The roof of Vilnius' Kempinski Hotel Cathedral Square is now home to the Kempinski Bee Suite – a half-contained beehive with around 30,000 inhabitants busily making honey.

NATO Air Force exercise is being conducted on 27-28 May in the air space of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland. Primary training activities are taking place in Latvia.

A tender for a 25 year concession to design, build and run the parking infrastructure at Santariskes medical campus, Vilnius, has been announced by The Ministry of Health of The Republic of Lithuania.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite announced that Poland agreed to sell Lithuania anti-aircraft missile systems Grom.

Lithuania has excellent yet unused possibilities for cooperation with Brazil in agriculture and food areas, says Lithuania's Minister of Agriculture Vigilijus Jukna.

 Two cruise liners, Deutschland and Seabourn Quest, visited Lithuania's port city Klaipeda in one day, both of them brought around one thousand tourists.

Lithuania's underground tobacco product market amounts to approximately LTL 300 million (EUR 87 million).

Even after the events in Ukraine, the Lithuanian Armed Forces keeps purchasing fuel as well as ammunition from Russia, meanwhile, Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas explains that Russian prices are lower than those of NATO allies, says LNK News.

Ryanair, Europe's favourite low fares airline, today (15 May) launched its Lithuanian 2014 winter schedule, with 20 routes in total in Kaunas and Vilnius, which will deliver 1.3m customers p.a. and support 1,300* on-site jobs at Kaunas and Vilnius airports.

Minister of Environment in Lithuania Valentinas Mazuronis has registered amendments to the Law on Waters which would prohibit privatization of natural bodies of water.