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China Merchants Group (CMG) plans to transport at least 120,000 containers per year through Klaipėda port from 2017. […]

A smartphone that is highly resistance to shocks, dust and water, Getnord Onyx, has been launched by Lithuanian Kaunas-based company Redlainas.

‘Shock resistant smartphone’ launched by Lithuanian company

A smartphone that is highly resistance to shocks, dust and water, Getnord Onyx, has been launched by Lithuanian Kaunas-based company Redlainas. […]

Little attention paid to Lithuania in Polish Foreign Affairs priorities, say analysts

Political analysts have said that the new Polish government paid little attention to Lithuania in its newly presented diplomatic priorities, that were presented by the Polish Foreign Affairs Minister Witold Waszczykowski. […]

Lithuania now biggest EU exporter to Belarus

February 1, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania is the fourth biggest direct exporter to the Belarusian market and the leader among EU countries, according to the latest figures. […]

Party chair Eligijus Masiulis and MEP Antanas Guoga

Liberals need to think differently to make gains from second place

The Liberal Movement are securely the second-most popular party in Lithuania after the Social Democrats, according to opinion polls, but despite their good ratings there are reasons for unease for the party in the run up to this year’s elections. […]

Lithuania retail sales growth slows in December

January 29, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania’s retail sales growth slowed for the fourth month in a row in December, according to the latest figures from Statistics Lithuania. […]

Kaunas mayor voted best in Lithuania

Visvaldas Matijošaitis has won Lithuania’s best mayor award. The elections were organised for the eighth consecutive year. The mayor of Klaipėda, Vytautas Grubliauskas came in second place with Vilnius mayor Remigijus Šimašius in third. […]

Lithuanian products among the most often detained by Russian authorities

Lithuanian goods were only second to Belarus in terms of the number of seizures by the Russian Federal Customs Service under the Russian embargo of certain products and foodstuffs. […]

Police seize cannabis shipment worth €4m

The Lithuanian police have seized 320 kilograms of hashish with a street value of up to €4 million after carrying out an operation in Klaipėda. […]

Lithuanian invention makes it impossible to steal fuel from trucks

Trucking companies often face major problems with diesel being stolen from the fuel tanks of trucks but Lithuanian electronics expert Kęstas Simanavičius has an original answer to the transport company’s problems. […]

ORLEN Lithuania bounces back with €217m profit

January 29, 2016 Vytautas Kersanskas 0

Lithuania-based oil refining company Orlen Lietuva generated a net profit of €217 million ($227 million) last year. […]

Opinion: Kaliningrad – Kremlin‘s joker in geopolitical poker game with West

The Kremlin‘s propaganda rarely shocks anymore and hardly registers as news with most people but some of it deserves attention because when a specific propaganda message is repeated over and over, it is done in an attempt to embed it in our minds as being the uncontestable truth. In the case of Kaliningrad, it has to be feared that the Kremlin‘s efforts are an attempt to incite war between the West and Russia. […]

Algimanta Pabedinskienė and Dalia Grybauskaitė

President and minister visit rural social care centre

President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Social Security Minister Algimanta Pabedinskienė visited Rimėnai village in the Alytus region on Wednesday to learn from the municipality and rural communities how to help disadvantaged families escape from violence, alcohol and poverty. […]

Lithuanian SMEs focussing on investment in domestic markets

Instead of strengthening their positions abroad or looking for new markets, small and medium sized Lithuanian companies are this year planning to increase investment in expansion in domestic markets, a survey commissioned by SEB Bank shows. […]

How would Lithuanians react to idea of abandoning hard cash?

Norway’s biggest bank DNB has called for the country to completely abandon hard cash, but how would Lithuanians react to such a move here? […]

Small chance that Zika virus will spread to Lithuania, says expert

There is only a small chance that the Zika virus could spread to Lithuania with cold weather preventing the mosquitos who carry the virus from living long enough, according to a leading Lithuanian expert, but pregnant women should still not travel to countries with warmer climates where the virus has been detected. […]

No difference between Landsbergis’ nationalism and Putin’s, claims Andriukaitis