Great Morava

Chinese and domestic construction subcontractors work as one team despite the scorching temperatures. The construction of the bridge over the West Morava, which is located at the confluence of the Kamenica and West Morava, in the immediate vicinity of Pakovraca interconnection, is also in progress.

The author was Milan Pantic, the paper's correspondent in the town of Jagodina, some 130 kilometres south of the capital, Belgrade, and from where Pantic wrote regularly about the crossover between privatisation and corruption.

On the morning of June 3 last year, village head Djordje Matijasevic stood on the riverbank. It was raining heavily.

In nearby Guca, where hundreds of thousands of revellers gather for a raucous trumpet festival every August, the river at around 6 a.m. was 65 cm high. Three hours later it stood at 2.29 metres and by midday the water had risen to 4.40 metres. 

Taking part in the meeting was also a delegation of the US company Bechtel, while the topic was a project to build the Pojate-Preljina highway, the government announced.

BELGRADE - The female spotted eagle named Iti, member of a globally endangered species, makes a stopover in Serbia during the spring migration to Estonia for the sixth year in a row.

Instead of heading straight north across Bulgaria after flying over Turkey, Iti chooses to take the longer route and visits Serbia instead, the Serbian Bird Protection and Study Society says.

Japan grants EUR 3mn for rehabilitation of water facilities

BELGRADE -- The Japanese government has approved a EUR 3 million grant to Serbia to help the rehabilitation of areas affected by massive flooding that hit Serbia in May.

BELGRADE- The Japanese government has approved a EUR 3 million grant to the Serbian government to help the rehabilitation of areas affected by massive flooding that hit Serbia in May and an agreement was reached between the two governments that the funds be used for projects for rehabilitation and reconstruction of water facilities damaged by the floods, the Serbian government's media relations

BELGRADE - There is no danger of floods on major rivers, with the Danube, the Sava and the Morava rivers currently at medium or medium-to-high levels for this time of year, the director of the Srbijavode water management company Goran Puzovic said on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - Last weekend, France doubled the number of technical rescuers it has sent to help relief efforts in Serbia after recent massive floods in the country, increasing it to a total of 89 rescue workers who are all on the ground right now, the French Embassy in Belgrade has said in a release.

Aleksandar Marsenic, head of emergency situations, on Tuesday said that some 2,000 people had been evacuated overnight from Obrenovac, 30km southwest of Belgrade.

“The evacuation of people in Obrenovac continues,” Marsenic said.