Zena Iovino

1 week ago | yle.fi | Zena Iovino

The shortage of summer jobs this year has been widely reported. But on that front, Ilta-Sanomat has a positive story about 25-year-old business student Eero, who, after failing to secure a job in his field, took a less conventional route and got a job working in his girlfriend's beauty salon. At the salon, Eero handles duties that do not require official qualifications.

2 weeks ago | yle.fi | Zena Iovino

Fifty years ago, in the midst of the Cold War, all eyes turned to Helsinki as Finland played host to a rare moment of East-West unity. At the CSCE (Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe), the US and then-USSR leaders sat down to discuss their issues in Helsinki, resulting in an easing of the tensions between the two superpowers. Today with talk of diplomacy breaking down and global powers making sudden moves, the echoes of the Cold War aren't hard to hear.

3 weeks ago | yle.fi | Zena Iovino

Helsingin Sanomat follows up on its previous reporting on pickpockets in Helsinki's tourist areas, this time with a reporter witnessing a theft in real time. The paper trailed three pickpockets operating in downtown Helsinki, with the reporter recording the moment a woman's backpack was emptied of passports and a wallet. Last December HS reported on professional pickpockets operating in Helsinki. Now, as the summer season begins, the situation appears to have changed once again.

3 weeks ago | yle.fi | Zena Iovino

What do you do when you're pushing 40 and worried you might not be able to conceive naturally? Helsingin Sanomat hears from a 39-year-old woman who admits she lied to get into the publicly funded infertility treatment queue. The rules call for couples trying to conceive for at least a year before contacting health services, but waits can be long, and the cutoff is at age 40. Instead of waiting, the woman got in the queue almost immediately after her partner agreed to have a child.

4 weeks ago | yle.fi | Zena Iovino

Data centres in Finland are once again making headlines, as an investigation by Helsingin Sanomat has uncovered evidence that real estate investor Hyperco is planning to build a new one in Espoo. The Dubai-based company has already drawn public scrutiny over its earlier-announced project in Kouvola, after it was revealed that the Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok is expected to become a user of the facility.