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Chinese Visit Raises Croatian Shipyards’ Hopes of Survival
Chinese PM Li Keqiang with Croatian PM Andrej Plenkovic during the 16+1 Initiative Summit. Photo: EPA-EFE/STR
Darko Horvat, the Croatian Economy, Entrepreneurship and Crafts Minister, said on Thursday that a delegation from "the world's largest shipbuilding industry" will visit the Uljanik and Treci Maj shipyards in Pula and Rijeka.
Briton Who Fell off Liner Hails Croatian Rescuers
A British woman whose cruise holiday went disastrously wrong when she fell overboard in the middle of the night has hailed Croatia's rescue services for saving her life.
Kay Longstaff, 46, tumbled off the back of the Norwegian Star as it was cruising from Venice to Greece along Croatia's long Adriatic Coast.
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Croatian Journalist Sacked for Critiquing Nationalism
A well known journalist on cultural and social issues, Tatjana Gromaca, claims that her former employer, the Croatian leftist daily Novi List, has sacked her for opposing nationalism.
"The rationale for my resignation, that they don't need a correspondent from Istria [on the Croatian coast] is ridiculous," Gromaca told BIRN.
Croatian PM Vows to Keep Big Loss-Maker Going
Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic on Monday vowed to keep the troubled state-owned fertilizer company Petrokemije Kutina - which ran up tens of millions of euro in losses last year - alive.
"This is a political task for me and for the Minister of Economy [Ivan Vrdoljak], to maintain production and ensure that the company survives," he said.
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New Airlines Flock to North Adriatic Coast
Starting from next year, several new airlines are starting flights from Rijeka to Germany, Britain, Lithuania and Latvia, in a bid to bring new development to the Kvarner region of northwest Croatia.
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Pula Film Festival Opens in Croatia
“For some, the movie is the most beautiful and the noblest of all deceptions, while for some, film directors are magicians,” said Croatian President Ivo Josipovic in a lyrical address to the festival’s opening ceremony on Saturday.
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Darko Lungulov's movie to be screened at Pula festival
BELGRADE - “Monument to Michael Jackson”, the latest film by Serbian director and screenwriter Darko Lungulov, has been included in the program of the 61st Pula Film Festival.
Serbian Cultural Centre Opens in Istria, Croatia
"Croatia wants to be a country where everyone has the opportunity to affirm their culture and tradition," Croatian President Ivo Josipovic said at Thursday's opening of the Serbian Cultural Centre in the town of Pula, on the tip of the Istrian peninsula.
"Croatia is ready to lend a hand to all people of goodwill, including friends from the Republic of Serbia," Josipovic said.
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Josipovic opens Serb cultural center in Pula
PULA - Croatian President Ivo Josipovic has opened a Serb cultural center in Pula, a city at the tip of the Istrian peninsula, and said that Croatia wants to be a country where everyone will have the opportunity to affirm their culture and tradition and that Croatia is ready to lend a hand to all people of goodwill, including friends from the Republic of Serbia.
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