Monday, December 22, 2025

Fatal hotel fire raises questions about building safety standards

fire_fighters_batumi
A cafe caught fire in Batumi Wednesday morning. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia is facing another challenge – fire safety in buildings – after three boys died in a hotel fire in Kobuleti, a town on the Black Sea coast, a few days ago.

Wednesday morning there was a fire at a café in Batumi. No-one

Read more

China and Georgia launch new cooperation in agriculture

Han_Changfu
China’s Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu. (Facebook.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–China has gifted 245 units of tractors and other machinery to Georgia. The hardware, which also includes bulldozers, excavators, trucks and off-road vehicles, is worth about USD 10 million.

Accepting this gift from one of Georgia’s top trading

Read more

Georgian president visits EU, NATO tops in Brussels

giorgi_margvelashvili_jens_stoltenberg
President Giorgi Margvelashvili (left) and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–EU is allocating 150,000 euros for Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili learned about this decision during his visit to Brussels during a meeting with EU’s neighborhood commissioner Johannes Hahn.

Read more