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Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Beauty Salons Two young men were confirmed drowned Sunday, after they went out fishing in the Kaylaka reservoir in Bulgaria's southern Sliven region.
www.topix.net | 3/4/12
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Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Beauty Salons The Google Doodle logo featured the Shipka Pass Battle Monument and the Bulgarian flag for Bulgaria's 134th National Liberation Day, March 3, 2012.
www.topix.net | 3/3/12
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Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Beauty Salons The monument at the Shipka Pass - the site of the most important battles of Bulgaria's Liberation War.
www.topix.net | 3/3/12
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Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Beauty Salons Estonia 's government will start discussions on whether the country should close its embassy in Bulgaria, according to a Russian news agency.
www.topix.net | 2/29/12
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Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Beauty Salons Estonia 's government will start discussions on whether the country should close its embassy in Bulgaria, according to a Russian news agency.
www.topix.net | 2/29/12
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Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Beauty Salons The level of water at Bulgaria's Danube town of Silistra has reached 634 cm, with a rise of 197 cm as compared to yesterday, it has been announced.
www.topix.net | 2/27/12
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The advent of March 1 in Bulgaria brings the moment that people exchange martenitsi, traditional talismans that bear wishes for good health with the coming of spring; and also the fanning out of municipal and tax inspectors to make sure that public coffers are getting their fair share of the trade.
www.topix.net | 2/24/12
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The director of Bulgaria's National Health Insurance Fund, Neli Nesheva, resigned on February 17 in the wake of a scandal about bonuses paid to NHIF employees.
www.topix.net | 2/20/12
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Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Beauty Salons A Steed model pick-up, which is part of the test produce of the Litex and Great Wall Co plant in Bulgaria's Lovech displayed before journalists inside the ... (more)
www.topix.net | 2/16/12
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European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, John Dalli from Malta is pictured here as he participates in a campaign to mark 'No Tobacco Day' at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, 27 May 2010.
www.topix.net | 2/16/12
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Bulgaria's proposed new anti-smoking laws took a step forward when Parliament's health committee approved amendments to the Health Act planned to take effect on June 1 2012.
www.topix.net | 2/16/12
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Valentine's Day in Bulgaria does not mean simply a warm and fuzzy feeling and the possibility of profit for those selling heart-shaped balloons, teddy bears, champagne, chocolates and flowers; for in Bulgaria the day can also mean matters of the national soul and life itself.
www.topix.net | 2/14/12
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Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Beauty Salons Bulgaria 's exceptionally cold and snowy winter weather is expected to continue on Sunday, as a number of regions have been alarmed for potential danger.
www.topix.net | 2/12/12
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Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Beauty Salons Bulgaria's Borisov Cabinet has just come up with a new unpleasant surprise for the Bulgarian public by signing ACTA , the controversial copyright protection ... (more)
www.topix.net | 2/1/12
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Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Beauty Salons Bulgaria 's artist Valentin Georgiev came out as a winner at Iran's traditional Tabriz cartoon fest, whose participants this year were provoked by the ... (more)
www.topix.net | 1/31/12
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A cold snap that killed 30 people in the Ukraine over the past five days has spread to much of eastern and central Europe with record lows in Bulgaria and heavy snow falls in Switzerland.
Emergency services in the Ukraine said most of the dead were homeless people who froze to death on the streets, four were found in their homes, and over 600 people sought medical help for frostbite and hypothermia.
Authorities opened 1,590 shelters to provide food and heat, and were planning to set up 150 more, as temperatures plunged to minus 28 degrees Celsius (-18 degrees Fahrenheit) in some regions.
Meanwhile, police in Poland reported five new deaths on Tuesday, bringing the overall toll for January to 27 as overnight temperatures dipped to minus 30 Celsius (-22 degrees Fahrenheit).
In Vilnius, the capital of neighbouring Lithuania, one homeless man was found dead Tuesday, bringing the death toll there to eight since Saturday.
In the Czech Republic, a woman was found frozen to death in a garden shed in the capital Prague, police said.
Meanwhile, two died in Romania, raising the death toll to eight since Thursday, the health ministry...
www.timesofmalta.com | 1/31/12
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Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Beauty Salons Holders of Schengen visas will be able to visit and stay in Bulgaria without Bulgarian visas , the Bulgarian Cabinet decided on Wednesday.
www.topix.net | 1/26/12
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www.topix.net | 1/25/12
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Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Beauty Salons The airports in the Black Sea cities of Burgas and Varna have registered significant increases in the number of serviced passengers and flights.
www.topix.net | 1/23/12
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The European Commission warned today that it will launch legal action in the coming days against 14 EU countries that still allow farmers to keep egg-laying hens in cramped, illegal cages.
