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2011 Latvian Record Air Passenger Turnover Versus airBaltic Turmoil

2011 Latvian Record Air Passenger Turnover Versus airBaltic Turmoil

Riga International Airport announces record passenger turnovers in 2011, but ironically simultaneously Latvia’s national airline, airBaltic, is rumoured to be heading for bankruptcy. Riga International Airport has seen a growth of 20% in the number of passengers travelling via their airport, most travelling to European destinations. Unfortunately the growth in passenger lists has not...

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European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Fund Green Baltic Fuel Production

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Fund Green Baltic Fuel Production

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have agreed to provide a loan of 34.4 million Euros to AS Graanul Invest to expand on their biomass fuelled combined heat and power (CHP) plants in the Baltic’s. AS Graanul Invest is an Estonian based privately owned company specialising in bioenergetics and renewable energy production....

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Baltic States Presidents Meet with Barack Obama for Discussions in Poland

Baltic States Presidents Meet with Barack Obama for Discussions in Poland

All three Presidents of the Baltic states; Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia had the opportunity to meet and hold individual discussions with US President Barack Obama in Warsaw, Poland at a dinner on Friday. As part of his European tour President Obama attended a working dinner in Poland with the leaders of Central and Eastern...

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Opportunity Blossoms Between Latvia and Nigeria

Opportunity Blossoms Between Latvia and Nigeria

Much headway was made during a recent meeting at the Nigeria High Commission in London between Marcis Liors Skadmanis, the Chief Operations Officer of the Latvian British Chamber of Commerce (LBCC) and Bashir Musa, the Minister of Economics and Commerce of Nigeria in the UK. Nigeria is a fast developing state, the largest and...

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Amended Latvian Immigration Law Attracts Foreign Investment

Amended Latvian Immigration Law Attracts Foreign Investment

On 1st July 2010 the Immigration Law in Latvia was amended. These amendments allow foreigners outside the European Union to get a temporary residence permit in Latvia, which would by default, guarantee free movement within the Schengen area. There are three ways for obtaining a temporal residence permit for the period of up to...

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Latvian Cosmetic Company Dzintars to Open Worldwide

Latvian Cosmetic Company Dzintars to Open Worldwide

Latvian cosmetic company, Dzintars, plans to open more shops abroad via the franchise system. Recently Dzintars 13th franchise shop in Russia was opened in Izhevsk. There are 49 Dzintars shops in Latvia, 13 in Russia, 2 in Estonia, 1 in Georgia and 1 in Ukraine. The company is reported to have turned over LVL...

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  • Tiny Robot 3D Duplicators
    Work is underway designing tiny robotic cubes imbedded with magnets on each plane that can create a duplicate of any object, either equal in size to the original or any size version as required. Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Robotics department are currently working with two dimensional cubes of four sides, each cube containing a microprocessor wit […]
  • Lumia Hits us for a score of 900
    Mobile Phone Lumia 900 is here to stay. Lumia 900 is here thanks once again to the Finland Company Nokia. This is great news for the mobile phone giant that is presenting this device at a low cost and a streamlined design with a front-facing camera for video conferencing. This is putting it on the same playing field as the likes of Samsung and Apple that now […]
  • Google And Microsoft To Encourage The Future of British ICT Education
    The government has finally agreed that creative and motivating ICT classes be reintroduced to the classroom by teaching children to program and put computer science back in the core of ICT lessons. The Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove is reported as saying that the present ICT curriculum was ‘demotivating and dull’. Advising Mr Gove on implemen […]

 

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  • Qatar, UAE urge citizens to stay away from Lebanon May 19, 2012
    DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar and the United Arab Emirates urged their citizens to stay away from Lebanon, citing security concerns in a country where fighting prompted by sectarian tensions in neighbouring Syria has unsettled areas near a northern port. […]
  • Refloat of Italy's Concordia wreck to be biggest ever May 19, 2012
    ROME (Reuters) - Salvage crews will employ huge cranes and air tanks to refloat the half-submerged Costa Concordia cruise liner in the largest ever operation of its kind, according to a plan unveiled on Friday. […]