[1] [2] [3] Health: New dead case of swine flu in Sofia City of Sofia >> Friday, 2009-11-06 10:55 Source: BNR A 53-year-old man died of swine flu in Sofia. This brings the death toll in the country up to six. The number of infected people in the capital continues to increase and 50 schools have already been closed. An epidemic was declared in Sofia-district, Blagoevgrad, Dupnitsa and Kustendil. With them the districts declared to have a flu epidemic rose to 19. Laboratory tested and confirmed to have swine flu people in the country are already 450.
Business: Contracts for winter road cleaning will be signed soon Town of Pirdop >> Wednesday, 2009-11-04 19:27 Source: klassa.bg The first contracts for winter cleaning and current repairs are expected to be signed in six regional road offices in a few days. The commissions which examined and evaluated the offers submitted by candidate companies have already completed their work and issued official opinions in Vidin , Dobrich , Kyustendil , Targovishte , Blagoevgrad and Stara Zagora , reported yesterday for Klassa the Road Infrastructure Agency. The agency explained that the contractors for the major part of the concluded ... Business: Pirdop based Aurubis Bulgaria JSC invests BGN 3.6 million Town of Pirdop >> Friday, 2009-10-30 02:00 Source: Dnevnik.bg Pirdop -based Aurubis Bulgaria will inject around BGN 3.6 million to install a 10 MW capacity at its copper smelter that will produce electricity from residual heat, said Nicolas Treand, chief executive of the local division of Germany’s Aurubis, the biggest copper producer in Europe. Treand said that heat during the production process is released not through fuel burning but through chemical processes. It will be used to drive steam turbines that will generate green power to use onsite and meet 25... Business: BG Companies made new deals with Chinese firms for USD 850 million City of Sofia >> Friday, 2009-10-16 04:00 Source: Darik Radio Sofia . Six Bulgarian companies made deals with Chinese firms Thursday worth a total of USD 850 million. The contracts were signed during a ceremony at Bulgaria’s Council of Ministers in the presence of Bulgaria’s Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, and the Vice President of China, Xi Jinping. Aurubus Bulgaria AD ( Pirdop ) and China Minemetals Development Co. singed a deal for the purchase of electrolytic copper worth USD 800 million. Bulgaria Litex CO and Great Wall Motor Sharing signed a shareholders...
Accidents: Police bust illegal production of spirit drinks in Sofia and the region around City of Sofia >> Tuesday, 2009-10-06 15:24 Source: Focus Agency Crime-busters have bust illegal production of spirit drinks, the press center of the Interior Ministry announced. The operation took place in Sofia and the region around the capital after the police were alerted by the International Federation of Spirits Producers. The police seized 82 cardboard boxes with 867 bottles of spirits of different brands and many fake excise labels. The damage is worth more than BGN 24,000. The police seized also four computer systems with unlicensed software worth approxim...
Accidents: 15 Bulgarian tourists from Pirdop, Chelopech and Anton, drowned in the lake of Ohrid Town of Pirdop >> Sunday, 2009-09-06 08:00 Source: StandartNews " The bolt jolted abruptly and we all fell overboard. Few of us could swim. Those who could not grabbed whatever they could reach pieces of wood, fragments of the ship`s body, everything that could float. Many of those in the water were screaming in terror ," Ivan, one of the survivors on the sunken Ilindem boat, told. Fifteen Bulgarian tourists drowned in the lake of Ohrid on Saturday after their boat suddenly split apart and sunk. The accident occurred at 12 pm Bulgarian time. A group of Bulg... Business: Copper smelter Aurubis expands its facility near town of Pirdop Town of Pirdop >> Wednesday, 2009-05-13 09:00 Source: Dnevnik.bg German copper producer Aurubis will plough BGN 30 million in an expansion of its copper slag enrichment facility near the central Bulgarian town of Pirdop . The upgrade is part of a strategy to streamline operations by stepping up copper extraction, the company said. Two years ago investments to the tune of EUR 122 million in the Pirdop plant earned the copper producer a first-class investor certificate, a document that fast-tracks the project through administrative bottleneck. Aurubis Bulgaria has a cap... Business: Sveta Voda JSC Sofia gets concession for Kostenets mineral water Town of Kostenets >> Thursday, 2009-03-05 13:07 Source: Banker The government has accepted the proposal of Sveta Voda JSC Sofia to terminate by mutual consent the concession contract for extraction of mineral water from the deposit Kostenets, Sofia District, announced the government information service. The concessionaire Sveta Voda JSC has discharged its duties to build bottling factory for mineral water and has paid the minimal annual concession fee regularly.
Society: Seminar in Hissarya: The number of abandoned children increased Town of Hissarya >> Sunday, 2009-02-22 08:14 Source: StandartNews The crisis did not spare the kids. The number of abandoned young Bulgarians has increased as a result of the parents` financial problems, it emerged at a seminar of the Bulgarian Ministry of Social Policy and Labour, held in Hissar , southern Bulgaria. Over thirty kids were abandoned only in December 2008, most of them in the regions of Pernik and Sofia . " The reason is that these regions are best developed economically, which explains higher birth rates. The abandoned kids age from a couple of...
Weather: It is snowing almost everywhere in Bulgaria City of Sofia >> Thursday, 2009-02-19 12:33 Source: Focus Agency It is snowing almost everywhere in Bulgaria, including in the districts of Sofia , Kyustendil , Blagoevgrad , Pazardzhik , Smolyan , Vidin and others. Average rainfall of between 30 and 40 liters per a square meter has been predicted. The snow cover will be between 15 and 30 cm on the average. It is raining in Eastern Bulgaria, along the Black Sea coast , and in Southeastern Bulgaria . On Friday strong northeastern wind will blow in Northeastern Bulgaria . No power cuts have been reported so far...[1] [2] [3]