Finland getting more asylum-seekers - sharp decline in other Nordic...
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The number of new asylum-seekers arriving in Finland in the first half of 2004 was about 20% higher than at the same time last year.
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Global Politician, NY Dec 12 2004 Lessons of Integration of Aliens into Finland between 1917 and 1944 12/13/2004 By Antero Leitzinger When Finland became independent on 6th of December 1917, the constitution, ...
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Nestled between Finland and Sweden, just 65 of the islands are inhabited, home to a mere 26,000 people, mostly farmers, artisans and service workers.
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WASHINGTON The population of many of the world&#39;s largest industrialized nations, including Japan, Germany, Italy and Russia, will decline between now and 2050 as low birth rates, struggling economies and curbs on immigration stifle growth, according to a ...
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Asylum applications have dropped by 13% to 9,210 in the second quarter of 2004, Home Office Figures show.
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Seoul has passed controversial new measures intended to slow the flow of asylum seekers.
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BELGRADE, Oct 25 (IPS) - For more than a decade, the problem of refugees  in  Serbia was only expressed in numbers, exploited by politicians or   simply put aside.
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The number of immigrants detained by the United States has grown from 90,000 to 283,000 over the past five years, and many were improperly barred from making even a single phone call to a lawyer, congressional investigators reported this week.
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TORONTO -- There is no mystique to it anymore, because after all, the Russians have become commoners in today's National Hockey League, and Finns, Czechs, Slovaks, and Swedes also have been entrenched in the Original 30 long enough to turn the ongoing World Cup of Hockey into a protracted trailer for the NHL season.
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After the runaway success of Nokia in the late 1990's, Finland seems to be pondering whether it has lost its competitive inventive edge.
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English language courses are struggling to meet increasing demand from adult migrants and refugees, a report says.
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Brussels, December 7: Finland again came out on top of a worldwide education study of the organisation for economic cooperation and development.
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Sweden, which has welcomed far more Iraqi refugees than has the U.S. or the rest of Europe, said Friday that it is tightening its asylum rules and will forcibly deport Iraqis who are denied refuge.
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Applications for asylum in the UK rose by 9% in the last three months, according to official figures.
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The eagerness of Finnish citizens to go out and vote seems to be slackening off, particularly in the Helsinki area and in Uusimaa.
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Campaigners in Australia warn that Aboriginal languages are declining at record levels.
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The number of failed asylum seekers removed from the UK rose by 16%, official figures say.