Vilniaus Old Town
Freetime

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. […]

Saulius Skvernelis
Foreign affairs

Lithuanian PM meeting Chinese, Croatian counterparts in Hungary

Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is attending a meeting of heads of governments of 16 Central and Eastern European nations with China’s Prime Minister Li Keqiang in Hungary on Monday. […]

Egidijus Vareikis
Opinion

The Third World War will start sooner

George Friedman – one of the smartest geopolitics scientist in the United States predicted the Third World War will start in circa 2050. Then two new power centers – Japan and Turkey, – supposedly, will […]

Building site
CORPORATE

Is a new economic crisis looming?

In recent days the words of “Farmer” leader Ramūnas Karbauskis have received much attention with him commenting about a potential new economic crisis. The politician claimed his statement was based on economist forecasts. BNS interviewed […]

Jensas Stoltenbergas
Defence

NATO to closely follow Russia, China, Belarus drills near Lithuania

NATO will closely follow Russia’s military exercises near the Baltic countries’ borders, including its joint drills with Belarus and China, the Alliance’s secretary general said in Lithuania on Tuesday. […]

Lithuanian stand in the Munich (Germany) Fair, which will take place June 26-29
Economy

90 our of 100 universities in the world request Lithuanian lasers

One of the things Lithuania is best known for is the laser industry. While perhaps not at the very pinnacle of the industry, the country does not compare all too poorly against highly developed states such as the USA, Germany, France, China and others. And at the same time the industry shows no signs of slowing down, with growing sales and increasing numbers of manufacturers, which should keep Lithuania within the top echelon of the laser industry. […]

Yuan
Economy

Chinese freight shipments present both opportunity and risk for Baltics – MEPs

Chinese freight shipments via the Baltic countries may become an opportunity for the European standard gauge railway Rail Baltica, but may also pose a risk to the market as China does not always compete fairly, members of the European Parliament’s Transport and Tourism Committee (TRAN) said in Vilnius on Wednesday. […]