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Finnkino, the leading cinema chain in Finland, has adopted brand new HD-ready digital presentation technology for opera screenings. The season opener, Salome, performed by the Metropolitan Opera in New York, played to full theatres. The opera had already been broadcasted live around the world. The latest hit of the cinema world is 3D. Finnkino...
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The Minister for Education and Science, Henna Virkkunen, wants to turn Finnish education expertise into an export item. A taskforce, whose responsibility is to prepare the export strategy, has already been established. The strategy will be presented to the cabinet by the end of 2009. Ms. Virkkunen said on Tuesday that Finland has excellent...
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Finland has the opportunity to become a forerunner in bioeconomy by taking advantage of the full potential of renewable wood, if we so wish, says Stefan Sundman, Senior Vice President of Energy and Environment at the Finnish Forest Industries Federation. A speaker at the Saimaa Summit 2009 Technology and Environment forum, Sundman demanded...
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Finncomm Airlines, in cooperation with Finnair, starts flying between Helsinki and Norrköping in Sweden. The route will be flown daily from Sunday to Friday. One-way ticket on the route may cost as little as 49 Euros including taxes and other charges. -We want to make flying accessible to everyone. The new route also helps to improve the...
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A waste effluent treatment plant built and developed by Kemira has been awarded an environmental prize in Germany. The prize was awarded by the Association for Studies and Promotion of the Economy of Schleswig-Holstein. The prize was awarded for the 25th time for new technology, product or operation, which contributes to sustainable...
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European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) will begin on Sunday, 19th July in Tampere. The festival is a competition organized by the European Olympic Committees (EOC) and it is directed to young European athletes. The event is held biennially both in summer and winter sports under the auspice of the EOC. The festival was launched in 1991, first...
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Rich in tradition, the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival started on Sunday. The festival, which was founded in 1970, is now held for the 40th time. The celebration of chamber music will continue for two weeks and the last concerts will be heard on Saturday 25. July. Up to 150 international and Finnish top musicians will perform in more than 70...
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A labyrinth made of a hundred thousand gerbera daisies radiates colourfully on Rautatientori, right next to the Helsinki Central Railway Station. The artwork, which has been created by the artist Kaisa Salmi, will be exhibited until Friday, when the labyrinth will be dissembled and all the flowers will be handed out to the viewers. The...
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Lemminkäinen Group's Lemcon Ltd has made an agreement on the project management contract for Cargotec's new multi-assembly unit (MAU) in Poland. The client is Cargotec Poland Sp. z.o.o. The MAU is being built in the county of Stargard Szczecinski, about 50 kilometres from Szczecin in Northern Poland. The total value of the project for Lemcon...
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The recent visit of a large-scale Chinese business delegation produced significant trade agreements for Finnish companies. The trade agreements signed between Chinese and Finnish companies during the visit totalled to 1,4 billion Euros. For instance Metso and Nokia received major orders to China. The Finnish-Chinese Economic and Trade...
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Outotec has reached an agreement with Eesti Energia for the design, delivery and construction of a new oil shale processing plant to be built in Narva, Estonia. The contract is valued at approximately EUR 110 million. Outotec has already made basic engineering for the same plant, which is scheduled for commissioning in early 2012. Outotec and...
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According to a survey carried out by the Federation of Finnish Enterprises, employees think that working conditions at small companies are particularly good. The smaller the company, the more open and confidential the relations between employer and employee. At the same time employees at small companies feel that their own chances of...
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eCommerce increased by 16 per cent in the second quarter of this year in Finland compared with the corresponding period last year. It was also up by five per cent on the previous quarter. The Vilkas Group's eCommerce index involves about a third of all the eStores in Finland, i.e. more than 800. At present, purchases at eStores are less...
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Kone was awarded a contract to provide a mix of new installations and modernization to all elevators and escalators at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The contract covers maintenance, new installation, equipment repairs and upgrades in each of the eight terminals at LAX and is estimated to be worth more than EUR 16 million. The...
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White-tailed sea eagle numbers are on rise again. This year 349 chicks have hatched, the biggest number since the start of the protection work in the 1970s. The previous record was 263 last year. Recently completed calculations found 327 inhabited nests, most of them holding one to two chicks, but in about ten per cent there were three. The...
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