TBILISI, DFWatch–Remittances to Georgia fell by 35.1 percent in August 2015, compared to the same period last year, according to new figures published Tuesday by Georgia’s National Bank.
The new monthly report shows that the total amount of remittances
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s education ministry has postponed the start of a new school subject as conservatives criticize it for eroding traditional values.
Some were expecting the subject called ‘society and me’ to be taught in schools from the beginning of the 2015 fall semester.
‘Society and me’ will
TBILISI, DFWatch–Farmers continued their protest in the Georgian wine region Kakheti on Monday and clashed with police as they blocked the main highway.
Several people were detained by police as they cleared the road. One member of parliament was attacked.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Exactly three months after a devastating flood, Tbilisi Zoo reopened on Sunday with surviving animals on display.
The zoo’s management held an opening exhibition with pictures of the animals that either drowned or were killed, and presented
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.
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
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
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
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
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