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More than 100 residential areas in the northwestern regions of Bulgaria were left without power last night owing to the damage caused by the heavy rains. Energy company crews are making repairs and work will continue until power supply is restored.

The situation is most severe in western Bulgaria.

Hocak says that families like his migrated to Bosnia as part of a policy of the Austro-Hungarian authorities to resettle territories they had seized off the collapsing Ottoman Empire. [The Habsburg Empire occupied Bosnia in 1878 and annexed it in 1908.]

After World War II, Hocak's family moved to Vojvodina, seeing this region as more developed.

China's Zhejiang Kangyi Sanitary Ware plans to invest 35 million dollars and employ 500 workers in the town of Kula, in northern Serbia.

Serbian Minister of Culture and Media Vladan Vukosavljevic and Zhejiang Kangyi Sanitary Ware owner Jing Guoling on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding to this effect.

Former Bulgarian Prime Minister Dimitar Popov died at the age of 88.

Serving between December 1990 and November 1991, Popov was the first prime minister not to be a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) since 1946.

A major international road into Serbia which was affected a landslide earlier this year is still unusable, an opposition leader has warned.

"I am not in [Nepal's capital] Kathmandu, as anybody would think, but on an international road linking Bulgaria and Serbia," Mihail Mikov, who chairs the Bulgarian Socialist Party, wrote on Facebook [BG] on Sunday evening.

People living in the village of Brankovtsi near Vidin protested Friday against the illegal deforestation in the vicinity.

According to protesters close to 1,000 cubic meters of wood have been cut in the village forest, but local inspectors report one third of that number.

Mihail Mikov, the newly elected Chair of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), was born on June 16, 1960 in the northwestern town of Kula.

He holds an MA in Law from the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski.”

Mikov obtained specializations in human rights, tax law, and anti-corruption practices from universities in France, US and Italy.

Government, UAE firm set up joint agriculture company

BELGRADE -- The Serbian government has decided to establish a joint business organization with the Abu Dhabi-based company Al Rawafed.

The company is "an official representative of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government," it has been announced.

BELGRADE - Serbia's government has decided, in accordance with its policy of continuous investment and modernization of agricultural production, to establish a joint business organization with Abu Dhabi-based company Al Rawafed, an official representative of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government.