Exporters from different fields united against the newly adopted amendments to the Value Added Tax Act. Under the texts voted late on March 27 by the budget committee the taxation authorities will be able to refuse reimbursement of tax credits in case of
Ivan Pavlov's "Fate as a Rat", the Bulgarian contender for an Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category, is one of three Bulgarian films, which have entered for the April 20-22 international environmentalist film festival in Alexandroupo
The House of Humour and Satire in the world capital of humour – Gabrovo, celebrated its 30th anniversary on Fool’s Day April 1. A national annual cartoon exhibition was opened to mark the event.
MPs of Simeon II National Movement expressed satisfaction with the decision of Prime Minister and leader of the movement to head the new party. According to them the Prime Minister changed his initial position not to become leader of the party because he
LUKOil Neftochim Burgas will continue to supply the Shell gas stations in Bulgaria for one more year, LUKOil announced. A contract for supply was signed Monday by LUKOil Neftochim Executive Director Valentin Zlatev and Shell Bulgaria Executive Director Ra
A faction leader in Somalia has established a new autonomous region in the southwest of the country, rejecting the transitional government in the capital, Mogadishu. Hassan Mohamed Nur, who heads a group called the Rahanwein Resistance Army, has been swor
Israeli tanks have moved into Bethlehem in the latest of a series of raids on cities in the West Bank. A BBC correspondent who watched tanks roll up to within a few hundred metres of the city's Church of the Nativity could hear regular bursts of gunfire.
President Parvanov and Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg opened the Week of Forests March 1, during which all activities will center on the revival of the Bulgarian forest." In his speech President Parvanov underscored that even in the hardest of times Bu
Higher oil prices because of the Middle East crisis will hit Asia harder than anywhere else this year, a regional oil expert warned Tuesday. John Driscoll, Singapore-based general manager of the independent oil and gas price reporter Petroleum Argus, told
Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister Passy who is on an official visit to China, will visit the biggest industrial and trade Chinese city – Shanghai. The 16 million Shanghai, which used to be in the past a fisher’s village, is nowadays the most powerful economic f
An Indonesian-American consortium is expected to bid in today’s tender for Varna Shipyard’s assets, sources from the company said, quoted by Dnevnik Daily. Indonesian Ratra Group, which holds a 70% stake in the consortium, is to pay the deposit.
Coca Cola Bulgaria, part of the world’s biggest soft drink group, plans to expand its operations on the Bulgarian market by launching new Fanta soft drink at March-beginning. The sales of the new wild berry-flavored product exceeded the company’s expectat
Sunny Beach Holding posted a record profit of BGN 527,000, or BGN 1.35 per share for 2001.
President Bush will welcome Bulgarian Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg to Washington on April 23, 2002, the spokeswoman of the government Tsvetelina Uzunova confirmed. She added that the visit of the prime minister will most probably last five days.
Bulgaria’s Prime Minister and leader of the Simeon II National Movement (SIINM) Saxe-Coburg will be the leader of the new party, it emerged after a meeting of the MPs, ministers and the prime minister himself on April 1. The ruling Simeon II National Move
Bulgarian Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg expressed condolences to the British Royal Family on Sunday when Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother passed away, the spokeswoman of the Cabinet Tsvetelina Uzunova told journalists Monday. Considering the prime min
The number of Bulgarians travelling abroad increased with nearly 11 percent during the last year after the removal of the visa requirements and it reached 2,8 millions. The opportunity to travel without visas has led to sharp fall in the violations, which
Anthony Shadid, a reporter in the Washington Bureau of the Boston Globe, was shot on April 1 as he walked from Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's compound toward the center of Ramallah.
US authorities are holding a man captured in Pakistan who is believed to be a senior member of the al-Qaeda terror network, a US official has said, quoted by BBC. The man is thought to be Abu Zubaydah, a key deputy of Osama Bin Laden, the man suspected t
An earthquake measuring at least 6.8 in magnitude jolted Taiwan in the afternoon of April 1, killing five people and injuring more than 200 others, while igniting fires, cracking buildings and shutting down the subway system in the island's capital city.
The coffin of the Queen Mother rested Monday in a small stone chapel at Windsor Castle where the Royal Family privately mourned her before she is taken to lie in state in London. Troops in a dozen locations around the country and in the colony of Gibralta
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