Articles tagged with "Finland"
Finland: Nurses to Strike; Traffic Accidents Increase in Helsinki
By Larry Habegger | October 18th, 2007 |
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Almost 13,000 nurses have threatened to resign Nov. 19 if the government doesn’t increase their wages 24 percent. Thousands of others have moved to Sweden and Norway since the 1990s... [Read this entry]
Finland: Phony Police Try for Credit Card Numbers in Helsinki
By Larry Habegger | July 4th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Police in Helsinki received three reports in June of con artists dressed as police stopping tourists to ask for their passports and credit cards in an attempt to obtain credit... [Read this entry]
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By Larry Habegger | March 15th, 2005 | Add a Comment »
Flight attendants for Finland’s national airline Finnair, the SAS affiliated Blue1, and Air Finland had planned to strike March 12 but postponed their walkout until March 26 to allow talks... [Read this entry]
Baltic States and Scandinavia
By Larry Habegger | November 2nd, 2004 | Add a Comment »
The U.S. State Department warned that it had received reports of possible terrorist attacks in the Baltic States or Nordic countries, and advised travelers or resident Americans to remain vigilant... [Read this entry]
Finland
By Larry Habegger | February 3rd, 2004 | Add a Comment »
The crime rate is low compared to the U.S. and other developed countries, and Americans are seldom crime victims. There has been an increase in racially-motivated crimes by “skinheads” against... [Read this entry]
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