Mayoral by-election campaigns start in Sofia, other towns

Bulgaria's November 15 2009 special elections are being held after a number of mayors became MPs after the July 5 national elections.

Vote-buying and other alleged irregularities on election-day - report

Election day 2009 saw countless reports of irregularities with most major parties accusing each other of vote-buying and other attempts to manipulate the election outcome.

Evacuation starts in the area of the blast near Sofia

Two hundred people from the village of Chelopechene, east of Sofia, where a military warehouse exploded in the early hours of July 3 2008, have been evacuated to 170th Vassil Levski high school in Kourilo village, Sofia city hall said in a statement on its website. Sofia mayor Boiko Borissov has ordered the supply of seven buses for the evacuation of people living in and around Chelopechene. Children from the kindergarten in Kazichene village will be transferred to the kindergarten in Pancherevo neighbourhood, the city hall said.

EDUCATION IN BULGARIA: Anglo-American School looks to the future

At the Anglo-American School of Sofia (AAS), respect for the student sets the foundation for 21st-century education. Educators translate their job into facilitating and equipping individuals to be life-long learners. There is an obvious commitment here to prepare the next generation for effective and dynamic partnerships in the world that it is inheriting. Ecologically minded, charity oriented, partnership driven, this school views education as an integrated and holistic journey, not as a textbook that leads to a test.

Deja vu

The question about the future of CSKA football club is turning into a real drama, and not simply because the team is one of the two most successful football clubs in Bulgaria. All around the world, sport and business go hand by hand and Bulgaria is no exception. So the minute the Bulgarian-language media started publishing articles about the sale of the Kremikovtzi steel plant, all eyes

FURTHER THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED IN BULGARIA DURING THE WEEK

The weather in Bulgaria will remain poor throughout the coming week and the country will see intense rainfalls and thunderstorms. The situation in Sofia is still serious after the weekend downpours that caused floods and hindered traffic. Emergency teams are draining flooded houses. Firefighters and volunteers from various parts of the country are helping the Sofia teams. Iskar River is under strict

BULGARIA'S FOOTBALL TEAM GETTING READY FOR EURO QUALIFICATION

The national football team is practicing in Pancherevo, located close to the capital of Sofia, for its upcoming Euro 2008 qualification match against Albania. The match will take place on March 28 in Sofia, Focus news agency reported. Practice continued nearly one hour and 13 footballers participated in it. Among them were Dimitar Berbatov, Stilian Petrov and Valeri Bozhinov. On March 22 national team coach Hristo

VACATION PROPERTY MARKET IN BULGARIA'S CAPITAL SEES RE-DISTRIBUTION

Until recently the districts of Boyana, Dragalevtsi and Simeonovo featured among the most preferred vacation property sites in the capital of Sofia. Sofia's vacation property market is seeing re-distribution, Capital newspaper reported. Until recently the three areas featured among the vacation property regions but now have become regular residential districts. Buyer interest has been re-directed to the

READING ROOM: Schools for all

The Anglo-American School of Sofia

A state-of-the-art learning environment. Highly resourced and educated teaching staff. An internationally diverse atmosphere. Such an equation results in the sum of the whole equalling more than its impressive parts. At the Anglo-American School of Sofia (AAS), respect for the student sets the foundation for 21st century education. Educators translate their job into facilitating and equipping individuals to

Board stupid?

I HAVE just received the beating of my life. I can barely move my arms, my legs are dead and an enormous purple bruise is flowering on my behind. To make things worse, I know I'm in for another pummeling next week. My affair with snowboarding has begun. To be honest, it actually started about a year ago when I first `took to the slopes' at Borovets, though that is a misleading phrase that conjures up images of majestically carving down the mountainside.

DOUBLE DUTCH: Take two on the Bulgarian film industry

I AM so sorry that I have offended some small minded people with my column about `Bulgarisation', especially since it was meant as an encouragement to improve this land of opportunistic optimism... After a week of desperately trying to avoid more confrontations with representatives of the boring class, my week took a turn for the better since I had the pleasure of meeting a man I had wanted to talk to for a long time.

Anglo-American School groundbreaking

A NEW building for the Anglo-American School of Sofia is to be ready by August 2006. This was announced on May 19 at a ceremony in Pancherevo attended by US ambassador James Pardew, UK ambassador Jeremy Hill and Laurence Broyd, chairperson of the AAS board of directors.