Coronavirus

REPORT

UN: World's workers lost a tenth of their income during pandemic

Foreigner.fi 9/23/20

Workers in developing and emerging countries are more affected by the pandemic than richer countries because they have fewer opportunities to work remotely and because the informal labour sector…

Coronavirus

GROWING NUMBER OF CASES

Finland reports two coronavirus deaths in Helsinki and Tampere

Foreigner.fi 9/23/20

Government asks regional health authorities for reports on contingency plans to deal with the growing number of infections. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health says there is a real…

Coronavirus

EPIDEMIC

Dogs capable of detecting Covid-19 deployed at Helsinki airport

Foreigner.fi 9/23/20

Trained dogs can also identify the virus days before the symptoms have even started. This is something that laboratory tests fail to do.

Moving to Finland

NEW DESIGN

Migri launches new residence permit cards harder to forge

Foreigner.fi 9/23/20

The immigration agency will start issuing the new cards by the end of September 2020.

Work & Study

15 MILLION EURO PLAN

Government takes action against "growing" undeclared work

Foreigner.fi 9/23/20

It is particularly common in labour-intensive industries, such as the construction , restaurant and cleaning sectors. In the Eurobarometer survey in autumn 2019, almost 25% of the…

Moving to Finland

JANUARY-AUGUST

Immigrants keep Finland gaining population

Foreigner.fi 9/22/20

The number of births was 5,077 lower than that of deaths so far this year.

Work & Study

OFFICIAL FIGURES

Finland had 329,700 unemployed jobseekers at the end of August

Foreigner.fi 9/22/20

The unemployment rate was 7.7%, or 1.6 percentage points higher than the previous year, according to the Labour Force Survey issued by Statistics Finland.

News

JANUARY-AUGUST

Accidents claimed 149 lives on Finnish roads so far this year

Foreigner.fi 9/22/20

There have been 15 pedestrians killed and 14 cyclists.

Polls

POLL

2021 is not a good time to raise taxes, Foreigner.fi readers say

Foreigner.fi 9/22/20

Foreigner.fi will ask a different question about Finland and Finnish lifestyle every Friday on its official Twitter account @foreignerfi

Coronavirus

CORONAVIRUS

Finland reports 2 deaths and 188 infections over the weekend

Foreigner.fi 9/21/20

Finland has a cumulative incidence of 13.7 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the previous two weeks, according to data from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

News

UPDATE

Sini Ruohonen's husband admitted to police that he killed her

Foreigner.fi 9/21/20

The man was arrested on Thursday 17 September based on the police investigation.

Business

BUSINESS

Coronavirus crisis wiped out a fifth of Finnish international trade

Foreigner.fi 9/21/20

Travel to Finland, which is recorded as travel exports, was 87% lower in the second quarter than one year earlier. Travel from Finland abroad, or imports of travel, fell by 93%.