It was
mainly targeted at Housing Minister
Krista Kiuru (SDP) because of her
promise of a six-fold increase in the
production of rental housing.
In a newspaper interview, in
autumn 2011, Kiuru said that the
construction of 3,000 new statesubsidised rental ?ats and houses
would commence in 2012, compared
with slightly under 500 in 2011.
The economic survey conducted by the Confederation of Finnish
Construction Industries published
in February reveals that in 2012, the
state gave ?nancial support for the
building of 1,240 new rental ?ats
and houses in the whole country.
In the capital region, the ?gure remained as low as 340 even though
there are now more than 40,000
households in queue for state-subsidised housing offered by the
Housing Finance and Development
Centre of Finland (ARA).
When presenting the interpellation in parliament on Friday, Kimmo Tiilikainen, chair for the Centre
Party parliamentary group, also
lambasted the government for spiralling house prices and the problems this caused for people wanting
to get on the property ladder.
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Krista Kiuru (left) promised an increase in the production of rental housing.
?The government now has a
couple of weeks to propose measures in the budget framework talks
and give an answer to our interpellation. Juha
Väätäinen, a Finns Party housing
expert, believes that Helsinki will
grow into a city with a million residents during the next 20 years.
?We will probably need around
7,500 reasonably priced houses and
?ats every year,. We also take a look at a new
guide, which helps foreign students to navigate within Finnish
student and working life.
See pages 10-11
EAT & DRINK
Local bakery reinvented
Kakku & Leipä Keisari bakery
offers hand-made, locally-produced fresh cakes and breads in
the heart of Sörnäinen.
See pages 15-17
Talvivaara
battles with
financial and
environmental
concerns
Opposition challenges
housing minister over promises
Number of new rental
flats in capital region
doesn?t meet the demand.
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than four months have
passed since a leak of waste waters
temporarily suspended Talvivaara
Mining Company Plc.?s nickel production at the mine in Sotkamo
(Kainuu). ISSUE 11 (293) . said Tiilikainen,
speaking in a press conference given on the interpellation.
Helsinki to
have a million residents
With the increase of housing production in the capital region proving to be a double-edged sword,
particularly for the Centre Party, the interpellation critisises the
goverment for the regional development policy that has led to houses
being left empty in smaller towns.
The Finns Party enjoys much great-
er popularity in the capital region than the Centre Party. ?It is our demand
that Talvivaara is stopped?, said Leena, one of the demonstrators. 20 MARCH 2013 . HT
Party, the Finns Party and the two-member Left Faction
tabled a joint interpellation on housing policy last Friday, 8 March. ?3 . Väätäinen commented. The incident, which occurred in early November 2012, was
the cause of a major environmental
concern. The opposition would like
to see the letting of privately owned
houses made easier, even though
the idea of reducing capital taxes on
rental income has not been warmly
received.
Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner, chair
of the Finns Party parliamentary group, would prefer to discuss
changes in regulations in order to
make investing in rental property a
more appealing proposition.
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and the rest of the protesters believe
that the miner is not taking enough
measures to address the environmental impact on the Kainuu region.
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OLLI KEMPPAINEN . It also added up to a seemingly unfavourable streak that has
affected the mining company for
some time now.
On Friday, 8 March, an extraordinary general meeting of Talvivaara?s
shareholders was held at Finlandia
Hall in Helsinki. If the share issue hadn?t been
supported by the shareholders, the
Espoo-based miner would have been
close to running out of funding, which
would have jeopardised its ability to
continue its operations in Sotkamo.
The second aim of the meeting of
shareholders focused on trying to
keep the company a?oat. 14 . Let?s see if they will have
something to offer, or if it will just
be pretty words,. Supporters of the Stop Talvivaara initiative
gathered outside Finlandia Hall to
demand the immediate closure of the
mine?s operations. S T T
NIINA WOOLLE Y . The gathering resulted in backing the decision of an issue
share aimed to collect 260 million euros
The biggest challenge
for love is ability, it?s not
just I love you, it?s more than
that. A man?s job is to date the
woman, make her happy, kiss
and hug her. If you give the man another ten years, he turns into a good guy. People come to
the seminars to learn about
relationships and after that
I encourage them to marry.
I?ve married 50 couples so far
and many of them now have
babies, it?s fun for me. If a machine
doesn?t work you need to ?x
it. So I did this
unconsciously or consciously for many years until ten
years ago, when I became serious about helping people. and as a team.
My winning is your winning;
your survival is my survival. And
The man?s job is to date the woman, make
her happy, kiss and hug her. If you talk to them
and ask them and invite
them then they talk more,
it?s really beautiful. Sometimes people try to have a rule, it kills
people because everybody
is different. You live on one
side of the world and you are
always wondering what is on
the other side, how people
live and fall in love. I try to give
seminars to educate people. If kids make noise,
you don?t hit them and wait
for them to grow up. At the beginning love is
enough but then it?s a matter
of communication.
suffer and divorce. They
are very independent, which
is a good quality for starting the marriage. For a successful relationship you have to
think as ?one. The husband works
too, so when he works you
are free and you do your job,
and then after working you
have to come back and do
your job at home.
We have many jobs as students, teachers or mothers,
and sometimes we forget to
do them. We do the job by
talking instead of suffering
and getting crazy.
then one day he had an appointment and he told me,
?You go!. I?ve given many speeches and written 20 books. Then I became a
consultant. People should learn how to
manage a relationship like a
business.
When and why did you start
your job as a management
consultant?
I started 20 years ago because of my husband. Sometimes I saw
girls who liked somebody but
couldn?t express it or people
who wanted to fall in love but
were scared, and I encouraged them. Men
are not bad people and women either. Banafsheh
Ranji sat down for a chat with her at the Sokos Hotel Presidentti in Helsinki.
Couples should be educated about relationships
BANAFSHEH R ANJI
HEL SINKI TIMES
What brings you to Finland?
It was by accident. it?s so sad. He has to tell
her that he loves her and she
is beautiful. they are cold too. He has to tell
her he loves her and that she is beautiful.
up because women are more
mature than men at the same
age. or ?I
like the guy, what is next?. People, after ?nishing their work, forget that they are wives. If you have children
and you aren?t a mom and you
just work, the same problem
would occur.
So I think you need to
have a schedule book. I?ve been
to many places to research
about people?s marriages, to
see how people fall in love,
how the family life is and how
they face relationships. No one
teaches people, so when they
have dif?culties, they break
up . I?ve never been in
Finland and it was my dream
to be here and see what is
happening. They are quiet like snow but very deep.
Why and when did you start
to be a relationship expert?
When I was a teenager, people who had problems came
to me and asked me, ?I?m in
love, what should I do?. I think my mission in life is to understand
life and help people to fall in
love and marry. When
I am at work I act as a boss,
but when I come home I don?t
talk to my husband as a boss,
I need to change it. If you
marry a business consultant, you do what he does.
Sometimes in the beginning
of our marriage when I was a
housewife I helped him. For example, a
woman like you works, you
are not like everybody else,
What is the current greatest challenge with respect
to relationships?
The biggest challenge is in
communication because people don?t learn how to talk.
You go to school, but you never learn how to talk. Once you
talk to them or ask questions,
you ?nd out that they are
friendly. I lived
in Istanbul and different
friends of mine asked me to
come to Finland for the Tango Festival. 2
14 . In
most cases, the woman regrets the divorce, she loves
the husband and misses
him, but thinks that she can
live alone, and then she becomes stronger and colder.
Most people divorce during
the ?rst years. So somebody needs to
initiate, then it?s very good.
Finland has one of the highest divorce rates in Europe,
what do you think about
this?
One of the reasons is that
people are too self-centred;
they don?t think as one, they
think they are separate. But if you think that I am
?myself. I
think that?s the thing, maybe people are very independent here, they do everything
themselves, they are all
?one?.
Also I think it?s because
of the women?s personality. You
need to have a family meeting at least once a month and
set an appointment to discuss at a ?xed time, but not in
the middle of dinner or while
you are watching a movie! We
need to talk about who does
what this week.
It?s not important who
cleans the toilet, but it?s very
important that we have an
agreement about who cleans
this week. So you need
to know when to do what.
so the man who ?ts you is different from the man who ?ts
a housewife. They are
very honest . People
talk in a bad manner or they
don?t listen, making a relationship dif?cult. and we are ?half. All my
life, my dream and goal was
to be a housewife, now I am
happy with marriage and
I have the time to do many
other things.
Have you found Finnish people quiet, especially men?
When you don?t talk to them
they have no expression and
they are quiet, they are like
snow and statues. She recently came to Finland to participate in the Tango Festival. it was a surprise for me. I
did it for entertainment and
fun, and then I thought that I
want to do in my life, so I took
it more and more seriously
and now I have really got into
this as a business and I think
that I?m really good at this.
This is part of my nature and
I do this every day. I am willing to
talk; if I don?t talk, they don?t
talk. You have your
own culture but the trick is
having family meetings. and
?half?, you won?t succeed. So I
have been in many parts of
the world but it?s not ?nished
yet, and what I have found so
far in all places is the same.
People in Finland are very
friendly and kind, they have
their ways, they are very quiet, pure, calm and sweet but
not passionate. When men get
older they become attached
to women.
I think sometimes I need
to educate people to be patient and to grow up, people
go to school but no one teaches them. I found that
in 80 per cent of cases the
person who wants a divorce
is the woman, not the man.
And whenever they want to
get divorced, they are strong
and stubborn. But when
they come to a seminar they
usually go through their marriage better.
Lots of people who divorce are in love but they
think they can?t take it. I think people
have posts as wives and husbands, I mean it?s a position
of work.
For instance, today somebody didn?t come to work but
someone else should cover
her or his absence. I was a teenager
and I was kind of interested naturally. People don?t talk
and then they get mad. All
the cases that I had were not
about someone with bad intentions, they just never
talked and they didn?t know
things about each other. My husband says as soon as you
come home and you look like
a wife, it?s okay, but at work if
I have to be strong and ?ght,
I do, and there is nothing
wrong with that. If
you can talk you don?t mind
that he goes out and drinks.
But people say: why did you
come late?
Then you don?t know how
to do the next thing. I have
a communication class and
teach people how to express
their emotions and how to
talk. Men usually don?t want to, even when
they make mistakes and it?s
their fault.
I suggest that women
should change to be softer
because men are babies, they
grew up with mother?s love,
they are used to being taken care of by women. So they
require men to initiate, but
nobody starts. When you go home
you start to understand that
it?s another job and you do
what a housewife should do:
you clean and cook, you love
your husband. Women should think as a team
and wait for the men to grow
an. But lots of people get tired and they don?t
talk and for a wife it?s boring.
The husband comes home,
drinks, eats and watches TV
and never talks and that?s the
problem.
How do you balance family
life and being a management
consultant?
When you are a business consultant, it?s a post at the of?ce, but as a wife it?s a post
at home. They continue to work,
they don?t accompany their
husband. I
was very interested in these
things. I
wish I had a chance to give a
speech here for these people.
Husband and wife don?t go to
learn and then at home they. [There
is a saying] that if you marry
a chicken you do what chickens do, if you marry a dog,
you do what dogs do. Women
here grow up in cold weather
. Your
mother just talks to you but
never corrects you. That was my love
story actually.
What is the role of the husband then?
A husband should be a sweet
talker and give the wife attention and then he should
enjoy having the woman with
him. Women are strong, smart
and fast, they work so they
don?t need ?nancial, mental
and emotional support. In some families the
man takes care of the baby
or in a lot of Chinese families
the man cooks, there is not
any set rule. People never learn how
to fall in love and how to have
sweet talk and how to approach people in a correct
way. If you talk
rightly, you don?t mind that
she is not dressing right. 20 MARCH 2013
Q&A
HELSINKI TIMES
Hellen Chen is an international speaker, author of 20 books on
the subject of relationships, and a business consultant. At work
we are willing to help but in
the relationship and marriage we aren?t. and you are ?yourself. They
think I?m with you half way.
They don?t think that I?m with
you all the way. They
come home and they work as
a consultant and super wom-
So you believe that women
and men have ?xed roles?
You don?t have to have ?xed
roles, but I believe every
family has its own culture,
they don?t all have to be the
same
The price of nickel
has also dropped considerably, which resulted in Sotkamo mine?s production falling
to less than half of it?s projected ?gures for 2012. Talvivaara?s effort
to drain some 1.8 million cubic metres of processed waste
waters into the environment,
sanctioned by Kainuu ELY
Centre, began on 6 March.
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tickets and
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Validity from 2
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Buy from ticket
machines, bus and
tram drivers, as
well as conductors
on commuter trains
or by mobile
phone. They consider it absurd that the government charges the mining
companies zero per cent tax-
point of view. Still today, four
months after the spill, their
new waste water dumping
operations will cause huge
damage to the lake system,
®
the neighbours, and ?nally to
the company itself?.
Hours after the meeting
in Helsinki, the headquarters
of Talvivaara in Espoo was attacked with a smoke bomb by
three unidenti?ed persons
during the day, which luckily
left nobody injured. The swindle was revealed at a checkpoint when it turned out that
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Parliament green-lights constituency reform
the Canadian?s companion
didn?t speak a single word of
Swedish and couldn?t answer
a question posed to her by a
border guard. After rising steadily
since the start of the mining
operations, the value of the
company?s shares has fallen
about 80 per cent in the last
two years. Finland scored
?rst, followed by Sweden,
several jurisdictions from
Canada and US, and Norway.
The report is based on the
answers of 742 executives
from mining-related companies, who were asked how
15 policy factors, from environmental regulations to
taxation regime, affect the
mining industry. In addition, some ruling party MPs from Eastern
Finland, where the planned
electoral ward consolidations will be enforced, abstained from voting.
Parliament?s Constitutional Law Committee voted 11-5
in favour of the reform on 20
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February, with the Finns Party and the Centre Party opposing the proposal. DOMESTIC
HELSINKI TIMES
14 . Under
the proposal, the electoral
districts of North Karelia and
North Savo will be merged to
form Savo-Karelian district,
and South Savo and Kymi will
make up the electoral district
of Southwest Finland.
The legislative amendments should be in effect by
the beginning of September
and the new electoral division in use for the ?rst time
in the 2015 parliamentary election. She recently
applied for political asylum
in Finland.
The Canadian citizen was
detained on suspicion of organising the illegal transfer
of people to Europe.
During the investigation,
the border guard discovered
that the ?ight ticket was
bought with a stolen credit
card, while the computer and
smartphone of the Canadian
citizen contained information regarding 15,000 cases
of illegal access to bank accounts with overall 70,000
euro in damages. The Canadian citizen has been detained
and will face a court hearing
in July.
change as agreed in talks
with the government. Concentration
of uranium in drinking water
should not exceed 100 mg/L.
According to Tarja Ikäheimonen, a director at STUK,
the water must be thoroughly neutralised or contained in
the pond. A parliamentary working group will start
drafting a constitutional
amendment required for the
Finnish border guard
discovers a chain of
illegal immigration
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that specialised
in the illegal trade of people from Syria to Schengen
countries was recently captured by the Finnish Border
Guard Service. In her opinion,
glaring ?aws in the system
are now being highlighted in
other regions. In this
second phase, the interests
of small and large parties do
not coincide.
Johannes Koskinen (SDP),
the committee chair, believes
that the proposal of 6-12 electoral districts was thrown in
willy-nilly. she stressed.
Brax believes that the reform is inadequate, albeit bene?cial, from a voter?s
Talvivaara operations
could restart this summer
Financial future of the company seems
ensured, but environmental problems remain.
HEC TOR MONTES . 20 MARCH 2013
3
Electoral districts in
eastern Finland will
be merged.
RIS TO JUSSIL A . You can
transfer from one
vehicle to another
with a single ticket
within the validity
of the ticket.
www.hsl.?. S T T
NIINA WOOLLE Y . The Police
have not released any statements on the identities or af?liations of the aggressors.
Talvivaara?s operations in
Sotkamo started in late 2008
and since then, the miner
has faced strong obstacles
and opposition from many
fronts. HT
of Finnish constituencies will be reduced
by two for the next parliamentary elections, after the
parliament voted 83-63 in favour of amending the Election Act to allow the planned
constituency reform on 6
March. He emphasised
the need to do the preparation with great care, pointing
out that the whole election
system would be changed if
the number of electoral districts went down to six.
Tuija Brax (Greens) noted that all citizens are enti-
tled to universal and equal
suffrage. He added that ?despite claiming the opposite,
their methods are poor and
violate Finnish and EU regulations. ?We have appointed a new
general manager for water
management, Maija Vidqvist?,
continues the Deputy CEO and
explains the new strategies for
reducing the environmental
impact of the mine, such as diverting the local water courses
to minimise contact with operation waters, and constructing preventive dams.
The environmental adequacy and restart of operations of the Sotkamo mine
could be of major signi?cance
for Kainuu. area run the risk of
their vote going to waste.
?There must be equal rights
for everyone,. ?Our ?rst goal is to
be prepared for the spring
melt?, says Miettinen-Lähde. If Talvivaara is
able to restart its operations
as planned, the economic
bene?ts for such an economically depressed region could
be very positive.
The main question that
remains, however, is whether
the miner will be able to minimise its impact on a region
known for the natural beauty of its lakes and forests.
Mining paradise
or environmental hell?
On 4 March, the Fraser Institute (Canada) issued its
annual report on worldwide
attractiveness for mining
investment. HT
ST T
Continued from page 1
JARI NATUNEN,
PhD, a biochemist consultant for Stop
Talvivaara, stated that the
miner ?has caused environmental problems from the
very moment it started to
operate?. The reform aims
to reduce the differences in
the sizes of the constituencies and cut the percentage
of votes required for a candidate to be elected.
The new electoral division will be used for the first time in the 2015 parliamentary election.
Small and large parties
have different interests
This is only the ?rst phase
of the reform with the goal
being a further reduction
in the number of electoral districts. Those living in a
?wrong. The region has
registered the highest levels
of unemployment in Finland,
even doubling the country?s
average during the most dif?cult years. Finland has
been in the top ten for the
last four years.
Stop Talvivaara supporters claim that this apparent
mining paradise has been
arti?cially created by the
Finnish authorities. As a
consequence, the company
reported a loss of 57 million
euro for the fourth quarter
of 2012.
However, Deputy CEO of
Talvivaara, Saila MiettinenLähde, is con?dent that the
miner will be back on track
next July. People from
Syria aiming to get political asylum in Sweden were
transferred with forged documents via a long route from
Malaysia, Macao and Hong
Kong through Helsinki-Vantaa International Airport to
their ?nal destination.
