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MalaysiaNews.net - Wed Dec 9, 2:50 am ET
Helsinki, Dec 9 (IANS) The land of Santa and saunas, Finland is set to showcase its new airport terminal here Thursday, with a luxurious spa, well-being services and a modern, well-appointed lounge as its main attractions.
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INO News - Tue Dec 8, 12:26 pm ET
(AP:HELSINKI) Paper maker UPM-Kymmene Corp. said Tuesday it has completed a deal to take over the Fray Bentos pulp mill and forest plantations in Uruguay from other Finnish companies.
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INO News - Tue Dec 8, 7:26 am ET
(AP:HELSINKI) Finland's economy grew 0.3 percent in the third quarter compared to the previous period, but was down 9.1 percent from the same quarter in 2008, the government statistics agency said Tuesday.
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INO News - Tue Dec 8, 12:28 pm ET
(AP:HELSINKI) Shipbuilder STX Finland started the construction of a second ferry for P&O Ferries on Tuesday, in an overall deal valued at euro360 million ($530 million), the company said.
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Interactive Investor - Tue Dec 8, 4:56 am ET
HELSINKI, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Recession-hit Finland returned surprisingly to growth in the third quarter, as gross domestic product (GDP) was helped by a slight recovery in exports, data by Statistics Finland (SF) showed on Tuesday. The statistics office said in a statement GDP in July-September grew 0.3 percent from the previous quarter, but contracted 9.1 percent from the same period last year ...
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AlertNet - Wed Dec 9, 6:08 am ET
Source: IPS As Finnish energy major Neste Oil scales up production of its ‘green’ diesel NExBTL, environmental activists fear that more land will go under palm oil plantations at the expense of Southeast Asia’s threatened rainforests.
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PR.com - Wed Dec 9, 5:50 am ET
The Finnish forest industry has had a tough year. The wood supply has been tight and the country is having some of the highest sawlog and pulpwood costs in the world, according to the market report, the Wood Resource Quarterly (WRQ). [PR.com - June 13, 2008]
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UPI - Wed Dec 9, 9:03 am ET
By LAWRENCE SELLIN UPI Outside View Commentator HELSINKI, Finland, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Speaking during a joint news conference with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said: "We have a shared interest in promoting prosperity and stability in the Asia Pacific region. We have a common stake in peace and development in Afghanistan and in defeating terrorism ...
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gamesindustry.biz - Fri Dec 4, 9:07 am ET
HELSINKI, FINLAND – December 4, 2009 – Futuremark® Games Studio today released the dedicated server for Shattered Horizon™, their multiplayer first-person shooter played in zero gravity.
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INO News - Tue Dec 8, 2:56 am ET
(RTTNews) - Private sector labor costs in Finland rose 6% year-on-year in the third quarter compared to the 8.8% increase in the previous quarter, Statistics Finland reported on Tuesday.
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Slashdot - Sun Dec 6, 6:09 am ET
ACKyushu writes "Researchers from Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), University of New South Wales (Australia), and University of Melbourne (Australia) have succeeded in building a working transistor whose active region comprises only a single phosphorus atom in silicon. The results have just been published in Nano Letters. The working principles of the device are based on sequential ...
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INO News - Tue Dec 8, 2:40 am ET
(RTTNews) - Finland's economy grew a seasonally adjusted 0.3% quarter-on-quarter in the third quarter, rebounding from the upwardly revised 0.3% decrease in the previous quarter thus officially exiting its nine-month recession, Statistics Finland reported on Tuesday.
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Adnkronos - Tue Dec 8, 8:55 am ET
UN: Finland backs move for greenhouse gas cuts (AKI) - As the United Nations' climate change conference was meeting in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, Finland became the first country to back a programme to help developing countries cut greenhouse gas emissions. Finland will contribute 3.9 million dollars in 2010-2011 to the 60 million dollar programme run by the UN Food and Agriculture ...
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CIOL - Wed Dec 9, 4:21 am ET
HELSINKI, FINLAND: Top mobile phone maker Nokia Oyj said on Wednesday it would establish a joint venture with Chinese investment firm New Alliance in a bid to bolster its mobile services in the Chinese mobile and Internet market.
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Marketwire - Wed Dec 9, 7:14 am ET
HELSINKI, FINLAND--(Marketwire - December 9, 2009) - Metso Corporation's company release on December 9, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. local time Metso has received an order to deliver energy and pulping technology for CMPC Celulosa S.A., Chile. The value of CMPC's investment for Metso's technology is approximately EUR 60 million. The commercial operation is scheduled to start in 2011-2012. The most part of ...
