31.   Merita, the biggest Finnish banking group, and the Finnish insurance company Sampo, said that confidential merger talks between their two biggest shareholders had failed.

32.   Norrback said several Finnish companies had signed agreements and memoranda of understanding with Indian companies in the paper, energy and other sectors.

33.   The dead man Matti Aho, was the Chechen representative of RS Rapid Systems Ltd, a Finnish company manufacturing prefabricated houses which the IOM purchased for refugees.

34.   The dead man, Matti Aho, was the Chechen representative of RS Rapid Systems Ltd., a Finnish company manufacturing prefabricated houses which the IOM purchased for refugees.

35.   The environmental affairs ministry had initially issued a permit to the Finnish company, but revoked it Friday.