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24 May 2012, Issue 3393
by Novinite.com
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Strong Aftershock Shakes Bulgaria's Sofia
 A strong aftershock shook Bulgaria's capital Sofia at exactly 1 am on Thursday, almost 48 hours after the 5,8-6,0-magnitude earthquake that jolted Western Bulgaria. read |
Dutch Minister Optimistic on Bulgaria's Schengen Entry
 Dutch Immigration Minister Gert Leers has expressed his optimism regarding Bulgaria's Schengen accession. read |
Bulgaria to Move Its Tourism Unit to Plovdiv Sept 1
 The tourism unit of Bulgaria's Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism is to be relocated from Sofia to the country's second largest city of Plovdiv as of September 1 2012. read |
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PERNIK QUAKE CAUSED HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS WORTH OF DAMAGE - MAYOR
The 5.8 magnitude earthquake that shook the Bulgarian city of Pernik on Tuesday has caused hundreds of millions of BGN worth of damage, according to the city's Mayor, Rositsa Yanakieva. Almost all buildings in Pernik have suffered material damages, Yanakieva has told the Focus news agency. read more  BULGARIA - MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR FOR SOLVING GREEK BORDER ISSUES Bulgaria is one of the most active member state in the so called Poseidon operation run by the EU's Warsaw-based border control agency, Frontex, an internal document has shown. An internal document sent by the Danish EU presidency to the EU Council in late April - and seen by EUobserver - outlines how individual member states participate in the so called Poseidon operation run by the EU's Warsaw-based border control agency, Frontex. read more BULGARIAN, TURKISH, QATARI GOVTS TO GET TOGETHER OVER HIGHWAY PROJECT Bulgaria's Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova is hosting Thursday a meeting with representatives of the governments of Qatar and Turkey over a highway project that the Turkish and Qatari PMs promised to fund. The trilateral forum will also be attended by Bulgarian Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski, the Regional Development Ministry said in a statement Wednesday. read more BULGARIAN FINMIN VOWS HELP FOR QUAKE-HIT AREAS Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov, promised financial assistance for people whose homes have been damaged by the strong earthquake that hit western Bulgaria in the wee hours Tuesday. Djankov says that State and municipal buildings will be repaired with government funds while other ways of financing will be sought for private homes, as was the case with the flooded village of Biser. After the appraisal and the assessment of the damage, there would be a charitable campaign for donations and partial State help for rebuilding private residencies. read more MINING DIDN'T EXACERBATE EARTHQUAKE IN BULGARIA'S PERNIK - GOVT The wide-ranging mining industry in the western Bulgarian city of Pernik has not exacerbated the effects of the massive earthquake that hit the region on Tuesday, according to Bulgarian Economy Minister Delyan Dobrev. Dobrev was in Pernik on Wednesday for meetings with the regional and local authorities to discuss the damages incurred by the May 22 earthquake, whose epicenter was right near the city, and which reached a magnitude of 5.8-6.0 in Pernik and Sofia. read more BULGARIA TO MOVE ITS TOURISM UNIT TO PLOVDIV SEPT 1 The tourism unit of Bulgaria's Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism is to be relocated from Sofia to the country's second largest city of Plovdiv as of September 1 2012. 38 out of a total of 41 tourism unit employees have said that they are ready to move to Plovdiv, the Bulgarian National Radio informs. read more BULGARIA MOVES TO PROMOTE ITSELF AS ADVENTURE TOURISM DESTINATION Bulgaria will be presented as an adventure tourism destination by the Adventure Trade Travel Association, an international body, the Ministry of Economy, Energy, and Tourism announced. Bulgaria's Deputy Economy Minister in charge of tourism Ivo Marinov met in Sofia Wednesday with the CEO of Adventure Trade Travel Association – Europe, Christopher Doyle. read more US COMPANIES EAGER TO INVEST IN BULGARIA - ENVOY US companies and Bulgarian entrepreneurs living in the US have shown considerable interest in investing in Bulgaria, according to James Warlick, American Ambassador to the Balkan country. Warlick and Bulgaria's Ambassador to the US, Elena Poptodorova, organized the second diplomatic tour across the US in an effort to attract American investors to Bulgaria. Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev also took part in the tour. read more BULGARIA VOWS EU SUPPORT TO NEW SERBIAN PRESIDENT NIKOLIC Bulgaria's government has welcomed the election of the new Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic in a statement of Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov. "We welcome the election of Tomislav Nikolić as President of the Republic of Serbia and congratulate the Serbian people on holding democratic and open elections. We expect the rapid formation of a workable and viable government that would accelerate Serbia's European integration process and that would continue the ongoing reforms in the interest of the country's citizens," Mladenov stated on Tuesday. read more DUTCH MINISTER OPTIMISTIC ON BULGARIA'S SCHENGEN ENTRY Dutch Immigration Minister Gert Leers has expressed his optimism regarding Bulgaria's Schengen accession. "I am optimistic about Bulgaria's Schengen entry, since the country has good achievements. Measures have been undertaken on applying the law and combating organized crime," Leers has said after meeting Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov. read more BULGARIA PM JOINS EU LEADERS INFORMAL TALKS, FOCUS ON GROWTH European leaders, including Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, will gather Wednesday for informal talks amid new threats to the troubled euro currency union. The informal dinner meeting in Brussels will take place as Greece struggles to form a government. It will also be the first EU summit for the newly-elected French president, Francois Hollande, who has called for a shift away from budget cuts toward more growth-oriented policies. read more ROMANIA CALLS FOR REVIEW OF EU MONITORING Romania's newly appointed Justice Minister Titus Corlatean has stated that EU's Co-operation and Verification Mechanism for his country should be reviewed later this year. Five years after Romania's accession to the European Union, it should be acknowledged that there is progress with the judiciary and the country cannot stay within the same framework of the Co-operation and Verification Mechanism (CVM), Corleatan believes. read more BULGARIAN GOVT GRANTS BGN 325 IN AID TO QUAKE-AFFECTED FAMILIES Each Bulgarian household affected by the 5.8-6.0 magnitude earthquake in Western Bulgaria on Tuesday will receive a one-time aid allowance of BGN 325 from the government, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov announced. Borisov spoke late on Wednesday after meeting with President Rosen Plevneliev in order to inform him of the situation across Bulgaria after the strong earthquake, which, fortunately enough, incurred only minor material damages in Sofia, the western city of Pernik, and the town of Radomir. read more BULGARIAN GOVT FORMS NEW BODY FOR DISASTER PROTECTION Bulgaria's government has established a consultative council that is supposed to help it form national policies for protection against disasters. The move follows the relatively strong earthquake that shook the country on Tuesday. read more BULGARIAN PM VISITS QUAKE-HIT REGION The high school and middle school matriculation exams in Bulgaria's western region of Pernik have been postponed from Wednesday, May 23 to May 29, in the aftermath of the strong earthquake that hit Tuesday morning. The news emerged during the visit of Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, of the disaster-stricken area late Tuesday evening, accompanied by his Deputy and Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov, the Minister of Regional Development, Lilyana Pavlova, and Education Minister, Sergey Ignatov. read more BULGARIAN MOM DELIVERS BABY IN THE MIDDLE OF EARTHQUAKE A newborn made his debut on Tuesday in the town of Dupnitsa, close to the Bulgarian capital Sofia, just as a powerful 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck the region, throwing people into panic. The 19-year-old mother Dimitrinka Mladenova was due on May 28, but she was forced into labor just minutes after the temblor began at 3.15 am on May 22. read more STRONG AFTERSHOCK SHAKES BULGARIA'S SOFIA A strong aftershock shook Bulgaria's capital Sofia at exactly 1 am on Thursday, almost 48 hours after the 5,8-6,0-magnitude earthquake that jolted Western Bulgaria. According to the European Seismology Center, the aftershock had a magnitude