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TAV to participate in Latvia airport tender

todayszaman.com
Sep 5, 2008
        

Turkish TAV Airports Holding said yesterday that a consortium it has entered into with Latvia's Skonto Buve, Ltd., will compete in a tender to modernize the airport of Latvia's capital city of Riga. The consortium was...

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Monument to canned sprats goes up in Latvia

rian.ru
Sep 4, 2008
        

RIGA, September 4 (RIA Novosti) - A monument to caned fish was unveiled Thursday in Latvia, one of the world's main producers of sprats, local media have reported. The sculpture, located at a fish-packing factory in the...

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Shares suspended over missing reports

baltictimes.com
Sep 4, 2008
        

RIGA - Regulators of the Riga stock exchange suspended trading in shares of JSC Tukuma mežrūpniecības saimniecība (which has the ticker code 'TUK1R') from Sep. 02 after the company failed to submit both an udited annual...

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Latvia switches to '09 budget deficit goal from planned surplus

finanznachrichten.de
Sep 4, 2008 1 related
        

RIGA , Sept 4 (Reuters) - Latvian Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis said on Thursday that the government has opted for a 2009 budget with a deficit of 1.85 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) rather than a 1.2 percent...

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School quarantined following poisoning

baltictimes.com
Sep 3, 2008
        

RIGA- An elementary school in western Latvia has been shut down and quarantined after more than 20 teachers suffered food poisoning on the first day of school. The Baltic News Service reports that the teachers probably...

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Rejected for adoption, some end up on the streets

baltictimes.com
Sep 3, 2008
        

RIGA - Nine months ago, Dace D. , a pulmonary doctor, made the decision to adopt. Like most young couples in their position, she and her husband wanted to adopt a baby, preferably a girl. They ended up with 4-year-old...

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AMUSEMENT PARK: Wet, wild and out of this world

baltictimes.com
Sep 3, 2008
        

RIGA - Water parks may be a dime a dozen, but the Livu Akvaparks literally rises above the competition — it’s the biggest water park in Eastern and Northern Europe. It’s so big that astronauts use it for training. The...

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Rochester man shot, left on road in Riga

democratandchronicle.com
Aug 30, 2008 1 related
        

Victoria E. Freile • Staff writer • August 30, 2008 A Rochester man who was apparently hitching a ride was shot at least once and then abandoned near 1067 Johnson Road in Riga about 11:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the...

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Lativan trade unions promise protests

baltictimes.com
Aug 28, 2008
        

RIGA - The Free Trade Union of Latvia (LBAS) has demanded that the government compensate workers for the country’s high inflation rate and threatened large scale protests if their demands are not met. LBAS submitted a...

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Voter turnout too low for pension increase

baltictimes.com
Aug 27, 2008
        

RIGA - A popular referendum on raising state pension levels has failed to garner enough votes to pass. It was the second referendum to fail because of voter turnout in less than a month. The Central Election Commission...

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