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Helsinki named best city for work-life balance
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Life & societyWebpick

Helsinki named best city for work-life balance

The 2019 Work-Life Balance Index has listed Helsinki as the best city for work-life balance among 40 of the world’s most attractive cities.

Tagged in HealthHelsinkiLifestyleUrbanWebpickWork
Festivals fill Helsinki in August
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Arts & cultureFestivals

Festivals fill Helsinki in August

People in Finland sure like a good festival, and the Finnish capital conveniently offers a whole bunch of them in August, when the Helsinki Festival and its partner events seem to be everywhere in the city.

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Helsinki invests in its people with a library that reinvents the genre
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Helsinki invests in its people with a library that reinvents the genre

Helsinki’s new central library, Oodi, is the place to go if you want to read a book, meet up with your friends, borrow a cello or cut metal with lasers.

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Delivering Finnish design on demand
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Arts & cultureInnovation

Delivering Finnish design on demand

Autumn leaves starting to fall in the Finnish capital are a sure sign that it’s time for Helsinki Design Week. In 2018, you can order design items for immediate delivery as easily as you order food online.

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Helsinki’s Amos Rex reaches new heights and new audiences
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Conception art of the domes that form the roof over Amos Rex; people taking photos and children playing on the domes.
Arts & cultureMuseums

Helsinki’s Amos Rex reaches new heights and new audiences

Architecturally faithful renovations and additions turn a landmark building in Helsinki into Finland’s newest large-scale cultural attraction.

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Leaves grow green all summer in Helsinki, before burst of autumn colour
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Leaves grow green all summer in Helsinki, before burst of autumn colour

Our video follows the Finnish capital from the first days of spring through the white nights and paradisal greenery of summer, concluding when the reds, oranges and yellows make the arrival of autumn visible.

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Presidential dialogue in the Finnish capital
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Life & societyPolitics

Presidential dialogue in the Finnish capital

In a natural continuation of Finland’s advocacy of dialogue in international relations, Helsinki hosts a meeting between the presidents of Russia and the US.

Tagged in ClimateGeopoliticsHelsinkiHelsinki2018HistoryPolitics
Presidents cross paths in Helsinki: A look back
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Life & societyPolitics

Presidents cross paths in Helsinki: A look back

The eyes of the world are on Helsinki as Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin hold a meeting on July 16, 2018. But this isn’t the first time that world leaders choose to meet in the Finnish capital. See our slideshow.

Tagged in Crisis managementFinlandGeopoliticsHelsinkiHelsinki2018Politics

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