Sofia News

China's Wenhao Liang and Meng Wang clinched gold medals in the men's and women's 500-meter races at the short track speedskating world championships. Wenhao won the men's race in a time of 41.383 seconds Saturday, ahead of defending champion Francois...

Bulgaria Foreign Affairs Minister, Nikolay Mladenov, has stated that the Nabucco natural gas pipeline is the priority project regarding bilateral ties with Turkey. Mladenov was speaking after meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Thursday in Sofia.

After a number of days of debate Bulgaria’s MPs finally passed the strongest possible amendments which although they do not include a total ban on GM crops, make it impossible for farmers to grow them. GM crops moratorium proposal as...

According to the report, about 10 000 Romanians will head south across the Danube to Bulgaria and Greece. "These are destinations which are close to Romania and very attractive price-wise. Additionally, both Bulgaria and Romania are orthodox countries," Taian Badulescu,...

Speaking on the bTV channel Thursday, Stefanov said that the declared tax base in January and February of 2010 was BGN 4 B smaller than it was in the same period of the previous year. He did stress, however, that...

Over 20 Austrian companies have expressed strong interest in participating in the construction of the Bulgarian road and railroad infrastructure. Companies such as Alpine Bau, Deco-Tech Handeks, Evronik Para-Chemie, Strabag, Terra-Mix, VAE have taken part in the Bulgarian “Transport Infrastructure”...

Tsvetkov, speaking on bTV Tuesday, said that 15-20 000 driving licenses are currently sold every year for a minimum price of BGN 300...The changes have involved cameras being placed in both the written test centers and the examiners cars...Tsvetkov concluded...

Bulgaria has gone to the Sofia Airport Center office complex built by Tishman International...A presentation by Tishman International highlighted the new building development at Sofia Airport Center, the international business park now under development in the Bulgarian capital.