Statistical regions of Serbia

HBIS Group Serbia Iron and Steel (Hesteel) has received USD 77 million in revenues from the sale of over 120,000 tons of finished steel products in May.

The company announced that this was "the greatest success in the year since since the arrival HBIS in Serbia."

Acclaimed Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica was injured in a car accident on a highway linking Belgrade and the city of Cacak, the Serbian edition of Switzerland's Blic tabloid reported.

Kusturica was on a co driver seat, and both him and the driver Vicentije Savic were injured in the crash, which happened, according to unofficial information, on a new roundabout around Ljig.

Outgoing Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday that tourists will be traveling to Greece through Serbia this year by highway, except in two sections.

KRAGUJEVAC - Fiat means 3 pct of Serbia's GDP and nearly 8 pct of its exports, Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic said Thursday, thanking the workers producing Fiat cars in Serbia for making their families and the country proud.

Fiat accounts for three percent Serbia's GDP and nearly eight percent of its exports, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday.

At the unveiling of the new Fiat 500L car at the FCA Serbia plant in Kragujevac, central Serbia, he said it was "our small Serbian car that we are producing in our Kragujevac."

BEIJING - Serbian PM and President-elect Aleksandar Vucic on Tuesday asked Chinese PM Li Keqiang for assistance regarding establishing direct flights to Belgrade and continued operation of the Bor mining and smelting complex.

TANGSHAN - Serbian PM and President-elect Aleksandar Vucic said in Tangshan, China, on Tuesday that representatives of the Hbis Group, which has acquired the Smederevo steel mill, had announced new investments in the plant's equipment.

I am happy we have managed to bring the company to Serbia, Vucic told reporters after a visit to the Hesteel Tangsteel plant.

BEIJING - Under President-elect Aleksandar Vucic's leadership, Serbia will make even faster progress economically and politically, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at a meeting with Vucic Tuesday, confirming his readiness to further solidify the bilateral relations and strategic partnership.

Two people were killed and another wounded last night a shooting near the village of Turija, in the Bujanovac municipality.

Beta is reporting this quoting the local website Bujanovacke.

Fresh calls for a Greater Albania, incorporating the southern Serbian province of Kosovo, have led to an angry backlash from politicians in Belgrade. Sputnik Radio's Mark Hirst talked to Marko Djuric, Director of the Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija.