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LIGHT

How to save when shopping online?

With the growing popularity of online sales, customers of such stores are often looking for a variety of ways to save and still get a quality product. According to experts, this is quite easy – you just have to invest a little of your time and effort, a DPD press release states. […]

Ernestas Jankauskas
Culture

World premiere of Ernestas Jankauskas’ Sasha Was Here to crown Lithuanian programme at Tallinn Film Festival

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (or PÖFF), the biggest international film event in the Baltics, kicks off today. This year, the A class festival is exceptionally rich in Lithuanian offerings: as the Baltic states are celebrating the centenary of their statehood, PÖFF features the biggest programme of Lithuanian cinema in the festival’s history along with two Lithuanian films to have their world premieres in Tallinn, a Lithuanian Film Centre press release states. […]

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Economy

Baltic States seek a single regional assessment

Ministers of finance of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, the European Commission and NASDAQ appealed to the global provider of equity indexes MSCI for a possibility of assessing the Baltic states not individually, but as a single region in using an industry classification system. The aim is to start a debate with MSCI for a possibility of improving the equity index of the countries. The appeal to MSCI has been initiated together with European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). MSCI is one of the most important forefront index constructors, whose indexes are followed by the largest global investors, a press release from the Lithuanian Finance Ministry states. […]

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Society

Gender equality is human right, and it is great for society. Let’s listen to Norwegians

Even though Lithuania has achieved a lot in gender equality, it is still a long way to go, especially if we compare ourselves to Norway. Hence, it is always great to listen to opinions of the specialists, who were instrumental in implementing gender equality in Norway. This great opportunity will present itself this Wednesday, November 21. The Embassy of Norway and the Norwegian-Lithuanian Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania have initiated an international conference “Passport to Success: Empowering Women to Lead”. The event will take place at the Seimas premises. […]

Economy

LMT presents three digital service innovations at Baltic Mobile Congress

LMT (Latvian Mobile Telephone) is the telecommunications market leader in Latvia and a digital service provider of several mobile technologies worldwide. Three of these innovations are present at the Baltic Mobile Congress – the ISOA forest fire monitoring solution, the EDLUS employee attendance tracking service, and assembly line tracking powered by computer vision, a press release from LMT states. […]

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Foreign affairs

At A. Guoga’s initiative, 27 MEPs urge Amazon Inc. to halt sales of Soviet symbols

At the initiative of MEP Antanas Guoga, 27 MEPs have called on the CEO of Amazon Inc. Jeff Bezos in an open letter, urging to cease sale of goods featuring Soviet symbols on the Amazon online shopping platform. The appeal was signed by MEPs from Lithuania, Poland, the Netherlands, Germany, Croatia, Latvia, the UK, Slovakia, Estonia, Finland, Portugal, Hungary and Spain, who represent the main political groups. […]

T-shirts with USSR symbols sold by Walmart
Foreign affairs

R. Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė: “Amazon should stop selling items with soviet symbols”

Member of Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and Deputy Chair of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) Political Group in the Seimas, Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė, together with colleagues parliamentarians from other Baltic States: Members of the European Parliament Sandra Kalniete (Latvia) and Tunne Kelam (Estonia) and Members of Riigikogu, Tarmo Kruusimäe and Raivo Aeg, addressed with a letter to the American electronic commerce company Amazon drawing their attention to t-shirts and other items featuring soviet symbols being sold on Amazon.com online platform and calling to stop the sale of such products, a TS-LKD press release states. […]

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Economy

Israeli cloud services integrator chooses Vilnius for European base

TeraSky, a leading Israeli cloud solutions integrator, has just announced the opening of its European branch in Vilnius, Lithuania. The company, whose customer base includes global enterprise leaders in high-technology, finance, defence, cyber, telco and other areas, plans to hire several dozen local specialists. The Vilnius office will be responsible for software development, professional services and regional support, a press release from Invest Lithuania states. […]

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Economy

The popular French fashion brand „Gémo“ enters the Baltic States: first store in Lithuania – in 2019

The popular French fashion brand „Gémo“ entered the Baltic States – the first regional store was opened at the shopping center „Galleria Riga“, managed by the real estate company „BPT Real Estate“. According to brand representatives, „Gémo“ will enter Lithuania soon – the opening of the first store in the country is already scheduled in 2019. […]

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Economy

International investors discover Šiauliai

In recent years, Lithuania has seen a large influx of foreign investors. Whereas Vilnius and Kaunas remain the focal points, companies are slowly discovering that Lithuania has much more to offer. Formula Air, the oldest Dutch investor in Lithuania, discovered this a long time ago and is rapidly expanding its success story in Šiauliai, a press release from the investor states. […]

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Economy

New global sales trends have not bypassed Lithuania: “Pigu.lt” has announced two-week sale festival

Traditionally, November is a very busy month for global trade sector as everybody looks forward to new sales records. Although last year, still little-known Singles’ Day in China outperformed the best-known Black Friday, American Black Friday is still in the lead of shaping sales traditions for the greater part of the world. This year, the largest Baltic online shopping site “Pigu.lt” has merged both global traditions and offered a new sales concept to its customers, a press release from the site states. […]

Klaipėda port
Economy

Reduced Klaipėda seaport charges for container ships to boost the development of shipping

In order to create more favorable conditions for container ships, entering the Klaipėda seaport, the Ministry of Transport and Communications proposes to reduce the port charges for ships with a total capacity of more than 60 thousand units. The proposal to improve the port charges collection principles was submitted to the Government, a press release from the ministry states. […]

Vilnius
Economy

A digital creative agency has come up with the idea of how to attract more tourists to Vilnius

The Gediminas Castle, the Hill of Three Crosses and Užupis are probably the most popular tourist attractions in Vilnius. However, have you ever thought how many alternative sights known only to the locals remain unmarked on the Vilnius map? To fill in this gap, the digital creativity agency bigNow presents the platform Vilnius Wows where the residents of Vilnius will be invited to mark the undiscovered sights of Vilnius that are worth visiting. Later, based on the highlights provided by Vilnius residents, an alternative tourist map will be created to reflect the objects and places that remain in the shadow of the most visible sights of the city, a press release from bigNow states. […]

#Blockchain by Mantas Bartaševičius
Economy

The future of real estate industry is here already

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is already affecting every corner of economy and our lives, and this is only the beginning. The real estate industry is not an exception, even though the 4IR has not made visible inroads into the industry yet. Not for long, Ruden Blockchain, a Singaporean real estate company is convinced. This company has answers of how the 4IR is going to affect the real estate industry in the near future. This future is already here, and Ruden Blockchain representatives are going speak about the future of the real estate in Vilnius this Wednesday. We asked one of the speakers Takatoshi Shibayama about his vision of the real estate in the dawn of the 4IR, a Blockchain Centre Vilnius press release states. […]