of 4.3 on the Richter Scale. read more QUAKE ROCKS GREECE, NEIGHBORING BULGARIA STILL RATTLING A 4.5-magnitude quake struck Greece on Wednesday, just a day after neighboring Bulgaria was hit by a strong tremor, sending people running into the streets. No casualties have been reported. read more 3 SLIGHT AFTERSHOCKS FELT IN BULGARIA WEDNESDAY Two new slight aftershocks were felt in Pernik and Sofia on Wednesday afternoon after the 5.8 magnitude earthquake that shook Bulgaria early on Tuesday. The first one struck at 1:57 pm local time on Wednesday some 3 km from Pernik and had a magnitude of 3.3 on the Richter scale. read more BULGARIAN ROADS, DAMS SAFE AFTER TUESDAY'S QUAKE, GOVT ASSURES Bulgaria's Lyulin and Struma highways, as well as the roads in the Pernik region, have not suffered damages as a result of the 5.9 magnitude earthquake that struck near the city of Pernik, according to Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova. Pernik's "Studena" dam was inspected at 03:30 am on Tuesday, nearly half an hour after the earthquake struck, Pavlova told the Bulgarian Parliament on Wednesday. read more BRIDGE COLLAPSES IN SOUTHERN BULGARIA A bridge over the Struma River in southwestern Bulgaria between the towns of Sandanski and Petrich, near the village of Ribnik, collapsed Wednesday morning. The news was reported by the Bulgarian National Radio, BNR, citing radio Blagoevgrad, and has been confirmed by the Interior Ministry. read more BULGARIAN AIRFIELD TO HOST CYPRESS HILL, SEAN PAUL, FATBOY SLIM AT ELEVATION FEST The military airfield in the village of Dobroslavtsi near Sofia will host the second edition of Bulgaria's Elevation music festival, the organizers "On Stage" have announced. The second edition of the Elevation fest will be the first time in the 18-year history of the Dobroslavtsi airfield that the military facility is used to host a public happening. read more TV REMOTE INVENTOR EUGENE POLLEY DIES AT 96 Eugene Polley, the inventor of the first wireless TV remote control, has passed away at the age of 96. He died of natural causes Sunday at a suburban Chicago hospital, a spokesman announced on Wednesday. read more BULGARIA'S PIRONKOVA UPSETS PETROVA IN BRUSSELS Bulgaria's tom female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova surprisingly eased past experienced Russian Nadia Petrova in the second round of the 2012 Brussels Open. Pironkova defeated the two-time French Open finalist in 77 minutes and without losing a single service game. She reached her first WTA quarterfinal this season, earning 120 ranking points and USD 16 375. read more GREAT WALL BULGARIAN PARTNER'S SON PERMANENTLY BEHIND BARS The son of well-known Bulgarian businessman Grisha Ganchev, Danail, and four other people, detained during the special police operation codenamed "Sugar," are to remain permanently behind bars. The ruling was issued on Wednesday by the specialized court of appeals, which thus upheld an earlier decision by the Special Tribunal, widely known as the anti-mafia Court. read more MADE IN CHINA, BUT ASSEMBLED IN BULGARIA Click here to read the story: www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=139629 BULGARIAN RESOURCES DOMINATE GREEK BORDER ASSISTANCE Click here to read the story: www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=139642 VACLAV KLAUS CALLS ON GREECE TO EXIT EURO FOR ITS OWN GOOD Czech President Vaclav Klaus has joined a chorus of voices, claiming Greece's exit from the euro zone is the best solution to the current dead-end. "There is no imminent solution to the euro zone sovereign debt trap," Klaus said in a public address following the NATO summit in Chicago. read more THANK YOU, NOVINITE.COM! Click here to read the story: www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=139622 BULGARIA'S 'MIRACLE' EARTHQUAKE Bulgaria made headlines across the globe Tuesday after a 5.9-6.0 on the Richter scale earthquake hit overnight, prompting massive jolts in the western regions and sending panicked people on the streets. After nature and psychological shocks subsided, the country saw daylight with the most amazing recap, making even more headlines – no causalities (except one hearth attack), no serious injuries and no severe damage in road infrastructure, buildings, dam walls, and power plants; no interruptions in phone services (both cell and landlines), in the emergency hotline, in TV and radio broadcasts; with trains and public transportation running on time and on schedule. read more |
