Stora Enso today arranged a virtual inauguration ceremony to celebrate the successful conversion of the Oulu Mill which was transformed from paper production into high-quality. | May 20, 2021
HELSINKI, May 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Ulrika Lilja, Executive Vice President, Communications and Marketing, has decided to leave her position at Stora Enso. After eight years in the company
Price stability must be maintained even as steps to boost demand are taken
The latest retail inflation and industrial output data from the National Statistical Office (NSO) offer some relief from the pall of gloom cast by the relentless second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Provisional headline inflation slowed to a three-month low of 4.29% in April, helped by softer food prices and a statistical base effect. The rate using an imputed index for the year-earlier period was 7.22%. A separate NSO release showed March industrial output jumped by 22.4%, benefiting again from the fact that the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) had posted an 18.7% contraction in March 2020, when the economy was halted by the start of a nationwide lockdown. A closer look at the inflation data reveals a substantial cooling in the prices of cereals, milk and milk products, vegetables, and pulses and products. While both cereals and vegetables saw a deflationary trend widen to -2.96% and -14.2%, respective
Real estate, construction jobs witness slow, but steady recovery: Report
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Hiring in these sectors had come to a halt owing to the Covid19-led lockdowns last year. However, the recent GDP data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) for the third quarter of 2020-21 indicated recovery in the sectors, thus reflecting a boost in hiring opportunities.
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While the data shows a significant impact on the hiring activity in both the sectors during initial months of lockdown, it showed gradual signs of improvement on the back of eased out lockdown restrictions that resumed the labour activities in the sectors.
6 April 2021, 09:36 UTC
Moroccan journalist Omar Radi today faces trial after nine months in unlawful pre-trial detention, amid grave concerns about the fairness of proceedings, Amnesty International said today. The organization is calling on the Moroccan authorities to release Omar Radi from pre-trial detention and drop any charges against him which stem from his journalistic work and ensure fair trial for all the parties.
“There is no justification for the pre-trial detention of Omar Radi for these past nine months and we call for him to be released. Omar Radi has for years faced judicial harassment by the authorities because of his brave journalism and this trial is the latest attempt to silence him,” said Amna Guellali, Amnesty International s Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa.