Klaipeda, Lithuania News

While Germany debates the ethics and legality of anonymous baby dumping, Ecumenical News Service reports that the Lithuanian government, in conjunction with the country's Catholic bishops, has opened baby hatches in the capital city Vilnius and Klaipeda , the country's only seaport.

The impact of the global economic crisis on discretionary spending hit all three countries in this report A- Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania A- with tourist arrival numbers down and tourism revenues likely to come in below expectations.

FOR SELENA AND SIN, MANZANA, TEARDOWN To Team Up For 'Finnish Female-Fronted Rock/Metal Tour' - Dec.

Until the economic crisis, the Chinese were known as a cheap labor force in Lithuania.

CMA CGM has recently launched a new feeder service from Hamburg to the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda and on to Kaliningrad.

The local authorities' and Lithuania's environmental scientists' fight against mighty Mother Nature over the survival of the Baltic seashore and the magnificent dunes might be compared to the biblical battle between King David and philistine Galijotas.

25, 2009----Victor Klemas, professor emeritus of marine studies in the University of Delaware's College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment , was awarded the Science Prize of the Republic of Lithuania on Nov.

USS John L. Hall USS John L. Hall and embarked HSL-48 Detachment Nine recently completed a week-long and unexpected port visit to Portsmouth, England.

Out of the four largest ports in the Baltic States a ' Riga, Ventspils, Tallinn and Klaipeda, Tallinn Port has been the most successful in the first ten months of the year 2009 .

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

Dark, often crushingly grim, Box 21 introduces us to a world of characters who hate what they do for a living.

USS John L. Hall recently completed a Theater Security Cooperation port visit to Klaipeda, Lithuania.

Ricardas Lucka, the 70-year-old ex-captain and president of the Captainsa TM Club in Klaipeda, doesna TMt tell his would-be seafarers and future captains about sirens or the dangers of the Bermuda Triangle, as one might hear in the Caribbean region.

Leonidas Donskis, 47, is member of the European Parliament where he is a member of the liberal faction named the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

If you are standing in Jonusai, the serene, country-like vicinity on the outskirts of Klaipeda, make sure that you don't stretch out your hand if you hear a melodic feline purring.

Stratus Building Solutions , the St. Louis-based franchisor of branded building service and maintenance operations, has expanded to Europe by awarding a franchise in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Being in politics, to many politicians, means the almost unavoidable entanglement in the roller-coaster of political shake-ups, turbulence and turmoil.

My mother Trudy never spoke about her childhood until after 9/11. That tragic event triggered her memories of growing up on the "wrong side" of another violent conflict, as a young girl in Nazi-occupied Lithuania.

Canadian indie rock duo the Handsome Furs find creative inspiration in far-flung spots around the world Most indie bands don't set off for a world tour until they've made a name and some cash for themselves.

Nora the piano-playing cat is a YouTube sensation who gets fan mail by the bushel.