STA, 31 August 2018 - The group around port operator Luka Koper posted EUR 35m in net profit in the first half of the year, or 27% more year-on-year, the core company announced on Friday, noting that the result included EUR 9.1m in received compensation. Net sales revenues were meanwhile up by 5% to EUR 113m.
STA, 2 September - Tourism services providers on the Slovenian coast are bidding farewell to what they say was a very successful summer season. In Portorož, last year's figures were exceeded and hotels' revenues are also higher than last year, Izola welcomed more guests than last summer. Reports from Koper are similarly positive.
STA, 3 September - With the two-month summer break having ended, some 73,200 secondary school students and 184,169 primary school children are back at school, of whom almost 21,880 for the first time. Both children and teachers are in for a plenty of changes.
Below is a review of the headlines in Slovenian dailies for Monday, 3 September, as prepared by the STA:
Metelkova turns 25.
New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is currently staging a major show on Yugoslav architecture, (Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980), but those interested in monumental works of brutalism don’t need to cross the Atlantic to look at photographs and models, as they can explore the real thing in the heart of Ljubljana.
STA, 1 September 2018 - Slovenia will join the European Days of Jewish Culture 2018 on Saturday as theatre actor Robert Waltl tells Jewish tales to visitors of Maribor Park.
STA, 31 August 2018 - Novo Mesto police have detained a Slovenian couple who was abusing foreign women aged 20 to 46 for prostitution in the areas of Novo Mesto, in the south-east, and Celje, central Slovenia, for at least 14 years.
We’ve interviewed a number of authors in the nine months since we launched, and today we meet with another, Mateja Klarič, who started out as a journalist at the national broadcaster before being forced out of her work, and then started a new career as a writer.
Not everyone was in Bled.