Law-enforcement officials have detained eight suspects and conducted 40 searches in Lithuania and an unidentified foreign country in connection to a package waste management fraud scheme, the police said on November 27th.

Of the three Baltic capitals, Vilnius is the most expensive and Riga the least expensive place to take up office space, it appears from a survey by the real estate services company Colliers.

Poland's low-cost clothing and household commodities chain Pepco will open its first store in Lithuania in Marijampole, southwestern part of the country.

A total of 2.321 million people stayed at Lithuania's hotels, guesthouses and other accommodation establishments during the first three quarters of 2017, a rise of 6.1% on the same time last year, figures from Statistics Lithuania showed on November 23rd.

Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) has signed a three-year oil and oil product transportation contract with Belarus' oil company BNK.

The European Commission has given a positive assessment of Latvia’s draft 2018 budget, saying that it is generally consistent with the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP).

Following an obligation to block access to file sharing website linkomanija.net, Lithuania's largest Internet suppliers intend to file an appeal against the court ruling to avoid a precedent of blocking the spread of information online.

It will cost Lithuania a lot of money to relocate its embassy to premises in a historic palace in Rome, with 150,000 euros already spent on replacing the windows and shutters alone.

The municipality of the capital city acquired three electric cars of the Volkswagen e-Up! class, which were made this year. The cars will be used by the officers of the Public Order Division of Vilnius during patrols. Vehicles running on electric-vehicle batteries are environmentally friendly and do not pollute air at all, they are much safer and cost-effective.

Lithuania's Transport and Communications Ministry will suggest to the government rebuilding the railway stretch from Mazeikiai to Renge, Latvia, which recently caused the European Commission to impose a EUR 28 million fine for Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai.