Plovdiv

US sensors manufacturer Sensata Technologies is to launch five hundred new openings in its three facilities across Bulgaria, its regional manager has said.

The Union of Armenians in Europe has selected Plovdiv for its first charity ball in Bulgaria, which will be held on October 23 at 20:00 hrs.

The choice is not surprising, given the fact that the chairman of the union is Arthur Hovhannisyan who was born in Plovdiv.

International One Dance Week festival will bring to the audience two events on Thursday and Friday at Boris Hristov House of Culture in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, organizers say.

Nine Bulgarians have been detained as part of a criminal group which distributed and put into circulation fake bank notes of EUR 50 and EUR 100, announced the chief of the Specialised Prosecutor's Office Ivan Geshev.

A court in Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second-biggest city, has overturned the removal from office of Radi Minchev, the mayor of the southern town of Perushtitsa.

The Plovdiv Court of Appeals believes there is not enough evidence that Michev might interfere with an ongoing investigation if he remains at his post, according to BGNES wire service.

Over 100 movies and one documentary have been included in the programme of CineLibri 2016.

The second edition of the cinema-literary festival is organised by the Colibri Publishing House, and will show 10 national and one world premiere from October 5-10 in Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna, Lovech, Vratsa, Vidin, Targovishte and Sliven.

A meeting of ten presidents of parliamentary republics across the EU is to start in Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second-largest city, on Wednesday.

The migrant crisis is again expected to top the agenda alongside the challenges Europe is facing after Britain's decision to leave the EU.

Italian President Sergio Mattarella is set to arrive in Bulgaria on Tuesday at the invitation of his counterpart Rosen Plevneliev, the latter's press office has said.

The migration crisis, the state of the EU following the Brexit referendum in Britain, security and terrorism will be high on the agenda of their talks.

As of next year, first-graders in Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna and Burgas will be admitted to school on the basis of their address registration.

For this purpose, municipalities in these cities will be obliged to develop an electronic system, announced Deputy Minister of Education and Science, Diyan Stamatov, at a seminar in Velingrad.

As of Wednesday until September 11,  Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second-largest city, will host one of the most prestigious events in the tourism sphere - the annual awards of the World Federation of Travel Journalists and Writers - FIJET.