ISSUE 23 (153) • 10 – 16 JUNE 2010 • €3 • WWW.HELSINKITIMES.FI DOMESTIC INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CULTURE Helsinki Finns working UN Security Bad loans Finding art Summer during their Council still cause in everyday Guide holidays criticised losses life pages 11-13 page 5 page 7 page 8 page 16 LEHTIKUVA / ALEXANDER JOE ALEXANDER / LEHTIKUVA Family theme issue pages 17-19 High number of children’s car seats inadequate STT One car seat, the Cam Viaggos- MATTHEW PARRY– HT icuro S157, failed the the test com- pletely. The seatbelt was ripped THERE are several defi ciencies in asunder during preliminary collision child car seats used in Finland. In a testing. test carried out by the Automobile The car seat tests examine ease and Touring Club of Finland (ATCF), of use and ability to withstand fron- not a single model of car seat met the tal and lateral collision. According to classifi cation of “exceptionally safe”. ATCF, ease of use is an important part The test included 27 different car of safety, since almost 70 per cent of seats. Only 15 of them were deemed car seats are fi tted improperly. “good” on the safety scale. But man- Of further concern is the emer- ufacturers are heading in the right gence on the European market of car direction, at least – last year only seats with forged safety logos. For- South Africa’s defender Matthew Booth and teammates train in Johannesburg ahead of the start of the Fifa 2010 World nine seats reached this grade. geries have been found in Hungary. Cup football tournament in South Africa. 15 car seats meet the grade in safety test First African World Cup The following car seats were classified as “good” on the safety scale in test- ing by the Automobile and Touring Club of Finland: kicks off in South Africa –Chicco Autofix Fast safety cot. –Concord Transformer T seatbelt chair. EGAN RICHARDSON eternal national icon, Diego Mara- certain terms (South African compa- –Cybex Free-Fix and Cybex Pallas seatbelt chairs. HELSINKI TIMES dona, while England have found an nies have been banned from using –Jané Exo car seat. unusual self-assurance under their their country’s name and ‘2010’ in –Kiddy Energy Pro and Kiddy Guardian Pro seatbelt chairs and the Kiddy Italian manager Fabio Capello. advertising, to protect the contracts Maxifix Pro safety cot. THE QUADRENNIAL football jambo- One curious aspect of this tour- signed by FIFA), the tournament –Mamas&Papas Autocruise Carry Cot. ree that is FIFA’s World Cup kicks nament will be the appearance has remained in the headlines as a –Maxi Cosi Cabriofix safety cot, Maxi Cosi Pearl car seat, Maxi Cosi Pebble off on Friday 11 June, with the open- of North Korea, whose odds are different kind of World Cup to the safety cot, Maxi Cosi Rodi Airprotect seatbelt chair. ing match between Mexico and the only slightly lower than those of corporate sponsorship festival it hosts, South Africa. The fi rst World New Zealand. The North Korean has become in recent years. Cup to be held on the African conti- team, whose nickname is Choilima, Unfortunately, Finnish involve- nent will be contested by 32 teams, is expected to play a back fi ve with ment in the tournament will be lim- New online service means parents from the favourites Spain all the a defensive midfi elder, so goalfests ited to Tournament Director and way down to rank outsiders New are unlikely in their matches. former HJK goalkeeper Pertti Alaja always know where their kids are Zealand. The social aspects of the fi rst after the national team were elim- The tournament promises to World Cup in Africa have been prom- inated at the qualifi cation stage. JOHAN JAAKKOLA– STT is only able to locate the target to be one of the most open in recent inent during the lengthy build-up. Alaja has responsibility for rela- MATTHEW PARRY– HT within one square kilometre. years, with neither European nor From English coaches moaning that tions between the venues and the Data Protection Ombudsman South American sides on home soil. their expensive charges would be Head Offi ce. ONCE we feared the ever-watch- Reijo Aarnio advises that one Traditional power-houses Argenti- exposed to security risks, to wor- State broadcaster YLE will ful eye of Big Brother. Today, per- should only grant consent for ac- na have been stuttering somewhat ries over ticket sales, to sponsors de- televise all the matches live on haps we should be more scared of cess to location data if one is cer- under their current head coach and manding ridiculous exclusivity over YLE1, YLE2 or FST5. Big Mother. With the help of an on- tain this information will not reach line service introduced a few weeks a third party. For example, while ago, parents can now use the inter- developing its Street View service, low-carb diets such as the Atkins net