- Vakarai
Infobox Newspaper
name = Vakarai
caption = The January 10, 2008 front page of the "Vakarai" (No. 32 (114)).
type = International weekly
format =Tabloid
foundation = October 2005
ceased publication =
price = $1.50
owners = News LT LLC
publisher = News LT LLC
editor = Monika Bonckute
language = Lithuanian
circulation =
headquarters = 720 Plainfield Rd.,
Willowbrook, IL 60515United States
ISSN =
website = [http://www.vakarai.us/ vakarai.us]:"This article refers to the Lithuanian-American newspaper; for Vaharai peninsula in eastern Sri Lanka see
Vaharai Bombing .The Vakarai (Lithuanian for "the West") is an internationally distributed
Lithuanian-American newspaper . The "Vakarai" is published inChicago with its headquarters in suburbanWillowbrook . It is the largest Lithuanian-American newspaper and is read not only in the United States, but in Canada and Europe as well. Currently it contains 56 pages and has 4 weekly supplements ("Business", "Leisure", "TranSport", and "Healthy Family").It is owned by a private company News LT LLC since March 2007. Before it was published for two years as the Verslas.us (Lithuanian for "Business.us") by another Lithuanian company, which went out of business since News LT LLC took control of the paper.
In January 2008, News LT LLC founded an online
daily Vakarai.us, which serves as an independent news and entertainment source for broad Lithuanian reading audience all over the world.According to Alexa, the web information company, as of 02/2008, "Vakarai.us" is the most visited Lithuanian language media website in the
United States .External links
* [http://www.vakarai.us/ "Vakarai.us"] Lithuanian Online Daily Vakarai.us
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