Sofia Official Urges for Lift of Hidden Camera Ban ... |read|
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Politics: 26 November 2004, Friday. Interior Ministry's Secretary General Lieutenant Boyko Borissov expressed his support for a possible abolishment of the legal ban to use hidden cameras and microphones, ...
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Secret police files from Bulgaria's communist past reportedly list President Georgi Parvanov as a collaborator.
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Five media defence organisations have denounced the "opacity" of an official inquiry into tape recordings that purportedly implicate Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma in the murder of an opposition journalist ...
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French government officials called for the release of two journalists kidnapped in Iraq by a group demanding that France rescind a ban on Islamic headscarves in the nation&#39;s schools, Agence
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Russia wants "unprecedented" curbs on observers at parliament elections, the OSCE watchdog says.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia's highest religious authority has barred the use of mobile phones with built-in cameras, blaming them for "spreading obscenity."   The edict, which follows a failed ban on the sale and import of the wildly popular devices, is the most sweeping attempt by any nation to prevent the voyeurism invited by the new technology.    Camera-equipped phones have caught on fast in parts of Asia, Europe and the Middle East - particularly in oil-rich Gulf countries - prompting complaints about privacy in places where people undress, "theft" of reading materials at book stores and newsstands, and corporate espionage by employees...
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NEW DELHI, Sept 29 (OneWorld) - International press freedom organization Reporters sans Frontieres (RSF) has urged the European Union (EU) to condemn China's latest crackdown on independent websites and publications while holding a dialogue on human rights with the EU, even as a report by media freedom group, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says 42  journalists are currently imprisoned in China, with insurance companies in the country listing journalism as the third most dangerous profession in the country.
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Politics: 18 November 2004, Thursday. Romania's Prime Minister Adrian Nastase has sent a letter to his Bulgarian counterpart Simeon Saxe- Coburg asking him to cooperate for the release the arrested Romanian ...
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Bulgaria's interior minister on Tuesday apologised for making inappropriate comments, while handing a donation including a TV set to a school in a remote mountain village.
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"This is all good, but it is just a sign. We need to see real actions"  "This is how it is done in the European Union countries when there are suspicions, when there is a lack of trust." Stanishev also dismissed Justice Minister Georgi Petkanov, who tendered his resignation earlier ... via Gulf Times
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Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov on Tuesday opposed a suggestion by Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotha to declassify former Communist secret police files.
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SOFIA (bnn)- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denied Tuesday that his country has blocked adoption of a draft declaration about Ukraine at a foreign ministerial meeting of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe in Sofia.
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"I am calling for calmness and a little bit more patience, Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev said. "We are taking and will be taking all steps to bring this whole case to an end as soon as possible and see our compatriots very soon on Bulgarian soil."  By Anna MudevaSOFIA  - Bulgaria and the European Union called on Libya on Wednesday to transfer six foreign medics to Sofia, after Tripoli lifted their death sentences for infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus.The five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor, who have spent more than eight years in jail, could be pardoned by the Balkan country's president if they are sent to Sofia under a 1984 prisoner exchange agreement with Libya.Following hectic diplomatic talks and payment of hundreds of millions of dollars to the families of 460 HIV victims, Tripoli commuted the death sentences against the six to life imprisonment late on Tuesday, paving the way for their release. Read more
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Police help to stop spread of lurid photos apparently showing one of Hong Kong's most famous actors
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Turkey must lift a ban on headscarves at university as part of democratic reforms aimed at European Union accession, Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said on Saturday.
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SOFIA, Jan 8: The Bulgarian government banned smoking in some public places as of January 1, but in a country where half of the population smokes both restaurant owners and smokers are resisting the government ...
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Politics: 7 December 2004, Tuesday. The OSCE forum, which is nearing its end in Sofia, appears unlikely to adopt a common Political Declaration, as the Member countries failed to unify over the Ukraine issue.