SOFIA, Bulgaria -- The president of the Bulgarian football club Litex, Angel Bonchev, whom kidnappers seized on May 22nd, was released on Friday (Jul...
A special police operation is taking place Thursday in Sofia`s suburbs of Boyana , Dragalevtsi and Simeonovo , as announced by the Interior Ministry press-center. According to the Ministry`s information the goal of the operation was to find suspici...
Customs inspectors at Kalotina border checkpoint caught a big stash of undeclared EUR in the amount of 800,000 Tuesday. On July 15th, around 7:30 pm a Mercedes automobile had arrived at Kalotina , driven by a German citizen traveling from
15 serious traffic accidents have occurred in Bulgaria over the last 24 hours claiming the lives of 3 people and sending 17 to the hospitals with injuries, according to the Interior Ministry`s press-center. 3 of the injured are in critical
Citizens, living in Sofia`s neighbourhood of Krasno Selo hissed and threw eggs at Mayor Boyko Borissov while he was turning the first sod of a new kindergarten on Thursday. The stormy reaction was triggered by rumours claiming that a business
200 golden coins have been unearthed during archeological excavations near the Euxinograd royal summer palace complex, Director of the Archeological Museum in the seaside city of Varna Valentin Pletnyov told Focus - Varna Radio. The find dates back t...
Frankfurt-based Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (KfU) has extended a EUR 10 million credit line to First Investment Bank (FIBank). The 5-year financing agreement is intended to fund small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) activities. The upper limit of th...
The Unicef representative for Bulgaria, Octavian Bivol, said on July 16 2008 that he hoped that a new home for the children from the Mogilino social care home would be built by the beginning of 2009. The plight of the
Bulgartabac Holding, the Bulgarian tobacco monopoly, sold 78 per cent in its Plovdiv cigarette factory on July 16 for 30.8 million leva on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange. The bulk of the share package fetched 36.57 leva per share on average,
A total of 46 projects have been approved for financing at the first session of the Culture Programme of Sofia Municipality , the Culture Directorate said. The approved projects are under six priorities: Cultural Initiatives, Debuts, Literature and Cultu...
Brazil`s contemporary art and traditional cuisine will be showcased in Varna , on the Black Sea , during a ten-day festival starting on August 1. Among the organizers of the event is the honorary consulate of Brazil in Varna whose
Tishman International and General Electric (GE) Real Estate have selected the leading international company CO-VER Holding S.R.L. to be the main executer of the project for the construction of Sofia Airport Center, Bulgaria`s newest and most modern busine...
A number of antique objects were seized at a police raid in the home of a 57-year-old citizen of Bulgaria`s Gorna Oryahovitsa on Thursday. The officers discovered 248 Roman coins as well as 66 other antiques in the house, whose
The following guide to car rental in Bulgaria offers information on six large rental firms. It's worth bearing in mind that:• Bulgarian provision for visitors is growing rapidly, and there are many local car hire firms• The data included here
