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Expat of the Week - Between town and country
CLAIRE Cooper has come a long way when it comes to Bulgaria - just more than a year ago, she was not sure where it was. Now, she speaks enough of the language to find doing so rewarding.
Reading Room - Salute to Autrian Business
Austrian ambassador to Bulgaria KARL DIEM speaks to The Sofia Echo's VELINA NACHEVA about bilateral relations between his country and Bulgaria.
Bulgaria Air sale approaches
PARLIAMENT'S committees on the economy and on transport approved the strategy for privatisation of the national carrier Bulgaria Air at a joint meeting on October 13, but assurances that the draft would be approved by Parliament as a whole this week were not fulfilled.
Tourism Barometer - Growing up-market ambitions
BULGARIA hopes to use its cultural heritage to attract wealthier tourists.
Expat of the Week - Commitment and compassion
MARION Robertson, project co-ordinator of social services at the UMBAL Children's Clinic in Plovdiv, has great respect and admiration for Bulgarian women because, she says, they have difficult lives.
Tourism Barometer - Promoting Bulgaria in Spain
THE closing of the 2004 tourist summer season featured an unexpected growth of 80 per cent in EU holidaymakers, great interest in alternative forms of travelling, interest from Spanish tour operators, and the start of the Promotion Bulgaria project's communication strategy which emphasises tourism.
EC Regular Report-foreigner's prices and children in institutions
There are two specific points where the European Commission's regular report on Bulgaria has failed to be critical, and where the Bulgarian government still needs to prioritise reform.
Notes from History - Minority life
THEY are outsiders, generally rediscovered only when politicians come seeking votes at election time. Outsiders who, ironically, are often mistaken for "mainstream" Bulgarians or for Bulgarians of ethnic Turkish descent.
Masks or faces
CHARLOTTE ROTH is one of the major driving forces behind a festival dedicated to the life and work of director Ingmar Bergman. The festival, which is in Sofia from October 8 to 28, will be accompanied by an exhibition at CiBank. Roth, who is also the wife of the Swedish ambassador, spoke to VELINA NACHEVA.
Reading Room - Flying into the future
DIETER GROSSE, Lufthansa's manager Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania speaks to VELINA NACHEVA about the company's operations in Bulgaria.
Expat of the Week - Surviving not living
FOOTBALLER Ban Judi left his birthplace in Cote d'Ivoire at the age of 17 looking to make it big in the world of football, but today bitterly regrets choosing to make his temporary home in Bulgaria.
Fusing mind, body and soul
Martial arts, created in Asia and developed in various places around the world, reached Bulgaria properly only after the changes in 1989. They were being banned before that, however, today this art is practiced by different people of all ages. There are, apart from children, of course, economists, managers, financiers, lawyers, professors and artists countrywide in more than 60 Shotokan Karate-do clubs which is only one style, among hundreds of others.
Tourism Barometer - Complacently developing tourism
AMONG high expectations for a reasonable increase in German tourist numbers for 2004, the most recent Economy Ministry data showing a modest 5.61 per cent increase in tourists for the first eight months of the year, was more eloquent than bare revenue projections.
Diplomatic Dispatches - A sense of closeness
Spanish ambassador Jose Angel Lopez Jorrin, at the end of his term of office in Sofia, tells VELINA NACHEVA that Bulgaria's role will be to bridge the gap between Old and New Europe.
Notes from History - A palace with history
THE big, ochre and recently reconstructed former royal domicile has served as a Turkish Bey's konak (town hall), as a focus point for rallies, gatherings, and a stage of communist parades, democratic and concert events today accommodates a gallery. Many of the passers-by crossing in front or at the back of the building on One Battenberg Square might wonder about its origin, history and eventful past - which recently even included serving as a stage for visiting US secretary of state Colin Powell.
Street Talk - Delivering with care
THE job of courier is one that is new to Bulgaria and people still confuse it with that of mail deliverer.
The gateway to Europe
PUNJABI Raman Gupta, who is from the north of India, has travelled widely in search of entrepreneurial opportunities, which he was happy to find in Bulgaria only six months after his arrival in the country.
Tourism Barometer - Discriminatory pricing mars awards
HELENA Beach complex in Sunny Beach was awarded a prize for best complex on the eve of this year's World Tourism Day September 27 by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Lydia Shuleva at the Plovdiv fair. The award is given by the Economy Ministry in collaboration of all the tour operator agencies in Bulgaria.
Breast health saves lives
TEN Bulgarian women are diagnosed with breast cancer every day, and more sadly, the great majority are diagnosed too late for any effective treatment. Referred to by physicians, along with AIDS and malaria, to be one of the scourges of the 21st century, breast cancer is curable if diagnosed in time.
Terrorism: spot it and stop it!
BOYAN BOYANOV, head of the National Association of the Persons and Associations Performing Protective Activity (NAPAPPA), tells VELINA NACHEVA how his organisation has become involved in teaching appropriate responses to terrorism.
Tourism Barometer - From new markets
IT may be in the news for the demise of the Pomorie property development, but Bulgaria's Black Sea coast is still likely to draw Irish holidaymakers next season with its great beaches, warm weather and low prices. These were the opening lines of a full page of the on-line edition of The Sunday Business Post of Ireland in its story titled 'Bulgaria's Captivating Eastern Promise' on September 19.
A fascination from afar
IN a small town in Missouri, a family of 21 siblings shares a strong and genuine fondness for Bulgaria, its culture and language, always starting their days with dobro utro (good morning), and going to bed with leka nosht (good night).
Notes from History - Third Bulgarian Kingdom
ON September 22, 1908, in the 40 Holy Martyrs church in Veliko Turnovo, Prince Ferdinand declared Bulgaria a kingdom independent from the Ottoman empire and thus opened a new historical period, today known as the Third Bulgarian Kingdom.
Changing the diplomatic guard
SPANISH ambassador Jose Angel Lopez Jorrin's three-year term of office in Bulgaria is coming to an end and he will be leaving for Madrid mid-October.
The capital's changing face
September 17 is the Day of Sofia. VELINA NACHEVA traces the evolution of Bulgaria's capital city.
The Bulgarian project
THIS is the story of two foreigners, passionate lovers of Bulgarian folklore, who have spent the past nine years regularly going on tour to present, through their performances, the country's myths and tales.
Notes from History - Witnessing changes
MUCH has been heard from politicians on the left and right in Bulgaria in recent days about the anniversary of the communist takeover of the country on September 9, 1944. Now it is time to hear from an ordinary person who lived through those times, 60 years ago.
US defeats the EU
THE biannual Ryder Cup golf competition in Bulgaria finished with a narrow victory for the US team, which took a lead of three points to beat the European Union team.
Stop 'foreigner prices'
THE practice in Bulgaria of charging foreign nationals more than Bulgarians is illegal and represents a discriminatory practice that contradicts the European Union's standards for free movement of goods and services, thus jeopardising the country's positive assessment in the regular report on Bulgaria's accession, due in October.
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