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Tuesday, 16.07.2019, 23:50
Riga Airport Welcomes its First Flight from Korea
24.05.2019On Friday, 24 May, Riga Airport solemnly welcomed the first direct commercial charter flight from Seoul, the capital of South Korea. The flight was operated by Korean Air and organised by one of Korea's largest travel agencies Hanjin Travel, BC leraned from the Riga Airport.
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Riga leads Baltic airports by 2018 traffic
24.05.2019Lithuania's largest international airport in Vilnius ranked second only to Riga among all Baltic airports in terms of 2018 passenger, according to flight and cargo statistics writes LETA/BNS.
Share of population of Latvia feeling lonely and socially excluded increases with age
24.05.2019uropean Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) survey conducted by the Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia (CSB) in 2018 shows that 17% of the population aged 75 and over mentioned that during the last month have felt lonely all or most of the time, while such an assessment among younger people (aged 25–34) was given ten times less frequently (by 1.6%).
Nord Stream 2 Starts the Annual Release of Valuable Fish Juveniles in Russia
24.05.2019Nord Stream 2, the developer of the twin pipeline to supply Russian natural gas to the EU market through the Baltic Sea, performed the scheduled release of brown trout fish juveniles under the control of the Northwest branch of the Federal Fishery Agency, Fishery Inspection and Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage.
Riga Jurmala Festival Continues the Best Musical Traditions, with the Support of Rietumu Bank
24.05.2019This summer season – from July to September – Latvia will be the venue of the widescale musical festival “Riga Jurmala”, within the framework of which concerts of the best orchestras and performers of classical music will be held. “Riga Jurmala” continues the traditions of the “Baltic Musical Seasons” festival, which took place with the ongoing involvement of Rietumu Bank.
Company APGE plans to invest EUR 4 mln in tiger prawn farm development
Company APGE plans to invest EUR 4 million in construction and equipping a tiger prawn farm in Latvia, as the company informed the Procurement Monitoring Bureau, writes LETA.
Early voting in presidential runoff, EP election ends in Lithuania on Friday
Friday is the last day in Lithuania when voters can vote early in the presidential runoff and the European Parliament, informed LETA/BNS.
SDGs in the EU: monitoring progress 