The group was caught
in January when a Canadian citizen failed to transport a Syrian woman with
a forged Swedish passport
from Hong Kong. With the electoral districts of Satakunta
and Central Finland already
in her sights, she also thinks
that the Uusimaa district is
too large.
es and offers them ?nancial
support of millions of euros,
while keeping the enforcement of environmental regulations loose.
In a recent development,
the Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK)
has requested a report from
Talvivaara after detecting
elevated uranium concentrations in a pond near the
company?s mine in Sotkamo.
Uranium concentrations of
nearly 600 micrograms per litre (mg/L) were measured in
the pond?s bottom and middle
layers, while concentrations
in the top layer were, in contrast, very low. Broad support from
the ranks of the ruling parties proved enough to advance the cause in the face of
stern resistance by the opposition
For example,
74% of under 25-year-old
respondents would grant
gay couples the right to
adopt, while only 36% of
over 65-year-olds would.
Approximately a thousand
Finns responded to the survey conducted by Taloustutkimus in March. continues Statistics
Finland. The plant is expected to create a hundred
permanent and several
hundred part-time jobs,
owner Vaskiluodon Voima
and supplier Metso approximate. ?The low income risk
of young adults was 26.5 per
cent. C O R D
HEL SINKI TIMES
that had continued since the
mid-1990s.?
is of?cially in a recession, and the unemployment rate is expected to
increase, but slightly fewer
Finns are at risk of poverty.
In addition, income inequality is beginning to lessen from
the average of recent years,
meaning there is less of a gap
between the ?haves. Slightly more than 6 per cent of
people met this de?nition in
1993, and since then the rate
has steadily climbed. Some
services, such as bread lines,
are being used more often,
according to some groups.
The Helsinki Social Welfare Centre Socca says that
92 per cent of the people who
get free food consider it to be
essential. 4
DOMESTIC
14 . Before that they had lived as refugees inside their own motherland for five years. In recent years it has levelled off
at around 13 per cent. Its implementation
will also allow for the replacement of some 25-40%
of current coal consumption with domestic biofuels, chie?y forest residue.
HT-STT
Employment
discrimination in
Southern Finland
rises
The number of workplace
discrimination reports increased by 40 to 170 in
Southern Finland last year.
The Regional State Administrative Agency for
Southern Finland, however, reminds that a similar
trend has been experienced
earlier during economic
turbulence. Though income inequality is beginning to lessen, many are still in need of food aid.
Fewer Finns at risk of poverty
Another measure of income inequality is the Gini coef?cient, where a lower
number means more equality. Typically, discrimination reports
concern the termination
of a trial period after a sick
leave request by the employee.
HT-STT
Most Finns
support equal
marriage rights
The majority of Finns
would endorse a marriage act which extends
marriage rights to samesex couples, the Tamperebased daily, Aamulehti,
reports. reveals senior inspector Jen-
ny Rintala. Hti is co-founder of the Burmese Association in Finland and served as its first female president.
The organisation helps Burmese newcomers to settle in their
new homeland, Finland. From
a high of 13.5 per cent, those
considered at risk of poverty
now make up 13.3 per cent of
the population.
?Thus,. In 2011 Finland had a 25.8
coef?cient, the lower than six
out of the past seven years.
There are fewer Finns struggling with low incomes, but poverty has not been eradicated.
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HELSINKI TIMES
L E H T I K U VA / M I K KO S T I G
The largest biomass gasi?cation plant in the world
was inaugurated in Vaasa
on Monday by the Minister
of Labour, Lauri Ihalainen
(SDP). Hti herself
and her two children were stranded from her husband for six
years, before they reunited at a refugee camp in the forests of
their native Burma.
Heikki Hursti?s traditional Independence Day meal for the poor drew hundreds of people to Hakaniemi market square on 6 December
2012. The
social assistance level, in real terms after in?ation, has
remained approximately 400
euros per month since 1991.
However, the of?cial poverty
line is 1,228 euros per month.
Selected
Gini coefficients
Sweden:
24.4
Finland:
25.8
Germany:
29.0
EU average:
30.7
Estonia:
31.9
United Kingdom: 33.0
Greece:
33.6
United States:
45.0
China:
48.0
Namibia:
70.7
Source: Eurostat, World Bank; the
higher the number, the higher the
income inequality.
At risk of poverty rate 1990-2010
Sons at risk of poverty equivalent population
14
14
12
12
10
10
8
8
6
6
4
4
2
2
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0. According to their
study almost half of their
clients need to get free food
every week. ?Also in 2009,
the reports increased,. According to
Rintala, the belt-tightening
measures adopted at workplaces during economic uncertainty may be regarded
as discriminatory. 28,3%
No . 71,7%
JUSSI NUK ARI
View details and this week?s question at www.helsinkitimes.fi
Who:
Mi Mi Po Hti
From:
Burma
Famous for:
Chosen as the 2013 Refugee
Woman of the Year by the Finnish
Refugee Council.
Mi Mi Po Hti, kindergarten teacher from Burma, was awarded
the title of Refugee Woman of the Year on 7 March. Poverty is especially hard on foreigners:
while they only make up 3.4
per cent of the population in
Finland, they are 27 per cent
of the recipients of free food
distributions.
?This study shows the
gaps in social security programs,. and the
?have-nots.?
Those with low incomes
and considered to be at risk
of poverty are de?ned as
having total disposable income of less than 60 per cent
of the median income. Leila Palviainen of
the Helsinki Social Services Department told Socca.
?If 30 per cent of the people in queue have not applied
for any social assistance,
does that mean they don?t
know about the bene?ts, or
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that applying for them is too
dif?cult??
Socca?s study discovered
that many people applying for
free food were not receiving
help from social programs.
While 70 per cent admitted to
using health care, 55 per cent
said they had received social
welfare services and only half
said they had used employment services.
Even those who were receiving social assistance
might still feel it necessary
to queue for free food. HT-STT
QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Finland is to block Romanian and Bulgarian bids to join
the passport-free Schengen travel zone, because of the
countries. According to a survey by Alma Media?s regional newspapers, 58% of
Finns support equal marriage rights, while 51%
would also grant samesex couples the right to
adopt. corruption.
Do you think Romania and Bulgaria should
be accepted to the Schengen?
Yes . In a few countries more than one in ?ve
are at risk, such as in Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Lithuania, Romania and Spain.
Finland is not the best in the
world, though: the Czech Republic and Iceland both have
low income rates under 10
per cent.
FINLAND
Bread lines
Although the statistics seem
to indicate inequality and
poverty is decreasing, it has
not been eliminated. Hti, aged
50, arrived to Finland with her family 13 years ago and for ten
years now, she has worked at a day-care centre in Helsinki.
She also teaches Burmese language and culture to the Burmese youth in Finland. says Statistics
Finland, ?the past few years
have seen the end to the
prolonged trend of growth
Youth and elderly at risk
In 2010, the median income
was 24,569 euros annually, making approximately
14,700 euros the limit to be
considered as having a low
income.
?Low income earning is
most widespread among the
very youngest and oldest age
groups,. In particular, the
young, women and welleducated were inclined to
support equal rights, the
survey ?nds. The low income risk of
persons aged 75 or over was
19.5 per cent.?
At 13.3 per cent, fewer
Finns are at risk of poverty
than the average EU citizen.
Across the 27 member states,
16.9 per cent of people have
low incomes. The Finnish Refugee Council, which
has given out the award for 16 years now, highlighted the work
amongst children and youth in their choice this year.
Mi Mi Po Hti and her family were among the first Burmese
people to move into Finland
The gang
is suspected of as many
as 30 home robberies in
the Pirkanmaa, Satakunta
and Varsinais-Suomi regions.
HT-STT
Inspector Antti Räsänen (left) and District Prosecutor Sari Kemppainen swapped roles for six months with encouraging results.
Prosecutor
General to
expedite
criminal
investigations
ST T
ENHANCED co-operation between the police and prosecutors in complex criminal
matters would expedite criminal investigations and considerations of charges, the
Of?ce of the Prosecutor General estimates.
There is certainly room
for improvement, admits
state prosecutor Jukka
Rappe. and ?disobedient. ?The father
hit and beat the child just as
much,. He
was dismissed from the
Finnish Bar Association
last year due to ?scal discrepancies.
HT-STT
Court of appeals
to review
compensation
in Hyvinkää
shootings
The court of appeals is set
to review last May?s shooting incident in Hyvinkää,
after several plaintiffs
expressed their dissatisfaction with the compensatory damages imposed
on the gunman by the District Court of Hyvinkää.
Earlier this month, the
shooter was found guilty
of two murders and seven
attempted murders, and
ordered to pay damages in
excess of ?500,000 to the
victims and their families.
The defendant has not
voiced his intention to appeal, defence counsel Olli Etelämäki revealed on 7
March, which was the appeal deadline.
HT-STT
11 indicted in
biker gang drug
case
A total of eleven people are facing charges in
a drug case linked to the
outlaw motorcycle club
Bandidos, district prosecutor Markku Heikonen
revealed last Friday. The main suspect,
meanwhile, has denied having any interest in criminal
organisations.
The court will deliver its
verdict on 20 March.
Former lawyer
faces probation
L E H T I K U VA / H E I K K I S A U K KO M A A
AN ART
Paintings were presented in a district court hearing of the art
forgery case on 26 February.
A mother is facing murder
charges in the deaths of
newborn twins in Klaukkala, Uusimaa, Helsingin
Sanomat reports. One suspect
was found asleep in a
car linked to the robberies in Pori on early Friday
morning, while the other four were apprehended
in Kankaapää, Satakunta,
later on Friday. child for the nights
was his girlfriend?s, whom he
considered an expert in upbringing. In its interim report in December, the Ministry demanded a complete
overhaul of child welfare
practices, citing, for example, the excessive stress social workers are under.
teacher from Salo is
suspected of aggravated fraud
in an unusually extensive art
forgery case linked to organised crime. According to
Räsänen, prosecutors could,
for example, decide that
an investigation into petty
crimes by suspected multiple
offenders is unnecessary, as
such crimes have no bearing
on the projected penalty.
teacher is believed to have received the paintings from two
members of the criminal organisation, M.O.R.E. A share
of the pro?ts was later routed via a gang member?s father
back to the outlaw organisation, and eventually used to
acquire and renovate gang facilities in Vantaa. The
Five men have been apprehended on suspicion of a home robbery
spree in western Finland,
the Varsinais-Suomi police states. The woman, in turn,
argued that she had only suggested swaddling the child to
calm her down. In
Helsinki, the police have
launched an investigation
into possible criminal negligence by child welfare of?cials at the prosecutor?s
initiative. CRIME
HELSINKI TIMES
14 . Inspector Antti
Räsänen at the Oulu Police
Department also admits preliminary investigation procedures could be rationalised in
certain cases. She was ?rst referred to child welfare services when she was six months
old, and over the years concerned neighbours and school
staff had ?led eleven reports
with child welfare authorities, Velitski highlighted. she said.
The suspects have admitted to force-feeding and
abusing the child, and have
pleaded guilty to aggravated
assault and aggravated negligent homicide in her death.
Both have, however, contested the murder charges,
claiming the girl was able to
breathe when tied up on the
eve of Mother?s Day.
The court is due to deliver
its verdict next week.
Child welfare
practices under
scrutiny
The tragic fate of the eightyear-old girl has sparked a
thorough re-evaluation of
child welfare practices. The prosecution views the arrangement
as an attempt to conceal the
origin of the money and suspects the father of money
laundering. In addition, she will face charges
of a breach of the sanctity
of the grave in the trial set
to commence at the District Court of Hyvinkää at
a later date.
The bodies of the infants were found as a result of a house search
conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation
in relation to another investigation . ?The more extensive
the criminal matter, the more
prosecutors should oversee
the investigation.. The police have
earlier
communicated
that the twins. says Martti Juntikka,
the chief judge at the District Court of Satakunta.
Debt counselling services
are also scrambling to respond to the boom in instant loans.
HT-STT
Father and his girlfriend are on trial for the murder of his eight-year-old daughter who suffocated to death on Mother?s Day last year.
Father and girlfriend
deny murder charges
Both suspects have admitted to abusing
and force-feeding the ?disobedient. During a district
court hearing on 5 March,
the suspect claimed that the
paintings were authenticated by two Parisian art galleries prior to their sale in 2009
to a foreign buyer for 150,000
euro. child.
J A N N E H U U S KO N E N ,
PIIA LEINO . ?If the
amount of instant loan
cases grows any further,
it will affect the processing times for other cases,. father was
unaware of the pregnancy and is not suspected of
foul play.
HT-STT
Suspects in
robbery spree
caught
Suspect in art forgery
case claims paintings
were authenticated
ST T
Mother
suspected
in deaths of
newborns
Juhani Ripatti, a wellknown former lawyer,
has been handed a probation order by the Helsinki
Court of Appeal for money laundering and possession of an unlicensed
?rearm.
The money laundering
charges stem from messages Ripatti conveyed
to a client?s wife, who was
detained on suspicion of
drug offences. 20 MARCH 2013
C O M P I L E D B Y A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N
L E H T I K U VA / J U S S I N U K A R I
District courts
clogged with
instant loan
default cases
Instant loan default cases
are ?ooding Finnish district courts and already
account for over half of
the pending payment disputes in certain courts,
Yle reports. ?In
its cruelty and brutality, this
is the worst case I have had,?
said Velitski.
In court, the accused shifted the blame to one another. The
court also expressed its
concern over Riipati?s violation of trust between
himself and his client. The father said the idea to
tie up the ?restless. According
to the court, Ripatti had
likely realised that the
cyphered messages concerned drug money. Velitski stressed
in court.
Elsewhere, the Ministry
of Social Affairs and Health
is contemplating whether revisions in child welfare practices and regulations are
required. According to the police,
several men from Turku
region are suspected of
complicity in the sale and
transportation of nearly ?ve kilos of amphetamines, believed to have
been smuggled into the
country by the biker gang.
The amphetamine batch
was discovered in a car
owned by a member of
another outlaw gang with
ties to Bandidos. Many
tried to help the girl, neighbours and the school reacted
and ?led reports but nothing
happened,. S T T
and his girlfriend
are on trial for the murder
of his eight-year-old daughter, who was tied up in a con?ned space, and suffocated
to death in her father?s home
early on Mother?s Day last
year.
The prosecutor, Eija Velitski, is demanding life imprisonment for the suspects, who
have both been ruled criminally liable in a psychological
examination.
L E H T I K U VA / M A R J O S O R M U N E N
A FATHER
The portrayal of the child?s
life presented at the District
Court of Helsinki on 5 March
was desolate. ?Had they taken
swift action, the girl would
surely be alive today. HT-STT
5. In court,
Rappe highlights, prosecutors are ultimately responsible for the manner in which
the pre-trial investigation
has been conducted.
The results of a recent sixmonth trial in Oulu, during
which prosecutors swapped
roles with of?cers in charge
of investigations, proved encouraging. At the District Court of Oulu, for
example, some 70-80%
of the 22,000 debt disputes processed last year
concerned instant loans,
the court?s chief judge
reveals.
The district courts
of Satakunta and Pohjois-Karjala are similarly clogged with instant
loan disputes. Experts at the Ateneum
Museum of Art, however, believe the works are forged.
The pre-trial investigation suggests the dealings are
linked to organised crime. one in the
apartment and the other outdoors, a few kilometres from the town
centre
The cause of the
epidemic were cows that had
been fed fodder made of sick
ruminants. 20 MARCH 2013
HELSINKI TIMES
T R A N S L AT E D B Y T O M M I N I E M I N E N
L E H T I K U VA / M I K KO S T I G
In the Russian media
KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA North Europe 7 March
Norway, Russia, Finland
and Sweden will sign a
new Kirkenes declaration
will be used to raise the living standards of its inhabitants?, stated Barth Eide.?
He also stressed that
the states of the Barents region achieved most of the
aims posed by the previous
Kirkens declaration. says Researcher of
Politics Erkka Railo from the
University of Turku. 6
FROM FINNISH PRESS
14 . All localities, except
for regional capitals, are
eligible to take part. The
main goal of the competition is the socioeconomic
and cultural development
of the Finno-Ugric World.
?THE YOUTH
kin are necessary in order to
avoid diseases. ?Retail could be pro?table as separate sales.?
the Finnish nation had been
constructed?, says researcher Vesa Puuronen.
Although Finland is inhabited by nearly 300,000
people who were not born in
the country, the spirit of the
old nation-state has lived
on.
?Any non-white is shut
out of the circle of citizenship and their ?belonging. Railo says.
Himanen?s research venture and its funding is currently being investigated by
the Chancellor of Justice and
the constitutional standing
committee of the Parliament.
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Jyrki Katainen?s image has
taken a hit due to the Himanen
scandal.
So far Katainen?s actions
have been mostly brought up
in public discussion.?. It is a cultural and
historical problem of the
?White Finland?.
?Although we?ve had Romanians, Samis, Jews and
Tatars, Finland was culturally an exceptionally homogeneous country in the early
1900s. Many other entrepre-
neurs have shut down their
stores around Finland.
Ahopelto says that, due
to lack of pro?t, the Kaleva
Prisma at Tampere and the
Sokos Herkku will be shut
down later this spring.
Retail will continue to
take place in the company?s
own stores, which will never-
HELSINGIN SANOMAT 10 March
Racism researchers are
intimidated by threats
?WHAT has gotten into Finns?
During the last few years
Finland has witnessed new
kinds of hate acts by politically organised groups and
ordinary Finnish citizens, including assaults, threats and
Internet rants.
Most have a racist motive behind them targeting,
among others, academic re-
searchers who talk of racism
in public. Starting in the 1850s
theless focus on the restaurant side.
?Consumers will be more
willing to accept the price
difference between local and
other food, when it comes to
ready-made food items, than
with raw ingredients,. ?If someone?s
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Researcher on the effects of the
Himanen scandal: ?It was inevitable?
in Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen (NCP)
seems to have gone down due
to the research venture ordered from Pekka Himanen,
reveals a survey by Iltalehti.
According to the survey
by Iltalehti?s Taloustutkimus,
34 per cent of Finns feel that
because of the much-publicised research venture, con?dence in Jyrki Katainen has
somewhat decreased.
?It is not at all surprising;
on the contrary I expected this
to happen,. Local food
is lobbied for but not bought
want to have local
food in stores but are not enthusiastic about buying it because of its high price tag.
