The Bulgarian Cabinet has refused to provide state guarantee to the Bulgarian State Railways (BSR) for the EUR 150 M loans extended by the European Investment Bank, Dnevnik Daily wrote. The loans will be used for the construction of a high-speed railway l...
Bulgarian Agency on Insurance Supervision and Gambling will be split up into two separate bodies - State Commission on Gambling and Agency on Insurance Supervision. This is provided by the amendments to the Gambling Act, adopted by the parliament at first...
Sports | October 19, 2001, Friday
CSKA Kyiv (Ukr) 0 - 2 Club Brugge (Bel)
Osijek (Cro) 1 - 2 AEK Athens (Gre)
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Sports | October 19, 2001, Friday
At the first round of games for UEFA cup Litex (Lovetch) beated Union in Berlin as a guest 2 to 0, CSKA lost as a guest in Milan 0 to 2.
All results – read in SPORTS today...
Prince Andrew, the second son of Queen Elizabeth II inaugurated the new building of the British Embassy in Sofia. Traditionally, a royal presence graces the opening of a UK overseas mission.
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Within one week the number of Bulgarians who want to cast their ballots at the presidential elections went up, but the number of those who are going to vote for Stoyanov has decreased, Standart reported. These are the results of the survey carried out by...
Stoyan Gaytanikov from Plovdiv became the millionth subscriber of M-Tel at 3.42 p....
Transport Minister Plamen Petrov was elected Chairman of the working group that will monitor the privatization of the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTC), the Cabinet decided on October 18. Deputy Prime Minister Nikolay Vassilev, Apostol Apostolov,...
ProCredit Bank will provide loans up to BGN 250,000, Standart Daily wrote. Representatives of the ProCredit Bank shareholders announced the bank`s development strategy....
No wave of refugees to Bulgaria has been observed as a result of the strikes on targets in Afghanistan, Daniela Veleva Refugees Agency spokeswoman said.Veleva did not rule out the possibility of an increased influx of immigrants fleeing from the Taliban r...
Society | October 18, 2001, Thursday
The famous actor Jean-Claude van Damme arrived in Bulgaria on October 17. This is the second visit of the actor to Bulgaria....
The Bulgarian government intends to close down the State Telecommunications Commissions, according to a governmental draft of the Telecommunications Act. A new body will replace the Commission according to the draft....
26 cases of suspicious powder like substances were found in Sofia, Russe, Plovdiv, Pazardzhik, Lovech, Varna and other Bulgarian towns. After a check of the specialized services it turned out that these substances are flour, powdered sugar, gypsum or marb...
ABSTRACTED from North Korean newspaper Nodong Sinmun
by Ri Hak-nam
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`The Sofia Echo did agree to publish the letter of the Swedish Ambassador, but, due to space constrictions asked him to shorten it , which the ambassador did not accept. The newspaper`s Editor-in-chief will be answering to the comments made in the letter...