dataist: Interactive: The 100 richest people in Finland
Friday, 2 December 2011, 12:19
Jens Finnäs: “Every year in the beginning of [November] the [Finnish] tax records from last year are published. In other words: you get to know who made the most money. Every year the Finnish media outlets do a very conventional presentation of this m…
Friday, 14 September 2007, 10:20
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[Finnish startup] Floobs plans to offer a free television channel for everyone, enabling people to run live shows or pre-recorded material, for no charge, starting later this year.
Brits’ trips to Saint Nick’s irk Norway
Saturday, 26 November 2005, 12:01
British tourists’s flying to Lappland to visit Santa for Christmas are causing the traditional annual headache for air traffic controllers in Norway, Der Spiegel reports.
On the last two Saturdays before Christmas alone, 64 flights are scheduled to fly between Britain and northern Finnland. These flights all crowd over southern Norway, prompting the Norwegean civil aviation authority to add two additional air traffic contollers to each shift.
According to the Associated Press, 600,000 people visit Rovaniemi, Finland, each year with about 250 charter flights to the village in December alone.
Finland: world’s best county?
Wednesday, 10 August 2005, 13:55
Finland is the best country in the world to live in. Discuss.
