Helsinki, Finland

SEOUL, April 13 (Yonhap) -- In a recent semi-official meeting with South Korea and the United States in Helsinki, Finland, North Korea said the six-party talks are "dead," the head of a South Korean state-run think tank said Friday, referring to the long-suspended multilateral forum on denuclearizing the ...

In January-March 2018, the Port of Helsinki (Finland) handled 3.75 million tonnes of cargo (+12.4%, year-on-year), the port authority says. Transshipment of bulk cargo grew by 35.6% to 604,050 tonnes, container throughput grew by 11.8% to 133,200 TEUs. Turnover of trucks and semitrailers increased by ...

Finland's Helsinki Airport continues to grow rapidly and has announced extended flight schedules on a pair of popular routes to the U.S.. The airport's operator, Finavia, confirmed that Finland's flag carrier Finnair will extend the flight schedule on its Helsinki-Chicago route until December 3, 2018, and on its ...

The Grammy Award-nominated vocalist - who already has a closet full of W.C. Handy Awards and Blues Music Awards - will show how it's done at Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, April 14, at 9 p.m.. While Shemekia is the daughter of the late Texas blues guitar legend Johnny Clyde Copeland, it's her ...

Right now, flights to Helsinki from select U.S. cities are as low as $398 round-trip, meaning you're just a few clicks and a few hundred dollars away from a budding food scene—salmiakki, anyone?—and beautiful architecture. The deal is valid from September to December on Oneworld airlines like Finnair ...

It's hardly hyperbole to state that the 50s and 60s represented a golden age in Finnish architecture and design, their influence still felt in the work of a great many contemporary studios. This explains the quality of timelessness evoked by the refurbished Palace Restaurant, its views of Helsinki's harbour, the ...

Unlike most, when they spot something wrong with one of the circuit boards, it goes through an unprecedented battery of testing and interrogation. For new products in development, every single board is checked at CSI Helsinki, which opened in 2015, while others will only be sent in for testing if the system ...

Iltalehti also reports on plans to change the way food banks operate in Helsinki. The capital's food assistance for the needy has been synonymous with the Hursti family, with lengthy queues outside distribution points in the Kallio and Myllypuro districts. Making people wait outside in all weathers is not the ...

At Yle's request Helsinki's parking control department collated data on the parking fines racked up by diplomats divided by country. Russia topped the list, with 72 tickets issued last year—and all but one of those went unpaid. That's because diplomats, under the Vienna convention, are not legally obliged to ...

Shareholders in the Nordic region's biggest bank, Nordea, have approved the transfer of the company's headquarters from Stockholm to Helsinki. At the annual general meeting in the Swedish capital on Thursday, the proposed move garnered 96.9 percent of votes. It would have only needed two thirds of ...

In January-February 2018, the Port of Helsinki (Finland) handled 2.53 million tonnes of cargo (+16.7%, year-on-year), the port authority says. Transshipment of bulk cargo grew by 45.1% to 500,840 tonnes, container throughput grew by 10.6% to 64,310 TEUs. Turnover of trucks and semitrailers increased ...

The Finnish Enterprise Agency for Helsinki on Friday revealed that its web-based service for creating and developing business plans, liiketoimintasuunnitelma.com, has been hacked, compromising the login credentials of roughly 130,000 users. The data breach is therefore believed to be one of the largest ...

Home of the quintessential Scandi-Baltic stopover, I had 24 hours to explore Helsinki. While most Kiwi travellers have been to Paris, London and Rome, not nearly as many have been to Finland. I had no expectations which made my stopover that much better. I learnt that when in Finland: take a sauna.