12.7.2007

T-Post, Bulgaria's first private postal operator, has opened its first customer center half a year after securing a licence to provide a universal postal service. The business launch was slightly delayed because the telecom regulator approved the T-Post price tariffs only a month ago, said Lachezar Kaparashev, board chairman of express delivery...

12.7.2007

Overgas Inc., the local gas distributor majority-owned by Russia's Gazprom, will install gas distribution networks in a number of coastal municipalities after they were included in the company's Burgas area permit.Overgas subsidiary Burgasgaz will be in charge of the network rollout in the new seven municipalities that were included by the power...

11.7.2007

Libya’s Supreme Court confirmed the death sentences of the six Bulgarian medics accused of deliberate HIV infection of more than 400 children in a hospital in Benghazi.It took the court only two minutes to announce that it was rejecting the appeal by the medics against the death sentences pronounced in December 2006, Bulgarian news agency...

11.7.2007

Lance Nelson, Managing Director of Jet2Let, takes a look at the Bulgarian real estate market six months on from EU accession from his base in Sofia and tells investors to “be selective”. “Six months on from EU entry and analysing Bulgaria's property market presents a number of difficulties, the most obvious being the lack of...

11.7.2007

Foundation Gaddafi has announced that the families of the contaminated Libyan children have accepted the financial compensations, which allows for an arrangement of the case of the sentenced to death Bulgarian medics, informed AFP. “We have reached a compromise acceptable for the families. The details of this agreement will be announced...

10.7.2007

In recent years, global car makers have flocked to Slovakia, attracted by the Eastern European country's plentiful supply of cheap, skilled labor. But this year, when Kia Motors Corp. needed extra workers at its local car plant, it had to place fliers in local newspapers and mailboxes urging residents to apply.Near Bratislava, an area with so...

10.7.2007

The phenomenon spread across America and Europe merging with traditional music creating the basis for blues and ragtime from which jazz evolved. And now, the music genre that originated in the plantation fields of deep southern America, is a form of music celebrated globally. Bansko in Bulgaria is no exception; the town celebrates its culture and...

10.7.2007

Six Bulgarian eco-organizations and the global environment conservation organization WWF have lodged a complaint against the Bulgarian government with the European Commission.The reason that triggered this action is that the cabinet did not introduce a full list of if the Bulgarian territories included in the NATURA 2000 network, the...

09.7.2007

- Going to extremes - If you want to escape the heat in an alternative way, take the chance to boost your adrenaline by bungee jumping, paragliding and rock-climbing. A good place to start bungee jumping is with club Vertikalen Svyat (www.verticalworldbg.com). The club offers a wide selection of...

09.7.2007

In May 2007, the Bulgarian branch of WWF published on its website an article, intended for purchasers of property or land to build on in Bulgaria. The article, entitled “Buyer, beware! How to buy a property in Bulgaria and not destroy the country’s nature”, contains information about the hazards and difficulties that a foreign...