In a manifesto, sent to the Editorial Staff of novinite.com, Francoise Woltz and Youriy Vodenitcharov appeal to all Bulgarians and all French and foreign friends of Bulgaria to assist in their initiative to set up a Bulgarian cultural center in Paris.
The floor leaders of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) will meet with Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg, Yanaki Stoilov, MP said in the town of Lovech. The meeting is initiated by the leftist parliamentary group.
Bulgaria's biggest GSM operator Mobiltel announced its revenue was expected to rise to BGN 650 M in 2001 from BGN 402 M the previous year. Executive Director Roumyana Kyuchukova said Mobiltel, whose subscribers more than doubled over the past year to 1.
The first official visit of Geogi Parvanov after his inauguration as Bulgaria’s President started with an audience with King Albert II of Belgium. The meeting was closed for journalists.
Bulgaria’s energy strategy will be ready by next week and will be published on the Internet, Energy Minister Milko Kovachev said in the framework of the Canadian-Bulgarian business seminar “Export Development Corporation of Canada.” According to Kovachev,
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Human rights activists condemned Eastern European authorities for doing too little to crack down on widespread corruption that makes the trafficking of women possible, Associated Press reported. Activists released a joint statement calling for reform, and
Iraq has said it is ready to hold talks with United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan without preconditions, the UN says. The offer of a "dialogue" came in a message from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to Mr Annan.
Nigerian soldiers are reported to have joined forces with police to help contain a third day of ethnic clashes in the country's commercial capital, Lagos. The rioting in Mushin district comes as Lagos still reels from last month's blast at an army barrack
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a $16bn economic package for Turkey, the third major aid program for Ankara in under two years. The latest cash will be used to bridge a budget shortfall this year as Ankara struggles with its worst reces
The managing editor of the Wall Street Journal appealed Monday for word from the kidnappers of reporter Daniel Pearl to work out "Danny's safe release." "We could resolve this situation if we could communicate more privately and more often," Paul Steiger
H. Arsala, Deputy Chairman of the Interim Government and Finance Minister of Afghanistan asked Angel Orbetsov, special envoy of the Bulgarian Foreign Minister to Afghanistan to convey the gratitude of the new government in Kabul to Bulgaria for its suppor
The Finance Ministry offered to swap investors’ 25-year, dollar denominated domestic ZUNK bonds for 20-year bonds denominated in euros. No upper limits on volumes have been set.
At a meeting with Bulgaria’s Wallstreet Club in New York, Finance Minister Milen Velchev said that the economic program of the government gives positive results - the 5% economic growth, the lower inflation and the gradual reduction of the foreign debt pr
President George W. Bush has proposed a $2.
Former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay resigned from his seat on the Enron board of directors Monday as lawmakers threatened a subpoena to force Lay to talk to a Senate committee investigating the collapse of the energy company. Lay had on Sunday abruptly canc
The Privatization Agency announced on February 4 that it had sold control of the ball bearings production unit, part of the indebted Vazov Group of arms plants (VMZ) to Sweden’s bearings manufacturer SKF for BGN 15 M.
Cigarette factory Sofia BT , part of the slated for privatization tobacco monopoly Bulgartabac Holding, has stopped production of Camel Brand cigarettes since September 2001 due to the low volume of sales on the domestic market, Executive Director Georgi
Hebros Bank is expected to set up a consortium to meet a key governmental requirement for bidding for state-owned Biochim bank, Gautam Vir, CEO of Hebros Bank told Dnevnik Daily. The move is necessary because the bank had BGN 95 M net assets at the end of
Twelve Bulgarians have died during the earthquake in the Turkish province Afyon, Turkish media reported. The victims immigrated in the 80s.
Three aviation companies are ready to invest in Balkan Airlines, Plamen Petrov, transport and communications minister said, declining to name the companies. “We should urgently invite these companies to invest in the flag carrier so that it can fully resu
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