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Large family welcomes Latvian orphan for Christmas
Rīga :: Latvia | 3 days ago
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When you need something done, ask a busy person. It defies logic, but then so do Eric and Heather McAndrews of Bradley. The couple have barely a minute to spare with nine children and her in-home daycare center. Still, they are determined to make Christmas...
Tags: Latvia, Rīga, Child welfare, Orphanage, Orphan
Three banks go after millions in repayments on back of orders
Rīga :: Latvia | 4 days ago
Credibility Dermot O'Rourke, Keredern House, Naas, Co Kildare, for the repayment of €16.5m arising from unpaid loans advanced for a property company. The bank claims it was agreed that the loan would be repayable in full by August 27 last but Mr O'Rourke had failed...
Tags: negative equity, loans advanced, Latvia, Rīga, Refinancing, Debt, Mortgage, Credit, Loan, Business Finance
Science Scan: Smithsonian exhibit, mathematical crocheting
Rīga :: Latvia | 4 days ago
Credibility Moving Beyond Earth," Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Two instruments used to repair the Hubble Space Telescope are the big draw in the National Air and Space Museum's "Moving Beyond Earth" gallery, which opened last week.
Tags: hyperbolic planes, Latvia, Rīga, Crochet, Hyperbolic geometry, Hyperbolic space, Institute For Figuring, Geometry, Daina Taimina, Year of birth missing
Hackers hit Latvian president's site on independence day
Rīga :: Latvia | 9 days ago
Credibility Instead of Zatlers' independence day message, the president.lv site displayed a message reading, "Greetings on this 91st anniversary...In response, official technicians took the site down completely...Presidential staff told the Latvian news agency Leta...
Tags: Latvian, Latvia, Rīga, Baltic states, Latvian presidential election, Valdis Zatlers, LETA
Typo promotes Latvian capital as “hard to live”
Lon :: Burkina Faso | 11 days ago
Credibility In the posters, the heart, which is meant to symbolize tourists leaving their hearts in Latvia, is shown wandering about the city’s significant sights. In one it is shown with an opera singer dressed up as a valkyrie (a reference to Richard Wagner’s two-year...
Tags: Latvian, Riga, Burkina Faso, Lon, Latvia
First H1N1 death case in Latvia
At the beginning of November was registered the first H1N1 death case in Stradina hospital in Riga. The women, that died, was undergoing the treatment at home for a week before she was placed in the hospital. Her condition doctors described as serious....
Tacky hedonism sours Riga
Rīga :: Latvia | 3 months ago
Credibility Spare a thought for the British Council in Riga, ancient capital of the Baltic state of Latvia. Its job is to showcase to a fledgling democracy Britain's glittering contributions to literature, the theatre, science and philosophy. To burnish the image...
Tags: Riga
Riga plans crackdown on British stag parties with tourist police
Rīga :: Latvia | 3 months ago
Credibility Riga has finally had enough of the great British stag party, a drunken ritual that is scaring more genteel tourists away from the Latvian capital. The city’s mayor, Nils Usakovs, says he is fed up with unruly Britons and is preparing to unleash a special...
Tags: stag parties, Riga
Go Blonde parade in Riga
Yesterday (May 31, 2009) Riga was under label "Go Blonde!".It’s fundraising charity event in Riga, organized by Latvia’s Blonde Association, aims to get funding to build playgrounds for children with special needs. More - Riga goes blonde...
Tags: blonde, charity, children, event, Riga, Latvia, blonde Association
Indonesian cultural and handicraft exhibition in Latvia
Rīga :: Latvia | 6 months ago
Credibility The Indonesian embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, in association with the Sleman district administration and the Museum of Latvian Foreign Arts, organized an exhibition on Indonesian culture and handicrafts in Riga, capital of Latvia, on May 16-22. The event...
Tags: Latvian, Riga, Indonesian
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