Riga, Latvia News

Unifeeder, the largest short-sea container carrier in northern Europe, acquired InterMarineContainerLines, Poland's biggest feeder shipping line.

Many believe that the way organizations manage information will increasingly determine their survival and growth in the future .

A deadly fire in the Latvian capital of Riga has claimed seven lives, the State Fire and Rescue Service reported Sunday.

A Swedish prosecutor is pushing for a longer sentence for a Latvian man who was jailed for eight months after attempting to open a cabin door on board a Ryanair plane.

Electronics and clothing stores at the Galerijas Centrs in Rigaa s old town fly banners offering discounts of as much as 50 percent.

State Joint Stock Company Latvian Railway , one of the largest employers in the country, plays an important role in diminishing road traffic by facilitating inter-city mobility as well as constituting a growing and dynamic freight transport market.

Riga - One former and one current president from two Baltic states emerged Wednesday as potential candidates for the new position of European Union president.

RIGA - Signs that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia may be emerging from recession have brought little comfort in the Baltic states, as the public braces for the worst economic winter in years.

View a slideshow of images from Latvia, with photographs by Akim Aginsky and captions by Kristina Rizga.

A recent survey has found that Latvenergo is now the country's most valuable company.

But by afternoon, more and more voices were suggesting a non-celestial source for the unusual find.

As award-winning British architect Ian Ritchie noted in his research paper "Tendencies: Image, Architecture and Innovation," the history of architecture is the history of the way in which light enters the building - through small openings in masonry walls and roofs, to infilling them with small pieces of glass, to total glass enclosures.

People seen near a crater, 9 meters wide and 3 meters deep, reportedly created by a meteorite-like object that crashed into a meadow in the Mazsalaca region, northern Latvia, near the Estonian border, on Monday, Oct.

The following is a press release from the Norwegian Chamber of Commerce in Latvia: The Norwegian Chamber of Commerce in Latvia invite you to an Executive Industrial Policy Seminar Thursday, November 5, 2009 09:00 - " 19:00 The initiative behind the Executive Industrial Policy Seminar comes from Members of the Norwegian Chamber of Commerce in Latvia ...

Locals look into a crater in field near Mazsalaca, about 170 km from Riga, October 26,... Locals look into a crater in field near Mazsalaca, about 170 km from Riga, October 26, 2009.

From afar, brutal GDP and unemployment numbers make Latvia's recession look like a tragedy.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite will arrive in Riga on Saturday to meet with her Latvian and Estonian counterparts at a conference, the presidential press service said.

The following is a press release from Olga Khlebnikova Gallery: 28th October 2009 at 6 p.m. the opening of the exhibition of theatre costume sketches by contemporary Latvian theatre artists takes place at Olga Khlebnikova Gallery in Riga, Alberta Street 1-8a. For the general public the exhibition is open from 29th October till 12th December.

" On Thursday, October 22, U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden will deliver a speech in Romania on the U.S. relationship with the countries of Central Europe and the Baltics.

The following is a press release from the U.S. Embassy in Riga: Riga, October 20, 2009.