The prices are high because
a large part of the production phases are completed by
hand, in small batches.
?Local food is generally
supported, but this has not led
?PEOPLE
to signi?cant sales?, local food
entrepreneur Heikki Ahopelto from Armas-perhe says.
The local food shop Lempi announced on its Facebook page that it is going out
of business. This is
scary and is telling of the quiet sanctioning of racism in
everyday life more than any
comments targeting particular researchers on Hommaforum?, says the University of
Helsinki docent.?
Finno-Ugric World will
choose a cultural capital
The project is designed
to last for the next four
years, and every year a
new capital will be chosen. is
called into question. The
advancement of the matter depends on the test method that
identi?es pig albumen, which
the Commission predicts will
be completed in the autumn.
Tests to con?rm that pigs
or chickens are not fed their
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Tel. ?The new document
will underlie the development of Barents Sea and
?THE
Even though local food is generally supported, sales have been low.
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AAMULEHTI 10 March
How did this happen. As evidence of successful collaboration between countries
by the sea, Barth Eide drew
attention to the NorwayRussia agreement regarding a visa-free regime in the
border regions, and the cooperative management of
?shery resources.?
NEW declaration,
which will be signed by the
Prime Ministers of Norway, Russia, Finland and
Sweden, is to be signed on
the 20th anniversary of
the partnership at the Barents Sea on 3 and 4 June in
Kirkenes. Meanwhile,
tests for identifying ruminant
albumen exist already, and
a test for identifying poultry
will be completed next year at
the earliest. The owner did
not wish to comment on the
reasons for closing down his
shop. When the racism
researchers of the University
of Eastern Finland received
new threats, Professors and
the Trade Union movement
proposed that a nationwide
investigation be made.
Racism and immigration
researchers alike agree that
even if hate speech targets
some researchers in particular, no Finn can escape the
problem. This document
will lay the basis for further
economic development of
the region, says Espen Barth Eide, head of the Ministry of Norwegian Foreign
Affairs. Municipalities and
NGOs can send their applications by 31 May. The decision for
feeding pig fodder to poultry
will thus have to be awaited.
The use of animal protein
was forbidden in beef fodder
in the 1990s, and for all production animals in 2001 as
part of preventing mad cow
disease (BSE). Ahopelto says. According to the
European Commission, BSE is
a subsiding threat in Europe.?
TURUN SANOMAT 10 March
Pigs may be
eating chicken
next year
?FEEDING fodder made of poultry albumen for pigs may be
possible within the EU early next year, according to the
European Commission. The
potential capital can be
presented in a video or in
another form, and should
aim to effectively promote
the city.?
Association
of Finno-Ugric Peoples,
MAFUN, will organise a
competition for a cultural
capital of the Finno-Ugric
World. According
to Railo a crack would have
appeared in his political image ?if not for this, for some
other scandal?. He be-
?CONFIDENCE
lieves that this is the inevitable
logic of publicity.
Katainen has been the
leading ?gure in Finnish politics for a few years
the
spokesman said.
If the trial goes forward,
Abu Ghaith, who acted chiefly as a propagandist for AlQaeda and reportedly had no
operational role in the organisation, will be the most senior Al-Qaeda leader to face a
US civilian court since 9/11.
Some Republican lawmakers protested the decision to try Abu Ghaith in New
York on Friday, insisting that,
NEW YORK
JIM LOBE, JA SMIN R AMSE Y
IPS
WHILE US politicians debated
on Friday whether Suleiman
Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of
Osama Bin Laden and former Al-Qaeda spokesman,
should be tried in New York
City, foreign policy analysts
were speculating about the
circumstances under which
he was apprehended by US
authorities.
Abu Ghaith, who pleaded
not guilty in a federal court
in Manhattan on Friday to
charges that he had conspired to kill US citizens as
part of the 9/11 terrorist attack, had been living in Iran
under some form of con?nement since some months af-
ter the US campaign that
ousted the Taliban from
power in Afghanistan in late
2001.
How he left or was permitted to leave Iran for Turkey,
where he was initially apprehended in what some reports
are calling a joint TurkishCentral Intelligence Agency (CIA) operation, is one of
the big questions that has not
been answered to date.
The fact that a US federal court issued a warrant for
his arrest only last December . one knowledgeable Western-based Iranian
analyst said on Friday, suggesting that Bin Laden?s sonin-law had the freedom to
come and go as he pleased.
The source asked not to be
identi?ed.
Indeed, the coincidence
of the arrest order . Alexander
Luzardo, former head of the
association of sociologists and
anthropologists, said.
The other side of this coin
is that Chávez had fantastic
wealth at his disposal, over
a trillion dollars, more than
all the Venezuelan governments of the 20th century
together . Chávez strove,
unavailingly so far, to build
a ?socialist economic sector?
based on barter and cooperatively owned businesses.
Another black mark in a
decade and a half of govern-
This video grab taken on 23 June 2002 from the Qatar-based al-Jazeera satellite television channel shows a photo of Suleiman Abu
Ghaith, a spokesman for the al-Qaeda network. with the cheapest
gasoline in the world, at two
cents of a dollar per litre, as
its emblem . He was
brought to New York on 1
March, according to his courtappointed defence attorney.
According to accounts in
Haqq News, an independent
jihadi news outlet pointed
out by Cole Bunzel, an AlQaeda specialist at Princeton
University, Iranian authorities suddenly demanded that
Abu Ghaith leave their country early this year.
They subsequently took
him to the coastal city of AlFaw in Iraq for transfer to the
Kuwaiti island of Warba, but
Kuwait, which stripped him
of his citizenship after 9/11,
got word of the operation,
and it was scotched. The company is
having dif?culty coming up
with the amount previously agreed on with Petrobras,
Brazil?s state oil company, for
investing in a re?nery in the
northeast of Brazil.
Amid voracious consumerism . said another US source who stressed
that it was still all a matter of
speculation.
While some commentators have suggested that
Iran may have expelled Abu
Ghaith as a goodwill gesture toward the US in anticipation of the latest round of
negotiations over Tehran?s
nuclear programme that got
underway in Kazhakstan
last month, other sources believe it may have been part of
a complex, Turkish-mediated
prisoner exchange between
Syrian rebels and Iran.
Asked about what role, if
any, Iran played in his eventual apprehension on Friday,
the White House referred the
question to the Justice De-
ment is the rise in crime, with
between 16,000 and 20,000
homicides a year, three times
the rate before 1999, and deplorable prison management
with an overcrowded inmate
population of 45,000 and an
average of at least one prisoner murdered per day.
Chávez was criticised for
preferring rhetoric and confrontational behaviour to
dialogue, a trait that intellectuals like writer Alberto Barrera explain by saying
?polarisation brought him
political dividends and was
the basis of his electoral
strategy.?
as a senior member of AlQaeda, he should also be sent
to Guantanamo to face a military commission.
?We should treat enemy combatants like the enemy,. At that
point, Tehran sent him to Turkey instead.
If true, it suggested that
Iran had decided to expel Abu
Ghaith, leaving open the question as to why it would do so.
L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / A L-J A Z E E R A
Suspicions remain about the role of Iran and Turkey on Suleiman
Abu Ghaith?s departure from Iran.
economics Professor Orlando Orchoa. association
Fedecámaras, told journalists that in 2002 there were
614,000 businesses in Venezuela and by the end of 2012
there were only 377,000.
Public sector debt has increased ?ve-fold to over 150
billion dollars, while the debt
of state oil giant PDVSA has
multiplied almost 10 times,
to 40 billion dollars, said
Intrigue surrounds US arrest of
Iran-based Bin Laden son-in-Law
partment whose spokesman
said he had no guidance to offer on that issue. 20 MARCH 2013
7
Following Chavez?s death, some praise his social programmes while
others criticise them.
CARACAS
HUMBERTO MÁRQUEZ
IPS
against poverty was the late Venezuelan
president Hugo Chávez?s top
political priority, and at the
same time a tool to consolidate his power and project
his strategies abroad.
As well as drawing attention to the plight of the poor
and placing them at the centre of the national agenda, his administration left a
mixed legacy with positive
and negative aspects, overshadowed by an economy
dependent on oil as its sole
resource, and political action marked by acute polarisation and the burning of
bridges for dialogue with the
opposition.
Chávez ?rst became president in 1999 and was embattled early in his presidency
with opposition business
shut-downs, protests and a
short-lived coup. The president needs to send any
captured Al-Qaeda members
to Guantanamo.?
But human rights groups
who have long called for closing Guantanamo and the military commissions praised
the decision.
While his trial venue provided the major source of
debate on his fate here on
Friday, foreign policy experts
expressed more interest in
how he came into US hands.
According to a number of reports, he entered Turkey on a
fake Saudi passport and was
apprehended at a hotel in Ankara in a joint CIA-Turkish
operation in late January or
early February.
The Turkish authorities
held him for about one month
but decided that he could not
be charged with a crime.
They also reportedly resisted
US requests for his extradition, although this could not
be con?rmed.
In the end, they arranged
for his deportation to his native Kuwait via Jordan where
he was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) on 28 February. which
made Abu Ghaith the subject
of an Interpol red notice that
in turn gave Turkey the legal authority to detain him ?
with his departure from Iran
has added to the intrigue.
?It seems that someone
in the US government knew
that he was about to lose
his safe haven,. said Rep. Osama Bin Laden?s
son-in-law pleaded not guilty on 8 March, 2013 to terrorism charges.. that is, just a month
before the Kuwait-born Abu
Ghaith, according to various
published reports, entered
Turkey . ?The US
court system is not the appropriate venue. INTERNATIONAL NEWS
HELSINKI TIMES
14 . ?We have no
comment about the roles of
other countries in this,. has added to the
speculation about whether
his departure from Iran was
part of a larger deal.
?It?s unlikely that Iran
would release Abu Ghaith
for free,. Mike Rogers,
chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. From 2003
on, Chávez adopted a broad
THE STRUGGLE
range of missions or social
programmes in the areas of
health, literacy, education, nutrition, work grants, and aid
to poor mothers and the extremely poor, with which he
consolidated a consistent electoral majority in his favour.
Over the last decade, according to of?cial ?gures, the
1998 poverty rate that stood
at 48 percent and the extreme poverty rate of 20 per
cent were each halved.
Under Chávez, 1.5 million
adults in this country of 30
million people learned to read
and write, 700,000 completed primary education, and
600,000 extremely poor people received assistance.
60 per cent of the population buys subsidised food in
government outlets, 7,000
health centres were opened
in economically depressed
areas, 200,000 families received farmland and another 200,000 received urban
housing without paying a
cent up front.
Adamant critics like former socialist leader Teodoro
Petkoff said that Chávez?s
chief merit was his support
for the poor and marginalised, calling attention to
their situation and tending
to their most pressing needs.
?Chávez?s merit is that he
took up poverty as a major is-
sue when, at the end of the
20th century, most political
organisations, and not only in
Venezuela, had abandoned it
and embraced the free market liberal ideas of the Washington Consensus,. arising from
the oil bonanza that provided
up to 95 per cent of the country?s foreign revenue and anchored the monoproducing
and monoexporting economy more than ever.
President Chávez oversaw the nationalisation of
some 1,500 companies ranging from banking, the steel
industry, fossil fuels, electricity and telecommunications to modest food outlets.
The country also has tight exchange and price controls in
operation.
However, 40 per cent of
the economically active population works in the informal
sector; in?ation is the highest in the Americas at over 20
per cent a year; and after 10
L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / E I TA N A B R A M O V I C H
Fighting poverty was Chávez?s crusade
People line up to pay their respects to late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in Caracas on 8 March.
years of land reform and the
expropriation of more than
three million hectares that
were in private hands, over
half of the food consumed in
Venezuela is imported.
Jorge Botti, president of
the employers. according to former Central Bank president
José Guerra
At Lidl, a ravioli product came from the
French company William
Saurin and a beef goulash
came from the German corporation Dreistern. consumption of chicken has increased about 25 per
cent over the past ten years.
Horse is eaten, too, but not
widely: in 2011 the average
Finn ate half a kilo of horse,
the same as reindeer.
Processed meat, in contrast, has fallen in popularity. In
Helsinki, though, things aren?t so rosy. Corporate earnings still haven?t recovered, either. Last year Finns
ate about 2.5 million kilos of
horse meat, the vast majority of which was imported. Romanian Prime Minister, Victor Ponta, said on Monday at a press conference that
?no irregularities. The Eurozone is of?cially in a recession and has
an 11.9% unemployment rate. But Nokia can?t be blamed for
all our problems. 8
BUSINESS
14 . In 2007,
average turnover was about ?35 billion per month.
Now it is less than ?10 billion.
THERE are fewer new issues on the Helsinki market,
too. One survey in Belgium,
France and the Netherlands
found horse selling from
8.40 to 31.11 euros per kilos,
so there is a demand for it as
quality food.
Instead, the current scandal is one of mislabelling:
if horse is in a product, it
must be listed in the ingredients. 20 MARCH 2013
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L E H T I K U VA / DA N I E L M I H A I L E S C U
David J. This has increased steadily, up from 68.6 kilos ten
years ago. In 2007 Finns ate
13.9 kilos, but in 2011 they
only tossed 11.4 kilos on the
grill or sauna stove.
Finns are eating less meat
overall. The Helsinki index is still down by more than 30% over that same time
period, and we seemed to have missed the great equity rally.
SOME commentators have suggested these new record
highs on stock markets means the Great Recession is
well and truly over. The Dow
Jones Industrial Average in New York just hit an alltime high. Stockholm is up by 25% since March 2008. had been committed by companies in the country despite allegations that two abattoirs had duped European food
companies by selling horsemeat as beef.
it is more likely to be eaten
fresh. Only three Finnish corporations are listed on the exchange for small companies,
First North, while Sweden has 119. Kesko
was also found to be selling
incorrectly-labelled products containing horse meat,
which they bought from
the Finnish meat processor
Pouttu.
Food safety regulators
have been quick to explain
that horse meat is perfectly safe to eat. This would be much lower than
the normal rate, as long as the assets are held for ?ve
years or more. Although some is eaten fresh, it
is a traditional ingredient in
salami. In 2007 Finns ate 26.2
kilos of sausages, deli meat,
and other processed varieties. But
simply being part of the EuIf we want to help rozone doesn?t explain why
the Finnish stock market is
promote the Finn- in bad shape.
A worker cuts beef meat at Doly-Com abattoir, one of the two Romanian companies exporting horse meat to EU countries, in Roma village, 450km north from Bucharest, on 12 February. Horse is eaten
in Finland, but not in large
quantities. If someone describes Finnish cuisine, sausages and reindeer are sure
to be mentioned. Rovio, one of the
rare Finnish ?rms that may have a chance for a large
IPO, has been talking about ?oating in New York, not
Helsinki.
SUPPOSEDLY,
Finns love to
eat meat. By 2011, this had fallen
20 per cent to 21 kilos. Without a well-functioning capital market, our
economy will continue to struggle.
Charity organisations, such as Vahti Ry, distributed products containing horsemeat to recipients in
Vantaa. Some stock markets on
the Continent are likewise struggling, such as France?s,
which is still down over 16% over the past ?ve years. The products, which were donated by meat processing companies, were being sold as beef,
and thus had to be pulled out of the market.
Source: Lihatiedotus.fi,
kilos per person per year. There would be
?nancial incentives, as beef
is typically more expensive
than horse.
It is an extended and tangled path from pasture to
kitchen. Although pork is
the most popular, poultry is
on the verge of taking second place away from beef.
Finns. Even though they are
not proli?c carnivores, that
doesn?t mean Finns haven?t
been impacted by the horse
meat scandal.
Finnish carnivores
Not counting processed
meats, Finns eat about 77.7
kilos per person annually. In France, regulators
traced horsemeat through
a complex web of abattoirs,
traders, meat processors,
subcontractors and supermarkets stretching through
six European countries.
Although regulators are
promising swift action, consumers seem to have already
made their voices heard via
their behaviour: by some
measures the sales of convenience foods containing
processed meats have fallen
by a third, while the sale of
fresh, prime cuts of beef have
surged.
The meat business
The Finnish meat industry is small and insular, but that didn?t protect
it from the horse meat scandal.
ONE
NOKIA is a large contributor to our problems. London?s FTSE is at its highest level in ?ve
years. Young companies aren?t interested in being listed on Helsinki. In 2010 and 2011 only about ?750 million of new
issues were ?oated, the worst two-year period in over
a decade. From 2005 until late 2007, international
investors were net purchasers of Finnish shares but
since then they have mostly been net sellers. Cord david@helsinkitimes.fi
The writer is a journalist and columnist for Helsinki Times.
He is also a private investor with over ten years of experience.
Finnish stocks aren?t
invited to global party
STOCK markets around the world are surging. It is surmised that at
some point in the long chain
of exporting and processing meats someone labelled
horse as beef. The companies making up the S&P 500
have real pro?ts about 4% below 2007 levels.
noteworthy fact is that Eurozone economies, on
average, are doing worse than similar developed economies. One
policy which I really like is promoting the long-term
capital gains tax rate. Overall,
volume has collapsed on the Helsinki market. Yet in reality Finns eat much less
meat than the European average. Yet the Finnish food
industries are quite internationalised: in 2012 3.5 billion
euros worth of food and live
animals was imported, while
1.4 billion euros worth was
exported.
Horse meat
At the moment, it is believed
the products found to contain horse meat in Finland
were imported. That isn?t quite the case. C O R D
HEL SINKI TIMES
capital markets face signi?cant hurdles.
We are a small market with no attention-grabbing big
names. Even
the ubiquitous sausage is
eaten less. Therefore, if we want to help promote the Finnish stock market we need to be creative.
THE FINNISH
groups want the corporate tax rate decreased, which would help, but we could do more. Including fresh, frozen and processed, Finns
ate about 98.7 kilos in 2011,
down from 102.5 in 2007.
Preliminary information for
2012 shows a continued slide,
except for poultry.
The domestic meat industry is dominated by a few major players, including Atria,
HKScan, Kotivara, and Saarioinen. Corporate pro?ts are still far from
recovered. This could be targeted towards listed securities, so it would not impact the policy on other assets, like real estate.
BUSINESS
Meat consumption
across Europe
Spain:
118.9
Denmark: 115.7
France:
100.0
Italy:
92.6
EU avg.:
90.6
UK:
84.6
Sweden:
78.6
Finland:
77.7
Estonia:
71.7
Bulgaria: 45.3
Source: Lihatiedotus.fi,
not including processed meat,
kilos per person per year
Finns. Elsewhere in Europe
L E H T I K U VA / J U S S I N U K A R I
ish stock market
we need to be
creative.
