Dragan Ilic

The Union Organisation of Zastava Arms said that the company's 2,000 workers will go on a one-day strike on Wednesday to demand exemption from privatisation and protest against poor working conditions.

People in Nis in southern Serbia took to the streets at the end of June after the local authorities almost doubled the price of central heating.

They gathered in front of the city hall, demanding that the authorities lower the price of central heating, or take their apartments off the city's central heating grid.

NOVI SAD - The international WonderLab exhibition will open at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina (MSUV) in Novi Sad on Wednesday.

The project is a structure of interlinked artistic, educational, scientific, technical and performance content, and the project goal is to encourage creativity and experimentation through a cross between art and natural science.

BELGRADE - A total of 30 fatalities that can be brought in connection with the flu have been reported in Serbia this year, and the largest number of them (17 cases) were caused by A (H3) virus, Director of the Public Health Institute of Serbia Dragan Ilic stated on Friday.

BELGRADE - Serbia on Friday marks the National No Tobacco Day, and the Health Ministry signals increased control of public smoking, pointing to the fact that nearly 50 pct of the population are smokers and more than a half are exposed to environmental tobacco smoke.

Health ministry: Nearly 50 percent of Serbians smoke

BELGRADE -- Serbia on Friday marks the National No Tobacco Day, and the Health Ministry has signaled "increased control of public smoking," said Tanjug.

It was at the same time said that "nearly 50 pct of the population are smokers and more than a half are exposed to environmental tobacco smoke."

BELGRADE - Talks are under way with the European Commission, which has offered a donation for the purchase of anti-mosquito chemicals, following the recent floods that hit Serbia, said Dragan Ilic, director of the Institute of Public Health of Serbia.

"No diseases after floods, danger still not over"

BELGRADE -- The epidemiological situation is stable in the areas recently hit by severe floods in Serbia but the risks of potential diseases have not been ruled out yet.

This is what the Parliamentary Committee on Health and Family stated at its Monday session.

Region to jointly combat diseases in aftermath of floods

MOROVIIĆ -- Health ministers of Serbia, Croatia and the Serb Republic (RS) in Bosnia agreed on Tuesday on a common strategy for the fight against infectious diseases.

These diseases could threaten the countries in the region after the flooding.

MOROVIC - Health ministers of Serbia, Croatia and Republika Srpska (RS), the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), reached an agreement Tuesday on a common strategy for the fight against infectious diseases threatening the countries in the region after the flooding.