Articles from The Baltic Times (Riga, Latvia) (August 12, 2009)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
A several kilometer long line of trucks waiting to enter Russia from Latvia has built up at the Terehova border crossing point, reports news agency LETA.			166
An inconsistent Baltic crisis.	Spolitis, Veiko		733
Budget cuts reach health insurance.	Karapetyan, Ella		630
Danske Bank Group's Latvian branch ended the first half of 2009 with a 17.5 million lats (25 million euros) loss before taxes, reports news agency LETA.	Sirme, Dace		151
Data published during the past week signal tentative improvement in the euro area economy and illustrate the growing "north-south" division.			166
Dealerships turn to service work to make ends meet.	Karapetyan, Ella		731
Dealing with the hostage crisis.	Tracevskis, Rokas M.		558
Disastrous GDP drop may signal economy bottoming.			578
Entrepreneurs to receive more support.			202
Estonia's law that regulates and limits quick-loan interest rates has failed, as these loans haven't gotten cheaper, shows analysis from Kiirlaen.info, reports news agency LETA.			159
Fear of the dark.	Ponomarenko, Antons		784
Government sets development priorities, not all in agreement.			771
Group wants government to privatize operations.			390
Heavy hand of government.			192
Idea for new Vilnius Guggenheim hermitage museum still lives.	Tracevskis, Rokas M.		426
Last week's data has further highlighted that the global turn in growth cannot entirely bypass even the battered EMEA region.			167
Latvian auto market takes a dive.	James, Olga		1330
Lithuania's economy buffeted by tighter credit and rising unemployment.			653
Lithuanian truckers face border congestion.			268
Lithuanians mark anniversary of Russian-Georgian war.	Tracevskis, Rokas M.		779
Mortgage bank chief to turn over reins.			430
President Dalia Grybauskaite says that "It is the lack of confidence which hinders the establishment of a transparent, open judicial system which would ensure equal opportunities" within the country.			128
Riga international airport, in another first, handled more than 400,000 passengers in one month this July, reports news agency LETA.			202
Riga mayor takes aim at British revelers.	Kuznecova, Darja		614
Sas recovers properties in asset shuffle.			450
Singing and dancing to delight the crowds.	Karapetyan, Ella		245
Soldier's death from unknown causes.			266
Some revival seen at Lithuania's car dealerships.	Tracevskis, Rokas M.		810
Taking counsel: amendments to the law on state and local government-owned capital shares and enterprises.	Sirme, Dace		379
Tallinn and its surrounding municipalities will begin processing their waste into fuel, activities to be led by Eesti Eneriga Iru power plant and BEN Energy's Vao combined power and heating producer, reports news agency LETA.			117
Tallinn's city government has prepared its second housing construction program, which will provide one hundred families with housing, reports news agency LETA.			106
Tax fraud schemes on the rise.			442
Tens of thousands of Lithuanian nationals were exiled, tortured or murdered during the years of Soviet occupation, and only tens of cases have been initiated against the perpetrators of these repressions, and even fewer of these oppressors have been submitted to the courts, says chairman of the Lithuanian Sajudis (Movement) board, MP Rytas Kupcinskas, reports news agency ELTA.			135
The average gross monthly salary in Latvia was 469 lats (670 euros) in the first quarter of this year, according to the Central Statistics Bureau, reports news agency LETA.			174
The ball game architect sets forth the winning draft.	Jegelevicius, Linas	Interview	1191
The first chartered Japan Airlines flight touched down on August 3 at Riga International Airport bringing 283 tourists and representatives from the Japanese tourism industry to Latvia, reports news agency LETA.			235
The incoming data during the last week was decisively reinforcing the view that the us recession ended in June and that the recovery began in July.			143
The Ministry of Finance announced that Estonia will not abolish income tax exemptions on interest rates on housing loans, starting September 1, 2009, reports news agency LETA.			99
There's more to do than sitting in the hot sun at this seaside village.	Birzulis, Philip		865
This was also stressed by the Czech central bank when it revised down its annual GDP forecast for 2009 to -4.7 percent (from -3.3 percent previously): the revision reflected mainly a base effect from the weak GDP in the first half, whereas q/q growth would become positive in Q3.			112
Treatment cut as hospital scrambles for funding.			423