Wif Stenger

There are a record number of ticks in Finland’s forests, parks and meadows this year – while the number of cases of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) has doubled. According to Ilari Sääksjärvi, a professor of biodiversity research at the University of Turku, ... See more

Investors rushed to buy stocks in Finnish drugmaker Orion as it reported better-than-expected profits on Friday. The Espoo-based pharmaceutical firm saw its share price leap by nearly 10 percent on the Helsinki Stock Exchange. That followed the release of... See more

You may be on vacation – but not so data crooks who may be scheming to attack your small business or other organisation. Cyberattacks targeting Finnish organisations have increased by 35 percent compared to June last year, according to a report released b... See more

Finland’s railway system has been essentially a walled garden, with nearly 6,000 kilometres of tracks sealed off from the outside world. That will change in early August. Tickets go on sale next Tuesday for the first Finnish cross-border train trips in mo... See more

The numbers and origins of people moving to Finland have changed significantly since the onset of Covid in 2020 and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The country’s immigration policies have meanwhile tightened since the nationalist Finns Pa... See more