A European Union law adopted in 1999 banned the use of tiny cages and gave governments 13 years -- until January 1 this year -- to comply with rules requiring farmers to give hens more breathing space.
But the EU's executive arm estimates 51 million hens are still confined.
The 14 states facing infrigement proceedings -- a first legal step that can lead to fines -- are France, Spain, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Romania.
"We are launching infringement procedures against all the member states that are non-compliant and these will start in a few days," EU Health and Consumer Policy Commissioner John Dalli told a news conference.
The law says hens must be given at least 750 square centimetres of living space, if not a nest, a perch or free-range conditions. But some hens are still being kept in spaces no more than the size of a standard sheet of paper....
www.timesofmalta.com | 1/19/12
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Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Beauty Salons Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, has reiterated many time that he wants to remain in history as the leader, who build the country's highways.
www.topix.net | 1/15/12
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Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Beauty Salons Bulgaria is in the top tier of EU member states with the most dropped down volume of retail trade for last year, according to a recently released Eurostat ... (more)
www.topix.net | 1/8/12
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Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Beauty Salons Bulgaria's capital Sofia plans to use solar energy to charge electric vehicles , it was revealed on Friday.
www.topix.net | 1/7/12
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Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Beauty Salons A bilateral agreement on the international transport of passengers and cargo by road was signed on Friday by Bulgarian Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski and ... (more)
www.topix.net | 1/6/12
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Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Beauty Salons The scandal over the appointment of Bulgaria's new deputy justice minister is gaining momentum amid allegations of corruption, which drew the ire of ... (more)
www.topix.net | 12/28/11
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Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Bulgaria has been been sanctioned by the Human Rights Court in Strasbourg because of a controversial ruling on behalf of Denitsa Petkova , a former judge who was recently ... (more)
www.topix.net | 12/24/11
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Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults The remains, believed to be John the Baptist's, were uncovered in July last year during the excavation of a fourth-century monastery on St.
www.topix.net | 12/19/11
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Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Rosen Plevneliev, former Regional Development Minister in the ruling centrist-right GERB's cabinet, will take over as Bulgaria's fourth democratically elected President in ... (more)
www.topix.net | 12/19/11
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Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults The quake was of a 2.2 points magnitude on the Richter scale with an epicenter located 18 kilometers west of the city of Haskovo and 57 km southeast of the city of Plovdiv ... (more)
www.topix.net | 12/17/11
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Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Bulgaria is bracing for a day of strong winds, according to the national weather forecast.
www.topix.net | 12/17/11
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Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Bulgaria's emergency siren system will be tested at 1:00 pm on Wednesday in ten Bulgarian cities, the interior ministry announced.
www.topix.net | 12/14/11
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New Delhi, Nov 28: India and Bulgaria on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Health & Medicines to usher in new era of cooperation in health and medicines between the two countries.
www.topix.net | 11/28/11
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Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults The now-former Head of the Special Financial Intelligence Directorate at DANS, Vasil Kirov, is one of the three Bulgarians working for the EU anti-fraud office OLAF.
www.topix.net | 11/24/11
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An EU survey has confirmed what anyone in Malta already knows - the Maltese are, ehm, fat.
The European Health Interview Survey found that between 8% and 25% of adults are obese across the EU, with Malta topping the list for men and coming second for obese women.
Among the 19 Member States for which data is available, the proportion of obese people in the adult population varied in 2008/9 between 8.0% and 23.9% for women and between 7.6% and 24.7% for men. In the USA, the corresponding figure was 26.8% for women and 27.6% for men in 2009.
For both women and men aged 18 years and over, the lowest shares of obesity in 2008/9 were observed in Romania (8.0% for women and 7.6% for men), Italy (9.3% and 11.3%), Bulgaria (11.3% and 11.6%) and France (12.7% and 11.7%).
The highest proportions of obese women were recorded in the United Kingdom (23.9%), Malta (21.1%), Latvia (20.9%) and Estonia (20.5% in 2006/7), and of men in Malta (24.7%), the United Kingdom (22.1%), Hungary (21.4%) and the Czech Republic (18.4%).
