The Lithuanian government is abandoning the idea of introducing online voting in elections over security concerns. Justice Minister Elvinas Jankevicius says the government is dropping the plan due to growing cyber-security threats worldwide.

About 300,000 packs of ranitidine-containing drugs have been withdrawn from the Lithuanian market.

Lithuanian-owned property administration and maintenance group City Service is combining its digital services into a single company named City Service Digital as part of plans to export its e-Bustas (e-Housing) mobile app and other digital projects implemented in Lithuania to foreign markets.

The Lithuanians shop online more than the Latvians and Estonians, a new survey by the SEB bank shows, with people in Lithuania often choosing local online stores.

Lithuanian customs officers detained a shipment of smuggled cigarettes worth almost 2 million euros in Kybartai on Thursday morning.

Lithuanian tourists spent 489.8 mln euros in the first half of this year during foreign trips, up 2.2% from the same period in 2018, according to preliminary figures from Lithuania's statistics office, Statistics Lithuania.

An average-income person in Lithuania could purchase a car worth 12,200 euros through a lease-to-purchase arrangement this year, 1,300 euros more expensive than last year, according to a survey by SEB.

The reconstruction of the 22-km-long Panevezys bypass, which is part of the Via Baltica highway, has been completed, with almost 45 mln euros invested into the project over the past couple of years, "Conditions have been created on the country's key highway from north to south to drive faster with a lower risk of accidents," Transport Minister Jaroslav Narkevic said in a statement.

Facebook's plans to issue its cryptocurrency, the Libra, as well as plans by other companies on the so-called stable coins cryptocurriencies, which would be pegged to stable assets, are now sparking major discussions and raising questions.

Lithuania's state-run railway company Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LG) is starting repairing Siemens locomotives used by its cargo subsidiary LG Cargo, and LG CEO Mantas Bartuska says the company would also like to get orders for locomotive repairs from Poland, Ukraine and expand its services in Europe this way.