ARCHIVE - 15 January 2013
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Emil Karanikolov, head of Bulgaria's Privatization and Post-Privatization Control Agency (PPCA), has said that he is starting talks for staff cuts at military plant VMZ Sopot.
Business | January 15, 2013, Tuesday // 09:07
Hundreds of workers at Bulgaria's State-owned arms manufacturer VMZ Sopot must be laid-off in order for the company to be privatized, Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, says.
EMKO EOOD, the sole candidate to buy Bulgaria's State-owned arms manufacturer, VMZ Sopot, has proposed a price of BGN 1.
Bulgaria's Economy Minister Delyan Dobrev has declared that new ski track developments in the largest Bulgarian mountain resort of Bansko will boost the local economy.
Bulgarian Minister Delyan Dobrev informed Tuesday that the Mayor of the mountain resort of Bansko had submitted an investment declaration for the construction of a second gondola lift and the expansion of the ski runs.
Bulgaria begins withdrawing its contingent in Afghanistan on March 1, 2013.
Bulgaria has fulfilled all requirements for joining the Schengen area and Ireland is ready to support its membership bid.
The UK Independence Party (UKIP) is preparing to exploit fears over mass influx from Romania and Bulgaria as the focus of its campaign strategy, according to British media.
Bulgarian record producer Payner, which is known as the largest label for the so called popfolk or chalga music, has secured major funding under EU Operational Program Competitiveness, according to a report.
Bulgaria's ruling centrist-right GERB party has named its new Member of the European Parliament.
The probe in the administrative procedure to exclude lands on the Black sea coast from protected status and to sell them had not established administrative violations, according to Bulgarian Agriculture Minister, Miroslav Naydenov.
Bulgaria's right-wing Union of Democratic Forces, UDF, is reviving its newspaper "Democratsia" (Democracy) with the first issue published on January 24.
Information in Italian media about child sexual abuse in a Bulgarian orphanage is untrue and total slander.
Society | January 15, 2013, Tuesday // 14:58
Boycho Georgiev, head of the Regional Environmental Inspectorate in Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Burgas, has denied reports that we was seen in a car belonging to the owners of SLE Group, which caused public outrage by attempting residential construction
Society | January 15, 2013, Tuesday // 13:08
Boycho Georgiev, head of the Environmental Inspectorate in the Black Sea city of Burgas, has been filmed in a car of SLE Group, which recently caused outrage in Bulgaria after it was allowed to procure 29 decares of protected sand dunes near beach resort
Society | January 15, 2013, Tuesday // 12:49
Nikolay Dimitrov from Silistra is the first Bulgarian to have won a case against the state at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in 2013.
Society | January 15, 2013, Tuesday // 12:13
Bulgarian eco activists proposed Tuesday to establish a "Black Sea" National Park to stop construction in coastal areas.
Bulgaria's Environment Ministry has refused to grant a higher protected area status to Irakli – Emona – a Black Sea coastal area targeted for resort construction but vehemently defended by local environmentalists.
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Construction works on the Irakli beach on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast have been stopped by officials of the Directorate for National Construction Supervision (DNSK) through an order of Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova.
US Ambassador to Bulgaria Marcie Ries has been impressed by the unique gold Thracian treasure that was recently discovered in the country's famous Sveshtari tomb.
The prosecutor's office must probe the case with the now-notorious doctor from Bulgaria's western town of Dupnitsa, according to Health Minister, Desislava Atanasova.
Crime | January 15, 2013, Tuesday // 16:37
Two Bulgarian prostitutes, aged 34 and 35, were stabbed early on Tuesday in Venice, according to Italian media.
Crime | January 15, 2013, Tuesday // 16:01
The tragedy that shocked Bulgaria's capital Sofia last week was the result of a carefully premeditated execution, according to local experts.
Crime | January 15, 2013, Tuesday // 13:34
A court in the Czech Republic has declared a group of foreign nationals, including two Bulgarians, guilty of document fraud.
Crime | January 15, 2013, Tuesday // 13:14
Valery Borisov, Director of the Varna Traffic Police, has been dismissed, according to reports of the Bulgarian Interior Ministry.
Crime | January 15, 2013, Tuesday // 08:27
On the same list with two other destinations recommended by Virgin Money for family travel, we find Bulgaria in 2013.
Bulgarians can talk at great length about what went wrong in 1989-90 and why the country didn't immediately become economically successful and politically liberal after the end of the Cold War.
Hundreds of opposition protesters blockaded the downtown boulevards in the Macedonian capital Skopje Tuesday demanding the stepping down of the government of the rightist VMRO-DPMNE party and Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski.
World | January 15, 2013, Tuesday // 19:40
Russia will issue a $1 billion loan to Bangladesh for purchases of Russian-made arms and military equipment, it has been announced.
World | January 15, 2013, Tuesday // 16:45
Pakistan's Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of PM Raja Pervez Ashraf and 15 others over corruption allegations.
World | January 15, 2013, Tuesday // 14:29
Malaysia's authorities have replaced the death sentence for drug trafficking of Bulgarians Georgi Bakalov and Ivan Kostov with life without parole, Bakalov's father, Dinyo Bakalov has announced.
World | January 15, 2013, Tuesday // 13:48
EU's Foreign Ministers are to meet in Brussels this week to discuss the crisis in Mali.
World | January 15, 2013, Tuesday // 11:42
Train cars filled with Egyptian security force recruits hopped the tracks and crashed in Giza early Tuesday, killing at least 19 people and injuring some 107 others.
World | January 15, 2013, Tuesday // 11:06
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