Pravets

The court in Botevgrad convicted on Thursday three men of match fixing after it had been established that they tried  to bribe two players from Bulgaria's under-19 national football team to influence the outcome of a match.

The match in question was the encounter between Bulgaria and Germany during the 2014 European under-19 championship in Hungary.

The Bulgarian PC company Pravetz is expanding the range of its products and will release its first smartphone Pravetz 4+ next week.

The mobile phone is made in Taiwan, weighs a hundred grammes and will cost BGN 169.

It has 4.7 inch HD IPS screen, four core Qualcomm 1.2 GHz processor and 1 GB of RAM.

Bulgaria and Romania can partly trace the roots of their current tech boom to the communist years and "the romantic era of home computing", a recent article says.

At the time, Bulgaria and Romania's school curricula "were packed with math, electronics, and physics" due to the need for skilled professionals who could "reverse-engineer" Western technology.

Bulgaria has launched a project to promote its architectural heritage both domestically and abroad.

The project called Bulgaria in Miniature - Scale Models in the Open Air will feature 130 scale models of actual historical buildings located both within and outside the country.

For the eleventh time, the international Mozart Music Festival is to take place on August 13-17 in Pravets, Northwestern Bulgaria.

It has now been some time since the Mozart Musical Festival was only dedicated to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his works.

Legendary Bulgarian PC brand Pravetz is to make the first sales of its Pravetz 64M laptop after having been out of business for more than two decades.

There is a substantial interest in the new devices which could be purchased starting January 15, Boyko Vuchev, who runs Pravetz Computers OOD and also owns the Pravetz brand, is quoted by BGNES news service as saying.

Israel will begin the construction of a new university in Bulgaria's Pravets as an affiliate of an elite university in the city of Ariel.

The main focus will be on the Department of Local Government and Public Administration. The new institution will also offer courses in Law, Medicine and Humanities, Standart daily reports.