Svishtov, Bulgaria News

The top three finalists of the first Bulgarian edition of the "Miss SPA on the Balkans" contest.

File photo The Bulgarian chemical plant "Svilosa" will fire 97 of its 105 employees in a month over the global financial crisis.

Photo of 1939 Bulgarian Jews in front of the Synagogue of Svishtov. Photo by Stephanie Comfort An Israeli court has confirmed that Holocaust survivors from Bulgaria who were confined to their homes during World War II will be entitled to survivors' compensation from Israel.

A resolution adopted the Organisation of Islamic Conference, OIC, which welcomes cooperation with Kosovo and calls on the international community to continue to foster the country's economy, has been greeted as a success by both Pristina and Belgrade.

A beach chair and an umbrella cost 30 leva per day in Nessebar. The alarmingly high prices in the midst of an economic crisis when the entire tourist sector along the Black Sea is reeling has caused outrage, Investor.bg has reported.

New equipment, containers storage facilities, and loose goods processing facilities are already functioning in Bulgaria's Danube port of Svishtov, but the modernization continues.

The freight complex in Svishtov port has been upgraded with new storage facilities designed to accommodate large containers and new processing units.

A three-day festival in September 2009 will show reconstructions of Thracian rituals, Roman customs and rituals, alongside an international scientific conference.

The latest earthquake in Bulgaria Saturday night is a grim reminiscence of March 4, 1977 when a strong earthquake brought mass destruction in northern Bulgaria.

An earthquake of about 5.3 on the Richter scale shook northern Bulgaria and parts of Romania at about 8.20pm on April 25 2009.

A 73-year-old grandmother has been arrested as the mastermind of a massive prostitution ring running thousands of hookers across Europe.

All the employees of the Bulgarian chemical plant "Svilosa" are on half working days due to slow business bought about by a dramatic fall in the price of cellulose caused by the global financial crisis.

The cellulose factory "Svilocel" in the Bulgarian city of Svishtov began closing Thursday its production facilities, Krasimir Dachev, majority owner of the factory announced, cited by the Bulgarian information ...

Low temperatures have been measured Saturday morning in all cities and towns of Northern Bulgaria - temperatures everywhere in the Danube Plain were below 10 degrees Celsius.

Bulgaria's Danube Port of Svishtov saw a considerable increase in the number of passengers in 2008.