Bulgaria makes over 1200 tons of organic honey per year but the largest share of it is exported, according to Plamen Ivanov, Chair of the National Beekeepers' Union.
A mere 11 000 German tourists visited Bulgaria in May 2012, which is a 45% decrease year on year, according to the country's National Statistical Institute.
A joint Bulgarian-Romanian wine festival will be opened in Bulgaria's Ruse as part of an EU-funded project entitled "Danube Wine Destinations".
First Investment Bank has been declared Bulgaria's "Bank of the Year" for 2011 in the 20th edition of the annual "Bank of the Year" Awards, the organizers announced Wednesday.
All workers from the Electric Energy Supply facility at Bulgaria's troubled largest producer of non-ferrous metals, the Lead and Zinc Complex (LZC; OTZK) in the southern city of Kardzhali, have decided to deposit requests to be released from duties.
Bulgaria's government has decided to keep the embassies in Tunisia, Mexico and Uzbekistan functioning, despite earlier plans to the contrary.
The European Commission has placed Bulgaria at the top of a ranking of citizens experiencing material deprivations in its newly published quarterly report on the EU labour market and social situation.
Bulgaria is ranked first in the European Union in terms of the size of its shadow, or gray, economy as a percentage of its GDP, according to a communication from the European Commission to the EU Council and the European Parliament.
Bulgaria's government has proposed amendments to the Foreigners Act transposing the requirements of Directive 2011/51/EU on beneficiaries of international protection into national legislation.
Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov has vowed that center-right ruling party GERB will initiate amendments banning the appointment of a Minister, Deputy Prime Minister or Prime Minister as head of a party's election campaign head
The Members of the Bulgarian Parliament passed Wednesday the veto of President Rosen Plevneliev on the Forestry Act.
Bulgaria for Citizens, the political formation set to be created by former EU Commissioner Meglena Kuneva, does not rule out the possibility of entering a coalition government with any of the countries larger parties, it has been made clear.
The Bulgarian man, who made headlines due to his car hood boasting the portrait of Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, has been invited to join Borisov's ruling GERB party.
Bulgaria's Parliament expectedly scrapped the amendments to the country's Judiciary Act that would allow the current members of the Supreme Judicial Council tol be automatically promoted once their terms in office expire.
Bulgaria's ruling centrist-right GERB party is about to amend the country's electoral legislation, paving its way towards winning an easy majority in the 2013 general elections, according to a media report.
Bulgarian private TV station bTV has apologized officially for the mistakes in the coverage of the protests against a controversial set of amendments to the Forestry Act.
New York-based NGO Human Rights Watch has sent a letter to Bulgaria's Justice Minister Diana Kovacheva, reminding that the country has the responsibility to protect the LGBT community against violence or calls for violence.
Bulgarian archaeologists have conducted a ritual reburial of a man discovered in a medieval grave who was treated against vampirism, the latest among a couple of other similar discoveries in Bulgaria that made global headlines.
Bulgarian archaeologists have uncovered a 2800-year-old cemetery during excavations along the route of the future Struma Highway that will link Bulgaria's capital Sofia to the border with Greece.
Bulgarian archaeologists have uncovered new finds from a monastery dating back to the 13th century, i.e. the apex of the Second Bulgarian Empire.
A critical patient from Bulgaria's Danube city of Ruse has been transported to a hospital in Sofia with the helicopter of the Bulgarian government.
Renowned Bulgarian author and screenwriter, Svoboda Bachvarova, has passed away at the age of 87 in Brazil, where she lived with her daughter for the last 23 years.
Bulgarian football star Dimitar Berbatov and his wife Elena are expecting a second child, according to the Bulgarian press.
Bulgaria's top rated tennis players, Grigor Dimitrov and Tsvetana Pironkova, will present the country at the upcoming Olympic Games in London, it has been made clear.
Alleged Bulgarian mobster Anton Petrov aka "The Hamster" has been arrested for organizing a crime group dealing with prostitution, local authorities say.
Gennady Gudkov, Member of the Russian Parliament, Duma, from the A Just Russia party, will sue Russia's NTB TV, over an interview with his Bulgarian accuser.
Alleged Bulgarian mobster Anton Petrov aka "The Hamster" was arrested by police in the capital Sofia on Tuesday, according to a local media report.
There is a Bulgarian citizen among the 24 individuals arrested by the FBI in a high-profile illegal credit card information trafficking case, according to international media.
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One of the first ever orchestral concerts featuring Bulgarian music in the Chicago area will be conducted by Philip Simmons, the orchestra's founder and music director, on June 30.
The rapidly improving Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, nicknamed Baby Fed by tennis observers, made a telling comment in his news conference after his upset win over 32nd-seeded Kevin Anderson.
"Naydenov, you are to go to the Parliament right now and declare once again – these MPs have nothing to do with this Act and this Act is not moving forward until there is 100% consensus with the environmentalists and the opposition.
North Korean officials have made a posthumous award to a 14-year-old girl who drowned in a flood as she was trying to save portraits of leaders Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il.
Russian investigators have finished a probe into four men suspected of being accomplices to the deadly bombing of Moscow's Domodedovo Airport in January 2011, a spokesman for the Russian Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin said.
Former Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase arrived at a prison hospital Tuesday evening after a court ruled he should start his two-year sentence on corruption charges despite suffering injuries from shooting himself in a suicide attempt.
Embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has told his new Cabinet that Syria is literally in war, calling unity to make the country strong.
Large amounts of obsolete ammo are scattered across Bulgaria – explosives, grenades, shells, piled up during the Communist regime when the Warsaw Pact was preparing to attack NATO or to counter the enemy.
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