DAV I D J . The UK and
US still have unemployment rates of about 7.7%, and in
Sweden it is 8.1%. meat consumption
Pork:
36.4
Beef:
18.6
Chicken:
18.2
Sausage:
11.4
Wild game: 2.2
Reindeer:
0.5
Horse:
0.5
THE WHOLE purpose of this is to help entice private in-
vestors, especially venture capitalists, into investing
in Finland, and for these young companies to be listed
here. Its
struggles have pushed the
share price down some
87% since March 2008
In fact, the government makes no mention of the
promotion of this issue even though the list of its goals
includes the reduction of the number of abortions, an
aim that should be endorsed.
HOWEVER, it is equally as important that every woman has the right to make decisions regarding her own
body and that the right to have a safe termination of
pregnancy is within everyone?s reach. This time, the bill was
put forward by Leena Rauhala, Member of Parliament
for the Christian Democrats from Pirkanmaa.
UNDER the proposal, doctors and hospital staff are giv-
en the right to refuse to perform abortions or treat patients who have undergone an abortion on the basis of
their religious beliefs.
SIGNED by six people, the bill is not a government proposal. What she
does not need is to be
Might we at some
and made to
point find ourselves judged
feel guilty. One of these is abortion, or termination of pregnancy; a topic both simple and complicated that never fails to make the headlines or provoke conversation.
THIS YEAR, the matter was brought up by the Christian
Democrats. Might we at some point ?nd
ourselves in a situation where doctors and nurses refuse to treat murderers, immigrants or alcoholics just
because it goes against their value systems?
WHERE should we draw the line between the right and
wrong kinds of convictions. I agree
with them on this point, but legislation might not be
required to achieve this.
THE CHRISTIAN
MANY gynaecologists and midwives can ?nd different
employment. Religious convictions must be respected,
but perhaps they are something that should be taken
into consideration when choosing a future profession.
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THE ASPECT that concerns me is that granting such an
exemption to groups of people in certain professions
might raise questions on whether similar rights should
be given to other groups. Up to
the present day pension ages
vary between 63 and 68 depending on the funds chosen,
although the average retirement age is 65??
where we breathe the most
polluted elements that may
threaten our health. Supercell
Oy says it is pro?table and
grossing more than 500,000
dollars a day in revenue from its
two games, the medieval-strategy title Clash of Clans and the
farming app Hay Day??
?THE 33CL cans, which are de-
signed to use the can?s natural
shape to resemble a battery
and the liquid energy inside,
are currently manufactured
at Rexam?s Denmark plant.
Following the inauguration
of the new plant in January,
can production is now being
moved to Finland, making the
manufacturing process more
ef?cient??
bate that Finland has in common with many is the current
discourse over the extension of pension ages. explains
Paolo Carrer, one of the authors of the analysis, from
Milan?s Luigi Sacco Hospital.
According to the recent Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) study,
?nanced by the European
Union, three per cent of all
diseases in Europe are related to indoor pollution??
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9 March
MEGAN HARRIS
Kentuckians
to study
Finland?s
education
system
of Kentucky students and educators, including Hancock County Board
of Education Member Allen
Kennedy, left for Finland on
Friday with a study abroad
program hosted through
Northern Kentucky University?s College of Education
and Human Services Doctor
of Education Program??
?A GROUP
Clash of Clans released last summer by Supercell Oy.
Freedom of choice?
THERE ARE some recurring themes of debate in the
Finnish parliament, which emerge at least once every
term. FINLAND IN THE WORLD PRESS
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14 . I, for one, do not believe so.. right
not to perform a task
that goes against their religious convictions. Party Chair Päivi Räsänen stated that she
has made similar bill proposals every term during her
nearly 20-year political career. For instance, citizens of Russia set
up six per cent of new transport and logistics enterprises
in Finland last year??
?IN 2011
PACKAGIN EUROPE
8 March
The funds in Finland
?FINLAND?S pension system
is a labyrinth of funding systems that sometimes follow
global trends, but sometimes
are an anomaly in compar-
ison. 20 MARCH 2013
9
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BALTIC BUSINESS
NEWS 8 March
13 per
cent
of new
building
firms in
Finland
founded
by
Estonians
Pauliina Viitamies is a politician and teacher from Mikkeli. She was
elected as a Member of Parliament for the Social Democratic Party
from the electoral district of South Savo in the 2007 parliamentary
elections.
Extension of pension ages, one of the current debates on pension funds in Finland.
NEWEUROPE 10 March
and 2012, Estonians founded 13 per cent of
new building companies
in Finland, writes Finnish
business newspaper Kauppalehti with reference to
Suomen Asiakastieto.
One in every ten new
private limited companies founded in Finland was
founded by foreigners. I have asked
in a situation where the Christian Demoto show concern
doctors and nurses crats
for those women and
refuse to treat
families who have to
live with this issue.
murderers, immi-
grants or alcoholics
just because it goes
against their value
systems?
Democrats and their chair
Räsänen base their argument for the bill on
their employees. Currently, Finnish legislation allows abortion on certain grounds after
statements from two doctors.
ULTIMATELY, this is a decision that each woman has to
make for herself, and if she chooses to terminate her
pregnancy, she will need support, guidance and understanding. You could say it?s the
same for the contentious issues that surround pensions
in this part of Scandinavia.
One aspect of the pension de-
CORRIERE DELLA 4 March
Finland among EU countries
with best indoor air quality
has elected 2013 as
the Year of Air, to emphasise
the importance of the ?ght
against pollution. The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera discusses a recent
?THE EU
study, in which Finland ranks
among the European countries with the best indoor air
quality.
?We spend 90 per cent of
our time indoor and that is
Rexam?s
new
Finland
Finland?s newest hit
plant
produces maker: Supercell
cans for
battery
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 7 March
SVEN GRUNDBERG and JUHANA ROSS
?ONE OF the newest hit-makers
in the mobile-game industry
once again hails from Finland,
but this time it is making money with cows and dragons instead of Angry Birds. Are religious beliefs in
some way better or more valuable than other convictions
The best way is to
try and talk it through, smoothly and cooperatively, not coercively,. said Perez.
Stand out jobs
To de?ne yourself among
other job-seekers, social media is another way to shine,
and prove yourself to your
potential employer.
?At a job interview, someone can say ?I know industry
very well, and I am following it,. but with social media
you can have the proof,. smoke-free workplaces are
indeed healthier.?
Smoke-free work environments benefit
everyone involved.
MIK A OK SANEN
HEL SINKI TIMES
Social media as
a job-seeking tool
A local company shares some tips on using
social media as part of the job-finding process.
A DA M FA B E R
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media connects almost everyone, and an employer is just as likely as a
friend to see your blog or
Twitter feed.
?I once recruited through
social media, and he still works
for us today,. ?They should bring
the matter forward with their
superiors. Workplaces may be
?tted with insulated smoking
booths, equipped with powerful ventilation, or else they
have to be smoke-free. He mentioned that it is quite hard to
be an entrepreneur, and perhaps he would like to try something else. All our
restaurants are completely smoke-free, and we currently have 2-3 hotels where
there are rooms for smokers, but that?s all,. Käyhkö
says. he continues. As far as the competition
is concerned, he won.
?If you are writing in English, international companies
are quite actively recruiting
through social media. 09-2511 110, expo@arvelin.?
www.arvelin.?. ?Our
people have stayed healthier;
our sick leave absences are below 2.5 per cent of total working hours, clearly below the
industry average. It?s always
a positive thing to see that
someone who is following us
is seeking a job.?
Other services focus more
on presenting information,
instead of a narrative of dayto-day events. said Perez. ?I have no exact data, but from what I?ve heard
in-house, the initial feedback
from guests was very good.?
?Our employees can smoke
on their own time, but we support those looking to quit by
providing them with free starter packs of nicotine plasters
and such,. The change has
been great. said Perez. As if the smog wasn?t
enough to clog up your pipes!
Scenes like the above are
history in Finland . But hiding behind
privacy settings makes you
impossible to ?nd. In 1985, some 37 per
cent of all non-smoking working people were exposed to cigarette smoke at work, but in
2011, the corresponding ?gure
was just 5 per cent,. In OSG?s
case, Perez was competing
with global players who have
already jumped on board
with Internet-based recruiting. Perez said the experience was a positive one,
and he now uses social media
when recruiting new talent.
OSG is not the only company bringing cyberspace
and human resources together. said Toni Perez,
managing director at OSG, a
communications and PR company in Turku. Technology companies, fashion
people, PR ?rms, all kinds
of companies are following
blogs more and more.?
It?s not just small companies who are embracing online networks. ?Once smoking restrictions are in place, people
develop more favourable attitudes towards them.?
How should employees proceed to promote a smoke-free
workplace. ?But
he decided to stay in Finland.?
Workplace smoking
should not harm
non-smokers
Companies like Scandic Hotels
are not stubbing it out merely on a voluntary basis . So right away I gave
him a call.. At the end
of the workday, to his dismay,
his clothes and hair smell of
smoke. said
Perez. The air is
hazy and blue, coloured by cigarette smoke produced by the
guests, and also from behind
the desk where the personnel
indulge in the habit. ?All of?cial measures related to the topic are based
on the amended Tobacco Act,
aiming to reduce human exposure to cigarette smoke, including passive smoking,. ?If someone is following people, doing updates,
and discussing the latest
news, it?s a way to see more
deeply into that person.?
The phenomenon is not
limited to Finland. they
are following the letter of the
Further info:
savutonsuomi.fi
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The right kind of social media presence may help you in finding a job.
A DAY porter pushes his luggage trolley in the lobby of a
big hotel in London. Ruokolainen says. Käyhkö says.
Growing number of companies
are becoming non-smoking.
Open
University
Studies in Business, Art and Tehnology. How have the clients responded. ?For example,
you could start following the
companies you are interested in on Twitter. 040 353 8126
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Kauppakartanonkatu 7, 00930 Helsinki
Puh. Obviously,
non-smoking is just one side of
it, but in my opinion, a big one
at that,. ?I followed him
all the time, through his video blog and twitter. Ruokolainen says.
?The law forbids you to
smoke in the joint and public indoor premises of workplaces and on indoor premises
intended for clients and customers. Company management should assume a strong
role in this. But
studies show that such booths
do not prevent complete exposure even outside the booth
. ?My
advice for students would be
to write a blog about a subject that interests you. 14
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. Research by SilkRoad, a US
SOCIAL
human resources ?rm, found
that 64 per cent of surveyed
companies supplement their
recruiting and hiring processes with social media.
It is common advice for
job seekers to sanitise their
online presence: no naked
party pictures, and no unprofessional behaviour, for
example. A study from
the University of Massachusetts shows that 73 per
cent of Fortune 500 companies have of?cial Twitter accounts, 66 per cent are on
Facebook, and 28 per cent
have company blogs.
Your personal story
Facebook and Twitter are the
new soap operas, telling daily
stories of the people around
you. Registration for Summer courses starts
on April 9 at 12.00 earliest.
Information about courses, timetables and fees: avoin.aalto.fi/en
Tel. When it
comes to an employer, presentation is important. Because you control the
content, it?s important that
you don?t tell the wrong tale
about yourself.
?It?s building a brand, but
you?re building your own
brand,. Open University courses for all
in Helsinki, Espoo and Mikkeli. MARCH
20 MARCH
2013
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Workplace smokers,
an endangered species
law. ?In the
mid-1990s, the said Act was
amended by obliging employers to reduce workplace exposure after talking about it with
the employees. said Perez, pointing out that it doesn?t have
to be dif?cult. at least
if you ask Aki Käyhkö, Country Vice President for Scandic Hotels in Finland, a hotel
chain known for promoting
smoke-free workplaces.
?In 2008, our company
adopted the approach of becoming a completely smokefree workplace where our
employees should not have
to expose themselves to cigarette smoke at all. A competent web presence is what
made OSG pick up the phone.
?He gave the right image.
He was very active, talked
about his knowledge and
know-how,. says
Otto Ruokolainen, Researcher at the National Institute for
Health and Welfare. I know
that because my guy got some
inquiries and job offers from
abroad as well,. LinkedIn, for
example, is increasingly being relied upon to complement a CV.
?Nowadays it is more and
more important to have a
complete pro?le on Linkedin.
When I?m recruiting a consultant, if you have a very
basic pro?le with no information, I become a little bit
skeptical.
expectations, the ways students
interact with the faculty,
whose responsibility it is to
?nd the ?rst job after graduation. International students should
enjoy their time studying
here in Finland, though studying in a foreign culture is
not easy and may sometimes
result in misunderstandings
and bad feelings.?
The target readers for the
booklet are students of 2125 years of age. Industrial Management
. The illustrations are by
architecture student Henri
Lautamäki.
Lyly-Yrjänäinen
spent
some time in India for teaching in 2010: ?The experience
[in India] opened my eyes
regarding the differences
between universities in different countries. Information Technology
Master?s Degree
. especially those studying or living
abroad for the ?rst time. WORKING LIFE
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New guide helps
students adapt
to Finnish culture
and make the transition from university
to working life.
BANAFSHEH R ANJI
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As some aspects of Finnish student life may seem strange to non-Finns, the new survival guide aims
to help international students navigate amongst the local customs.
are present in the interaction within Finnish universities: people in Finland are
supposed to be punctual, all
people are considered equal
with the same rights and responsibilities and they are
expected to take responsibility for their own work.
The initial idea of the
booklet came from Lyly-Yrjänäinen along with Lecturer
Sanna Nokelainen and international coordinator Tiina
Niemi. Lyly-Yrjänäinen continues.
Since the booklet covers a
sensitive topic, it is likely to
receive interesting feedback.
According to Lyly-Yrjänäinen, even the most critical
commentators have noted
the need for such a booklet,
especially after reading it.
?Students, on the other hand,
have provided only positive
feedback throughout the
process and seem to appreciate the effort we have taken
to help them understand our
university system and the
expectations it places on the
students.?
The booklet is one of the
few guides that exists in
Finnish universities in respect to cultural differences.
Lyly-Yrjänäinen says, ?Perhaps one reason why such a
booklet did not exist [previously] may be that the content of this booklet really
does not seem to be anyone?s
responsibility.?
The last section of the
booklet deals with working
life, taking into account that
the different ways of interaction that apply in universities
also apply in the Finnish society in general. Industrial Management
Studies begin in the autumn 2013
Application period
4 March . I mean all
the social processes inside
the campus, students. Health Business Management
. They wanted to help
students not only with their
studies here, but also with
their transition from university to Finnish working
life. On the contrary, they may result in unpleasant situations.
Senior researcher at Tampere University of Technology Jouni Lyly-Yrjänäinen
says, ?We wanted to write
this booklet to help international students . 20 14
MARCH
. 9 April 2013
metropolia.fi/apply
Business, Culture, Health Care and Social Services, Technology. Considering how lost
THEM FINNS
THEM FINNS!, published by
Tampere University of Technology (TUT), is a survival
guide to Finnish universities
that helps international students understand Finns and
make their stay in Finland
enjoyable and fun.
It may not be easy to get
things done in a foreign country. The booklet Them
Finns! gives good, practical
advice on how to overcome
challenges caused by cultural differences not just for the
students themselves but also for employers and Finnish
society in general.?
IN THESE TIMES
IT?S ALWAYS BETTER
TO BE BETTER.
Study in English at Metropolia!
Bachelor?s Degree, evening studies
. Information Technology
Specialisation Studies / Non-Degree Programmes
. Construction and Real Estate Management
. Throughout the
booklet we try to point out
that we do not expect students to change their values
or personality, but simply to
become aware of a few elements characterising our
culture and interaction.. Business Informatics
. The ways that work well
in one?s own country may not
work elsewhere. However, the
authors tried to do their
best to help international
students understand Finns
better and consider how cultural differences may in?uence interaction and
collaboration.
?Personally, this has been
one of the most dif?cult writing projects I have ever been
engaged in. Lyly-Yrjänäinen explains, ?Like teachers
who work with international students, the managers
who work with international teams also recognise the
same challenges in intercul-
tural communication and
differing expectations for
young graduates in different
countries.?
Pirre Hyötynen, Adviser,
Education and Employment
Policy with Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland (TEK), says, ?The number
of international university
students and working professionals in Finland is increasing. The authors
wanted to take a less serious
approach, considering that
most unpleasant events encountered with international students are nothing more
than misunderstandings and
misinterpretations caused
by people from two different cultures seeing the same
thing differently.
The guide attempts to
openly communicate some of
the values of Finnish culture
and how these same values
The illustrations in the Them Finns booklet are by architecture
student Henri Lautamäki.
I was in their system as a
teacher, it is easy to understand how lost international
students can be in ours.?
It might be challenging to
make the balance between
giving advice on cultural issues and not lessening the
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14 . However, it is his recent
announcement that he?ll soon
commence working on the
script for Evil Dead 4 that has
set most tongues wagging.
Documentary In The
Dark Room tells the story of
Magdalena Kopp, who married the most wanted terrorist in the world: Carlos the
Jackal. 09 670 918
www.beeling.fi. Jazz fusion was his
next port of call in the 1970s,
leaving Davis. Unframed
Until 18 August
Kiasma
Mannerheiminaukio 2
Helsinki
Beautiful feminine clothing
with a touch of nostalgia,
now with the new spring
collection in our store.
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Dan Perjovschi?s satirical drawings crawl up Kiasma?s walls and
ceiling.
Noa Noa Helsinki
Yliopistonkatu 7
Tel. Sparked by his pupil?s
usual, gifted approach, his
teacher rediscovers his love
of his work, as the boy?s intrusion concurrently sets off a series of uncontrollable events.
Anúna . After a life spent intertwined with the myth of
the political terrorist, and
with the highly controversial
?gure currently languishing
in a French jail serving two
life sentences, Kopp teams
up with her daughter to tell
the story of the man as they
knew him.
Meanwhile, Hilton! invites
viewers to spend some time
at the block of rental ?ats in
Eastern Helsinki that forms
the documentary?s name.
Populated by dropouts and
mis?ts, the ?ve protagonists
wait for their life to kick into gear, armed solely with
dreams and memories.
Based on Juan Mayorga?s
play The Boy in the Last Row,
French ?lm Dans la maison
Having set out to explore
and rede?ne choral music
from ancient times through
to the present, the unique
voice of the choir is widely
acclaimed for its originality, both during performances and in recordings, and for
the natural quality of their
singers.
