Every Bulgarian will need at minimum BGN 360 for his monthly subsistence during 2004, Bulgarian Trade Union Podkrepa announced. According to the presented estimations, further price increase of some indispensable goods will result in consumption drop.
Plamena Yordanova, a model of VISAGES Model Group, is the face of the December issue of Thai fashion magazine Madame Figaro. Plamena has been in Thailand for a month, working for the local APPLE fashion agency.
Over the past year, credits totalling more than BGN 42 M were allotted to small enterprises in Bulgaria under Social Ministry's "Guarantee Fund for Micro Crediting" project, a report of the Ministry showed. The exact number of credits granted is 4,104, a
Bulgarian peacekeeping infantry battalion in Iraq will complete its mission before 2006, along with all coalition forces, British defense expert and military analyst Paul Beaver stated in an interview for the Bulgarian section of BBC. He pointed out that
Syria will not discard its weapons of mass distruction, unless Israel does the same with its nuclear potential, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview for British Daily Telegraph, cited by RIA Novosti. This is the first time that Syria conf
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi announced the will of his country to restore diplomatic ties with Egypt, disrupted for more than 20 years, reported world agencies. His statement came as Tehran's city council voted to rename a street be
The newly prepared report of 12 Libyan doctors in the Benghazi HIV trial is simply a detail of that trial, Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry spokesman Lyubomir Todorov said Tuesday. He underlined that the importance of the report's contents should neither be ov
Sofia City Court launched the hearing of the case against the alleged Bulgarian bank fraudster Ivan Mironov, former Balkanbank director. The investigation initiated in Bulgaria against Mironov in connection with Balkanbank bankruptcy was completed in 20
Colonel Kircho Kirov, who is now acting chief of the National Investigation Service, will be nominated for a standing position and for a higher military degree, the ministerial spokesperson announced Monday. President Georgi Parvanov has to approve his c
An estimated 23 million people from countries where visas are required for US visits will this year have to give a digital fingerprint and have a photograph taken under the United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology, or US-VISIT. Only
Fifteen peopel mostly children, were killed and 11 others injured after a powerful explosion in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Tuesay morning. Witnesses said the blast ripped through a truck parked opposite a military base in the center of the ci
Tuesday is the last day for submitting documents of candidates to run at the presidential elections in Russia in March, informed Russian media. Up to this moment, there are eight registered nominees, including the current president Vladimir Putin, two bus
North Korea has offered to suspend testing and producing nuclear weapons and freeze its nuclear industry, as a way to end the stand off with the US. In a statement, released by the official KCNA news agency, declared its will to make a "bold concession" a
Short before noon Japan was hit by an earthquake, with a magnitude of 5.2 on the Richter scale, reported Russian media.
The Agency of Financial Investigation disposes of no information about any finances belonging to Saddam Hussein in Bulgaria, the chief of the state agency Dr. Vasil Kirov declared before Pari Daily.
The coalition between the Simeon II National Movement (SNM) and the mainly ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) is unpopular and suffers from serious internal divisions, The Economist Intelligence Unit wrote January 5.
Missionaries recruit volunteers among the poor population of the Rhodope mountains and offer them a USD 5,000 bounty to fight for the cause of liberating Iraq, 24 Hours Daily reported, citing Turkish sources. According to the daily the information has bee
The World Health Organization has expressed caution at China's plan to kill 10,000 civet cats, suspected SARS carriers. The WHO is afraid that a reckless culling of the civets could eliminate evidence of the origins of the disease.
Patriarch Maxim, head of Bulgaria's Orthodox Church, performed today the water-blessing-of-the-colours service, a tradition on Epiphany. The religious-military ritual took place in front of the Unknown Soldier Monument in St Alexander Nevsky Square in Sof
Bulgaria swept the fourth place among the world's 2004 hottest tourist spots according to The Washington Post.
By Elissa Leibowitz Washington Post Staff Writer
UN Happiness Report: Bulgaria's Astonishing Leap in Rankings
Bulgaria: 3 Regions With Lowest Life Expectancy - EU Report 2022
