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Zagreb, February 4 (CP) – Four NGO’s Centar za mir from Osijek, Documenta, Civilian Commission for Human Rights and Croatia Helsinki Committee (HHO) have put forward their report on war crimes trials in Croatia.
It was said that most of the trials were not below the standard level of fair procedures.
The report calls for the strengthening […]

Zagreb, February 4 (CP) – According to a Gfk Hrvatska poll, some 70 percent of Croatian households are not making enough money.
An average household made about 6,370 kuna (€887) per month in 2007 with those in the Lika area, Kordun and Banovina making €688 and those in Zagreb managing €1,089.
Compared to 2006, the segment of […]

Zagreb, February 3 (CP) – Croatia has reached a milestone in the plastic bottles recycling realm, as it recycles two billion bottles over a little more than two years and tops the European list of bottle recyclers.
The Environment Protection Ministry has announced that in 25 months since a new regulation on plastic packaging had come […]

Zagreb, February 1 (CP) – A woman pregnant seven months gave birth in the helicopter that came to pick her up at the island of Hvar in a bid to get her to a Split hospital.
The woman was first taken from the island of Vis to the island of Hvar by ambulance, only to be […]

Zagreb, February 1 (CP) — The Finance Ministry is expecting as many submitted tax returns for 2007, as it had received in 2006, when more than 970,000 were submitted.
The amount of pre-paid tax is expected to be at a record high of about 1.6 billion kuna.
Annual tax returns can be submitted until February 29 with […]

Zagreb, February 1 (CP) — The Capadocia freight ship sailing under the flag of the Dutch Antilles has run aground early on Friday morning in the Rijeka port, hitting the outer side of the pier.
The ship has suffered some damage, but there have been no spillages. The six-strong Ukrainian crew are unhurt.
The ship was sailing […]

Zagreb, February 1 (CP) – The three basic food items’ prices are to be rolled back today to what they cost before a wave of price increases at the start of 2008.
Fresh milk, some types of bread and cooking oil prices will be cut following an agreement between large retail chains, the government and the […]

Zagreb, January 31 (CP) – The Zadar police have arrested a suspect in the brutal killing of a taxi driver in Korlat near Benkovac.
The detained suspect is a youth in his 20’s and allegedly has a speech impediment, which helped in his identification.
The taxi driver Igor Custic’s body was found burned in his car, which […]

Zagreb, January 30 (CP) — Two Slovene fishing boats were found in the early afternoon on Wednesday some 0.8 nautical miles into Croatian territorial waters, confirmed the Istria region police. The police was informed of the incident by Savudrija fishermen.
 When the police vessel arrived on the scene, the two Slovene boats were 1.3 nautical miles […]

Zagreb, January 30 (CP) — An INA oil company worker in the Urinje oil refinery died in the Rijeka hospital from inhaling poisonous gas fumes, announced the state alert centre.
According to the local police in the Primorje and Gorski Kotar county, the investigation into the accident is under way, as it is not clear how […]