Doing away with the
traditional presence of a
conductor during their performances, their line up
that often tops 14 moves
throughout the venue at different points in concert.
Coupled with the superb
acoustics of Temppeliaukio
Church, audiences are in
for a true immersion into the Gaelic experience.
Having recorded with the
likes of Sting, Elvis Costello, The Chieftans and even
The Wiggles during their ca-
Felt-tipped humour
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Anúna, Ireland?s National
Choir performs at Temppeliaukio Church.
reer, the choir arrives to Finland on the back of the 2012
release, Illumination.
THE MODERN jazz legend born
Armando Anthony Corea arrives to Finland on Friday 15
March for a performance
at Finlandia Hall under his
more familiarly known title
of Chick Corea.
After enjoying early exposure that enjoyed a dalliance with Latin ?avours, the
pianist?s avant garde period
saw him replace Herbie Hancock in the piano stool for
Miles Davis. Ireland?s
National Choir
15 March
Ticket ?40.50
Temppeliaukio Church
Lutherinkatu 3
Helsinki
A 20-time Grammy winning jazz legend Chick Corea is joined by an international line-up The Vigil for concert at Finlandia Hall.
Jazzing up Finlandia Hall
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ARRIVING a couple of months
before the remake of his seminal budget horror classic Evil
Dead hits screens, director
Sam Raimi sets out to prove
just how far he has come over
the years in terms of acquiring a bigger budget with Oz
the Great and Powerful. band in the late
1960s, allowing him to shine
on the likes of the pioneering trumpet player?s masterpiece Bitches Brew.
His time with Davis saw
him embrace the use of the
electrical piano and synthesizers. Among these established
observations he intersperses
fresh offerings that comment
on topical events.
Dan Perjovschi . 20 MARCH 2013
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M A G N U M L I V E OY
Film
Play it again Sam
J A M E S O . band to continue his quest to explore
other musical territories.
This bold move was to be indicative of a career rhythm
that would see his restless
musical spirit inspiring the
composition of many of what
are now considered to be jazz
standards.
A 20-time Grammy winner, his most recent line-up
sees him joined on Friday
night by The Vigil, an international line-up consisting
of bassist Hadrien Feraud,
drummer Marcus Gilmore,
Saxes, Tim Garland on the
?ute and bass clarinet and
guitarist Charles Altura.
Chick Corea & The Vigil
15 March, 19:00
Tickets ?69
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Mannerheimintie 13 E
Helsinki
and drawings that he recycles from one exhibition to the
next. Collected under the label
of Unframed, this recent batch
of drawings was created by
the artist in early February, in
keeping with his style of travelling the world and decorating the walls of museums and
galleries with his own unique
perspective.
Using felt tip pens, the resultant installation consists of
KNOWN
numerous seemingly disconnected individual drawings,
crawling up the walls and ceiling offering insights full of humour, satire and irony.
Having commenced creating his art in the early 1990s
by drawing political caricatures for Romanian opposition
newspapers, over the years,
Perjovschi has built up an impressive archive of themes
In The Dark Room
Release Date: 15 March
Director: Nadav Schirman
Oz the Great and
Powerful (K9)
Release Date: 15 March
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: James Franco,
Mila Kunis
Dans la maison
Release Date: 15 March
Director: Francois Ozon
Starring: Fabrice Luchini,
Ernst Umhauer
Hilton! (K12)
Release Date: 15 March
Director: Virpi Suutari
sees a 16-year-old boy worming his way into the house of a
fellow student from his literature class and writing about
the experience for his school
essays. Frank
Baum?s tales of Oz, here
James Franco?s shifty magician ?nds himself transported to the wondrous world
of Oz, where he encounters
three witches in the forms
of Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz
and Michelle Williams. S U L L I VA N
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REMINDING all and sundry
that Ireland?s national day,
St Patrick?s Day is almost
upon us, Ireland?s National Choir Anúna is performing at Temppeliaukio Church
on Friday 15 March. Founded
in 1987 by Dublin composer
Michael McGlynn, the choir
takes its name from the collective term for the three
ancient types of Irish music, Suantraí (lullaby), Geantraí (happy song) and Goltraí
(lament).
crew, Raimi?s return to the big
screen this week arrives on
the back of some lukewarm
advance word. However, it remains to be seen
how much more creative he
has become over the years.
Nonetheless, exploring the
genesis of author L. S U L L I VA N
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for drawing installations that utilise humour to
comment on topical events in
society and politics, the work
of Romanian Dan Perjovschi is currently adorning the
walls of Kiasma until 18 August. See what you
think. So,
what?s a dodgy trickster to
do once they challenge him
to uncover the evil force that
threatens their kingdom,
dubbing him the Wizard of Oz
in the process?
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Spiderman trilogy came to a
screeching halt with the delays on the fourth installment
seeing the series being rebooted by a different cast and
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Two judges
will visually estimate the
amount of pizza eaten and
in case of uncertainty, the
winner will be proclaimed
according to the exact pizza
weight eaten.
The contestants will not
be able to decide what pizza
to eat, they will vary in size
and ingredients throughout the competition. Kakku & Leipä Keisari (The Emperor of Cake and Bread) was
among the ?rst to re-establish this concept of bakeries
with their own shops. Helsinki . ?Most of our
customers come every day,?
says Stefan.
Kakku & Leipä Keisari
Sörnäisten rantatie 33
00500 Helsinki
tel 09 684 1160
info@kakkukeisari.fi
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Authentic Chinese food in the heart of Helsinki
Mon-Fri 11am-11pm, Sat Noon-11pm . We would like to offer
hand-made, locally-produced
fresh cakes and breads to our
customers in the Metropolia
Area daily. www.dongbeihu.fi
The classic soda drink has
inspired people to come up
with the most imaginative
uses for the soft beverage. Every day,. Tel +358 (0)9 495 098
hu@dongbeihu.fi . The
competition will start on
the 13 April and the ?nals
will take place on the 14
April.
Kaleva.?
50,000 litres
of ice cream
per day
The freezing weather and
short summer do not seem
to have any effect on ice
cream consumption in
Finland.
Amazingly, Finland places ?rst in the European
ranking of ice cream consumption per capita, and
has climbed to the third
place in the world ranking. The
prize for the winner will
be a free year of food in
the restaurants located on
Hallituskatu street (Oulu).
According to the event coordinator, Mathias Huikari, the competition is not
only organised for fun, but
also to draw attention to
the good restaurants located on Hallistuskatu. ruisleipä (rye bread)
. Baking is a business.
Nowadays the company owns
seven bakery shops and predicts a further expansion of
the chain in the springtime.
The next outlet in Espoo?s Iso
Omena will be the biggest
Keisari shop so far.
Stefan ?nds evidence of
being on the right track from
a number of emulators: ?We
were the ?rst trendy Continental-style bakery shop
chain and now we have competitors even from neighbouring countries. The
rules are simple: the contestants have to eat as much
pizza as possible within 15 minutes. Pizzeria Romeo?s metripizza, as the
name hints, has a diameter of 100 cm. IS
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Pizza eating
championship
Oulu?s Pizzeria Vienna and
Pizzeria Romeo have organised a pizza eating championship due to take place
on the 13 and 14 April. Every night. said Stefan.
?We are producing everything
by ourselves. ?We just
saw the potential for handmade bread,. If you
have the stomach, Siilinpesä restaurant in Herttoniemi will give you the
pizza for free. Concerning popular
Finnish cakes, Keisari serves
juustokakku and Prinsessa kakku. We are
proud to be a company that is
creating jobs instead of cutting them,. EAT & DRINK
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14 . Our breads are sold
only for one day,. explains Stefan
Lindberg, one of the owners
of the Kakku & Leipä Keisari.
?We noticed that people don?t
want to buy these enormous
already-cut breads in plastic,
full of additives, which can
be stored without any visible
changes for weeks.?
The idea was to establish a
modi?ed version of the bakery
shops of the past and the culture behind them. One of the iconic
Finnish breads can be found
there . Ecologi-
cally-produced breads are
marked with green labels.
Not by bread alone
However, as a Finnish proverb
puts it, Ei leikki leivässä pidä
(Games won?t keep you in
bread). states
Stefan proudly.
Keisari?s assortment is impressive. ?We have a
Among the hand-made, locally-produced fresh baked goods one
can also find ecologically produced breads.
mission. Ice cream sales in Finland have been constantly
rising during the last 10
years, especially ice cream
cones, although the traditional home litre ?bricks?
are still holding up. Sun 2pm-10pm
Korkeavuorenkatu 47 . It
keeps you awake.?
Keisari is also doing well
in terms of employment: ?We
are a big employer nowadays.
Mostly there is negative
news about cutting working
places everywhere, but we
doubled our number of employees in the last two years.
And it is still growing. Then they came
up with the idea of natural,
hand-made baking. 20 MARCH 2013
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Uses for
Coca-Cola
Iconic Finnish rye bread, ruisleipä . For example, some
continental in?uence, when
you are going to a nearby
bakery-shop in the morning.
We thought that it can function very well in Finland and
we were right,. ?If it is possible we try
to do luomu (ecological) products?, says Stefan. While
ice cream is a seasonal
product in the rest of Europe, in Finland it has become an everyday treat.
According to Nestlé?s
sales director Pekka Helin, Finns eat up to 50,000
litres of ice cream per day.
There is no other market
in Europe like the Finnish.
Europeans who visit Finland are usually amazed
at the huge offerings of ice
creams they see in Finnish
hypermarkets, adds Helin.
makuja.?
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Monster pizzas
Would you be able to eat a
whole 90 cm pizza in less
than 45 minutes. But competition
is a good thing, it is a sign that
we are doing things right. a ?ber-rich traditional dark
bread. The dough
alone weighs 4,5 kilograms and the toppings
add 3 kilos to the pizza,
which means your order
can end up being an 8-kilo monster pizza. The restaurant claims that nobody
has yet been able to eat its
Sukupizza with four toppings alone and if somebody does, he will get the
50 euro pizza for free. Surprisingly, this is not the
biggest pizza for sale in
Finland.
The largest one can be
found in Oulu. It is claimed that Coca-Cola is an excellent rust
remover. a fiber-rich traditional dark bread is one of the specialities at Kaukku & Leipä Keisari bakery.
Emperors of baking
Life isn?t bad when you have ecological and locally-produced bread.
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NEIGHBOURHOOD
bakeries may not be a novel concept, but 20 years ago they
were rare things in Finland,
being overshadowed by big
supermarket chains. says Stefan.
The ecological aspect is also important for Keisari bakeries. Pizzeria Romeo assures us that in the
10 years the pizzeria has
been open, nobody has
been able to eat the Hyperking alone.
HT
Compiled by:
Alvaro Sotomayor. says Stefan.
However, the most conspicuous sign of Keisari?s
success is a number of satis?ed customers. We don?t buy any
products.?
Now the Keisari?s headquarters in Sörnäinen houses all the needed facilities
. According to
the website Frugallyminded, you can even use it to
remove gum from hair, and
the black ?lm caused by
over-cooking from pots. a bakery and a little shop.
?We have everything here.
We produce everything. Keisari Company was established in 1992, and at that
time they specialised chief-
ly in cakes. Simply ?ll a plastic cup with Coca-Cola and
sink the rusty object in it.
Leave it overnight and
polish the next morning.
Another popular use of the
soft drink is for the removal
of greasy stains, but do not
even consider substituting your washing machine
detergent for Coca-Cola.
If you want your toilet to
shine bright like a diamond
you will only need to pour
one can of the soft drink
and let it sit for an hour before ?ushing. The second largest pizza on their
menu is the Hyperking
(Hyperkuningas) with 75
cm in diameter and weighing 2.5 kilos. Alongside local
favourites, one can ?nd continental-style breads like patonki (French baguette).
?We want to bring something new to the Finnish
market
Scientific proof con?rmed that avocado is, simply put, a wonder
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It wouldn?t even be an
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With a creamy, buttery taste, avocado is suitable for many culinary purposes.. This quote
dates back to 1992, a time
when avocado was considered a health-busting caloric
bomb and even classi?ed as a
carcinogen.
Fortunately, conceptions
have evolved, and nowadays
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is a fruit whose
origins can be traced back
to central Mexico, although
it is nowadays cultivated in
tropical and Mediterranean
climates around the globe.
Its soft green ?esh has a
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Preparation
instructions
Wash and drain the lettuce,
tomato and cucumber.
Slice or dice the avocado,
tomato, cucumber and
onion according to the
ingredient list above and
toss them into a bowl.
Add the feta and the olives and pour in the vinaigrette.
Season with salt, pepper
and oregano. Popular dishes with
avocado as the main ingredient include the classical Mexican guacamole, a Finnish
favourite, avocado pasta and
of course, all kinds of salads.
However, a few years back
no one dared to eat avocado without a pang of guilt,
let alone enjoy it. From the
proceedings of the Second
World Avocado Congress,
an international forum that
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½ onion, sliced
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100 grams feta, diced or
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salt
pepper
pinch of oregano
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1920s and 30s, Art Deco represented glamour, luxury and progress.
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Finnish National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
Helsinki
Tickets ?14-84
www.opera.fi
Wed 20 March
Jemina & Selina Sillanpää &
Tim Ries
Folk/roots/rock.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?15/18
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Wed 20 March
Caroline Street
Pop rock.
Semifinal
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?6/7
www.semifinal.fi
Wed 20 March
Laura Närhi
Pop.
Sello Hall
Soittoniekanaukio 1A
Helsinki
Tickets ?27.50/28
www.sellosali.fi
Wed 20 March
Chris Corsano (USA)
Virtuosic percussionist.
Kuudes Linja
Hämeentie 13
Tickets ?8
www.kuudeslinja.com
THEATRE & DANCE
Thu 14 March
Balanchine-Forsythe-Kylián:
Bella Figura
Triple bill featuring works by three
world-famous choreographers.
Finnish National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
Helsinki
Tickets ?12-77
www.opera.fi
Thu 14-Sun 17 March
Cirque du Soleil: Alegría
Mesmerizing new circus.
Hartwall Areena
Areenakuja 1
Helsinki
Tickets ?47-79
www.hartwall-areena.com
Mon 18 & Tue 19 March
Sonya Lindfors: Chorus Line 2013
Daring, versatile and fresh dance
piece on the relationship of the
individual and the group.
Helsinki City Theatre
Studio Elsa
Ensi Linja 2
Helsinki
Tickets ?25-34
www.hkt.fi
From Wed 20 March
Jana Unmüßig: Colour, colour
Contemporary dance piece by
Berlin-based choreographer.
Zodiak - Center for New Dance
Tallberginkatu 1B
Helsinki
Tickets ?14/22
www.zodiak.fi
EXHIBITIONS
Until Sun 7 April
Ivana Helsinki 15
A versatile selection on Ivana
Helsinki?s fashion and design.
Design Museum
Korkeavuorenkatu 23
Helsinki
Tue 11:00-20:00
Wed-Sun 11:00-18:00
Tickets ?0/3/8
www.designmuseum.fi
Until Sun 14 April
Karelia!
Exhibition presenting works by
ten artists exploring their
contemporary Karelian identity.
Kunsthalle Helsinki
Nervanderinkatu 3
Helsinki
Open:
Tue, Thu, Fri 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/5.50/8
www.taidehalli.fi
Until Sun 21 April
Photography Into Art . The exhibition focuses especially on
the dialogue between theatre and dance on the one hand, and fine arts on the other.
The very best of Finnish Art Deco design is juxtaposed in the exhibition with the most
refined French design of the age. The exhibition, covering four floors in the museum, offers an overview of the breakthrough of Art Deco a hundred years ago.
Art Deco . Espo
Museum of Modern Art
Ahertajantie 5
Helsinki
Open:
Tue, Thu, Fri 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/8/10
www.emma.museum
Until Sat 27 July
ART DECO and the Arts
France-Finlande 1905?1935
Exhibition celebrates the art deco
period in art.
Amos Anderson Art Museum
Yrjönkatu 27
Helsinki
Open:
Mon, Thu, Fri 10:00-18:00
Wed 10:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/2/8/10
www.amosanderson.fi
Until Sun 28 July
MAYA III- Life ?Death-Time
Exhibition presents the dualistic
world view of the Maya Indians in
which life, death and time are intimately intertwined.
Didrichen Art Museum
Kuusilahdenkuja 1
Helsinki
Open:
Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Tickets ?0/3/7/10
www.didrichenmuseum.fi
Until Sun 18 August
Jouko Lehtola . End of Innocence
Finnish contemporary photographer.
Kiasma
Mannerheiminaukio 2
Helsinki
Tue 10:00-17:00
Wed-Fri 10:00-20:30
Sat 10:00-18:00
Sun 10:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/8/10
www.kiasma.fi. 20 MARCH 2013
HELSINKI TIMES
COMPILED BY ANNA-MAIJA LAPPI
A DA G P
The Exuberant Art Deco
Until Sun 21 April
Nelli Palomäki
Captivating portraits.
The Finnish Museum of Photography
The Cable Factory
Open:
Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Tallberginkatu 1
Helsinki
Tickets ?0/4/6
www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi
Spring time starts at Amos Anderson Art Museum with an extensive exhibition, Art
Deco and The Arts, presenting a unique selection of masterpieces of French and Finnish art and design. a style of decorative arts, architecture and design, was born when
the classical roots of culture were reinterpreted in all fields of art. The
Hannula & Hinkka Collection
The exhibition tells a unique story
of the Finnish photography art.
Until Sun 19 May
Michelangelo and the
Sistine Chapel
Drawings and artworks from Casa
Buonarroti, Florence.
Sinebrychoff Art Museum
Bulevardi 40
Helsinki
Open:
Tue 10:00-18:00
Wed, Thu 10:00-20:00
Fri 10:00-18:00
Sat 11:00-17:00
Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0-10
www.sinerbrychoffintaidemuseo.fi
Until Sun 26 May
Marjatta Tapiola
Expressionist and passionate art
of Marjatta Tapiola.
Helsinki Art Museum Tennis Palace
Salomonkatu 15
Helsinki
Open:
Tue-Sun 11:00-19:00
Tickets ?0/8/10
Until Sun 9 July
Per Maning
One of Norway?s most appreciated
modern artists.
EMMA . 18
WHERE TO GO
14 . The Art Deco inspired paintings by the Finnish Golden Age artists, such as Eero Järnefelt, Juho Rissanen and Venny Soldan-Brofeldt, are
also on display.
