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Singer Poly Genova to Represent Bulgaria at 2016 Eurovision Song Contest
February 19 (BTA) - Singer Poly Genova will represent Bulgaria at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, the Bulgarian National Television (BNT) said in a press release Friday. This will be Genova's second appearance in the competition. Genova took part in the 2011 editi...
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Japanese Government Decorates Bulgarian Rhythmic Gymnastics Coach Robeva with Order of the Rising Sun
February 18 (BTA) - Japanese Ambassador to Bulgaria Takashi Koizumi presented the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, to former Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast and coach Neshka Robeva for her outstanding contribution to encouraging the development of Japanese-Bul...
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Wine Tour Map Takes Visitors on Journey through Melnik Area
February 12 (BTA) - Wine-makers in Melnik have drawn up a bilingual map of wine tours in the area to promote this kind of travel. The map features all local wine cellars which are open to visitors, wine-makers who possess vineyards and run wine tasting rooms, and other important ...
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Growing Number of White Storks in Bulgaria
February 11 (BTA) - The numbers of white storks (Ciconia ciconia) and their nests in Bulgaria increase, the Bulgarian Society for Protection of Birds (BSPB) said. BSPB coordinated a white stork counting in Bulgaria as part of the Seventh International White Stork Census in all Eu...
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One in Three Parents Considers Vaccines Not Safe - Survey
February 9 (BTA) - One in every three parents thinks vaccines are not harmless and 35 per cent think they could be harmful, Chief State Health Inspector Angel Kounchev said. He presented a survey commissioned by the Ministry of Health in December 2015. The survey was conducted am...
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Shadow Sector Accounts for 90% of Bulgarian Rose Industry Output
February 1 (Lyudmila Spassova of BTA) - The year 2015 was disastrous for the Bulgarian rose industry as the amount of the crop was 60 per cent below the normal level, sinking to a 30-40-year bottom, Bulgarian Rose Oil Association President Filip Lissicharov said in a BTA intervie...
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Bulgarian NGOs Launch Project in Support of Protection Seekers
February 1 (BTA) - Non-governmental organizations will launch a project to support protection seekers in Bulgaria. Caritas Sofia, the Bulgarian Red Cross, the Council of Refugee Women in Bulgaria and the Nadja Centre Foundation presented their activities at a BTA-hosted news conf...
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Bulgaria Loses Lv 120 Mln in Annual Revenues due to Poor Development of Mount Vitosha as Tourist Destination
January 30 (BTA) - Bulgaria loses 120 million leva in annual revenues due to the poor development of Mount Vitosha as a tourist destination, Roumen Draganov, Director of the Tourism Analysis and Assessment Institute, told BTA . The outdated equipment in a mountain which has becom...
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Group Buying in Bulgaria Gains Momentum
January 30 (BTA) - Group buying in Bulgaria is gaining momentum, with purchases recording an increase by 4.5 million leva in 2015, Teodor Kafedjiev, marketing manager for the country's largest group-buying aggregator, told BTA.
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Fishing of Sturgeon in Bulgaria Banned for Five More Years
January 29 (BTA) - The Fisheries and Aquacultures Executive Agency has published an order introducing a new five-year ban on sturgeon fishing in the Bulgarian territorial waters in the Danube and the Black Sea, the Bulgarian office of WWF, which works for the protection of the sp...
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Bulgarian Girl Wins National Geographic Photo Contest
January 28 (BTA) - Eight-year old Radostina Todorova won first place in National Geographic's 2015 international photo contest for kids, the Bulgarian edition of National Geographic magazine said. Winners in the competition were announced at the magazine's international headqu...
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Higher Education Guarantees Lack of Poverty, Survey Shows
January 26 (BTA) - Higher education practically guarantees you will not be poor, Petar Ganev, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Market Economics (IME) said. He was speaking at a Tuesday public discussion on the cross-sections of poverty and education and employment as factor...
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Avalanche in Vitosha Mountain Kills Two
January 21 (BTA) - The bodies of two tourists, buried by an avalanche, were found this morning in the Vitosha Mountain, said the Mountain Rescue Service (MRS) on Thursday. Fourteen rescuers and two rescue dogs conducted the search for the two tourists, who were climbing from t...
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Conscientiousness and Grit Are Most Lucrative Skills for Women in Bulgaria - World Bank Study
January 21 (BTA) - Socioemotional skills matter for earnings in Bulgaria, but the most lucrative skills differ by gender: for men having a growth mindset is associated with higher pay, for women it is higher working and learning style skills, a World Bank study of the skills for ...
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Students from Sofia Win Five Gold, Three Silver Medals at Science Olympiad
anuary 20 (BTA) - Students from Sofia's High School of Mathematics won five gold and three silver medals at the 12th International Zhautykov Olympiad in Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on January 13-19. The Bulgarian team placed first, lea...
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WWF Demands Cessation of Felling in Old Forests
January 19 (BTA) - Felling in the established complexes of old forests should stop until specific measures for their protection are adopted, the World Wide Fund for Nature's (WWF) Bulgarian office proposed. In a letter to Deputy Agriculture and Food Minister Georgi Kostov, a copy...
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Number of Blood Donors in Bulgaria Ranks Country among Last in Europe - Expert
anuary 19 (BTA) - Every day more than 500 people in Bulgaria need blood transfusion, but there were less than 170,000 donors of blood in 2015, which means just 24 per mil and ranks the country among the last in Europe, said expert Stefka Popova in an interview for BTA. Popova is ...
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Court Dismisses Sculptor's Appeal against Sofia City Hall Decision on Removal of Controversial Monument
January 13 (BTA) - Bulgaria's Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) Wednesday dismissed an appeal by Prof. Valentin Starchev and several artist organizations against a decision of Sofia City Hall on the removal of the 1,300 Years Bulgaria Monument from its site opposite the National...
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Fewer Bulgarian Doctors Opt to Look for Work Abroad
January 13 (BTA) - The Health Ministry reports that the number of Bulgarian doctors leaving the country to work abroad has decreased. The Ministry said in a press release on Wednesday that after the entry into force of new regulations for medical specializations in late Januar...
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Shoumen Teacher Selected in Jury of Microsoft Innovative Educators Leadership Awards
January 9 (BTA) - Informatics teacher Angel Angelov from Shoumen has been selected by the Microsoft computer company to take part in a jury for conferring the Microsoft Innovative Educators Leadership Awards (MIELA), Angelov told BTA.
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