The programming school CodeAcademy has announced that it will be joining Sapiegos Vilnius Tech Park, the biggest startup hub in the region. From this autumn, the academy will be giving a wide range of programming classes from its new premises at Vilnius Tech Park. Classes will be given both to members of the Tech Park community and to members of the public wishing to learn the craft of programming.

The Lithuanian carrier Transaviabaltika that won a contract to operate subsidized flights to Estonia's large western islands carried 5,411 passengers in the first almost two and a half months of operating the service, between June 20 and the end of August.

Following decision taken in NATO summit in Warsaw to deploy a battalion in each of 3 Baltic States and Poland, a force generation conference took place in Vilnius on August 23-26. Representatives from Belgium, Croatia, Czech, France, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway and Germany, as framework nation, were discussing various issues of the multinational battalion.

Vilnius Municipality has confirmed that all roadworks in the city will be suspended from September 1st–16th, 2016.

To buy alcoholic beverages in stores of Lithuania's largest retail chains, all buyers will have to produce identification documents specifying their age as of Friday.

The runway reconstruction planned for the summer of 2017 at Vilnius Airport will cost nearly €25m to the enterprise. Such an estimate was made taking into account the prices of the necessary technical work under the project and the expenditures of other European airports for such work. The estimated price will not be increased because the open procedure for stage 1 work the value of which totals nearly €1m is already over and the tendering procedures for stage 2 work have already been launched.

The recent referendum in which the British voted to withdraw from the European Union (EU) came as a shock not only to the whole bloc and Britain itself, but also to each country and company that does business in Britain – as it did to us, Knowledgeprice.com, an IT company based in Latvia.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė together with Israeli Ambassador Amir Maimon visited the site of massacre carried 75 years ago in Molėtai and held a minute’s silence in memory of the Holocaust victims. According to the Jewish tradition, the President laid a pebble at the mass gravesite as a token of remembrance.

A Lithuania Square is planned in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, in a 10-are territory in central part of the city in front of the St. Sophia Cathedral.

Japan's Hitachi, one of the world's biggest power plant construction and manufacturing corporations, has failed to stop the tender for a contractor of the construction of the Vilnius Japan's Hitachi, one of the world's biggest power plant construction and manufacturing corporations, has failed to stop the tender for a contractor of the construction of the Vilnius Cogeneration Power Plant.