Until Sat 27 July
Amos Anderson
Art Museum
Yrjönkatu 27
Helsinki
MUSIC
Thu 14 March
Club Törstdag: Kosmofon (EST)
Electronic trio.
Kuudes Linja
Hämeentie 13
Helsinki
Free entry
www.kuudeslinja.com
Thu 14 March
Trio Kiero: Finnish Tango
Forgotten pearls of the Finnish
tango.
Helsinki Music Centre
Camerata
Mannerheimintie 13
Tickets ?5/10/15
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Thu 14 March
Finnish Radio Symphony
Orchestra
FRSO with Jukka-Pekka Saraste,
Jenny Carlstedt and Jukka Harju.
Helsinki Music Centre
Mannerheimintie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?7-25
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Thu 14 March
Nyrkkitappelu
Punk from Tampere.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?10/12
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Fri 15 March
Wednesday 13 (USA)
Glam/metal/horror punk group.
Nosturi
Telakkakatu 8
Helsinki
Tickets ?22
www.elmu.fi
Fri 15 March
Sakara Records 10 Years
Stam1na, Mokoma, Rytmihäiriö,
Jarkko Martikainen and Nerve End.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?30/33
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Fri 15 March
Back To The 90?s:
Waltari, Hybrid Children
Rock/metal.
Virgin Oil CO.
Mannerheimintie 5
Helsinki
Tickets ?10
www.virginoil.fi
Fri 15 March
Marko Haavisto
Finnish musician.
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Helsinki
Tickets ?15/17
www.korjaamo.fi
Mon, Thu, Fri 10:00-18:00
Wed 10:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/2/8/10
www.amosanderson.fi
Fri 15 March
Younger Brother &
Prometheus (UK)
Electronic.
Club Venue
Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 21
Helsinki
Tickets ?15/17
www.clubvenue.fi
Fri 15 March
The Vultones, Spoonshiners
Rock.
Alakerta
Telakkakatu 8
Helsinki
Tickets ?6
www.alakerta.fi
Fri 15 March
Darkroom 13#
Techno.
Kuudes Linja
Hämeentie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?6
www.kuudeslinja.com
Fri 15 March
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Appalachian Spring by Aaron
Copland, and Knoxville by
Samuel Barber.
Helsinki Music Centre
Mannerheimintie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?6-25
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Fri 15 March
Discodromo
Afro beat.
Adams
Erottajankatu 15-17
Helsinki
Tickets ?8
www.ravintolaadams.fi
Fri 15 March
Helsinki Philharmonic Chorus
Elämän keskellä- concert
conducted by Dani Juris.
Kallio Church
Itäinen Papinkatu 2
Helsinki
Tickets ?10/15
www.helsinginfilharmoninenkuoro.fi
Fri 15 March
Tuomo
Finnish soul artist.
Le bonk
Yrjönkatu 24
Helsinki
Tickets ?10/12
www.lebonk.fi
Sat 16 March
Guardia Nueva
Brilliant Finnish tango
orchestra with soloists
Arja Koriseva, Tomi Metsäketo,
Angelika Klas and Jonna
Pirttijoki.
Helsinki Music Centre
Mannerheimintie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?49/59
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Until Sun 28 April
Eero Järnefelt
One of the most important painters
of the golden age of Finnish art.
Ateneum Art Museum
Kaivokatu 2
Helsinki
Open:
Tue, Fri 10:00-18:00
Wed, Thu 10:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/6/8
www.ateneum.fi
Maurice Denis, Ball Game I (Nausicaa), 1914, Oil on canvas, Musée National du Sport, Paris.
Sat 16 March
Manowar (USA)
Cult heavy.
The Circus
Salomonkatu 1-3
Helsinki
Tickets ?75/87
www.thecircus.fi
Sat 16 March
Mariska & Pahat Sudet
Pop.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?12/14
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Sat 16 March
Johanna Kurkela
Pop with beautiful vocals.
Sello Hall
Soittoniekanaukio 1A
Helsinki
Tickets ?25.50/26
www.sellosali.fi
Sat 16 March
Soul Kitchen Club
Teflon Brothers & Tommishock.
Kuudes Linja
Hämeentie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?9
www.kuudeslinja.com
Sat 16 March
Linkola: Robin Hood
Adventure opera for the whole
family.
Finnish National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
Helsinki
Tickets ?14-84
www.opera.fi
Sat 16 March
Maria Schneider & Norrbotten
Big Band
Organic big band jazz.
Helsinki Music Centre
Black Box
Mannerheimintie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?12.50/20/25
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Sat 16 & Wed 20 March
Mozart:
Le Nozze di Figaro
One of the most popular
and most enjoyable operas
of all time.
Finnish National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
Helsinki
Tickets ?14-84
www.opera.fi
Mon 18 March
Steve Harris
British Lion (UK)
Iron Maiden?s bassist?s
solo project.
The Circus
Salomonkatu 1-3
Helsinki
Tickets ?39
www.thecircus.fi
The Finnish Museum of Photography
The Cable Factory
Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Tallberginkatu 1
Helsinki
Tickets ?0/4/6
www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi
Tue 19 March
Vantaa POPS Orchestra
Nick Davies, chief conductor,
Kim Criswell, soprano and Jukka
Nykänen, piano.
Helsinki Music Centre
Mannerheimintie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?19-139
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Thu 14-Mon 18 March
Dance theatre company Vilya
and V² Ensemble
Dance performances Katariina J.
and Juhana H
Den Canada
13.25 The Opener
Best friends and bickering
partners, David and
Stephen landed in Canada
nine months ago on the
dream of making a great
buck translating David?s
mom?s Moroccan cooking
into the hot new fusion
eatery in the legendary
Kensington Market district
of Toronto.
14.20 To Build or Not to Build
15.15 Gordon Ramsay?s F Word
16.10 New York Ink
17.00 Dragons. USA/1975.
23.25 British Invasion: Dusty
Springfield
Silk
T V2 22.05
09.25 Eastenders
10.00 Sturm der Liebe
In German.
14.00 Cleveland Show
Two episodes.
14.55 Masterchef USA
15.55 Oliver?s Twist
16.25 Eastenders
17.00 Sturm der Liebe
In German.
18.00 American Idol
20.00 The Simpsons
Two episodes.
21.00 The Jerk (K16) FILM
A complete imbecile
struggles to make it through
life on his own, until a
strange invention makes
him unbelievably wealthy.
Directed by: Carl Reiner.
Starring: Steve Martin,
Bernadette Peters,
Catlin Adams.
USA/1979.
23.25 C.S.I. Russia
15.35 ISU World Figure Skating
Championship: Short
Program, Men SPORT
In Finnish.
London (Ontario), Canada.
17.00 Children?s Programming
In Finnish.
18.02 ISU World Figure Skating
Championship: Short
Program, Women SPORT
In Finnish.
London (Ontario), Canada.
22.05 Game of Thrones (K16)
Five episodes.
YLE TEEMA
18.00 Titanic: The Mission DOC
This episode focuses on the
luxurious interiors, fixtures
and fittings of Titanic.
The engineers contrast all
this luxury with one of the
cheapest rooms aboard the
ship: a third class cabin,
used by the emigrants
heading to America to start
a new life.
19.00 Lark Rise to Candleford
20.30 Cosmic Vistas DOC
The Northern Lights are
more than just beautiful.
They tell us about the make
up of our planet, our sun,
and may even be a signpost
for the possibility of life on
other planets.
21.00 Fry?s Planet Word DOC
In this programme,
Stephen Fry celebrates
storytelling. (K16) FILM
Directed by: Ethan Coen,
Joel Coen. Directed by: Ethan
Coen, Joel Coen. 20 MARCH 2013
19
Helsinki Times TV Guide offers a selection of English and other language broadcasting on Finnish television.
thursday
friday
14.3.
TV1
10.00 Heartbeat
11.05 Yle News in English
12.35 Last of the Summer Wine
17.08 Heartbeat
22.00 Argent Sale, le Poison de
la Finance
In French.
23.00 Monk
Mr. Starring: David
Gallagher, Diane Keaton,
John Travolta. Starring: George
Clooney, Holly Hunter, John Goodman. DOC
22.00 Love and Death FILM
Directed by: Woody Allen.
Starring: Woody Allen,
Diane Keaton, Georges
Adet. UK/France/USA/2000.
TV5 21.00
Thursday 14.3.2013
Heartbeat
Yle News in English
Last of the Summer Wine
Ut I Naturen
In Norwegian.
16.00 Telefontider
In Swedish.
17.08 Heartbeat
19.00 Call the Midwife
A baby girl is snatched
from her pram and the local
community unites for the
search. USA/1982.
02.00 Miami Medical
TV2
SUB
06.52 Children?s Programming
In Finnish.
08.50 Die Winzerkönig
In German.
11.25 Der Ingen Skulle Tru At
Nokon Kunne Bu
In Norwegian.
13.55 Biathlon World Cup:
Sprint, Men SPORT
In Finnish. USA/1993.
21.00 Wolf (K16) FILM
Directed by: Mike Nichols.
Starring: Christopher
Plummer, David Hyde
Pierce, Eileen Atkins.
USA/1994.
23.30 Spartacus: Blood and Sand
(K18)
00.40 The Jacket (K16) FILM
Directed by: John Maybury.
Starring: Adrien Brody,
Jennifer Jason Leigh,
Keira Knightley.
USA/2005.
02.30 Navy NCIS
03.20 The Magicians
04.20 Rookie Blue. size zero
figure and the battle of her
boyfriend to save her from
herself.
13.20 Packed to the Rafters
14.10 Matlock
15.05 Animal Addicts DOC
16.00 America?s Funniest Home
Videos
17.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
17.30 3rd Rock from the Sun
18.00 That ?70s Show
19.00 Look Who?s Talking Now
FILM
Directed by: Tom
Ropelewski. Den Canada
18.00 Gordon Ramsay?s F Word
19.00 New York Ink
21.00 Guinness World Records
22.00 Pawn Stars
23.05 South Park
23.30 Naked and Funny (K16)
00.00 Grimefighters
00.30 JIM D: Ax Men
01.20 Border Security:
Australia?s Front Line
NELONEN
15.3.
TV1
MTV3
10.00
11.05
12.35
14.35
Reaping
MTV3 23.05
07.00 Children?s Programming
16.00 Bridezillas
Bridezilla Sara has just a few
days left before her wedding,
but her time management
issues and princess attitude
are driving her friends and
family over the edge.
17.00 Melissa and Joey
21.00 Criminal Minds (K16)
22.00 Vertical Limit (K16) FILM
K2, one of the world?s
biggest mountains, is the
setting for this adrenalinepumping action-adventure.
It is a race against time
when a retired mountain
climber leads a rescue
mission to save his
estranged sister and other
members of her team who
have become trapped on K2
after a deadly avalanche.
Directed by: Martin Campbell.
Starring: Chris O?Donnell,
Robin Tunney, Scott Glenn.
USA/Germany/2000.
00.45 Frasier
01.15 Reaper
02.10 Lost
03.00 All in the Family
TV5
06.20 Beauty and The Geek
07.10 Everybody Loves Raymond
07.40 That ?70s Show
08.05 3rd Rock from the Sun
08.30 Matlock
13.20 The Real Wedding
Crashers
A hidden-camera comedy
show that stages wedding
disasters large and small,
all with the cooperation of
prankster brides and grooms.
14.10 Matlock
15.05 Beauty and The Geek
16.00 America?s Funniest Home
Videos
17.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
17.30 3rd Rock from the Sun
18.00 That ?70s Show
19.00 Las Vegas
20.00 Navy NCIS
21.00 O Brother, Where Art
Thou. Hanti-Mansijsk.
Russia
15.30 ISU World Figure Skating
Championship SPORT
In Finnish. TV GUIDE
HELSINKI TIMES
14 . Martha
Costello has hardly any time
to prepare for, and represent,
two last-minute cases. Den Canada
Start!
Dinner Impossible
Chef Irvine arrives at WWE?s
SummerSlam and learns he
will have to feed 300 VIPs
a meal inspired by the WWE
Superstars signature moves,
such as the frog splash and
the knife-edge chop.
15.15 Gordon Ramsay?s F Word
16.10 New York Ink
17.00 Dragons. With
nothing to lose, the three embark
on the adventure of a lifetime in
this hilarious offbeat road picture.
Populated with strange characters, including a blind prophet,
sexy sirens, and a one-eyed Bible
salesman, it is an odyssey filled with
chases, close calls, near misses, and
betrayal that will leave you laughing
at every outrageous and surprising
twist and turn. Starring: Richard
Chamberlain, Sharon
Stone, James Earl Jones.
USA/1987.
03.00 All in the Family
TV5
06.15 Beauty and The Geek
07.10 Everybody Loves Raymond
07.40 That ?70s Show
08.05 3rd Rock from the Sun
08.30 Matlock
12.25 Extraordinary Weight
Stories: Living With Size
Zero DOC
The heart-breaking real life
story of a bulimic?s quest to
get the ?perfect. Miami (K16)
00.25 Entourage (K16)
00.55 30 Rock
01.25 It?s Always Sunny in
Philadelphia
JIM
11.35 MasterChef Australia
12.05 Dragons. It has been
with us as long as language
itself and as a species, we
love to tell our stories.
This desire to both
entertain and explain
has resulted in the
flowering of language
to describe every aspect
of the human condition.
Programmes on Yle Teema
may be viewed in the original
language(s) by changing the
digital receiver?s settings.
MTV3
09.45 The Young and the Restless
10.40 Emmerdale
11.40 Doctors
14.10 Jamie at Home
14.45 Oliver?s Twist
15.20 Middle
17.00 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
21.00 The Following (K16)
23.05 Reaping (K16) FILM
A former Christian
missionary, who specialises
in debunking religious
phenomena, investigates
a small town which seems
to be suffering from the 10
biblical plagues.
Directed by: Stephen
Hopkins.
Starring: Hilary Swank,
Idris Elba, David Morrissey.
USA/2007.
SUB
09.25 Eastenders
10.00 Sturm der Liebe
In German.
14.25 Sons of Tucson
14.55 Undercover Boss
15.55 Oliver?s Twist
16.25 Eastenders
17.00 Sturm der Liebe
In German.
18.00 Supersize vs Superskinny
19.00 Two and a Half Men
19.30 Raising Hope
Realising that his father
had to give up his dream
of becoming a rock star
to take care of his family,
Jimmy decides to give Burt
a chance at reliving his rock
days with help of Burt?s
music idol Smokey Floyd.
20.00 The Simpsons
22.00 Nikita (K16)
23.00 House
00.00 Heroes
01.00 The Simpsons
01.30 Fringe (K16)
JIM
11.15
12.05
13.00
13.30
MasterChef Australia
Dragons. Miami (K16)
23.50 The Thing (K16) FILM
Scientists in the Antarctic
are confronted by a
shape-shifting alien that
assumes the appearance
of the people that it kills.
Directed by: John Carpenter.
Starring: Kurt Russell, A.
Wilfred Brimley, Richard
Dysart. She
needs to do well so that
she can get recommended
for Silk (a prestigious legal
level), but she keeps being
handed new last-minute
challenges including a
trainee barristed called Nick.
23.50 Girls (K16)
YLE TEEMA
17.15 Arkitektens Hjem
In Danish.
19.00 Civilization: Is the West
History. Cynthia sees another
sort of loss as she tends to
soon-to-be parents David
and Margaret.
22.55 En Pilgrims Död (K16)
In Swedish.
09.45 The Young and the Restless
10.40 Emmerdale
Two episodes.
14.15 Minute to Win It
15.20 Traffic Light
17.00 The Bold and the Beautiful
Two episodes.
21.05 C.S.I. Monk Goes Camping.
TV2
06.53 Children?s Programming
In Finnish.
08.50 Die Winzerkönig
In German.
14.10 Biathlon World Cup:
Women?s Sprint SPORT
In Finnish.
Hanti-Mansijsk. USA/2000.
00.05 Allan Quatermain and the
Lost City of Gold (K16)
FILM
Directed by: Gary
Nelson. McGill is on a mission
to remarry his wife and invents a
story about a buried treasure in
order to keep his two hapless friends
cooperating in the adventure. Starring: George
Clooney, Holly Hunter,
John Goodman.
UK/France/USA/2000.
23.10 Outsiders: Med Eller Utan
Hår DOC
In Swedish.
00.10 Navy NCIS
01.05 Harry Enfield Show
01.45 Jersey Shore
03.30 Sam & Evan: From Girls to
Men DOC
O Brother,
Where Art Thou?
George Clooney, who plays Ulysses
Everett McGill, escapes from a
prison chain gang while still handcuffed to two fellow prisoners, Pete
and Delmar. London (Ontario),
Canada.
17.00 Children?s Programming
In Finnish.
18.02 ISU World Figure Skating
Championship SPORT
In Finnish.
22.05 Silk
SERIES BEGINS. Den Canada
18.00 Gordon Ramsay?s F Word
19.00 Pawn Stars
Four episodes.
22.05 Beast (K16)
00.50 Cooks to Market
01.40 South Park
02.30 Naked and Funny (K16)
NELONEN
The Jerk
Sub 21.00
07.00 Children?s Programming
16.00 Bridezillas
17.00 Rules of Engagement
22.00 Scary Movie (K16) FILM
A year after disposing
the body of a man they
accidently killed, a group of
dumb teenagers are stalked
by a bumbling serial killer.
Directed by: Keenen Ivory
Wayans. Starring: Carmen
Electra, John Abrahams,
Anna Faris
Wright
Ian travels to Sri Lanka upon
the invite of Colombo?s
biggest heavy metal band,
Stigmata. USA/1993.
15.45 My Fake Baby DOC
16.50 Center Stage FILM
Directed by: Nicholas
Hytner. Colonel Michael Strobl,
who wrote eloquently of them
in a widely circulated 2004
article, Taking Chance is a profoundly emotional look at the
military rituals taken to honor
its war dead, as represented
by a fallen 19-year-old Marine
killed in Iraq, Lance Corporal
Chance Phelps. USA/2000.
19.00 Blonde Ambition FILM
Directed by: Scott Marshall.
Starring: Jessica Simpson,
Luke Wilson, Penelope Ann
Miller. Baker lands on
Planet 51 thinking he is the
first person to step foot on it.
Directed by: Jorge Blanco.
Voices: Jaakko Saariluoma,
Jasper Pääkkönen, Simo
Frangén. 20 MARCH 2013
saturday
sunday
16.3.
