Due to strong demand on its Vilnius route, Turkish Airlines, the 3rd largest carrier in Europe, will increase its flights between Vilnius and Istanbul as from March 2015. Effective from the 29th of March, the schedule will increase from 5 weekly to daily flights.

Seven tour operators from China who paid a visit to Lithuania at the invitation of the Lithuania's State Department of Tourism say that they have discovered a new and highly potential tourism direction in Lithuania.

A Public Private Partnership (PPP) to reconstruct the A14 Vilnius-Utena highway will be submitted to the Lithuanian Parliament for approval in spring 2015. The project will be the largest ever PPP project in the road sector in Lithuania.

The Financial Crime Investigation Service in Lithuania (FNTT) probe headed by Prosecutor General's Office into possible financial crimes committed by the heads and shareholders of bank Snoras has advanced further.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius on Monday took part in the event starting the project of the electrification of the railroad section New Kyviskes-Vilnius-Kena-state border with Belarus at Naujoji Vilnia Railway Station.

Laboratory testing confirmed that wild boars hunted in Kupiskis district were infected with African swine fever.

On 11 December, the first two transformers for the power interconnection NordBalt to link Lithuania with Sweden have been successfully unloaded from the vessel by a floating crane, the Lithuanian electricity transmission system operator.

From 2005 to 2014, a total of 16.9% or 619,600 Lithuanians lived in foreign countries, while majority of them resided in the United Kingdom, the latest data of Statistics Lithuania has showed.

The Lithuanian Government approved the amendments to the Law on Tobacco Control registered by the Seimas Committee on Health. The amendments are aimed to curb consumption of electronic cigarettes by minors.

Director of Lithuanian Vegetable Producers' Association Zofija Cironkiene says the government should show greater initiative searching for new markets for Lithuanian fruit and vegetable growers.