LIFESTYLE

These are the foreigners most wanted by Finnish women to get married

Foreigner.fi 15/Nov/2019

Yesterday we told you that 7% of women born in Finland chose to marry a foreign man in 2018. A percentage that fell last year compared to 2017, when 7.5% of women in Finland preferred to marry…

LIFESTYLE

Finland breaks the hex and enters history

Foreigner.fi 15/Nov/2019

Finland finally got it. The team trained by Markku Kanerva beat Liechtenstein 2-0 today and secured their place for Euro 2020. Finland and Liechtenstein played a pityful, schoolyard game, marked by…

LIFESTYLE

Sandstorm turns 20 and a radio station plays it for 24 hours

Foreigner.fi 15/Nov/2019

Sandstorm, the jewel in the crown of Finnish trance instrumental music, has turned 20 years old. And to celebrate it, the radio station Hitmix has decided to play continuously, during 24 hours,…

LIFESTYLE

Police to launch intense breathalyzer campaign before Christmas

Foreigner.fi 15/Nov/2019

The Finnish police is planning an intensive traffic surveillance campaign called ‘Sober in pre-Christmas traffic’ for the last two weekends of November (15–17 November and 22–24 November). Officers…

WORK & STUDY

Almost 50,000 open job vacancies in Finland

Foreigner.fi 15/Nov/2019

In Finland there were 48,500 open job vacancies in the third quarter of 2019, more than one year before when the figure was 46,900. Most of those open positions (89%) were in private enterprises and…

MOVING TO FINLAND

Finland sanctioned for violating human rights of asylum seeker killed in Iraq

Cesar Calvar 14/Nov/2019

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Finland violated Articles 2 and 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights in the case of an Iraqi citizen who was returned to his…

LIFESTYLE

7% of Finnish women married men of foreign background

Foreigner.fi 14/Nov/2019

In Finland, marriage figures have been steadily falling during the last decade, but this declining trend strengthened in 2018. According to Statistics Finland, in recent years…

NEWS

Police arrested suspect of 16 burglaries in homes in Helsinki and Vantaa

Foreigner.fi 14/Nov/2019

Helsinki Police Department is investigating a series of burglaries carried out between 22 September and 12 October 2019 in private homes in Northern Helsinki and Vantaa. According to Police…

NEWS

Tobacco, electricity, rents and hotel prices raised inflation in October

Foreigner.fi 14/Nov/2019

According to Statistics Finland, the year-on-year change in consumer prices was 0.7% in October. In September inflation stood at 0.9 per cent. The decrease in inflation from September to October…

WORK & STUDY

Women return to work after maternity leave quicker than before

Foreigner.fi 14/Nov/2019

In Finland, mothers return to their work places after family leaves quicker than before. In fact, in 2018 more mothers with small children were employed compared to 2014. During those…

BUSINESS & TECH

Turnover increased in all sectors of trade

Foreigner.fi 13/Nov/2019

According to Statistics Finland, turnover in total trade adjusted for working days grew by 3% in September year-on-year and the development was positive in all sectors of trade. Over the same time…

LIFESTYLE

History calls the Finnish National Football Team

Foreigner.fi 13/Nov/2019

Finns have always been great football fans. And the country has been able to produce some great players, such as Jari Litmanen, who played almost two decades ago as midfielder at FC Barcelona,…

NEWS

Foreign woman detained for organizing sex sales in Kajaani

Foreigner.fi 13/Nov/2019

The Oulu Police Department informed today that "a woman of foreign origin" is suspected of arranging the sale of sexual services at her massage center in Kajaani. According to police information,…

NEWS

Diaspora Glitz magazine wins Best Media at Afro Finns Awards

Foreigner.fi 13/Nov/2019

The editor-in-chief of Diaspora Glitz Magazine, Obi-West Utchaychukwu, has emerged winner of the Afro Finns Achievement Awards in the category of media. The awards gala night, which took place…

NEWS

Immigrants transferred 70 million euros to non-EU countries

Foreigner.fi 12/Nov/2019

Immigrants living in the European Union (EU) are sending growing amounts of money to their countries of origin, with Asia and North Africa being the most benefited regions. According to the…

NEWS

Auschwitz Memorial denounced display of a Nazi symbol in a Finnish bar

Foreigner.fi 12/Nov/2019

Auschwitz Memorial, the museum located in Poland that tries to preserve the memory of what happened in the most fearsome extermination camp during World War II, has denounced the use of a Nazi symbol…

LIFESTYLE

Citizens' initiative proposes permanent summer time in Finland

Foreigner.fi 12/Nov/2019

Permanent summer time -not to confuse with summer weather- is what new a citizens' initiative calls for in Finland. The promoters of the proposal have managed to gather 53,971 signatures of Finns…

LIFESTYLE

Cannabis use increasing among Finnish pupils

Foreigner.fi 12/Nov/2019

In recent years, there has been an increase in pupils in grade 9 who have used cannabis or simply experimented with this drug. A study published by the Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare…

MOVING TO FINLAND

'Husu' Hussein and the short legs of lies

Cesar Calvar 11/Nov/2019

There is an old Spanish saying that a lie has very short legs. And therefore, it is easier to catch a liar than a lame person. That is what happened to the Helsinki City Councilman Abdirahim 'Husu'…

LIFESTYLE

Six-language survey opened to ask people about reform of Climate Change Act

Foreigner.fi 11/Nov/2019

The reform of the Climate Change Act has now begun, informed the Finnish Ministry of the Environment in a press release. The first phase of the reform is hearing citizens’ views on what the new…