More than thirty companies contest for the annual awards for socially responsible business to be handed out by the Bulgarian Business Leaders Forum (BBLF) at a ceremony in Sheraton Sofia Hotel Balkan on Thursday.
Bulgaria has officially bid farewell to its fourth infantry unit to leave for Iraq by the end of the week. The mission certifying ceremony held Wednesday in Karlovo saw a total of 462 highly professional troops, including 197 with mission experience abro
An extraordinary exhibition of Snail Art will occupy the fa?ade of Sofia's Hilton Hotel to boost cultural variety in the capital city during winter months. The organizers of the exhibition, including Isabelle Sol Dourdin, local Gallery Artamontzev and So
Moody's Investors Service upgraded to Ba1 Bulgaria's foreign currency country ceilings concerning long-term bonds and bank deposits. The agency also assigned Ba1 credit rating to the government foreign currency and local currency-denominated bonds.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia would acquire new nuclear weapon systems in coming years, which other nuclear powers do not yet have and are unlikely to develop in the near future.
Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies has been selected to build up the network of Bulgaria's third GSM operator, the telecom BTC announced. At an official ceremony on Wednesday the chief of the formerly state-owned Bulgarian Telecommuni
An earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale was registered in Vrancea, about 250 km north of Bucharest and a centre of seismic activity in the country.
The success of Iraq's first democratic elections is a life-or-death issue, Iraq's Ambassador to Sofia Hayder Al-Barrak said as observers warned of an increase in terror acts as the election, scheduled for January, approaches.
Companies will pay a reduced corporate tax of 15% from next year, Bulgarian Parliament decided on Wednesday. The lawmakers passed amendments at the Corporate Income Taxation Act that envisage reduced tax burden from the current 19.
Bulgaria is expecting an increase of 5-7% in the number of tourists visiting its winter resorts, according to the deputy economy minister. Dimitur Hadzhinikolov opened Wednesday a special Tourism and Leisure fair in Varna, the country's main Black Sea ci
Bulgarian sport journalists have voted Olympic shooter Maria Grozdeva October's Athlete of The Month in the country. Grozdeva is two-time Olympic champion, and also won the World Cup in Taiwan at the end of October.
The United Kingdom will abolish the entry visas for Bulgaria after 2007, Deputy Head of Mission at UK Embassy Laurence Broyd announced while on a visit to Smolyan, south Bulgaria. He specified that until then the standard procedures for application and i
Bulgaria's former security chief Gen. Atanas Atanassov, who faces malfeasance in office investigation, was detained Wednesday for failing to pay a BGN 9,500 bail.
Swedish SKF Group intends to increase its investments in Bulgaria by EUR 100 M, Bulgaria's Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg announced after a meeting with the executive directors of the company. The Premier talked to SKF directors at a meeting with "Inv
Bulgaria may fail to get a date to sign an accession accord with the European Union in December, the euro-affairs and foreign ministers warned.
A wave of rage has risen among Arabs after Arab TV channels broadcast an American crew footage, which shows a US Marine shooting dead an unarmed and apparently wounded Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque. International agencies reporters say the images fueled grow
The President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, will arrive in Bulgaria November 23, it was announced Wednesday. That would be the first trip of a Czech head of state to Bulgaria in ten years.
Bulgaria has applied for participating in a scientific research of the Moon within an Indian mission to the Earth's satellite in 2006-2007.
A Romanian journalist suspected of spying on Bulgaria's border facilities was nabbed in the town of Russe Tuesday night, media disclosed. The detainee had a mini camera and a microphone hidden in his eyeglasses.
Bulgarian lawmakers have greenlighted an increase in spirits and beer excise duty. As of January 2005, the rates will rise to BGN 750 per hectolitre liquor, and to BGN 1.
Chicago police is looking for the 30-year old Bulgaria-born Tatyana Valkova, living in the Hoffman Estates suburbia, who went missing last Friday. Valkova, who has a history of suicide attempts, was last seen by her husband around 4 p.
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