ARCHIVE - 30 July 2012
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Bulgarian lender Corporate Commercial Bank and Russian peer VTB Bank have agreed to take over debt-ridden Bulgarian telecoms company BTC, which operates under the brand name Vivacom, Russian media reported.
Business | July 30, 2012, Monday // 19:47
Israel needs a total of 3 500 Bulgarian construction workers, according to the unemployment bureau in the Bulgarian city of Veliko Tarnovo.
Business | July 30, 2012, Monday // 14:02
The deadline to finish Lot 4 of Trakiya Highway in southern Bulgaria is scheduled to be open no later than February 2013, thus the highway will be fully completed by then.
Business | July 30, 2012, Monday // 13:48
The young entrepreneurs in Bulgaria are just 5% of all businessmen in the country, according to an analysis of the state and of problems of the very small, the small, and the medium enterprises in the country.
Business | July 30, 2012, Monday // 13:09
The renowned business publication Financial Times, FT, will help Bulgaria to present investment opportunities before companies from Europe, North America and Asia.
Business | July 30, 2012, Monday // 09:21
According to Bulgaria's Podkrepa Labor Confederation, the minimum wage should increase from BGN 290 to BGN 330 as of October and pensions should grow by 15% and by another 10% from January.
Production of unleaded gasoline increased by 11.3% on the year in June 2012, reaching 57 000 tons, according to data of the National Statistical Institute (NSI).
Fuel company Lukoil Bulgaria EOOD has not abused its dominant position in the wholesale market of gasoline A95 and diesel fuel, according to Bulgaria's Commission on Protection of Competition (KZK).
Bulgaria's producer prices in industry in June 2012 grew by 3.3% as compared to the same month of 2011, according to the country's National Statistical Institute.
Bulgarian Economy, Energy and Tourism Minister, Delyan Dobrev, left Monday for a two-day visit to Israel.
Bulgarian Culture Minister, Vezhdi Rashidov, is leaving Monday on an official work visit to Monaco, the Bulgarian Culture Ministry informs.
Bulgaria's Defense Minister Anyu Angelov has expressed great satisfaction with the results of the Bulgarian-US military training entitled "Black Sea Rotational Force – 12".
Bulgaria has a serious problem with its national security in the aftermath of the Burgas Bus Bombing, according to Tsvetlin Yovchev, Chief of Staff of Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev.
The European Socialists will vote for the Bulgarian nomination, Sergey Stanishev, to become their leader, in the palace of former Romanian dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, in Bucharest.
Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, has come up with a brand new idea to fight crime in the country by establishing a National Council for Crime Prevention.
130 of the berry pickers that were stranded in Sweden are now being bussed to their home country, according to the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry.
Society | July 30, 2012, Monday // 16:46
In 2011, a total of 369 newspapers with an annual circulation of 373 million were published in Bulgaria, according to data of the National Statistical Institute (NSI).
Society | July 30, 2012, Monday // 16:38
An overnight blaze burned out and totaled a bar in Bulgaria's popular beach resort Golden Sands, near the Black Sea city of Varna.
Society | July 30, 2012, Monday // 12:17
Code Orange alert for dangerous heat is declared once again for seven Bulgarian regions Monday.
After last week Turkey suspended its recognition of Bulgarian university diplomas, Bulgaria's Education Minister Sergey Ignatov reacted Monday by announcing that the problematic diplomas were forged by Turkish citizens.
Bulgaria will allocate an additional BGN 700 000 to the initial sum of BGN 500 000 earmarked for archaeological research on the route of the Maritsa Highway, according to Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova.
Bulgaria's Commission on Protection of Competition (KZK) is launching a cartel probe of the two biggest cinema chains in the country, Cinema City Bulgaria and Kino Arena BT.
Turkish giants Galatasaray have denied reports that they are close to signing Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov.
Sports | July 30, 2012, Monday // 17:48
Bulgaria's top male tennis player Grigor Dimitrov, aka Grisho, has been kicked out of the London Olympics tennis tournament after losing to Frenchman Gilles Simon.
Bulgaria's top female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova has failed to overcome Italy's Flavia Pennetta in the second round of the London Olympics tennis tournament.
Legendary Bulgarian footballer Hristo Stoichkov has visited the Bulgarian athletes at the London 2012 Olympics village in order to encourage them, the Bulgarian Olympic Committee (BOC) announced.
Bulgarian swimmer Nina Rangelova set a new national record at the 200m freestyle event but failed to make it into the semi-finals at the London 2012 Olympics.
Bulgarian weightlifter, Valentin Hristov, who is competing for Azerbaijan, won Olympic silver in the clean and jerk (56-kg weight class) event.
The former detainee at Guantanamo, Mehdi Ghezali, might in fact be the wanted accomplice involved in the July 18 terrorist attack in Bulgaria's Burgas, judging by his photos and computer-generated images of the potential accomplice.
Crime | July 30, 2012, Monday // 16:01
Unknown perpetrators attempted to steal an ATM from a bank in the western Bulgarian city of Pernik by tying it with a metal rope and pulling it out of the wall with a minivan.
Crime | July 30, 2012, Monday // 14:47
A Ukrainian man in his 40s has harassed eight boys at the Pomoria Hotel in Bulgaria's Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach, only to be subsequently allowed to return to the hotel by the police, according to a British media report.
Crime | July 30, 2012, Monday // 14:44
The Bulgarian Roma man, Malin Iliev, who was severely injured in a blast in southern Bulgaria, has died at the Military Medical Academy, VMA, in Sofia Sunday morning.
Crime | July 30, 2012, Monday // 09:23
The terrorist attack against a busload of Israeli tourists in Burgas, Bulgaria, poses a number of questions, and necessarily shakes up the security establishment.
Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta has declared that he he would not seek a new confrontation with President Traian Basescu.
World | July 30, 2012, Monday // 15:29
Even though Romanian President Traian Basescu survived an impeachment referendum, he has now lost his legitimacy, according to his political rival, Prime Minister Victor Ponta.
World | July 30, 2012, Monday // 13:18
A total of 51% of all Germans believe the country's economy would be better outside the 17-country Eurozone, according to a poll conducted for the Bild am Sonntag weekly.
World | July 30, 2012, Monday // 11:18
Romanian President Traian Basescu has survived Sunday's referendum on his impeachment thanks to the low voter turnout, according to the official statement of the Romanian electoral authorities.
World | July 30, 2012, Monday // 00:51
Romanian President Traian Basescu appears to have survived a referendum on his impeachment.
World | July 30, 2012, Monday // 00:23
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