Новости за 02.10.2018

After the torrential rains in the seaside region of Burgas, the situation on 2nd of October is gradually getting back to normal. The Mediterranean cyclone caused precipitation between 60 and 140 l per square metre in just a few hours on 1st of October.

Bulgarians have greater financial assets than Slovaks, Russians, Romanians, Turks and Serbs. Regarding the net financial assets per capita, our country ranks 38th out of 53 countries worldwide with a result of 7680 euro per person. For the gross amount, Bulgaria is down one position with a result of 9760 euros, the latest edition of the Allianz Global Wealth Report shows.

The new Plenary Hall of the National Assembly in the former Party House should be opened by the middle of next year after its renewal was delayed. The repair of St Sofia hall is estimated at about 25 million leva, and it was precisely in it that the events related to the Bulgarian Presidency of the EU had to be held. However, because of the British referendum on leaving the European Union, it has shifted for half a year and the hall was not ready for the presidency. Later it became clear that... Читать дальше...

In an interview with ANA, Wiktor Nummellin, Swedish TT news agency’s special correspondent for Nobel Prizes said Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and FYROM’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev are among the favourites to become nominees for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

The Bulgarian rapeseed market was stable over the last week. Rapeseed price closed it unchanged at BGN 680/MT that is equivalent to USD 409/MT (+ USD 5/MT). The pace of export shipments has slowed down over the past seven days, reports UkrAgroConsult.

(CNN)The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to a woman for the first time in 55 years, and for only the third time in its history.

The local subsidiaries of international IT specialists, Milestone Systems and Atos, will open their offices in the new multifunctional Garitage Park complex in the capital of Bulgaria. Along with them, there will be a center for EuroCorc specialized services. These are the new tenants who will join the complex, says an official announcement. Some time ago, it was clear that the Bulgarian division of American VMware will occupy 20,000 square meters of office space in the complex. This deal became... Читать дальше...

One of Europe's largest retail chains, Germany's Kaufland, and one of the world's largest consumer goods manufacturers, Unilever, entered into a trade dispute over the prices of the goods sold. This has led to a break in their relationship, which will also affect the Bulgarian market. In early September, the chain decided to remove from sale 480 Unilever products in Germany. The reason is a drastic unilateral increase in the prices of the items.

Mahindra, the Indian conglomerate with a $ 19 billion turnover for the past financial year, is back in Bulgaria. The company presented yesterday two SUV models that will be sold in Bulgaria - one with compact size for the city and one with seven seats.

The Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) has authorized the merger of the two largest bus companies in Bulgaria - Union Ivkoni and Group Plus. The two companies transform into the newly formed company - Transpact AD.

2 months ago, Grigor Dimitrov had a brilliant end to the season, reaching the semi-finals in Beijing and the quarter-finals at the Shanghai Masters and, then, winning the ATP Finals in London. Now at the China Open, he wants to go farther again and this time he won't face the Spaniard Rafael Nadal who defeated him in three sets in the semi-final last year.

The native ScaleFocus buys 100% of the Upnetix company in Sofia, money.bg reported. The acquisition value is not reported. Upnetix is ​​one of the 50 agencies in the world certified to develop Google, focusing on digital transformation and sustainable web and mobile software solutions. ScaleFocus was founded in 2012 in Sofia. The company is specialized in the field of modern software technologies and digital transformation through automation, using cloud technologies and modernization of hereditary systems. Читать дальше...

One of the world's leaders in the textile industry, the Chinese Orient International, is considering the opportunity to invest in Bulgaria. It was precisely because of the interest of its leadership that a Bulgarian-Chinese Forum "Innovations in the Textile Industry" was organized in Bulgaria, confirms the chairman of the Bulgarian-Chinese Chamber of Industrial Development Desislava Doncheva.

Sofia. By October 19, a working group will analyse the proposals and will assess if they meet Bulgaria’s requirements, in the meantime it may request further clarification from the bidders, Minister of Defence Krasimir Karakachanov told bTV regarding the opened offers in the competition for the supply of fighters. After that, the working group will present a report and the actual talks will begin on whether the offers could be improved in terms of price or technically, the minister said. The prime... Читать дальше...

Pazardzhik. 18 illegal migrants have been detained near Trakia motorway’s 64th km after early this morning a local resident reported that he spotted the group in a forest area next to the motorway, the Ministry of Interior said. The police found 14 men and 4 children with no identity papers. They will be taken to the regional police department in Pazardzhik to establish their identity, country of origin and how they entered Bulgaria.

Sofia. There will still be considerable clouds over Eastern Bulgaria in the morning, with rainfall in some areas by noon. In the rest of the country, it will be mostly sunny with low clouds or fog in some places in the lowlands this morning, meteorologist Boryana Markova, National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, told Focus News Agency. There will be more clouds again in the afternoon, from west. Light western wind, stronger in the Danube plain in the evening. Warmer weather with maximum... Читать дальше...

A BULGARIAN CIRCUS worker who had sex with an underage girl in Cork will be sentenced later this month for defilement.

Sofia. Personal data are inviolable and when operating with data of European citizens, one must comply with the criteria for protection, EU Commissioner Mariya Gabriel told reporters in connection with the hacking attack against Facebook, Focus News Agency reports. She said she expects more than wishful statements from Facebook. “What we want is action. The protection of personal data is inviolable, it is a value that is not negotiable. What we expect is that the company meets these high criteria... Читать дальше...

Bononia fortress occupied an area of over 20 hectares.

In the Bulgarian city of Vidin archaeologists have unearthed ruins of an ancient Roman military camp Bononia, which was the largest fortification on the Lower Danube.

As reported Archaeology in Bulgaria, excavations were conducted in the city of Vidin, built on the site of a Roman camp. Archaeologists have discovered an unusual decagonal castle tower.

This is the first such tower, discovered on the territory of Bulgaria. Читать дальше...

Bulgaria’s ancient castles and fortresses have become a laughing stock after shoddy reconstruction work left the sites looking like they were made of “cheese and cardboard” and drove away tourists, it has been claimed.