News archive of March 2017

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will on March 30-31 pay an official visit to China, where he will meet with his Chinese counterpart and the country's top officials and also be named honorary citizen of Beijing.

During the visit, Nikolic will also hold many meetings with Chinese businesspeople.

Tanjug file photo, S. Ilic

Is this the world’s bravest journalist? Or the most stupid?

The unnamed reporter was on the flight taking Kim Jong-nam’s body back to North Korea following his assassination with VX nerve agent in Malaysia.

It is believed Malaysia reached a ‘swap deal’ with notorious despot Kim Jong-un following a diplomatic row over the investigation into the murder.

In 2015, regional GDP per capita, expressed in terms of purchasing power standards, ranged from slightly less than 30% of the European Union (EU) average in the Bulgarian North West Region to 580% of the average in Inner London - West in the United Kingdomm, Eurostat said, quoted by BTA,

One of the most brutally disappointing aspects of growing up is realizing the Tonka trucks you played with as a child aren’t street-legal. Members of Toyota’s Australian division must feel the same way, because they’ve worked day and night to transform the HiLux pickup truck into a real-life, full-size Tonka that starts and drives.

Albania hopes to be a major player in the distribution of gas in the region as a result of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline, TAP, which will start bringing natural gas from the Caspian Sea to Europe in 2020.

The project, work on which will start within the next three years, will run through Albania with 215 kilometres on land and 37 km offshore in the Adriatic Sea.

The return of Kosovo Serb MPs from Srpska Lista to Kosovo's parliament, ending a six-month boycott, has revived debate over whether a controversial agreement on border demarcation with Montenegro will now be sent to parliament for ratification.

The government is preparing to discuss a proposed Law on Procedures for Extraordinary Management, which many see as way for the state to step in and help the troubled private giant Agrokor deal with its serious financial crisis.

An unusual anti-competition ruling was made by an Istanbul court this week. I am not a judicial person and will not make any comments regarding the court's decision. However, this idea deserves to be reviewed, especially in terms of its future effects, mainly over Turkey's struggling tourism and image. 

Hours before U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's arrival in Ankara on the evening of March 29, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on NTV that Turkey's "Euphrates Shield" operation on Syria soil had been completed.

Look at the coincidence; Reza Zarrab was caught at Miami Airport on March 19 last year and was arrested on March 22.