TV1
MTV3
08.05 Kinesiska Relationer
In Swedish, Chinese and
English.
11.10 L?Instit
In French.
15.25 Agathe Kann?s Nicht Lassen
In German.
17.05 Call the Midwife
19.40 Midsomer?s Murders
20.45 Lottery
22.00 Veep
22.30 A Touch of Frost (K16)
TV2
07.48 Children?s Programming
In Finnish.
12.15 Biathlon World Cup:
Pursuit, Women SPORT
In Finnish.
14.25 Biathlon World Cup:
Pursuit, Men SPORT
In Finnish.
15.40 ISU World Figure Skating
Championship SPORT
In Finnish.
19.30 Globe Trekker: Puerto Rico
Starting his journey in Puerto
Rico?s vibrant capital, San
Juan, host Zay Harding
samples the local cuisine and
the fabulous national drink,
the piña colada. Starring: David
Gallagher, Diane Keaton,
John Travolta. USA/2000.
Taking Chance
The Terminal
Based on the true experiences
of Lt. Spain/2009.
20.00 NCIS: Los Angeles
21.00 The Da Vinci Code (K16)
FILM
A murder inside the
Louvre and clues in Da
Vinci paintings lead to the
discovery of a religious
mystery protected by a secret
society for two thousand
years which could shake the
foundations of Christianity.
Directed by: Ron Howard.
Starring: Tom Hanks,
Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno.
USA/2006.
00.20 Las Vegas
03.50 Center Stage FILM
Directed by: Nicholas
Hytner. One day he finds a
mysterious object. USA/2009.
Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks), a
man from an Eastern European
country arrives in New York.
However, after he had left his
country, war broke out. American
astronaut Captain Charles
?Chuck. As soon he gets
there, Ian learns that the
band has a new album
coming out in a few weeks
time so he does what he can
to help their launch.
16.10 Anthony Bourdain: The
Layover
22.00 Defenders
Two episodes.
00.35 MTV?s Flash Pranks
01.00 South Park
01.50 Naked and Funny
(K16)
02.45 Meet the Parents (K16)
NELONEN
Michael Clayton
MT V3 22.35
11.30
12.30
13.00
14.00
Wild Life at the Zoo
Animal ABC
Animal Rescue
The Secret Life of the
American Teenager
15.00 Wizards of Waverly Place
15.30 10 Things I Hate About You
16.00 Rules of Engagement
21.00 Toy Story 3 FILM
Directed by: Lee Unkrich.
Voices: Tom Hanks,
Tim Allen, Joan Cusack.
USA/2010.
23.20 Legend of Seeker
00.20 The Last Exorcism (K16)
FILM
Directed by: Daniel Stamm.
Starring: Patrick Fabian,
Ashley Bell, Iris Bahr.
USA/France/2010.
02.10 All in the Family
TV5
07.20 Matlock
11.15 DC Cupcakes
12.10 Extraordinary Weight
Stories: Living With Size
Zero DOC
13.05 Amazing Wedding Cakes
14.00 Look Who?s Talking Now
FILM
Directed by: Tom
Ropelewski. USA/1958.
21.05 British Invasion: Small Faces
22.05 Yle Live: Example
22.55 The Phantom
In Serbian.
Vertigo
Yle Teema 18.00
08.00 Children?s Programming
In Finnish.
15.00 Unaccompanied Minors
FILM
A group of unaccompanied
minors bond while snowed
in at the midwestern
Hoover International
Airport during the holiday
season and ultimately
create a makeshift holiday
themselves.
Directed by: Paul Feig.
Starring: Lewis Black,
Dyllan Christopher,
Dominique Saldaña.
USA/2006.
21.00 Revenge
22.35 Homeland (K16)
In the penultimate episode
of the first season, the truth
about Brody?s plans are
revealed, and the stage is
set for the final episode,
where Brody will be revealed
either as a war hero/
politician/devoted family
man, or a terrorist.
23.40 Without a Trace
SUB
10.30 The Simpsons
13.30 Don?t Trust the B**** in
Apartment 23
14.00 Big Bang Theory
14.30 2 Broke Girls
15.00 Raising Hope
16.00 Tabatha?s Salon Takeover
17.00 Gossip Girl
18.00 American Idol
20.00 Mythbusters
Snow myths are
investigated, including
whether yodeling or a
machine gun can trigger an
avalanche. Starring: Amanda
Schull, Ethan Stiefel, Peter
Gallagher. New York (K16)
00.25 Grimm (K16)
01.25 Sons of Anarchy (K16)
JIM
08.50 Gordon Ramsay?s F Word
11.35 Extreme Fishing
12.30 Travel Channel?s Man
v. Directed by: Ross Katz. to remedy the
situation after a lawyer
has a breakdown while
representing a chemical
company that he knows
is guilty in a multi-billion
dollar class action suit.
Directed by: Tony Gilroy.
Starring: George Clooney,
Tilda Swinton,
Tom Wilkinson.
USA/2007.
00.55 Saving Grace
SUB
10.00
14.00
14.30
15.00
16.00
18.00
21.00
American Idol
World Palooza
Better Off Ted
Got to Dance
Tabatha?s Salon Takeover
American Idol
Ring 2 (K16) FILM
Six months after the
incidents involving the
lethal videotape, new clues
prove that there is a new
evil lurking in the darkness.
Directed by: Hideo Nakata.
Starring: Naomi Watts,
David Dorfman,
Simon Baker.
USA/2005.
23.30 C.S.I. Directed
by: Thilo Rothkirch.
Germany/2008.
21.00 Amazing Race
22.30 Lottery and Joker
22.35 Michael Clayton FILM
A law firm brings in its
?fixer. Starring:
Kevin Bacon, Tom Aldredge,
Nicholas Art. Equipped only with his
faltering English and a simple,
optimistic outlook on life, Viktor
gradually makes friends with the
airport staff and even falls in
love with flight attendant Amelia (Catherine Zeta Jones) over
the ensuing weeks. USA/2007.
21.00 Salt (K16) FILM
A CIA agent goes on the
run after a defector accuses
her of being a Russian spy.
Directed by: Phillip Noyce.
Starring: Andre Braugher,
Angelina Jolie,
Chiwetel Ejiofor.
USA/2010.
23.00 Sexcetera (K18)
00.05 Kelly?s First Nudist
Retreat (K18) FILM
Directed by: Francis Locke.
Starring: Jadra Holly, Amber
Michaels, Frank Fortuna.
USA/2008.
01.45 Wolf (K16) FILM
Directed by: Mike Nichols.
Starring: Christopher
Plummer, David Hyde
Pierce, Eileen Atkins.
USA/1994.
04.00 Jersey Shore
17.3.
TV1
MTV3
10.00 Kapten Nemos Barn
In Swedish.
11.15 L?Instit
In French.
12.10 Jens Christian Hauge
In Norwegian.
13.00 Decade of Discovery DOC
14.30 Palme . Directed by:
Steven Spielbrg. France/2007.
Veep
TV1 22.00
HELSINKI TIMES
08.00 Children?s Programming
In Finnish.
14.25 Kleiner Dodo FILM
The cute orangutan Dodo
loves sounds and imitates
them. Meanwhile, Kari,
Tory and Grant investigate
ice-driving techniques and if
it is possible to freeze one?s
tongue on a flag pole.
21.00 Terminal FILM
Directed by: Steven Spielbrg.
Starring: Tom Hanks,
Catherine Zeta-Jones,
Stanley Tucci.
USA/2004.
23.30 Person of Interest (K16)
00.30 Nikita (K16)
02.00 Southland (K16)
JIM
09.05 Gordon Ramsay?s F Word
Two episodes.
11.50 Chuck?s Day Off
15.20 The Opener
17.10 Guinness World Records
18.05 Cooks to Market
20.00 Anthony Bourdain: The
Layover
21.35 JIM D Biography: George
Clooney
22.35 Ink Master
23.25 Speeders
23.50 Unusual Suspects (K16)
00.45 JIM D Crime: A Hidden
City
01.35 Beast (K16)
Two episodes.
NELONEN
Homeland
MTV3 22.35
08.25 Extreme Makeover: Home
Edition
11.25 Animal ABC
11.55 Dog Rescue
13.00 Animal Rescue
13.30 Melissa and Joey
Two episodes.
14.30 Frasier
Four episodes.
20.00 Once Upon a Time
21.00 Spider-Man 2 FILM
Peter Parker is beset with
troubles in his failing
personal life as he battles
a brilliant scientist named
Doctor Otto Octavius, who
becomes Doctor Octopus,
after an accident causes
him to bond psychically with
mechanical tentacles that
do his bidding.
Directed by: Sam Raimi.
Starring: Tobey Maguire,
Kirsten Dunst, James Franco.
USA/2004.
23.50 Elementary
00.50 Mad Men
01.50 Lost
02.45 All in the Family
TV5
07.10 Everybody Loves Raymond
07.35 That ?70s Show
08.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
11.30 Matlock
13.20 Zoo Days
14.15 That ?70s Show
16.35 The Magicians
17.45 Planet 51 FILM
In Finnish. USA/2004.
Yle Teema 21.35
Saturday 16.3.2013
Sub 21.00
Sunday 17.3.2013. Strobl never
knew Phelps before volunteering to escort home his body,
but as Strobl journeys across
America, he discovers the
great diligence and dignity in
how the military handle such
dark duties and comes to grips
with his own issues of guilt
when he meets Chance?s gracious family and friends. However,
he also cannot be deported
so he is told by the Security
Manager that he has to remain
in the airport until his status can
be fixed. Starring: Amanda
Schull, Ethan Stiefel, Peter
Gallagher. A 20th Century
Tale
In Swedish.
15.25 Agathe Kann?s Nicht Lassen
In German.
19.15 Nature Wonder Land
The mimic octopus is a
remarkable animal that
can transform itself to
impersonate over ten other
types of creatures, including
flounder, sea snake, lionfish,
and sea anemone.
21.55 Silent Witness (K16)
TV2
08.03 Children?s Programming
In Finnish.
11.26 Biathlon World Cup: Mass
Start, Women SPORT
In Finnish.
12.15 World Figure Skating
Championship SPORT
In Finnish.
13.40 Ice Cross Downhill SPORT
In Finnish.
14.20 Biathlon World Cup: Mass
Start, Men SPORT
In Finnish.
19.30 Der Staatsanwalt
In German.
20.30 ISU World Figure Skating
Championship SPORT
In Finnish.
22.30 Girls (K16)
22.55 How to Make it in America
23.25 The Wire (K16)
YLE TEEMA
14.45 We Also Dance DOC
15.15 Nobuyuki Tsujii at
Carnegie Hall
16.00 Women Without the Pause
In English, French, Japanese
and Spanish.
18.00 Vertigo FILM
A retired San Francisco
detective suffering from
acrophobia investigates
the strange activities of an
old friend?s much-younger
wife, all the while becoming
dangerously obsessed with her.
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock.
Starring: James Stewart,
Kim Novak. Starring: Tom
Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones,
Stanley Tucci. 20
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14 . Food: Carnivore
Chronicles
Two episodes.
13.25 Kung Fu Kitchen
13.55 The Delinquent Gourmet
14.25 Invite Mr. Suddenly Viktor is a man without a
country or one that the US cannot recognise, thus he is denied
entrance to the U.S. He salsas the
night away before getting to
meet the man who rolled the
world?s longest cigar.
22.10 ISU World Figure Skating
Championship SPORT
In Finnish.
00.00 The Wire (K16)
YLE TEEMA
15.20 Yle Live:
Deadmau5
16.10 Fry?s Planet Word DOC
17.10 Surviving Hitler: A Love
Story
18.05 Polseres Vermelles
In Catalan.
18.50 We Also Dance
19.20 Nobuyuki Tsujii Live at
Carnegie Hall
21.00 Poster Girl FILM
A documentary film
about an American
soldier?s experience with
posttraumatic stress
disorder after returning from
the Iraq War.
21.35 Taking Chance FILM
Directed by: Ross Katz.
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Tom
Aldredge, Nicholas Art.
USA/2009.
22.55 Ensemble C?est Tout FILM
Directed by: Claude Berri.
Starring: Audrey Tautou,
Guillaume Canet, Laurent
Stocker
But on
take off, Ripner reveals the real
reason he is on board, he needs
Lisa to murder the Secretary
for Homeland Security, who is
staying at the luxury hotel she
manages. No pills, no
medicines simply fasting.
21.30 Senna DOC
TV2
06.53 Children?s Programming
In Finnish.
08.50 Die Winzerkönig
In German.
09.35 Kust till Kust
In Danish.
10.35 Kjendisbarnevakten
In Norwegian.
11.45 Mitt I Nature Australien
In Swedish.
12.30 Solen Mat
In Swedish.
13.00 Nattugglor
In Swedish.
14.00 Spice med Price
17.00 Children?s Programming
In Finnish.
18.02 William & Mary
22.35 Misfits (K16)
23.50 Game of Thrones (K16)
YLE TEEMA
17.00 Civilization: Is the West
History. Meanwhile, Kari,
Tory and Grant investigate
ice-driving techniques and if
it is possible to freeze one?s
tongue on a flag pole.
19.00 Two and a Half Men
19.30 Don?t Trust the B**** in
Apartment 23
20.00 The Simpsons
20.30 Big Bang Theory
21.00 Red Eye (K16) FILM
Directed by: Wes Craven.
Starring: Rachel McAdams,
Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox.
USA/2005.
22.50 C.S.I.
23.45 Vampire Diaries (K16)
00.40 The Simpsons
01.10 Fringe (K16)
JIM
11.20
12.15
13.10
14.05
MasterChef Australia
To Build or Not to Build
Cooks to Market
Anthony Bourdain: The
Layover
Tony travels to Mozambique
and finds himself in a
mysterious, post-colonial
Africa.
15.00 Gordon Ramsay?s F Word
17.00 Travel Channel?s Man
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19.3.
TV1
MTV3
09.30 Folk: Ragnar Thorseth ?
Min Historie
In Norwegian.
10.00 Heartbeat
11.05 Yle News in English
11.10 Kapten Nemos Barn
In Swedish.
12.10 Ut I Naturen
In Norwegian.
12.30 Last of the Summer Wine
17.08 Heartbeat
19.00 Billy Connolly?s Route 66
21.00 En Pilgrims Död (K16)
In Swedish.
22.00 Jens Christian Hauge
In Norwegian.
22.55 Eat, Fast and Live Longer
DOC
TV2
06.52 Children?s Programming
In Finnish.
08.50 Die Winzerkönig
In German.
12.30 Solen Mat
In Swedish.
13.00 Djursjukhuset
In Swedish.
14.00 AnneMad i New York
SERIES BEGINS.
In Danish and English.
17.00 Children?s Programming
In Finnish.
18.02 William & Mary
22.05 The Wonderful Country
(K16) FILM
Directed by: Robert Parrish.
Starring: Robert Mitchum,
Julie London. flight
back to Miami. The Spy Who Loved
Me (K16) FILM
A new mission of James Bond
is to find out how a Royal
Navy Polaris submarine
holding sixteen nuclear
warheads simply disappears
whilst on patrol. Here science takes
the lead to discover what
can be done to change the
way we live. After killing a man in self
defense, Brady slips back over the
border and confronts Castro who
is not only unhappy that Brady has
lost his gun shipment but is about
to join forces with Colton to battle
the local raiding Apache Indians.
Directed by: Robert Parrish. If she refuses to help,
Ripner?s partner will murder her
father. to the rich and famous.
00.30 30 Rock
SUB
09.25 Eastenders
10.00 Sturm der Liebe
In German.
14.00 One Born Every Minute
14.55 ER
15.55 Oliver?s Twist
16.25 Eastenders
17.00 Sturm der Liebe
In German.
18.00 Jamie?s Food Escapes
In Athens, Jamie goes spear
fishing off a Mama Miastyle island, meets bee
keepers who produce the
most amazing honey and are
full of even more amazing
stories about bee sex. On-board she
meets charismatic Jackson
Ripner (Cillian Murphy), a handsome stranger to whom she
feels instantly attracted. As the plane makes its
way to Miami at 30,000 feet,
Lisa has to think fast to foil Ripner?s evil scheme. Starring: Rachel
McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian
Cox. New York (K16)
This series follows the
investigations of a team of
NYPD forensic scientists
and police officers as they
unveil the circumstances
behind mysterious and
unusual deaths as well as
other crimes.
23.35 Royal Pains
Royal Pains centers on a
young E.R. Elsewhere, a
disorganised bride neglects
to plan important elements
of her big day, frustrating
those around her.
21.00 Elementary
A modern take on the cases
of Sherlock Holmes, with the
detective now living in New
York City.
22.00 NCIS
23.15 Frasier
01.10 Pawn Stars
Two episodes.
02.05 All in the Family
TV5
06.00 Beauty and The Geek
07.10 Everybody Loves Raymond
07.40 That ?70s Show
08.05 3rd Rock from the Sun
08.30 Matlock
14.10 Matlock
15.05 Beauty and The Geek
16.00 America?s Funniest Home
Videos
Two episodes.
17.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
17.30 3rd Rock from the Sun
18.00 That ?70s Show
Two episodes.
19.00 Las Vegas
20.00 Navy NCIS
21.00 The Fast and the Furious:
Tokyo Drift FILM
Alabama teenager Sean
Boswell becomes a major
competitor in the world of drift
racing after moving in with his
father in Tokyo to avoid a jail
sentence in America.
Directed by: Justin Lin.
Starring: Lucas Black,
Bow Wow, Nathalie Kelly.
USA/2006.
23.00 The Da Vinci Code (K16)
FILM
A murder inside the
Louvre and clues in Da
Vinci paintings lead to the
discovery of a religious
mystery protected by a
secret society for two
thousand years which could
shake the foundations of
Christianity.
Directed by: Ron Howard.
Starring: Tom Hanks,
Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno.
USA/2006.
02.15 Jean-Claude Van Damme:
Behind the Closed Doors
03.10 Flashpoint
04.00 Navy NCIS
Red Eye
The Wonderful Country
Tense thriller from director Wes
Craven. Starring: Robert Mitchum, Julie London.
USA/1959.
Sub 21.00
Monday 18.3.2013
TV2 22.05
Tuesday 19.3.2013. Lisa Reisert (Rachel
McAdams) is coming back from
her grandmother?s funeral and
has to take the ?red eye. Directed by:
Wes Craven. Bond joins
Major Anya Amasova and
takes on a web-handed
mastermind, known as
Stromberg, as well as his
henchman Jaws, who has a
mouthful of metal teeth.
