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BELGRADE - Serbia's foreign exchange revenue from tourism will amount to around USD 1.1 billion this year, Serbian Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic announced on Monday.

BELGRADE - The Japan Society charity organisation has awarded Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic its Grand Prize for his contribution to Serbia's development through initiating comprehensive social reforms, with Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik and celebrated Serbian film director Emir Kusturica also named laureates.

TARA - The first major campaign aimed at renewing the forests obliterated by huge fires on Mt. Tara, western Serbia, has been completed with assistance from the Japanese Toshiba company, the Tara National Park said in statement.

TARA - Serbia's Public Company National Park Tara and Japanese company Toshiba have launched a reforestation project at the National Park Tara in western Serbia to restore forest areas destroyed in a massive wildfire in 2012.