After the meeting with the potential candidates for the privatization of Bulgartabac holding, the government still does not have clear strategy on the privatization of the company. The only thing that is known so far is that the holding will be privatized
`More Bulgarian Turks will be appointed to the police in the mixed-population regions. Thus the ethnic tension would be checked and confidence between us will strengthen,` Interior Ministry Chief Secretary Boyko Borissov said in Kurdzhali.
* An anonymous threat for bomb was made in the Sofia Courts of Justice, Info Radio reported. The building was evacuated and the region around it was partitioned off.
ABSTRACTED from Le Monde - France Two Bulgarian prostitution rings were dismantled in September, the first of which operated in the French town of Strasbourg and the second in Orleans and Blois, by officers from French organisation OCRTEH, responsible fo
Financial Times By JUDY DEMPSEY
The Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy said that it is not necessary to evacuate the Bulgarian mission in Pakistan. If that is necessitated, though, the mission will be immediately evacuated.
The United Democratic Forces issued a declaration, criticizing the Cabinet`s work, Info Radio reported. The first 100 days since the new Government is in power will soon end.
A three-day seminar of the directors of hydrometeorological services on the Balkans started in Sofia on October 11 under the aegis of the World Meteorological Organization. The forum`s main topics are on capacity building and new technologies in meteorolo
`The Belgian Umicore group, the majority shareholder in MDK Pirdop, will increase the capital of the copper smeltery with USD 60 M,` Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Nikolay Vassilev said. The Bulgarian Government approved the annex to the contr
The United Nations and UNESCO marked the centennial anniversary of the Bulgarian cartoonist and illustrator Iliya Beshkov (1901-1958). Beshkov`s works were exhibited in New York, Tel Aviv, Paris, London and Rome.
`Ninety air force units have been reformed in keeping with Agenda 2001,` General Stefan Popov, Air Force Chief of Command Staff, said. Thirteen units were restructured, 55 were disbanded, eleven were put under different command and 9 new were established.
Two containers with 22 stud bolts in them fell off a platform during their transportation to the reactor space of the 1,000 MW Unit Five of the Kozlodouy Nuclear Power Plant on October 10. Nobody was injured.
President Stoyanov had an official meeting with the Palestinian Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Nabil Shaat. Shaat invited, on behalf of the Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat, President Stoyanov and Foreign Minister Passy to visit Palest
The Bulgarian President Petur Stoyanov said that the international patent system has to be reformed so that it becomes accessible for inventors and companies of the transition economy states. Stoyanov is in Geneve where he attended a session of the Politi
Officials from the Environmental Ministry met representatives of 12 large companies that apply for permits for pollution prevention and control. LUKoil Neftochim Burgas, Kremikovtzi, Neochim, Orgachim, Promet, Stomana Industry and Sofia Med have applied f
Employers, banks, insurance and educational institutions will inquire into citizens` personal data only after registration and permission by a commission. This is provided by the new protection of personal data bill, adopted by the Bulgarian parliament on
The Bulgarian bank Bulbank is the most profitable bank in Central and Eastern Europe for 2000. A Standard&Poors`annual survey of the 100 largest banks in the region showed that.
A bomb exploded near a kindergarten and a secondary school in Pleven, Northern Bulgaria, around lunch time on October 11. It killed one man, according to the police.
The world wrestling championships scheduled for New York last month but postponed after the terrorist attacks will now take place in Bulgaria and Greece, the international wrestling federation announced. FILA, wrestling`s world governing body, said the fr
`BGN 10, 194 M were granted from the government for the financing of the presidential elections, the Minister of the States Administration Dimitur Kalchev announced. 6, 380 M are to be used for the first round of he elections.
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Google Street View Cars Return to Bulgaria for Major Mapping Update
Housing Prices Soar in Bulgaria’s Major Cities as Demand and Supply Strain Increase