Directed by: Lewis Gilbert.
Starring: Roger Moore,
Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens.
Great Britain/1977.
23.45 Frasier
00.15 Once Upon a Time
01.15 Legend of Seeker
02.10 All in the Family
TV5
06.20 Amazing Wedding Cakes
08.05 Matlock
12.00 Losing It with Jillian
12.50 Junior MasterChef
Australia
13.45 Matlock
14.40 Beauty and The Geek
16.00 America?s Funniest Home
Videos
17.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
17.30 3rd Rock from the Sun
18.00 That ?70s Show
19.00 Las Vegas
20.00 Navy NCIS
21.00 Sleepless in Seattle FILM
Directed by: Nora Ephron.
Starring: Tom Hanks,
Meg Ryan Ross Malinger.
USA/1993.
23.05 5D: Britain?s Happy
Hookers
Alex Bedford meets a
variety of twenty-something
women at the forefront of
an emerging shift in the
sex industry, young, trendy
women in London who
are turning to high-end
escorting to finance their
expensive taste for lavish
goods.
00.05 Blonde Ambition FILM
Directed by: Scott Marshall.
Starring: Jessica Simpson,
Luke Wilson,
Rachael Leigh Cook.
USA/2007.
01.55 Flashpoint
02.45 72 Hours: Crime (K16)
14 . Complicating
matters further the wife of local
army major Colton has designs on
him, and the local Texas Ranger
captain makes him a generous offer
to come back to the states and join
his outfit. TV GUIDE
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monday
tuesday
18.3.
TV1
MTV3
09.30 Nature Wonder Land
The mimic octopus.
10.00 Heartbeat
11.05 Yle News in English
12.30 Last of the Summer Wine
16.25 Folk: Ragnar Thorseth ?
Min Historie
In Norwegian.
17.08 Heartbeat
19.00 Eat, Fast and Live Longer
DOC
This documentary explores
the recently accepted
concept that fasting is key
to longevity in the human
being. doctor who, after
being wrongly blamed for
a patient?s death, moves to
the Hamptons and becomes
the reluctant ?doctor for
hire. Den Canada
11.55 Cooks to Market
15.10 Gordon Ramsay?s F Word
16.05 New York Ink
17.00 Dragons. Max Weber
famously linked it to
Protestantism, but the
reality is that any culture,
regardless of religion,
is capable of embracing
the spirit of capitalism by
working hard, saving, and
accumulating capital.
18.00 Moines en Laboratoire
In English and French.
19.00 Cuéntame Cómo Pasó
In Spanish.
20.30 Arkitektens Hjem
In Danish.
22.00 Prisoners of War (K16)
Senna
T V1 21.30
NELONEN
09.45 The Young and the Restless
10.40 Emmerdale
Two episodes.
15.20 Raising Hope
17.00 The Bold and the Beautiful
Two episodes.
18.00 Emmerdale
Two episodes.
21.00 House
23.30 Human Target (K16)
SUB
09.25 Eastenders
10.00 Sturm der Liebe
In German.
14.00 One Born Every Minute
One Born Every Minute is
focused on providing helpful
insights into the realities of
giving birth, especially in a
hospital environment.
14.55 ER
15.55 Oliver?s Twist
16.25 Eastenders
17.00 Sturm der Liebe
In German.
18.00 Mythbusters
Snow myths are
investigated, including
whether yodeling or a
machine gun can trigger an
avalanche. DOC
The sixth element that
enabled the West to
dominate the rest was the
work ethic. USA/2005.
Having fled to Mexico from the
US many years ago for killing his
father?s murderer, Martin Brady
travels to Texas to broker an
arms deal for his Mexican boss,
strongman Governor Cipriano
Castro. Food: Carnivore
Chronicles
Two episodes.
18.00 Gordon Ramsay?s F Word
19.00 New York Ink
21.30 NCIS Los Angeles
22.35 Pawn Stars
23.05 MTV?s Flash Pranks
23.35 South Park
00.05 Naked and Funny (K16)
00.35 Grimefighters
01.05 JIM D Biography: George
Clooney
02.05 Border Security:
Australia?s Front Line
Sleepless in Seattle
T V5 21.00
07.00 Children?s Programming
15.00 The Secret Life of the
American Teenager
16.00 Bridezillas
17.00 Animal ABC
20.00 America?s Next Top Model
21.00 007 . Brady breaks a leg and
while recuperating in Texas the gun
shipment is stolen. He
makes goat cheese with a
Greek Orthodox monk, and
prepares a Greek salad, and
pistachio and honey cake.
19.00 Two and a Half Men
19.30 How I Met Your Mother
20.00 The Simpsons
22.00 Grimm (K16)
23.00 House
00.00 Supernatural (K16)
01.00 The Simpsons
01.30 Fringe (K16)
JIM
10.30 MasterChef Australia
11.00 Dragons. USA/1959.
YLE TEEMA
17.00 Moines en Laboratoire
In French and English.
18.15 Rendez-Vous Jet Set
In French.
19.00 Cloudstreet
20.00 Titanic: The Mission
In the final episode of the
series the engineers explore
the safety features on board of
Titanic and the heroic efforts of
the engine room staff who gave
their lives in their desperate bid
to help evacuate the sinking
ship and summon help.
21.00 The Dust Bowl DOC
This documentary chronicles
the worst man-made
ecological disaster in
American history, in which the
frenzied wheat boom of the
?Great Plow-Up,. followed by
a decade-long drought during
the 1930s nearly swept away
the breadbasket of the nation.
23.15 Prisoners of War (K16)
Billy Connolly?s Route 66
TV1 19.00
09.45 The Young and the Restless
10.40 Emmerdale
11.40 Doctors
14.15 Harry?s Law
15.20 Better with You
17.00 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
22.35 C.S.I. Den Canada
18.00 Gordon Ramsay?s F Word
19.00 New York Ink
22.00 Pawn Stars
23.05 South Park
23.35 Naked and Funny (K16)
00.05 Grimefighters
01.05 JIM D Crime: Crimestories
Around the World
02.05 Border Security:
Australia?s Front Line
NELONEN
Jamie?s Food Escapes
Sub 18.00
07.00 Children?s Programming
16.00 Bridezillas
A bride?s family cause
problems as the poorly
planned wedding starts to
show cracks
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Thu 3/14
20.3.
TV1
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MTV3
10.00
11.05
12.30
17.08
19.00
Heartbeat
Yle News in English
Last of the Summer Wine
Heartbeat
The Great Famine DOC
The little-known story of the
American effort to relieve
starvation in the new Soviet
Russia in 1921, The Great
Famine is a documentary about
the worst natural disaster in
Europe since the Black Plague
in the Middle Ages.
22.00 Treme
A judge?s ultimatum gives
hope to LaDonna and Toni.
Albert makes a stand and
pays the price.
23.05 Argent sale, le Poison de la
Finance
In French.
TV2
06.53 Children?s Programming
08.50 Die Winzerkönig
In German.
12.30 Solen Mat
In Swedish.
13.00 Djursjukhuset
In Swedish.
14.00 Mette Blomster Baker
In Norwegian.
17.00 Children?s Programming
In Finnish.
22.10 An Idiot Abroad
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07.10 Everybody Loves Raymond
07.40 That ?70s Show
08.05 3rd Rock from the Sun
08.30 Matlock
12.20 Zoo Days
Two episodes.
13.20 You?re Cut Off
14.10 Matlock
15.05 Beauty and The Geek
16.00 America?s Funniest Home
Videos
Two episodes.
17.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
17.30 3rd Rock from the Sun
18.00 That ?70s Show
Two episodes.
19.00 Las Vegas
20.00 Navy NCIS
21.30 The Warrior?s Way (K16)
FILM
Directed by: Sngmoo Lee.
Starring: Danny Huston,
Geoffrey Rush,
Jang Dong-gun.
New Zealand/2010.
23.30 NCIS: Los Angeles
00.25 Stranger with My Face
(K16) FILM
After the shocking and
untimely death of her
husband, Shelley Stratton
moves her daughter Alexis
and her adopted daughter,
Laurie, to their remote
summer house in hopes of
giving her family a fresh start.
Directed by: Jeff Renfroe.
Starring: Catherine Hicks,
Andrew Francis, Emily Hirst.
USA/2009.
02.10 Tough Love Couples (K16)
03.05 Navy NCIS
03.55 Jean-Claude Van Damme:
Behind the Closed Doors
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16.00 Bridezillas
In this reality series we
always meet a new bride
who is more selfish and
controlling than the
previous one.
17.00 Melissa and Joey
21.00 Grey?s Anatomy
Derek, Meredith, Arizona
and Cristina receive news
about the plane crash
lawsuit. The
judges include Kelly Brook
and Sean Cheesman.
15.55 Oliver?s Twist
A vegetarian feast, including
mushroom sarnie, spaghetti
with wild mushrooms and
pecan-vanilla ice cream with
maple syrup.
16.25 Eastenders
17.00 Sturm der Liebe
In German.
19.00 Two and a Half Men
19.30 2 Broke Girls
20.00 The Simpsons
21.00 Kitchen Nightmares USA
Chef Ramsay visits Atlanta,
GA, to help the owners of
contemporary American
restaurant Park?s Edge
refresh their menu and
service.
23.00 House
00.00 Eureka
01.00 The Simpsons
02.00 Fringe (K16)
JIM
11.00 MasterChef Australia
12.20 Dragons. Richard avoids
Catherine?s advances
and Jackson takes on one
of Mark Sloane?s former
patients.
23.15 Frasier
23.45 Reaper
00.40 Body of Proof
01.40 All in the Family
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18.00 Gordon Ramsay?s F Word
19.00 New York Ink
20.00 Speeders
21.00 JIM D: Ax Men
A group of hardworking
loggers use both old and
new technology along with
a considerable amount of
muscle.
22.00 Pawn Stars
23.05 South Park
23.35 Naked and Funny (K16)
00.05 Grimefighters
00.35 JIM D: Ancient Aliens
01.35 Border Security:
Australia?s Front Line
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15.10 Gordon Ramsay?s F Word
16.05 New York Ink
17.00 Dragons. with a little stopoff in Thailand for some boxing
and monkeying around.
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17.00 The Pill DOC
In English and German.
18.30 Cosmic Vistas
The Northern Lights are
more than just beautiful.
They tell us about the make
up of our planet, our sun,
and may even be a signpost
for the possibility of life on
other planets.
19.00 Donna Leon
20.30 Tonårsliv
In Swedish.
21.45 Precious (K16) FILM
In New York City?s Harlem circa
1987, an overweight, abused,
illiterate teen who is pregnant
with her second child is invited
to enroll in an alternative
school in hopes that her life
can head in a new direction.
Directed by: Lee Daniels.
Starring: Gabourey Sibide,
Mariah Carey, Paula Patton.
USA/2010.
The Great Famine
T V1 19.00
HELSINKI TIMES
09.45 The Young and the Restless
10.40 Emmerdale
11.40 Doctors
14.15 Smash
15.20 Last Man Standing
17.00 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
21.00 Person of Interest
23.05 Mythbusters
Adam and Jamie get
abandoned on a Hawaiian
island, armed with nothing
but the sticky silver
adhesive. Can they use it to
source water, find food
and build?
00.10 Fringe (K16)
01.10 30 Rock
SUB
09.25 Eastenders
10.00 Sturm der Liebe
In German.
14.00 My Antonio
14.55 Dirty Dancing: The Time of
Your Life
Eight couples compete in a
dance contest inspired by
the Eighties film, hoping to
win a year-long contract
with dance agency Bloc
Success of the largest chain
of spas in China, Liangtse, continues in Europe. 09
471 67371; Espoo: Jorvi hospital, Turuntie 150, tel. Dial 112. Wanha Kauppahalli (?Old Market Hall?) at the Market Square and Hakaniemen Kauppahalli (?Hakaniemi Market Hall?)
are the most popular. Public transport operates in Helsinki and its surrounding regions
from around 5:30 (6:30 at weekends) until midnight. The Tourist Bureau provides information about the city and its sights.
SERVICES & REPAIRS
Public Transport. Italy
Internet. 09 471 87383; Vantaa: Peijas hospital, Sairaalakatu 1, tel. 050 4011 663
Onnibus is Finland?s only budget bus service
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FINLAND INFO
Acupuncture
THE CHEAPEST WAY TO TRAVEL IN FINLAND
14 . Helsinki City Tourist & Convention Bureau
(Pohjoisesplanadi 19, Aleksanterinkatu 20) is open Mon-Fri 9-20
and Sat-Sun 10-18 between 15 May and 14 September; at other times
of the year, Mon-Fri 9-18 and Sat-Sun 10-16, tel. experience
Tel. All with bathroom en suite.
Superb Tuscan foods and wines.
Medical services. / 60 min
Dr. Grocery stores in the Helsinki Central Railway
Station tunnel are open Mon-Sat 7-22 and Sun 10-22.
. See www.
posti.fi
Emergency Numbers. 09 100 23.
Nine luxurious and very comfortable double rooms,
tel, fridge, air con. Night buses operate extensively at weekends. 09 3101 3300. Finland?s international country
code is +358 and to ring abroad from Finland dial 00. Single ticket fares: Helsinki (one zone) ?2.50/?2 from ticket machine, Helsinki-Espoo or Helsinki-Vantaa (two zones) ?4 and whole area (three
zones) ?6.20. For
more information, see www.visithelsinki.fi. The currency exchange counter at the harbour
in Katajanokka, Helsinki is open every day (Mon-Sat 10-11:30, 1617:30 and 19:30-21:15, Sun 10-11:30, 16-17:30 and 6:30-8). Both are open Mon-Fri 8-18 and Sat 8-16 but
are closed on Sundays.
Restaurants. Operator number 118. Yliopiston apteekki (tel. 09 471 72432; Töölö hospital, Topeliuksenkatu 5,
tel. In the evenings and at weekends adults in need of urgent medical
treatment in Helsinki should go to emergency health centres at Haartman hospital (Haartmaninkatu 4) or Maria hospital (Lapinlahdenkatu 16).
For more info: info@casamazzoni.it
Or visit us at: www.tuscanyrural.com
phone: +34 647353488
WELLBEING
Emergency clinics in Helsinki and Uusimaa area hospitals that are
on call 24 hours a day: Helsinki: Meilahti hospital, 2nd floor, Haartmaninkatu 4, tel. Public phones
are scarce. Tampere-Pori
SOLUTION SUDOKU
. 09 4711.
SERVICES & REPAIRS
Ivors
Construction Oy
All types of work
undertaken, no job
too big or too small!
Celebrating
three years of Chinese
holistic massage in Helsinki
Our beautiful facility in Helsinki is a genuine Chinese oasis to
which you are heartfelt welcome. In a number of Finnish towns public internet posts are
quite rare due to extensive per-person internet use at home. Restaurants in the Helsinki area can be found from
the internet service www.eat.fi, which provides information on restaurants, their menus, opening hours and some user rating etc.
Tuscany . Both telephone cards and Finnish SIM cards for mobile
phones can be bought at R-kioski shops.
Tourist Information. Post offices are usually open Mon-Fri 10-18. Night
buses have an extra fee. Turku-Tampere-Jyväskylä
. Most grocery stores are open Mon-Fri 7-21, Sat
7-18 and Sun 12-21. Includes commuter trains, buses, trams and metro. We offer a 150 ha
private property with very special views.
Health advice and information call centre (if you are unsure of what
to do) . Tao, 40y. The Forex desk at Helsinki Central Railway Station is open Mon-Sun 8-21.
See www.forex.fi for more information.
Grocery stores. Hundreds of customers visit our facility in Helsinki each month to receive holistic treatment and relaxing massage.
In 2013 you?ll be able to choose the one you want from two
facilities: Liangtse will open a second facility at Arkadiankatu
in Helsinki.
Jason Ivors
Skilled Carpenter
0440 100 538
jason@ivorsconstruction.fi
www.ivorsconstruction.fi
Pharmacies. Stenbäckinkatu 11, 09 471 72783 (between 6:00 and 22:00), 09 471 72751 (between 22:00 and 6:00).
Golden Dust Cleaning Services offers
a comprehensive selection of cleaning services.
Golden Dust also offers snow plowing, elderly
assistance and baby sitting services.
Service times: Mon-Sun 8:00-20:00
Service area: Capital area and surrounding municipalities
WELLBEING
mindfulfinland
Promoting clarity and contentment
one moment at a time www.mindful-finland.com
Hämeentie 5B, 00530 Helsinki, tel 044 364 1719
www.goldendust.fi
China Liangtse Wellness Oy
Open: Mon-Sat 10:00-21:00, Sun 12:00-20:00
Arkadiankatu 17 LH B, Helsinki
Tel: 09 454 6301 I info2@liangtse.fi
Iso Roobertinkatu 8, LH 1, Helsinki
Tel: 09 278 4201 I info@liangtse.fi
www.liangtse.fi
Helsinki Times
Workshops Commencing April 2013
For inquiries, registration and a free consultation:
info@mindful-finland.com. For more information, see www.hsl.fi.
Back and neck massage: 39?/30 min
Meridian massage: 69?/50 min
Full body massage: 75?/60 min
Also many other treatments...
Children in need of urgent medical treatment should be taken to Lastenklinikka children?s hospital. For non-urgent ambulance services, dial 09 394 600, and non-urgent police matters, dial 09 1891.
. 20 MARCH 2013
. Most
hotels as well as the Helsinki Tourist Office and Helsinki?s General
Post Office have a computer terminal. At these public terminals internet use is usually free of charge.
Enjoy Tuscany as the natives do. Turku-Ylläs
From only 3 euros! www.onnibus.fi
Market halls. Jyväskylä-Oulu
Post Offices. CLASSIFIEDS & SERVICES
HELSINKI TIMES
HEALTH
TRAVEL
&
Acumassage
Home Service
60. Health centres around the country are open Mon-Fri
8-16. Helsinki?s General Post Office is also open at the weekend 10-18. From Helsinki to Turku, Tampere, Jyväskylä, Lahti, Kuopio
Banks and Bureaux de Change. 0300 20200, calls are
charged), Mannerheimintie 96, is open 24 hours; its branch at Mannerheimintie 5/Kaivopiha is open daily 7-24.
Telephone. Banks are usually open Mon-Fri
9:15-16:15 except for the bank at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, which
is open 6-22 daily