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Uzbekistan considering options for establishing fruit and vegetable distribution center in Latvia

Uzbekistan is considering options for transporting fruit and vegetables via Latvia, Latvian and Uzbek officials admitted during a Latvian-Uzbek economic forum today.
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Poland's "Polcopper Sp" wants "Liepajas metalurgs" declared insolvent

Poland's scrap metal supplier "Polcopper Sp", an unsecured creditor of Latvia's financially-troubled metallurgical giant "Liepajas metalurgs", has turned to the prosecutor general, requesting a protest be filed against approval of the "Liepajas metalurgs" legal protection plan, as it contains "major violations", the newspaper "Dienas Bizness" reports today.
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Liepaja Port sees 35.1% reduction in cargo turnover so far this year

Liepaja Port handled 3.45 million tons of cargo in January-September 2013, 35.1 percent less than in the same period in 2012, the Liepaja Special Economic Zone's investment and marketing department head Ivo Kolins informed LETA.
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Latvian-Uzbek business forum to held in Riga today

Today, a Latvian-Uzbek business forum is held in Riga, bringing together more than 100 participants, the Transport Ministry informed "Nozare.lv".
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Competition Council fines "Latvijas Gaze" LVL 1.56 million for abusing dominant market position

The Competition Council has found that joint-stock gas supply company "Latvijas Gaze" has abused its dominant market position by refusing to sign natural gas supply contracts with new users before they had paid previous users' debts; "Latvijas Gaze" has been ordered to halt its unfair practice, and slapped with a fine of LVL 1,567,180.
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Freeport of Riga cargo turnover falls 3.6% in January-September

The Freeport of Riga handled 26.4 million tons of cargo in January-September 2013, a 3.6 percent decrease on the respective period in 2012, according to the port's homepage.
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"LDz Cargo" registers 12% reduction in cargo turnover

"LDz Cargo", a subsidiary of the joint-stock railroad company "Latvijas dzelzcels", transported a total of 41.64 million tons of cargo in the first nine months of the year, which is 12 percent less when compared to the same period last year, according to information on the company's web-site.
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''Liepajas metalurgs'' wants reduction of investment amount in legal protection plan by LVL 10 million

The financially troubled metallurgical company ''Liepajas metalurgs'' has submitted proposals to the company's club of creditors to reduce the set investment amount possible investors must make in the company, set-out in the legal protection plan, by LVL 10 million, "Liepajas metalurgs" legal protection plan administrator Haralds Velmers told the business information portal ''Nozare.lv''.
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"Liepajas metalurgs" urges creditors to consider changes to company's legal protection plan

The board and council of the ailing metallurgical company "Liepajas metalurgs" have concluded analysis of possible changes to the company's legal protection process plan and forwarded the changes to the company's creditors' club, so representatives from the company and creditors could arrange a meeting and jointly discuss these proposals, "Liepajas metalurgs" representative Simona Laiveniece informed "Nozare.lv" business portal.
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Court arrests state-owned "airBaltic" shares

Continuing review of a lawsuit that former head of the national airline "airBaltic" Bertolt Flick has filed against "Latvijas Krajbanka" and Transport Ministry, Riga Regional Court has temporarily arrested state-owned shares "airBaltic".
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Entertaiment & Arts

20 000 Euro Prize Money Paid out to Artists

On 6 July, awards ceremony and opening of the juried exhibition “Martinsons Award” marked the end of the 2nd Latvia International Ceramics Biennale. The biennale was part of the Latvian centenary programme and was organised with a view to developing contemporary ceramics as a discipline, promoting cooperation among the Baltic states and commemorating the artistic legacy of Pēteris Martinsons, who is widely considered the father of Latvian contemporary ceramics.