Georgia’s foreign trade turnover in the first eight months of 2015 was 14 percent less than the year before, according to figures published Monday by the National Statistics Department, Geostat.
Georgia’s foreign trade turnover down 14% Jan-Aug ’15
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Most stranded tourists brought back from Antalya, but 130 remain
TBILISI, DFWatch–About 130 tourists from Georgia are still stuck in Antalya, Turkey, several days after a tour operator failed to pay the airline for their flights.
Initially, about 400 passengers were stranded in Turkey.
The Georgian airline Airzena
Farmers in eastern Georgia block road in protest against low grape prices
TBILISI, DFWatch–In the eastern Georgian region of Kakheti, farmers have been protesting for several days because of low price of grapes, which is their only source of income.
Four people were detained during a protest Thursday in Gurjaani, as farmers blocked the
400 Georgian tourists stranded in Turkey
TBILISI, DFWatch–Around 400 Georgian passengers are currently stuck in Antalya, Turkey, as the airline Airzena refuses to carry out a flight because a tour company didn’t pay for the tickets.
For more than a day, passengers have been waiting to return to Georgia. The
New Chinese thermal power station and train factory planned in Georgia
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Chinese company Dongfang Electric plans to construct a 150 MW thermal power station in Tkibuli, a mining town in western Georgia.
The announcement came during a China visit by Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and is further
President signs into law controversial bank supervision bill
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian president Thursday signed a bill into law that will take away responsibility for supervising private banks from the National Bank and hand it to a new agency controlled by the government.
President Giorgi Margvelashvili, the
Foreign investment up 81% in Q2 of 2015
TBILISI, DFWatch–Direct foreign investments in Georgia went up 81 percent in the second quarter, compared to the same period in 2014.
The jump in foreign investment became known Wednesday as Georgia’s National Statistics Department presented
UK ambassador: due to poor translation speech was partially misrepresented
The UK ambassador attributes the recent criticism over her speech at the international conference to the poor translation, stating that some parts of it were misrepresented.
Salome Zourabishvili, a French-Georgian politician and former Minister
UK ambassador accused of being 'neocolonial'
TBILISI, DFWatch–A Georgian politician lashed out at a British diplomat on Facebook Tuesday, accusing her of being ‘neocolonial’.
UK Ambassador to Georgia Alexandra Hall Hall’s remarks at a conference in Tbilisi, organized by McCain Institute,
NGO slams Khulo officials’ Armenophobic document
Local fraction of Georgian Dream alleges Mr Saakashvili’s “Armenian origin” in a fresh display of anti-Armenian sentiment.
NGO platform No to Phobia issued a statement condemning the use of Armenophobic