27 Vietnamese workers at the construction materials factory Orgahim of Bulgaria\'s Ruse are leaving chased away by the crisis. Under their contracts, the Vietnamese are supposed to be getting BGN 450 per month at the Orgahim factory but they told the Bulgarian National Television they received only BGN 350 per month during the last three months. The plant was going to lay off the workers from Vietnam anyway even if they had not left themselves. \"We are leaving on April 14. But we first need to settle our matters somehow because the contract is for BGN 450, and we have been getting only BGN 350. I don\'t know but lying is no good\", the 49-year-old painter Nguyen Long is quoted as saying. Long still has ...

One of the oldest churches in Svilengrad will mark its temple’s celebration renewed. The church will receive the laymen with a renewed roof construction, ceiling and floor, with painted walls, informed the municipal administration. The money for the renovation were granted by the Turkish businessman Fuat Gyuven, informed Haskovo.info. He has donated 27 thousand euro. The green areas and the alleys around the temple are also renovated and freshened with money from the administration. Special guests for the celebration of the temple will be the Olympic champion Rumyana Neikova and the donor Fuat Gyuven. The church was initially built in 1850. In 1912 during the Balkan war the church was burnt down and...

The coastal town of Pomorie will hold on May 16 a referendum asking its residents to vote in favour or against plans for an oil pipeline passing through the municipality. To be acknowledged as valid, at least 51% of eligible voters in the municipality have to take part in it, but it remains unclear how its outcome can influence the plans to build the pipeline. Bulgaria, Greece and Russia agreed to build the pipeline between Burgas and Alexandroupolis, taking Caspian oil to the Mediterranean skirting the congested Bosphorus, in 2007 after more than a decade of intermittent talks. The agreement for the company which will construct the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil transit pipeline was signed by Bulgaria during R...

Big investments in the electric energy network of Bulgaria are needed, believe experts from energy companies, which took part in the conference “On the route to liberalized electric energy market: successes and perspectives”. The Czech ambassador in Bulgaria Martin Klepetko also attended the event, informed BNR. The politicians should explained to the people the advantages of the liberalized market, claimed ambassador Klepetko in his speech to the participants in the conference. According to him at the moment the issues has only social dimension, which is related to the price of electricity, while a much broader public debate should be organized for the way in which the energy market should develop. ...

The EU has said it may double the amount of emergency funding to help member states that need urgent budget support. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said he was confident the deal would be reached on the final day of a two-day summit in Brussels, the BBC reported Friday. The Brussels summit, which opened on Thursday, takes place as the world\'s biggest economies prepare for next month\'s G20 summit in London. Mr Barroso said doubling the emergency funding ceiling to EUR 50 B would be \"a good signal that the EU is ready to show solidarity and support... to the countries that may need it\". The emergency cash is only for member states outside the 16-nation eurozone. Hungary and Latvia ha...

The long awaited appearance of Vice magazine in Bulgaria is already a fact. The first issue of the magazine will be in the beginning of May. Every month it will be distributed in the big towns. On 29 April Vice makes its opening in party center “4th kilometer”, entrance is free. The party will gather at one place the starts Daddy G from Massive Attack, Krafty Kuts and Lui Austin. Vice’s first issue has gathered some of the best materials of its international editions as well as original Bulgarian reports. Articles about problems on the different continents – from the air pollution in Montreal or Sofia to the torture of the horses in the Philippines, where public fights are organized – this can all be...

The star from the Bulgarian film “Tailors” and the series “Forbidden love” – Elen Koleva is leaving for Moscow. The actress is visiting the Russian capital at the invitation of the world famous director Nikita Mikhalkov, informed avtora.com. The legendary director intends to shoot Elena Koleva in his newest film project which, however, still has no official title. Mikhalkov liked the “Tailors” star during his visit in Bulgaria in 2008 for the edition of “Sofia film fest”. Then the director got the Award of Sofia for all-round contribution to the cinema. The famous Russian has over 50 films as an actor and more than 20 as a director. Among the most famous ones are “The Barber of Siberia” ...

A French court has ordered eBay to pay a 40m euro fine (£36.1m; $63m) to luxury goods group LVMH for allowing fake copies of its goods to be auctioned on the site. The case was brought against eBay by six brands belonging to LVMH - Lois Vuitton Malletier, Christian Dior Couture, Dior perfume, Guerlain perfume, Kenzo perfume and Givenchy perfume. The company alleged that even legitimate auctions of their products were illegal due to only specialist dealers being permitted to sell them. eBay will no longer be allowed to sell the four perfumes in the future. A spokesman for LVMH said that it \"protected brands by considering them an important part of French heritage\". eBay have dedicated themselves to fighti...

EBay Inc will institute a global ban on the sale of all types of ivory products by January 1, 2009, after a conservation group investigation found more than 4,000 elephant ivory listings on the online auction site. \"We feel this is the best way to protect the endangered and protected species from which a significant portion of ivory products are derived,\" the company said in its blog on Tuesday. African and Asian elephants are protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act and the international Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). A report to be released later on Tuesday by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) says most sales of ivory products through eBay were...

Google has figured out that it can save money by getting product ideas from users rather than engineers. After all, you can\'t pay engineers in \"shout outs\" on their blogs like their offering for users. Yes, the tanking economy is hitting the mighty Google just as hard as every other company out there, and they\'re having to cut costs as a result. Gone is the 20% time that allowed engineers to dedicate one day a week to pet projects. And hell, why pay those engineers at all? Users can come up with ideas just as well as they can, and they don\'t even have to pay them. That\'s the idea behind the new Google Product Ideas blog, a place for people to submit and vote on ideas for new Google products. And what if ...