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- Lithuania Leading in Labour Costs and Female Labor
- Baltic States and Ireland are unsung heroes of Europe, since being recession-hit countries they were not behaving like wayward Greece, Portugal and Spain, Steve Forbes, the editor-in-chief, writes in Forbes Magazine June 7, 2010, edition. more
- Lithuania needs the experience of émigré communities
- 2010-05-10
- President Dalia Grybauskaite started her visit to Ireland by meeting with representatives of local émigré communities and organizations. At the present moment the Lithuanian Association in Ireland unites nearly 90 000 members, informs press service of the president. more
- Prime Minister calls US to invest in Lithuanian high-tech sector
- 2010-05-07
- Lithuania seeks to become a modern regional centre of high-technology services and in order to achieve this goal it has to have a fully developed infrastructure, Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius stressed in his opening speech at the Baltic-American High-Tech Forum. more
- Visit Lithuania by a Hot Air Balloon at the World EXPO 2010 in Shanghai
- 2010-05-01
- Visitors of the World Expo 2010, which will open in the Chinese city of Shanghai on May 1st under the slogan “Better City, Better Life” and will last for 184 days until the end of October, are kindly invited to get into a hot air balloon at the Lithuanian Pavilion and experience an imaginary, however very realistic, journey to Lithuania – one of Europe’s greenest and cleanest countries with untouched unique nature, white-sand beaches and open-hearted people. more
- Baltic Sahara Ranked 2nd Best Beach in the World
- 2010-04-27
- The Lonely Planet, one of the world’s most read travel guides, ranks the Curonian Spit in Lithuania as the second best beach in the world. more
- FDI in Lithuania Grew by 5 % and Lithuania’s Investment Abroad Increased by 14 %
- 2010-04-19
- Statistics Lithuania has calculated that, based on provisional data, FDI in Lithuania in 2009 amounted by 5.3 % more than in 2008. Also, direct investment of Lithuanian enterprises abroad grew by 13.9 % in 2009. more
- Prominent Lithuanian artists awarded with The Stars of Lithuania's Millennium
- 2010-04-06
- Lithuania's Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Azubalis conferred the award of honour of Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Star of Lithuania's Millennium on theatre directors Eimuntas Nekrosius and Oskaras Korsunovas, and video artist Deimantas Narkevicius. This award of honour was given for their merits of promoting Lithuania in the world. more
- Kubilius and Obama might meet in Prague
- 2010-04-02
- This week, in Prague, the meeting of Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius and President of the United States of America Barack Obama might take place, informs Ziniu Radijas. more
- Cyclist Krupeckaite wins gold in Track Cycling Championships
- 2010-03-29
- Lithuanian cyclist Simona Krupeckaite won gold at the World Track Cycling Championships in Denmark on Sunday. 27-year-old Krupeckaite was the first at the women's keirin, an eight-lap race in which riders have to stay behind a pace-setting moped for the first two-thirds. more
- First Lithuania visa finds its way back to Lithuania
- 2010-03-26
- On Friday, a ceremony will be held at Vilnius International Airport, during which the first Lithuanian visa will come back to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Prominent British journalist Edward Lucas will hand over his passport stamped with the first Lithuanian visa to Lithuania's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sarunas Adomavicius. more