties during the pandemic

Foreigner.fi 12/25/20

Moving to Finland

POPULATION

Number of immigrants arriving in Finland triples that of emigrants

Foreigner.fi 12/26/20

The number of births was 7,410 lower than that of deaths.

Moving to Finland

Apply for the social security benefits and get your Kela card

Foreigner.fi 12/2/18

If you register in Finland as a permanent resident, you can apply for coverage under the Finnish social security system. Once you are covered, you will have guaranteed access to the residence-based social security services and benefits managed by Kela and you will receive a Kela card (Kela-kortti).

Work & Study

STUDY IN FINLAND

Finland offers 5,500 places for English higher education programmes

Foreigner.fi 1/5/21

Work & Study

NEW YEAR CHANGES

Changes to Kela benefits in 2021

Foreigner.fi 1/2/21

The following is a summary of the key changes in 2021 that affect the social benefits that Kela provides to workers, the unemployed, pensioners, families, students and people with disabilities.