Burgas

Two Chinese companies - the e-commerce giant Alibaba and the Porter City Holding are considering investing in major logistical projects in Bulgaria, Bulgarian institutions have announced.

Lukoil Neftochim, a Burgas-based oil refinery, will be slapped with a fine for contaminating the city's air with hydrogen sulfide, Environment Minister Ivelina Vasileva has said.

Vasileva has told the Bulgarian National Television the official announcement is to come from local authorities later on Friday.

Bulgarian authorities detained eighteen illegal migrants and two suspected smugglers after stopping a minibus for inspection in the city of Burgas on Tuesday evening.

The group, which had crossed the Bulgarian border illegally, consisted of men, women and children who identified themselves as coming from Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq.

Around BGN 220 000 in different currencies were stolen in a bank robbery in the Bulgarian city of Ruse over the weekend.

The robbers stole the money after breaching a wall of the subterranean car park located under one of the branches of Postbank in the city. Through the opening they stole the money placed on a shelf in the bank vault.

The Bulgarian government decided to allocate slightly over BGN 5.1 M for the purchase of equipment to be used by the specialised police forces and the gendarmerie.

This was announced by the deputy chief secretary of the interior ministry Georgi Abadzhiev at a briefing on Friday.

Bulgarian Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova said that 30 % growth in the number of planned charter flights to the Black Sea cities of Varna and Burgas is expected this summer compared to last year.

Commenting the forthcoming summer season on private bTV station on Wednesday, Angelkova stated that the expectations are for a successful and positive season.

Bills for hot water and heating should go down across Bulgaria starting April 01, energy regulator KEVR has said.

The state agency, whose abbreviation stands for Energy and Water Regulatory Commission, is making its new proposal in relation to a forthcoming drop in gas prices by nearly 23% from next month.

Russia's Ural Airlines will launch regular weekly flights in the summer from the city of Perm to Bulgaria's Burgas, on the Black Sea coast, TASS has reported.

The Yekaterinburg-based airline would offer direct flights from Perm to Burgas on Wednesdays from June 1 until September 21, the Russian news agency quoted a Perm Airport spokesperson as saying on Thursday.

Bulgarian police have detained six people dealing in production and sale of fake identity documents, the Ministry of the Interior said on Monday.

The Latvian airline AirBaltic will operate seasonal flights between the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Burgas and Riga starting from May 25.

The flights will be carried out twice weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays between the months of May and September.