International Christmas Charity Bazaar  Vilnius  Photo © Ludo Segers @ The Lithuania Tribune (41)
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15th International Christmas Charity Bazaar

The International Christmas Charity Bazaar opened Saturday morning in the Vilnius City Hall, Rotušė. There was the usual excitement and plenty of smiles on the faces of young and old. This was the 15th edition of the charity event organised by Lithuania’s International Women’s Association with all proceeds going to support very worthy causes, 10 in all, carefully selected by the Committee. […]

Kaunas Dukes intercept Photo by Stasys Razma
Sports

Lithuanian’s play American football

The amateur American football team of Vilnius played in Vilnius on November 16. The Vilnius Iron Wolves were victorious against the visiting Kaunas Dukes football team. The game took place during some light rains at […]

Creative Shock 2017 finalists
Society

Urges to get involved with social business

Organized for the seventh time by students of ISM University of Management and Economics, the international social business case competition “Creative Shock” once again invites students from various countries to come to Vilnius and to compete in a four-day finale, where they will solve problems of real-life social businesses, according to a press release by ISM University of Management and Economics. […]

Nobel Prize in Economics, Professor Robert Shiller  Photo © Ludo Segers @ The Lithuania Tribune
Economy

Nobel Prize winner Shiller views dominate the Vilnius Fintech Conference

Nobel Prize winner and Yale Professor Robert Shiller overshadowed the entire Fintech Conference on Thursday in the Radisson Blue in Vilnius. More than 500 policy makers, academics and business representatives from Lithuania, the United States, Sweden and several other countries attended the conference addressing various future impacts on financial transactions in the Radisson Blue. […]

Vilniaus Old Town
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Lithuania gets prime time on Israel and China TVs

Israeli culinary guru Gil Hovav’s new TV show Open Skies about Lithuania on Keshet 12 channel counted about a million viewers. The half-hour show featured a variety of Lithuanian dishes along with the most interesting stories from different corners of the country. This month, Lithuania has also been shown on four TV editions on Travel China Channel made by reputed China’s traveller Zhang Wei, each show reaching 20 million viewers. The nine-minute shows managed to capture the best of Lithuania, including amber cathing, Samogitian partying, basketball game at the Kaunas Žalgiris Arena, as well as stories about the Lithuanian rain, the old town churches of Vilnius, the miracle tile, Pažaislis, M. K. Čiurlionis’s oeuvre, the Cross Hill, etc., a State Department of Tourism press release states. […]

Nüman
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Recognition: Scandinavian Michelin worth Lithuanian restaurants

The chefs of as many as eight restaurants in Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda woke up as part of the Baltic cream of the crop following the reputable Scandinavian White Guide 2018 evaluations of restaurants that happened for the second time now in our country. Eight from fifteen restaurants evaluated in Lithuania made it to the Baltic top 30 restaurants, with Nüman in Kaunas reaching the third place, a press release from the State Department of Tourism states. […]

Eugenijus Gentvilas and Vitalijus Gailius
CORPORATE

No queue to lead the Liberals

With a week left to the Liberal Movement (LS) congress, only two candidates are officially aiming for the seat of chairman. Their chances to win are viewed as even and the weaknesses of both pretenders […]