The number of foreign tourists, who arrived in Bulgaria in 2007 is more than 4 million people, which is growth of 7% compared to the previous year. The incomes from tourism in 2007 are round 11% more compared to 2006, says an analysis of Bulgaria's Center for Economy Development.This way the incomes from visitations reached the sum of 2,3 billion EUR. още »

Bulgaria's M-Tel has announced that only 266 of its customers have taken advantage of the mobile number portability (MNP) service to switch to another network operator. The country launched MNP one month ago. The company also said that just 418 people have ported the numbers into the M-Tel network.The data comes up to the company's expectations, which announced in April that does not count on MNP to increase its client's base, nor expects a serious churn. още »

The 16th joint economic commission of Iran and Bulgaria has opened in Tehran to study ways to boost cooperation in oil and gas fields, PressTV reported. The meeting, attended by Iran's minister of roads and transportation, Mohammad Rahmati, and his Bulgarian counterpart, Peter Moutafchiev, will review ways to expand cooperation in oil, gas, transportation, tourism, communications, information technology, industries, agriculture, trade and commerce. още »

The foreign investors were scared by the Bulgarian mafia and are seriously considering to move their business to Romania, writes the online media “Romania libera” citing the Romanian TV “The money channel”. The situation in Bulgarian from the viewpoint of the business climate is much more difficult than that in Romania, because the Bulgarian politicians and officials are in close relations with the mafia, claim anonymous businessmen, cited by the newspaper. още »

Coca-Cola HBC saw a 10% increase in its volume of sales on emerging markets in the first quarter of the year, after it sold 202.2 million unit cases, up from 184 million a year ago, with Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine making the biggest contribution to this increase. Net revenues from sales witnessed in this area climbed by 14%, and reached 538. още »

Bulgaria has exported 30% more goods for January and February compared to the same period last year, money.bg announced. In money the raise equals 1, 147 billion BGN (573 million EUR).The biggest is increasing of the export of fats, butters and waxes of animal origin for the EU countries - more that 6 times. The mineral fuels and products, soft and alcohol drinks and tobacco's export to EU also have increased twice. още »

The money of the budget surplus should be somehow returned to the tax payers. That claims Georgy Angelov, economist of the ‘Open Society' foundation. Since the beginning of the year to the moment the surplus has raised to 1,660 000 000 BGN (880 million EUR). The data of the Finance Ministry's last report shows this amount is triple than the same period of the last year. още »

As EU newcomer Bulgaria aims to attract ever larger flows of foreign investment, authorities and analysts have raised fears that part of the money streaming into the country may have been laundered. "A growing number of investigations come to a dead end as we find that money that we had good reason to consider dirty, or resulting from criminal activity, has been transferred through foreign banks and returned to Bulgaria as 'fresh' investment," said national investigation service chief Boyko Naydenov. още »

The United States will finance under international military funds the establishment of a coastal radio location system for navigation control and safeguarding Bulgaria's sea border, local press reported Thursday citing Bulgarian Naval Forces Commander Vice Admiral Minko Kavaldzhiev.Kavaldzhiev announced this during a joint news conference held together with the visiting US Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead in Bulgarian Black Sea city of Varna. още »