NATO a touchy subject in Finland
Last week, Finland’s Minister of Defence, Jyri Hakamies, spoke out in public, voicing his support for Finland and Sweden’s accession into NATO. The sp...
Finns have trouble with influential women
President Tarja Halonen is a well known figure for the Finnish people, who, for the most part, have no difficulty in naming her as an influential Finn...
PEI should learn from Iceland
A Canadian historian has suggested that the government of Prince Edward Island should look to Iceland for lessons on keeping people in the area to wor...
Sterling’s Scandinavian summer sale
Flying to Scandinavia from London Gatwick is getting cheaper still, as competition on the low-cost routes intensifies. Sterling.dk has now begun adver...
Joining the club: Kuoni scores another hole in one
The Kuoni Group has acquired the Scandinavian-based golfing specialist Golf Plaisir Resebyra AB. According to trading-house.com, the tour operator wil...
“Pocket Man” changes lawyers
The paedophile known as the “Pocket Man” fired his lawyer this week. According to reports in Aftenposten. The unnamed man, who stands accused of moles...
Testers accepted for new ‘twinning’ site
TellMeTwin.com, a new website that offers to find user’s personality ‘twins’, is inviting people to take part in its Beta testing stage before the sit...
Riotous ringtone is a real gas
Following the truck driver’s protest that ended in violence on Wednesday 23rd April, the Icelandic nation has been looking at itself in a slightly dif...