News January, 2008

2008/01/28

Veliko Tarnovo will be the first city without plastic bags, informs Yantra today newspaper.

The plastic bags will be substituted with bags from a material that dissolves 50 times faster than nylon.
Participants in the national campaign 'Steady organic polluters – the unknown threat' will suggest in March to the Veliko Tarnovo municipal council to make normative changes to substitute the plastic bags with alternative ones.

The introduction of bags made of alternative material should...

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2008/01/25

150 tourists from Texas were to arrive in Bansko, Bansko mayor Alexander Kravarov said.

These were the first US tourists to arrive on an organised trip to the winter resort, Focus new agency said. They were ski teachers and every year they would organise a meeting at some resort around the world. This year they picked Bansko.

The Texas tourists would arrive on January 26 and stay for a week. Apart from skiing, they would also take part in the Praznik na banskoto meze (Feast of the Bansko...

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2008/01/25

Jazz-lovers will be able to enjoy a live performance by one of the world’s most acclaimed and loved singers, Dee Dee Bridgewater, in Bulgaria’s capital. The concert will take place on March 18 in Hall 1 of the National Palace of Culture.

The brand new programme of the songstress includes the presentation of her latest album, Red Earth: a Malian Journey. Described by her as the culmination of her decision to discover her African roots, it combines voices, music and instruments of Mali with...

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2008/01/25

The incomes by the tourism in Bulgaria will triple till 2013, said Stanislav Novakov, the vice chairman of the State Tourism Agency, during the presentation of the national strategy for the stable tourism development in Bulgaria for 2008-2013.
Gross incomes of 6 mld. Euro realized by Bulgarian and foreign tourists are expected in 2013. The incomes for the last year are about 2.3 mld. Euro and the expectations for 2008 are about 3 mld. Euro.
To reach this finance results till 2013 the...

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2008/01/25

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev will open today the 63rd edition of International Technical Fair in Plovdiv city.
On the Bulgaria's most representative forum for investment goods and technologies will be presented last achievements in the machine building, car building, transport, IT, software, electronics and electrical engineering, constructions, chemistry, energetic, ecology and others.

More than 3,600 firms from 49 countries will participate in the forum.

Germany is the...

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