Sun, Nov 08 2009
The effective strike of the teachers in Bulgaria continues for the fifth day on September 28 2007.
The strike committee organised a tent camp starting October 1 just in front of the offices of the President Georgi Purvanov, Focus news agency reported.
The protesters would collect signatures supporting their demands for higher salaries.
Everyday protest rallies would take place between 4.30pm and 7pm.
According to Focus, more than 90 per cent of the schools and kindergartens in cities like Plovdiv, Bourgas, Shoumen and Kazanluk went on strike.
Kindergartens to be dealt with on a case-by-case basis and universities to decide for themselves whether to suspend classes.
Five illegal immigrants from Iran and Iraq caught by Bulgarian police in Sliven.
Leonid Lavchev sent an intermediary to collect 1000 leva from a dairy farm in Haskovo, investigators say
Former labour minister Emilia Maslarova follows the example of Socialist party leader and former prime minister, Sergei Stanishev, in requesting that her MP immunity is lifted
Health Minister: Influenza strain is not seasonal flu, it is swine flu. More than 100 000 Bulgarians are down with the H1N1 strain.