Lithuanian-owned agricultural product trade company Agrorodeo has for the first time sold grain to Saudi Arabia, marking the first direct grain export sale to the Middle Eastern country by a Baltic company.

Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson, The Minister of Culture, confirmed that in the year 2020 Trakai will be the cultural capital of Lithuania, in year 2021 - Neringa and in 2022 - Alytus.

A new certification framework for connected devices, together with a stronger role for the EU Cybersecurity Agency, were backed by Industry Committee MEPs on Tuesday.

In response to requests by citizens, the European Parliament, Lithuania and Finland, the European Commission launches public consultation on daylight saving time. The Commission has decided to assess the current EU summer time arrangements and evaluate whether or not the rules should be changed.

Kravčiūnai is the most essential place of the national remembrance of Poles in the Vilnius region. The battle fought here in Kravčiūnai, on July 13th 1944, was the biggest battle between the Polish Home Army and the Nazi German occupiers of Vilnius.

Lithuania's annual Mission Siberia expedition, organized annually to tend to the burial cites of Lithuanian deportees in Russia, will go to Kazakhstan this year after Russia barred entry to the mission's participants, the Lithuanian national radio Lietuvos Radijas said on Monday.

Chinese and Lithuanian business communities are expected to step up cooperation in trade, investment, services and industry after Enterprise Lithuania, the government's export promotion agency, and Bank of China Limited last week signed a memorandum of cooperation.

More than two hundred people have responded to the invitation by the Vilnius Tourism and Business Development Agency Go Vilnius to become volunteers for the centennial celebration, and as a result have already started distributing information to the visitors this week. Dressed in red throughout a year, the volunteers will take care of tourists in the centre of Vilnius and in the Old Town.

The gender pay gap increased in Lithuania, except for agriculture, forest and fishing enterprises, and stood at 14.2% last year, up 0.8%age points, the latest figures from the Statistics Lithuania show.