Zagreb, May 12 (CP) – A strong rise in the minutes of mobile telephones used in Croatia has been recorded in the first quarter of 2008, reports the State Statistics Bureau.
A growth of 24 percent has been recorded year-on-year with a drop of fixed telephony usage of nine percent.
The current three mobile telephone networks in […]
Zagreb, May 12 (CP) – Croatian tennis player Marija Abramovic who ended up stranded in Lebanon, as violence there spiralled out of control, has managed to leave the country for Syria aboard a ship.
The Jounieh tennis tournament organisers Abramovic was attending had organised the pull-out of Abramovic and other tennis tournament participants via Syria where […]
A team of 32 policemen who are to be dispatched to keep law and order at the European Soccer Cahmpionships is to be presented to the public.
The 32-strong team is to assist their Austrian and Swiss colleagues in working and communicating with Croatian football fans at the championships.
Zagreb, May 11 (CP) – Croatian tennis player Marija Abramovic is stranded in Lebanon as political unrest shuts down the Beirut airport.
The 20-year-old Croatian tennis player is unable to leave Lebanon following the tournament she played in Jounieh and is looking for alternative ways to leave the country.
Abramovic is hoping to leave the embattled country, […]
Zagreb, April 10 (CP) – The Social Democratic Party (SDP) electoral convention that was held on Saturday resulted in the current president Zoran Milanovic retaining his position and capturing 78.88 percent of the vote in the first election round.
The two other candidates, Davorko Vidovic and Dragan Kovacevic had captured 11 percent and nine percent of […]
Zagreb, May 10 (CP) – Former Croatian tennis star Goran Ivanisevic and his common law wife Tanja Dragovic have returned from the United States after a two-month self-imposed exile.
The couple and their young children had fled Croatia after it was revealed that Ivanisevic was having an affair with a local model.
Following several bust-ups with the […]
Zagreb, May 9 (CP) – Croatia’s best track and field athlete Blanka Vlasic has won another athletic meet – the Super Grand Prix in Qatar by managing to clear 203 centimetres a season record, but failing to make the 205 on Friday.
The meet is a great preparation for the upcoming Beijing Olympics.
Zagreb, May 9 (CP) – A pilot-project of registering limited companies via e-mail has ended its six-month run at the northern Croatian town of Varazdin’s commercial court.
The Hitro.hr project enables the setting up of a limited company online in three steps within a 24-hour period.
During the six months of the project being implemented some 198 […]
Zagreb, May 9 (CP) – A charter on cooperation was signed between Sofia, Bulgaria and the Koncar company from Croatia, which represents the first step in Sofia buying trams from Koncar.
Croatian-made trams are to go for a test-run in Sofia in September.
Sofia is facing a rehaul of its electrical tram system and is looking for […]
Zagreb, May 9 (CP) – Croatian rock music critic and author of a number of books on the topic, Drazen Vrdoljak, has died aged 58 in Zagreb.
Vrdoljak, known as a ‘living encyclopaedia’ of pop music had been hosting numerous music shows on radio and TV and had been the one to introduce the Croatian public […]
