The Bulgarian villagers hunker over their books, struggling with their Mandarin words and characters. But they are not going to China -- the Middle Kingdom is coming to them. Because of yoghurt. "It's ...

TREBISHT in north-eastern Albania looks like a ghost village, emptied of its residents by a rush to get Bulgarian passports that open the door to the European Union. Arman Kadriu has an Albanian name, ...

MOMCHILOVTSI, Bulgaria (Reuters) -Every year, hundreds of Chinese tourists flock to the Bulgarian mountain village of Momchilovtsi for a festival celebrating the local yoghurt, which is renowned for ...

STARO ZHELEZARE, Bulgaria (Reuters) - A group of young Polish artists are bringing a splash of colourful street art to a sleepy village in southern Bulgaria with large outdoor murals, featuring locals ...

Bulgarian villages will be fully extinct by 2060, if the current trend of high mortality rate in the countryside remains. Villages near large cities are in better shape since they are used as ...

ODRINTSI, Bulgaria (Reuters) - A self-described shaman who discovered the healing powers of herbs while seeing visions on his sickbed; a former consultant for IBM who ditched PowerPoint presentations ...

A Chinese tourist (R) speaks with Bulgarian participants during the third Chinese-Bulgarian yoghurt festival in the village of Momchilovtsi The Bulgarian villagers hunker over their books, struggling ...