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Economy

IT labour market: most in-demand professionals revealed

There are more than a dozen different jobs in the IT sector and a future professional is faced with a rather difficult task of selecting a desirable job. People with sufficient amount of knowledge and experience in this field can easily find a well-paid job with different benefits in the most attractive companies in Lithuania. Staff experts believe that they will continue to enjoy the great prospects, but also note that only those willing and ready to put effort will reach their career heights, a press release from Forbis states. […]

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Economy

How to grow a Lithuanian unicorn?

There are numerous startups, which already attracted impressive amounts of investments. Unfortunately, no Lithuanian startup has grown to the “unicorn” – a young business valued at more than a billion-dollars. Israeli web development platform Wix.com director in Lithuania Monika Laukaitė has an idea of how to grow a Lithuanian unicorn. […]

Washington
Defence

Lithuania shares in Washington its experience in combating disinformation

The Atlantic Council-hosted Global Forum on Strategic Communications and Digital Disinformation was held on October 2-4 in Washington. […]

Energy

Eesti Gaas places order for the first LNG bunker vessel for North-East Baltic Sea

The leading Estonian energy company Eesti Gaas has placed an order for an LNG (liquefied natural gas) bunker vessel with bunker tank capacity of 6,000 m3. The new vessel will provide mobile and efficient LNG bunkering for the growing number of LNG-fuelled vessels in the North-East region of the Baltic Sea and onshore clients. The vessel will be built by the Dutch shipyard Damen Group and will be delivered in September 2020, a press release from the Estonian company states. […]

Vilnius airport
Economy

Ten percent increase in flight number. Measures for enhancing the airspace capacity under consideration

During the nine months of this year, air traffic controllers handled 204.2 thousand flights in the Lithuanian airspace, i.e. by 10 per cent more flights, compared to the same period last year. Overflights accounted for three fourths (155 thousand) of the total number of flights. Compared to the same period last year, the number of overflights increased by 9.7 per cent. Taking into account the considerable growth of flight number, Oro Navigacija is considering measures for enhancing the airspace capacity, a press release from the state enterprise states. […]

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Society

Works by Lithuanian designers in homes of world-famous celebrities

Due to their solutions and functionality, works by Lithuanian furniture designers cater for the needs not only of NATO but also of Claudia Schiffer. According to design specialists, we are known worldwide and have a reputation for being among the first to master the latest production technologies and perfectly coordinate aesthetics with functionality, a quality that plays an important role for the modern man, a press release from Litexpo states. […]

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Economy

Smart Energy Fund Invests EUR 250 Thousand into Lithuanian PVcase

Smart Energy Fund powered by Lietuvos Energija, managed by Contrarian Ventures invests EUR 250 thousand into the Lithuanian PVcase that will automate the designing of solar power plants. It is expected that the technology developed by the start-up will enable to significantly shorten up some designing stages of solar power plants and this way reduce designing expenses even more, a press release from Lietuvos Energija states. […]

Antanas Guoga
Economy

MEP Antanas Guoga: Before regulating any new technology first, we need to educate about it

Today, 03th of October, European Parliament voted in favour of the motion for a resolution on distributed ledger technologies and blockchains: building trust with disintermediation. All political group members supported the resolution, which sends a positive message that politicians see this technology as benefiting Europe, a press release from MEP Antanas Guoga‘s office states. […]

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Society

Derling and Primus establish a new Baltic alliance

Two leading business law firms – Derling in Estonia and Primus, Attorneys at Law, in Lithuania and Latvia – are establishing a new pan-Baltic alliance. From 27 September 2018 the new alliance will operate as DERLING PRIMUS in Estonia and PRIMUS DERLING in Latvia and Lithuania with highly capable team of over 80 lawyers and assistants across 4 offices in all three Baltic countries, a press release from the alliance states. […]

Edita Stankevičiūtė
LIGHT

Googling – the most dangerous way of self-treatment

According to the most recent data of the Statistics Lithuania, more than every second resident of Lithuania looks up information on health-related topics online: 54 per cent of all Internet users aged 16-74. Specialists noticed that not everyone who browses the web is able to assess information in critically and often rush to self-diagnose the diseases unrelated to their symptoms, share medicine, reduce dosages and make other self-treatment mistakes that are dangerous to health. […]

Riga
Foreign affairs

The Riga Conference 2018 commences with questions on our future

Today, on 28th September, the largest security and foreign policy forums in the Baltic Sea region – The Rīga Conference 2018 – commences at the National Library of Latvia. Over the next two days the conference will welcome heads of states, experts, diplomats, academics and media representatives together with some 700 experts from around the world discussing touching questions to the Western alliances. […]

Virginijus Sinkevičius
Economy

Life sciences is the top industry among Lithuanian innovators

Lithuania has been gradually becoming one of the high tech centres in the region – the country has defined a goal to become the most attractive European country for the development of the life sciences sector by 2030. On 26 September, during Life Sciences Baltics, the largest international life sciences baltics forum in the Baltic countries, Lithuanian Minister of Economy Virginijus Sinkevičius presented perspectives for the development of the Lithuanian life sciences industry, a press release from Enterprise Lithuania states. […]

FlexStart
Economy

Lithuania’s industrial real estate market to receive boost with launch of ready-to-use facilities

Lithuania’s industrial real estate market will take a big leap forward with the upcoming launch of FlexStart, a new development of customisable industrial premises in Klaipėda FEZ. The project will deliver a much-needed solution to the needs of foreign investors for ready-to-use premises, enabling companies to get up and running in as little as three months. […]

Global LT

Book on Baltic Appeal to the United Nations published

The Story of BATUN – Baltic Appeal to the United Nations (1966-1991) by Sirje Okas Ainso, was published in the US in 2018. It was presented at the AABS (Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies) conference at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, on June 1-3. […]