Matti Vanhanen, the Finnish Prime Minister, has declared that he will personally boycott the chain of grocery stores operated by the S chain as an objection to their decision to phase out from some of their stores milk produced by the country’s largest dairy organisation, Valio. Read the full story

A Helsinki couple has been fined by the District Court for allowing their baby son to be circumcised. Read the full story

A comprehensive electronic surveillance system that was sold by the Nokia Siemens Network Group to Iran is capable of spying on almost all electronic communications, according to its brochure. Read the full story

An online hate website calling for the murder of immigrants and leading national politicians is under scrutiny from the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation, with early intelligence revealing that the Finnish-language site is administered by a notorious American neo-Nazi. Read the full story

The anti-smoking campaign in Finland is continuing apace with municipal employers and companies beefing up their smoke-free workplace policies. Read the full story

Budget restraints at the Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) have resulted in job cuts of up to 50 percent among alcohol researchers. Read the full story

The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church is desperately seeking reconciliation between conservatives and reformists as it searches for a new Archbishop to preside over what is becoming an increasingly acrimonious conflict. Read the full story

A recent meeting at the Crisis Management Centre in Kuopio saw Northern Savo police representatives educate a group of Afghani prosecution officials and police officers into the machinations of both sides of theft cases. Read the full story

According to Finns, the consulting firm Accenture is the top large company to work for in that country this year. Read the full story

Police officers in the Finnish city of Vantaa, in the heart of the country’s metropolitan area, have uncovered one of the nation’s largest organised cocaine distribution rings. Read the full story