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Expats Open Virtual Language Cafe Print E-mail
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Saturday, 19 December 2009
An Oulu Finnish teacher and a group of expat language enthusiasts have created a virtual cafe on Facebook so they can practice chatting in Finnish.

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Asylum Cases to Stand or Fall on Accent and Dialect Print E-mail
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Saturday, 19 December 2009
The Finnish immigration service will begin to use analyses of accent and dialect in determining who are genuine refugees.

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Will it be a White Christmas? Print E-mail
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Friday, 18 December 2009
Twenty years ago, you didn’t even need to ask such a question in northern Finland . . . but things have changed. However, the disappointing, snowless Christmases of recent years may have been soundly defeated in 2009 as Oulu undergoes proper ‘Finnish’ Christmas weather.

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School Kids Set Fire to Their Toilet Print E-mail
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Friday, 18 December 2009
Some Oulu school-kids took warming the seat a bit too far on Tuesday when they set fire to one of the school toilets.

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Oulu Officials to be Made to Learn Swedish Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 09 December 2009

Council officials in Northern Ostrobothnia are to have compulsory courses in Swedish, according to Kaleva.

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Shop-lifting on the Rise Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 08 December 2009

The number of cases of shoplifting reported to the Finnish police increased by ten percent between January and September, according to official statistics.

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Teen seriously injured in Moped Smash Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 08 December 2009

A seventeen year-old teenager was seriously injured a crash last Sunday while out riding her moped.

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Finnish Flag Burned at Independence Celebration Print E-mail
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Monday, 07 December 2009
Apart from the concerns about spreading swine flu, the Finnish president’s Independence Day party was relatively peaceful, but there was trouble brewing outside the palace walls.

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Swine Flu Declining in North Print E-mail
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Monday, 07 December 2009
The swine flu epidemic is declining in northern Finland and has reached its peak in other parts of the county, according to leading medical officials.

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Eccentric History Buffs Party in the Street Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 02 December 2009

Possibly one of Finland’s most eccentric history societies will be eating porridge in the street at 5pm tonight.

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Women Pastors ‘Discriminated Against’ in Oulu Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 01 December 2009

Half of female clergy in Oulu face illegal discrimination in the work-place, according to a report in last week’s Kaleva.

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Interested in Starting a New Degree? Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 01 December 2009

If the answer is ‘Yes’ then you may interested in the forthcoming ‘International Degrees Evening’ in Oulu.

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Oulu Marks the Winter War Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 01 December 2009

Oulu has been marking the anniversary of Finland’s Winter War with the Soviet Union which began seventy years ago on Monday.

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