A motorized outrigger boat sank Saturday while carrying passengers and cargo in the central Philippines, killing at least 10 people, the coast guard said. Cmdr.
More than 200 pro-Taliban fighters from Pakistan flew home Saturday after being released from a prison where they had been held for nearly six months in cramped quarters and with little food.
Bulgaria's first laboratory that will quick-test for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) will start working in a month, Yanko Ivanov from the National Institute for Veterinary Medicine said. The laboratory will be ready with the test results within 48
Women should find their place in the contemporary society in a radical manner, not with a consensus between the genders, Ahmed Dogan, leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms said at a seminar for gender equality in the parties. Women from the regio
The American investments in Bulgaria will reach USD 2 BLN in five years, Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Nikolay Vassilev, who is on a visit to the United States, said. Currently the United States are the sixth investor in Bulgaria are concerne
Pope John Paul II granted on May 11 a traditional audience to the Bulgarian delegation, which pays a visit to Rome and is headed by Foreign Minister Passy. “Our meeting will undoubtedly help Bulgaria to strengthen its Christian roots at times when the “o
Gustavo Selva, president of the Italian Parliament's Foreign Affairs Commission confirmed Italy’s full support for Bulgaria’s EU and NATO bid at a meeting with Foreign Minister Passy in Rome. The two politicians discussed Italy’s and Bulgaria’s bilateral
Bulgaria’s Ambassador to the United States Elena Poptodorova addressed the annual 96th meeting of the American Jewish Committee, which took place between May 7 and May 10. The participants in the forum paid tribute to Bulgaria for saving 50,000 Jews durin
“In 2003, we do not plan increase in the prices of the cigarettes. The excise duty for the cigarette duties is envisaged to go up by 4 % “ Finance Minister Velchev said.
Bulgaria ran a trade deficit of USD 160.5 M in January and February 2002, preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute show.
The Foreign Policy Commission of the European Parliament has produced a report, which allows for a review of the term within which Bulgaria must shut down the third and fourth reactors of the Kozloduy nuclear power plant, the Bulgarian Socialist Party hea
Facing criticism over how easily some of the Sept. 11 hijackers entered and moved about the United States, Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Friday a new Internet-based system will start in July to better track the 1 million foreign students in this
During his visit to Kuwait, Deputy Economy Minister Milen Keremedchiev met with representatives of local banking and business circles. Keremedchiev arrived on a five-day visit to Kuwait on May 7.
Gautam Vir, chief executive director of Hebros Bank was promoted in the structures of iRegent Group in Canada or Croatia. Steward Jack who is currently executive director of Hebros Bank will most probably replace Vir.
Dissidents in Cuba have presented a petition to the island's National Assembly calling for an end to four decades of one-party rule. The petition - the first of its kind by Cuba's small dissident movement - comes ahead of an unprecedented visit to Havana
OC Occident Holding AG, a major supplier of consulting and intermediary services for financial products in Eastern Europe chose Sofia as the location of its new center on the Balkans. The office in Sofia will manage the subsidiaries of the company in Roma
A special United Nations summit in New York has adopted an action plan to improve children's lives.The summit's final document includes programmes to protect children from poverty, disease and abuse, with specific targets for the coming years.
Three bidders have placed indicative offers for Bulgaria’s biggest insurer State Insurance Institute (DZI), the chairman of the supervisory board of the privatization agency Petko Nikolov announced. However, he declined to name the bidders.
Flag carrier Balkan Airlines signed a lease contract with Lufthansa for a ten-month hiring of two Boeings 737-300s, the receiver of the company Olga Milenkova announced, quoted by Dnevnik daily. The two planes will be in Bulgaria by June 6.
Pope John Paul II, who will make an apostolic journey to Bulgaria from April 23 through 26, will celebrate Mass in Plovdiv (South Central Bulgaria) in Bulgarian, the Bulgaria’s Catholic Bishops' Conference announced. The Holy Father will deliver his sermo
At 5:20 pm on May 10, a small earthquake was registered some 140 kilometers southeast of Sofia at the territory of the country. The quake was with magnitude of 2,7 on the Richter scale, data of the geophysical institute with Bulgarian Academy of Science
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