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M-1 Challenge 5 in USA: USA East vs Finland

MMA VIDEO UFC VIDEOS (Free subscription) | yesterday

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The Masochism Tango: Why Finland Took The Archetypal Argentine Dance To Heart

ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | yesterday

"It seems the melancholic music is a perfect match for the typical Finnish soul. 'It's a little bit sad, and it's beautiful,' a woman tells me at a dimly lit Helsinki restaurant that regularly hosts dances. Paradoxically, when she moves to these sad melodies, she feels happy. (She didn't want to be named, her reason being another national trait: shyness.)"...

Finland should join NATO's cyber defense co-op, says defense minister

People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday

Finland should accept NATO's offer to join the military alliance's cyber defense cooperation, Defense Minister Jyri Hakamies said on Thursday. Finland is a highly developed information society and therefore vulnerable to cyber attacks, Hakamies said. "This cyber is the kind of thing where it is good to be involved because that is how one acquires the best and newest information," Hakamies...

Hong Kong, Finland sign investment protection agreement

People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government and the Finnish government signed an agreement for the promotion and protection of investments on Thursday in Helsinki, the HKSAR government said. Rita Lau, Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development of the HKSAR government who was currently on a visit to Finland, signed the agreement with Finnish Minister for Foreign Trade and Development...

Finland's household-dwelling units' debts grow in 2008

People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday

Finland's household-dwelling units' outstanding debts totaled 90.5 billion euros (about 127.14 billion U.S. dollars) in 2008, increasing by 7.7 percent from the previous year, said Statistics Finland on July 2. There were 1,470,000 household-dwelling units with outstanding debts in Finland in 2008. The amount of debt per indebted household-dwelling unit was 61,630 euros. The majority of Finnish household-dwelling...

sauna world championships underway in finland

Gossip Craze (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009

helsinki competitors literally started to sweat friday as qualifying rounds for the sauna world championships opened in the small town of heinola southern finlandhopefuls who have proved they have a clean bill of health sit in the sauna where the temperature is about 110 degrees centigradeevery 30 seconds organizers throw about half a litre of water on the stove generating plenty of steam and humid...

5. Finland Approves Nord Stream Environmental Impact Report

Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009

By Kati Pohjanpalo / Bloomberg The proposed Nord Stream gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea poses no serious environmental threat to Finland and can move forward to the next step in the approval process, ...

Rahaxi Oy Delivers in Excess of 1300 Terminals in Its Most Recent Rollout to Its Loyal and Ever Growing Customer Base as Its EMV Deployment Gathers Pace in Finland

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009

HELSINKI, July 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rahaxi, Inc.

• Rahaxi Oy Delivers in Excess of 1300 Terminals in Its Most Recent Rollout to Its Loyal and Ever Growing Customer Base as Its EMV Deployment Gathers Pace in Finland - PR News Wire

Finland warms to Russian-German pipeline

Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009

(AP) — HELSINKI - A proposed $15 billion natural gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany beneath the Baltic Sea received a boost Thursday after Finland's environmental authority said it had no...

Musical Chairs: Kimi contests WRC Finland, Rossi considers Ferrari, F1 could grow 3rd car

TODAY ON ROADST3R - Car STORIES (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009

Filed under: Motorsports , Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , Ferrari Valentino Rossi tests a Ferrari F1 car - Click above for high-res image gallery Typically F1 drivers come up through the formula racing ladder. But for every rule there's an exception,...

• Musical Chairs: Kimi contests WRC Finland, Rossi considers Ferrari, F1 could grow 3rd car - Autoblog

Finland warms to Russian-German pipeline

Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009

A proposed $15 billion natural gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany beneath the Baltic Sea received a boost Thursday after Finland's environmental authority said it had no major objections to its construction.

Chatarina & Drew tie the knot in Finland

Chris Taylor Photo Blog (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009

Yep, I’m now officially an ‘International Wedding Photographer’ after shooting Chatarina and Drew’s wedding in Finland although I have, in the past, shot a few weddings over the Norfolk border in Suffolk and that can be pretty ‘foreign’! I’d been looking forward to this wedding for quite a while and I wasn’t disappointed, Finland is a beautiful country...

Finland wants additional analysis on Nord Stream pipeline

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009

Helsinki -A Finnish environmental agency gave cautious approval to the prospective Nord Stream gas pipeline Thursday, but asked for more studies to be done. Nord Stream would bring natural gas from Russia to Germany via a pipeline running under the B...

Weird Michael Jackson Thriller Headphones

GadgetsAlerts (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Just for the hell of it, Nokia decided to run a design competition, challenging competing designers to create headphones inspired by their favorite music. Some of the resulting designs, as expected, are pretty awesomely wacky. The design above is inspired by Michael Jackson ’s “Thriller,” complete with unearthed zombies and a pedophile werewolf. Complete with display case for the...

Three resignations from the Order

FWBO & TBMSG News (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

Mahamati, the WBO’s International Order Convenor, writes with the news of three resignations from the Western Buddhist Order. He says – “The following have recently resigned from the Order: Amaradeva from Massachusetts, USA, Manjudaaka from Helsinki, Finland, and Vasumitra from London, U.K. “These resignations have been accepted by their respective preceptors. We wish all three...

WHO confirms flu spreads to Cuba, Finland, Thailand

bsalmons | 13/05/2009

H1N1 flu has now reached Cuba, Finland, and Thailand, with nearly 6,000 people infected in 33 countries, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.