The proportion of obesity was higher for women in eight Member States, higher for men in ten and equal in one.The share...
www.timesofmalta.com | 11/24/11
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After years of lumbering reforms in Bulgaria's health care system, hospitals and the health insurance fund have reached the point of quickly running out of cash, dooming patients to suffering.
www.topix.net | 11/20/11
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Sofia - Bulgaria has resumed a probe into the torture of six Bulgarian medics held for over eight years in Libya over an alleged Aids scandal, Sofia's assistant prosecutor Bozhidar Dzhambazov said on Tuesday.
www.topix.net | 8/24/11
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The ruling GERB Party cabinet on Friday survived a second no-confidence motion since it took power in July 2009.
The vote was only backed by 70 deputies, and 124 deputies voted against.
The motion was tabled by the Coalition for Bulgaria and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms because of "the failure of the government's anti-crisis policy and severe consequences for the people."
The first no-confidence motion last October against "the failure of the government's health policy" was also ...
english.people.com.cn | 6/17/11
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Pat O'Connor can't go anywhere without a walker or scooter so she says she'll return to Bulgaria to go under the knife a second time in a procedure that's divided health-care officials across Canada .
www.topix.net | 6/11/11
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A 66-year old man who was suspected to have died of E.coli bacteria infection in a hospital in the town of Haskovo had died of heart attack, according to the death certificate, but culture samples would be taken to carry out conclusive tests, Bulgaria's Health Ministry said on June 10 2011.
www.topix.net | 6/10/11
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Bulgaria has the highest suicide rate in Europe and health authorities are not doing enough to prevent it, experts and rights groups warned this week.
www.topix.net | 5/29/11
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The regional health inspection agency in the town of Montana has banned swimming in the Danube due to pollution and non-compliance with European standards.
www.topix.net | 5/18/11
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The Bulgarian Black Sea city of Varna is ready to accommodate 150 Japanese children and offer them recreation, tourist attraction tours, health care and protection, Kiril Yordanov , Mayor of the city, said.
www.topix.net | 4/15/11
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EU STANDARDS: Health Minister Stefan Konstantinov has cracked down on smoking among his officials - and seen that Bulgaria's anti-smoking programme will see levels brought down to EU averages.
www.topix.net | 3/18/11
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Bulgaria began overall reform of its antiquated health system, inherited from the communist era, only in 1999. In the 1990s, private medical practices expanded somewhat, but most Bulgarians relied on communist-era public clinics while paying high prices for special care. During that period, national health indicators generally worsened as economic crises substantially decreased health funding. The subsequent health reform program has introduced mandatory employee health insurance through the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF), which since 2000 has paid a gradually increasing portion of primary health-care costs. Employees and employers pay an increasing, mandatory percentage of salaries, with the goal of gradually reducing state support of health care. Private health insurance plays only a supplementary role. The system also has been decentralized by making municipalities responsible for their own health-care facilities, and by 2005 most primary care came from private physicians. Pharmaceutical distribution also was decentralized. In the early 2000s, the hospital system was reduced substantially to limit reliance on hospitals for routine care. Anticipated membership in the European Union was a major motivation for this trend. Between 2002 and 2003, the number of hospital beds was reduced by 56 percent to 24,300. However, the pace of reduction slowed in the early 2000s; in 2004 some 258 hospitals were in operation, compared with the estimated optimal number of 140. Between 2002 and 2004, health-care expenditures in the national budget increased from 3.8 percent to 4.3 percent, with the NHIF accounting for more than 60 percent of annual expenditures. In the 1990s, the quality of medical research and training decreased seriously because of low funding. In the early 2000s, the emphasis of medical and paramedical training, which was conducted in five medical schools, was preparation of primary-care personnel to overcome shortages resulting from the communist system’s long-term emphasis on training specialists. Experts considered that Bulgaria had an adequate supply of doctors but a shortage of other medical personnel. In 2000 Bulgaria had 3.4 doctors, 3.9 nurses, and 0.5 midwives per 1,000 population. In the early 2000s, the major natural causes of death were cardiovascular disease (most commonly manifested in strokes), cancer, and respiratory illness. Bulgaria has had a very low incidence rate of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Although in 2003 the estimated rate of incidence was less than 0.1 percent of the population, in the early 2000s the number of new case reports increased annually. In 2005 some 86 new cases were reported, bringing the official total to about 600, and 58 new cases were reported in the first half of 2006. In 2010, there were 1,160 HIV-positive persons.