Turkish workers building a stadium in Lithuania's second-biggest city of Kaunas have gone on strike, saying they have not received their wages for more than six months now.

The Government has approved a Programme of Events to Commemorate the Year of Chiune Sugihara in 2020. Next year will mark the 80th anniversary of Japanese Consul Chiune Sugihara’s work in Kaunas (1939-1940) and the 120th anniversary of his birth. Sugihara issued Japanese transit visas thereby saving more than 6000 lives. In 1985, he was honoured as the Righteous among the Nations.

BaltCap Private Equity Fund III, a new buyout-oriented fund established by Baltic venture capital firm BaltCap in October, has signed an agreement to acquire Krekenavos Agrofirma, the largest meat processing company in Lithuania.

Estonia's railway services group Skinest Rail said on Monday it has increased, from 27 mln euros to 62 mln euros, its claim for damages from the Lithuanian government for removing its companies from bidding for contracts from Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LG).

During this time of faith may the true meaning of Christmas fill you with joy.

It’s Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.

From 1 February 2020, meetings of the Board of the Seimas and the Conference of Chairs will be broadcast live and video recordings of the meetings will be made public. The exceptions as regards broadcasting will be made to closed meetings of the Board of the Seimas or its meetings organised by way of inquiry. The draft amendments to the Statute of the Seimas (draft No XIIP-4125(2)) related thereto were approved by 77 votes in favour, 5 against and 28 abstentions.

Because you don´t choose where or when you get sick, avoid surprises and ask for your European Health Insurance Card to be covered all over the EU.

The Armed Forces of Lithuania and Latvia have jointly purchased gasmasks and filters for gasmasks.

A Seimas committee suggests that a governmental commission vetting strategic deals should look again at whether Alvora, a local pipeline construction company that has won a 90-million-euro contract to build the Lithuanian part of the Gas Interconnector Poland-Lithuania (GIPL), poses a threat to national security.