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A Migration Information Centre will be established in Lithuania next year and it will provide information to repatriates, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Tuesday morning.

On 29-30 November, Baltic representatives took part in the biggest charity event of Luxembourg, the 54th edition of Bazar International de Luxembourg. Funds raised in the event are donated to various non-profit initiatives around the world.

Iceland's Lithuanian community has joined efforts to bring Christmas joy to children with cancer.

The Lithuania Tribune spoke to Eric Stewart, president of the American-Lithuanian Trade Council. We asked the President if Lithuania does enough to engage the Lithuanian Diaspora in the USA.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius started his visit to the US capital on 6 October with a busy schedule.

Schoolchildren throughout Lithuania were looking smart and bearing the traditional gift of flowers for their teachers on 1 September, the first day of school. In Canada, the US, Thailand, and other nations, a slightly older group of Lithuanian students have returned from a summer at Vilnius Universi...

The Lithuanian media has lately caused some stir with stories about Lithuanian expatriates in Norway who have had their children "taken away" by childcare services. Norway's Ambassador to Lithuania Leif Arne Ulland says that his country takes children's welfare very seriously and makes no distinctio...

Jura Reilly is Australian-Lithuanian author of short stories and the book A Wolf at Our Door which chronicles the survival of her relatives who were exiled to Siberia after World War Two. Jura kindly agreed to share one of her short stories about growing up in South Australia with the Lithuania Trib...

After taking their education at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), two Lithuanians are dreaming about a life as entrepreneurs in Denmark. "We got a free education and then unemployment benefits when we finished studying here in Denmark. Now we want to give something back", says Kristupas Saikus.

This year, 16 and 17 August, American-Lithuanians in Pennsylvania will be celebrating their 100th Lithuanian Days festival, making it the longest consecutive ethnic festival in the USA.

There are some 50,000 Lithuanians living in Norway. While the media is quick to cover crimes and criminal gang activity, giving Lithuanian expatriates a bad name in both their adopted and home countries, Ambassador of Norway Leif Arne Ulland says most of them have managed to integrate quite well and...

Parliament plans to introduce a commission dedicated to emigration issues this fall, according to Order and Justice Party leader MEP Rolandas Paksas.

“The River Thames is in London. London is the capital of England.” These words will be familiar to many whose first acquaintance with the English language was in Lithuania, reading from that little mustard coloured book. All so stiff, so quaint, and so far removed from reality.

The Lithuania Tribune asked Žygimantas Pavilionis, Lithuania’s Ambassador in Washington, D.C., to share his insights about the Lithuanian community in the US. Some estimates suggest that there are some 1 million Americans of Lithuanian descent.

In recent years, several European countries have made it easier for their citizens living abroad to vote. Some have even created electoral districts to represent emigrants. This is a controversial issue in the countries that grant these rights and in the countries where the immigrants reside, and ac...

Vytautas Magnus University invited expatriate Lithuanians and nationals of foreign countries who would like to study the Lithuanian language and see the country to attend an intensive summer course on the Lithuanian language and culture.

As the Australian Football League celebrates its “Diversity Round” for 2014 its fitting we look back on an Australian-Lithuanian legend, Adam Ramanauskas.

Fiona Katauskas is a cartoonist and illustrator whose work appears in Australian national and State newspapers and magazines. She has illustrated a large number of books for many publishers; and for the past eight years she has been the producer of Talking Pictures – a segment of the current affairs...

President Dalia Grybauskaitė greeted participants of the second World Lithuanian Youth Summit on Friday.

Lithuania's former president Valdas Adamkus says that émigré businessman and public figure Juozas Kazickas, who passed away in the early hours of Thursday, has made the biggest possible contribution to Lithuania's freedom and has proven his love for the country with deeds.