to pin point the location of their Google was also gathering private plan may raise cholesterol and in- children. data on wireless networks, and only Low-carb diets: Are crease the risk of heart disease and The service draws on data from stopped doing so after the practice strokes. mobile network signal stations was revealed last month. Now, in line with its policy to identifying the location of any giv- “These days the question aris- they friend or foe? reduce the population’s intake of en phone. In Finland, access to this es as to whether information ends saturated fats, the Finnish gov- information requires a double-lock up in the hands of Google, and not LOUISA GAIRN nity, was defended by Sweden’s Na- ernment is considering introduc- permit. First the service provider solely the service provider,” Aarnio HELSINKI TIMES tional Board of Health and Welfare. ing a “fat tax” similar to Denmark’s must ask permission from the tele- warns. In Finland, popular health writer planned legislation. This would tar- operator for access to the location DIABETES and obesity are on the Antti Heikkilä is well known for get products containing high lev- data. Then they must seek the con- rise in Finland, and coronary illness campaigning for low-carb diets as els of saturated fat, such as cheese, sent of the customer to have the da- remains the most common cause of a solution to a variety of medical butter and sausages, as well as ta transmitted. death. This is despite government conditions. He blames sugar and “trans fats”, which are found in So far, only Fambit Oy has se- measures over the past 30 years processed foods for being the real deep-fried foods and industrially cured this access. They feed the co- to improve the nation’s eating and culprits in the obesity problem. produced cakes and pastries. The ordinates into a Google-generated drinking habits. However, offi cial advice from proposed tax, which has gained map, making it possible for parents Low-carbohydrate diets have Finland’s National Institute for support from Minister of Finance to check their child’s location using become a controversial subject in Health and Welfare stresses a di- Jyrki Katainen and others, could the internet. Nordic countries, with some health et that is rich in carbohydrates increase the price of products con- The company’s CEO Pertti Ka- offi cials in Sweden prescribing low- and low in fat, and many Finnish taining saturated fat by 5–10 per sanen stresses that only parents carb diets for patients – a move medical professionals say the in- cent as well as earn hundreds of have access to information about Read the full article in our that, although criticised by some in creased intake of saturated fats millions of euros in tax revenue. their children’s location. Google special family section, pages 17-19. the international medical commu- that are commonly associated with Read more on page 20. 2 10 – 16 JUNE 2010 VIEWPOINT HELSINKI TIMES Pekka Sauri is the Deputy Mayor of the City of Helsinki. Finland is an island nation ry connection has been pro- al administration concentrate posed but, because the new on the fuel costs of mari- Finland must not risk being stranded in the post-flying era of transport and logistics and Vuosaari cargo port was nev- time transportation and other must invest in the planned Rail Baltica project linking Helsinki by rail directly to main- er designed for this alterna- short-term issues, while the land Europe, writes Pekka Sauri. tive, this would be a diffi cult entire logistics sector and arrangement. transport corridors are on the brink of a major structural FINLAND IS for all intents and routes to the big central-Euro- IN THE Baltic countries, rail is of utmost importance for THEREFORE, the Helsinki– change. The global economic purposes an island. By any pean ports and on the generous transport has basically been Finland. Finland’s compet- Tallinn rail-tunnel concept is crisis and recent volcanic ash criterion of accessibility, Fin- supply of Finnair destinations maintained between the Bal- itiveness also necessitates now particularly acute. The problems have made this even land belongs to the Europe- available. These will of course tic Sea ports and Russia. The a high-speed land connec- Finnish Transport Author- more inevitable. an Union’s periphery. Finnish be important also in the future, situation today remains more tion with continental Europe. ity is currently in the proc- exports start their travel by but it would be short sighted or less the same as it was in the High-speed trains will start ess of collecting statements LITTLE FINLAND now has a sea and reach their destina- not to consider the viability of Soviet era, which ended two operating from Stockholm from various stakeholders on great opportunity to grab tion by road.